Julia the ranter:
The idea that today's America has had this portion of the past hidden from it is ludicrous. We have been awash in information on slavery, separate-but-equal, lynchings, and other bad stuff for years.
Issodhos - your education may be more extensive than the average American's, I can't say for certain. But I can tell you that my American history ended somewhere around World War II, and just about all the history I did have was from a single perspective.
It wasn't until I was in college that I found myself developing an interest in a more varied perspective on how and why things happened (particularly in this country.)
Which is to say that while schools are better, now, about including the non-white and non-male perspectives in history, those perspectives did not exist in American education until after the Baby Boom was out of school (I am at the very end of the Baby Boom.)
So, while those who come after us will have access to more information, there's a huge part of the population who went through school
without any idea that other stories ever existed.
Julia the mod: All posters will please watch the personal comments.
