Teaching Black History: What's Gone Right, What Work Still Needs To Be Done

It's a tough nut to crack PO1 William "Chip" Nagel -- IMHO you have to restructure the whole way history is taught. Woodrow Wilson, the undisputed most racist POTUS, was also a tenured history professor at an Ivy League school. In my amatuer history reading, I found that he pushed his whitewashed multi-volume compedium of history as the standard from the POTUS pulpit. Prior to that, from what I've read, our history was pretty much US history regardless of race - it was our history. It's a huge task, but I'd start there... It's all our history - the good, the bad, and the ugly

I think the 1619 Project was a travesty. Nothing more than revisionist history, designed to paint the US in the worst possible light. I am embarrassed to admit that Illinois seems to be embracing it. It belongs in the trash, along with Trump's 1776 Report.

Having said that, I feel that until the entirety of our history, regardless of race, is taught in the elementary and High schools, we need to continue highlighting Black History Month. There is so much there that gets ignored in our 'regular' history classes.