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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is there an AP African-American Studies course?[/quote]

Because it is not routinely taught in the current white washed version kids learn about in schools. But, come on, you already know that. [/quote]

Then shouldn’t we demand a rigorous and factually accurate history curriculum for everyone?

I went to private school K-12 and received an excellent education. My kids are in mcps and I am told they are receiving a high quality education, but I’m not convinced.

US and World History are precisely the topics that could be standardized through a high quality curriculum. States could develop their own special curriculum covering their state.

Why is this so hard?

We should be able to print textbooks for US and World History that accurately cover the facts—including relevant black, Latino, Asian, etc.

Having said that, special AP courses that take a deeper dive on interesting topics are a good thing imho. [/quote]

Conservatives don’t want the accurate facts. Because facts — such as, this land we live on was occupied by nations when the Europeans arrived, and those nations were pushed off their land, persecuted, killed, and made to sign treaties that the whites in power broke over and over again— destroy the long-standing image of the United States as a divinely blessed entity whose existence had to be. [/quote]

We're careful about the facts that we teach. Remember learning about the time when the Haitian American Sugar Company successfully lobbied the US government to have the Marines invade a country, over throw the government and reinstitute slavery? I certainly was never taught about it. [/quote]

That historical event definitely was never taught in my high school history classes.

Nor did we learn about suppression of Native Americans.

Or things like redlining. Or how Black soldiers were denied the benefits of the GI Bill.

We were not taught that such systemic / institutional discrimination meant that generations of Black families were left behind in wealth accrual. [/quote]

DP.  I learned all of that in high school, fwiw, in a red state.[/quote]

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