I wonder what the percentage is of black Americans who know the correct answer to the question “Who was the first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?” I would guess less than 1%. Most of them have probably never even heard of Ralph Bunche.
“Most of them have probably never even heard of Ralph Bunche.”
I remember him from my stamp collection (yes, blacks were allowed on postage stamps before the race-hustling industry came around); never learned about him (or many white people) in school, though.
I have no problem with including African-AMERICAN history (as part of the general US history - lumped with British and Dutch and German and Irish and Polish and Italian and whatever) in a curriculum; there should be no more focus on Africa than there should be on any other part of the world.