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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't have American history without American Indians. You can't have American history without African-Americans. [/quote]

Sure you can. And then it would even be [i]interesting[/i]!

My kid wasn't even in kindergarten before he knew that "African-American History" meant boring, preachy crap.[/quote]

Wow. Your kid's school must really suck. What is so boring about AA history? [i]Boring?[/i][/quote]

ALL OF IT.

I just don't give a shit.

Doesn't speak to me, isn't relevant to my life.[/quote]

Kind of like how men not caring about women's history? What part of history is relevant or interesting to you? Just specific periods or cultures?[/quote]
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I wish we didn't have to separate black history (or women's history, or...) from the rest of it, but since the way history is taught comes from a white male perspective, it's so important to get it somewhere. How can "black history" be boring to you if black history is the story of American history? If you meant the way it's taught, cramming only bits and pieces into one month, I see where you're coming from, but otherwise...

I see it like this: at the school where I work (not in the DC area), one of the specialists wants to teach the students about the presidents. Which is awesome! He wants to stop at JFK, because [b]he doesn't want to get into modern politics or controversy[/b]. But this is the first time in history where black kids can see their faces in a presidential portrait; the first time girls can see themselves as presidential candidates for a major party. I think he's doing the students (white, non-white, and every gender) a huge disservice by erasing this history from his lessons. [/quote]

You didn't even have to say you aren't in Dc . . . this gives it away. Kids here are all over politics! [/quote]

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