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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I disagree. I didn't learn about Rosa Parks because there was a unit on blacks in America and her name was pulled out of a hat, I learned about Rosa Parks because she had a significant role in American history. The same for Dr. MLK and other historical figures: I believe I learned about them due to their impact on American history, not because of their color.
Who knows if Dr. King would have been assassinated if he was not black. There were two Kennedy assassinations in the same timeframe even though they were not black.
It is true that many things in this country have occurred because someone was or was not black (or white or Asian or Irish or Canadian) and that is why choosing what history to teach should be color blind. Choose the events to teach regardless of color, don't look at color and then pick events to fill a quota.
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Nicely said. I had an African American History Professor while at the U of Nevada, Reno who was one of my better history professors. A few of them threw in as much sex and violence as possible. He was not one of these. I had to drop English History because we had to do a speech on a topic and I doubted if I could do anything with the students attracted to that kind of course which highlighted the sex lives of the English royalty and the like.