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08/24/2004:

"Black History Revisited"

Every February I invariably hear the same thing: "Why is Black History taught in school?" My response is usually, "Isn't it obvious? The rest of history is about white people – specifically white men." The real reason to teach 'Black History' is the same for teaching any type of history: Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Florida, New Mexico, et al, are dangerously close to repeating history. And it is not recent history (the 2000 Presidential Election) to which I am necessarily referring.

No, the history that I refer to is that which America all too often wishes it could forget but all too willingly reminds itself of on a regular basis. America has a racist history, ladies and gentlemen. That is an irrefutable fact.

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