Exactly.
The people who control what students learn about in school threw their lot in with the likes of the putrid W.E.B Dubois, a leeching student of Marx who thought more victimhood and protesting was the answer rather than the hardworking Booker T. Washington who thought the best inroads for blacks to achieve equality was to engage in commerce, and to do it well.
Booker T. Washington accurately saw that if they could provide products and services that were valuable, people would buy and use them regardless of the color of the skin of those offering them.
So those people who decide how and what students are taught are Leftists themselves, and venerate the likes of Dubois and ignore Washington.
Sad but true.
Booker T already saw the Sharptons, Jacksons, Jasmine Crocketts, Maxine Waters etc. He saw them 100 years ago for what thy were.
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
― Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education