[blam]

"It’s not a wonder, however, when decades of education have been teaching that these things are irrelevant and unworthy of acknowledgement. “Dead white men” and all."

Yup. Not 'acting White' Black males are valued more.

[mrsmel]

And IMO, the thug-acting gangsta wannbe contemporary young black or white men are of a lot less value than the great historical artists and explorers of the past. I think think they know that they can’t live up to it so they dismiss it out of a sense of inferiority. Sour grapes from talentless inferiors. All their rapping and screaming will never have the sublime universality of Mozart, and their sorts aren’t in the same league as the exploits of the men who explored the Poles or took the first deep-sea submersible dives. Those pioneers had a special kind of bravery.