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When our schools were first integrated, I had a black teacher who did a fine job of integrating American History, tying in prominent blacks with the rest of the timeline. We learned about George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, and Fredrick Douglas, but the rest was light on the contemporary (now 'iconic' socialist blacks, with the exception of Martin Luther King Jr., who were still in the process of making headlines.

Slavery was taught as something that was, and is no more, not a cause for hatred and resentment, but celebration that it had been ended so long ago.

Education, along with hard work, was stressed for everyone, but especially the blacks in the class, as the key to success.

Speakers at the school even included the first black Air Force General and Cab Calloway.

My, how times have changed. Now everyone is a victim, and no one is responsible for their own progress in life.

None of the prominent Blacks we learned about would have become prominent if they had not applied themselves, because there was no affirmative action yet.