Hmmm...I do not see how you can believe that. Today's kids are taught such a multicultural version of history that it is nigh impossible to get too little black history. And great men like George Washington get largely ignored or ar given lip service as being dead white slave-owners.
Today's history classes and textbooks go so out of their way to be inclusive that it is almost impossible not to get enough black history. Unfortunately, Dr Carver and Booker T Washington get little mention or respect because so many American blacks deem them "Uncle Toms".
Yes! Agreed! Today's kids. I was referring to what happened before we had attention paid to black history, back in the Stone Age when I was a kid.
My kids have had black history jammed down their throats and now they're sick to death of hearing about it. This is counterproductive.
What I'm saying is, if kids had to study American history for two years in high school they could do a unit on black history once, and then they wouldn't have to go through this nuisance of studying the same thing every February.
Ah, I see you thumbed through your kid's American history book too. I thought a good bit of it was fair and well written especially on some unpleasant subjects. What got me was the little anecdotes and additions in side boxes that were invariably a minority or woman subject. Almost every time.