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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I liked AP courses in high school. There was an actual curriculum, and an actual book! It was varied and interesting.

My youngest has a class project about role models every week. I think it's wonderful, but so far not one role model has been white- and it's April! My kid opined (and wasn't being sarcastic) that white men have been at the top for way too long because they've never invented or done anything. [/quote]

What my kids learned at school from his teachers - white people suck[/quote]

I mean, if the discussion is about how white people behaved at the population level for most of our nation's history, they do indeed suck. There were of course "righteous whites" throughout history, abolitionists, civil rights activists, etc, but they were in the minority for most of history. Only a very slight majority of white Americans supported the Civil Rights Act, for example, and even within that group a lot of folks felt President Johnson was moving too quickly on civil rights and the majority of white Southerners disapproved.

At the time of MLK's death, a third of Americans were willing to tell a pollster that he "brought his assassination on himself."

If we're going to ever have an honest conversation about our country's history, white children are going to need to hear some uncomfortable stuff about white Americans. [/quote]

Why are you responding to this obvious troll?[/quote]

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