Parents: White Teacher Should Not Teach Black History

So the question should not be "who should be teaching this class?" but "should this class be offered?"

Perhaps. If the class is as we expect, probably not...but there could be a class by that title that would be perfectly valuable. Real history could be taught.

I learned somethings this summer that I wasn't aware of. At the Air Force Museum, I noticed long ago from one of the framed papers that one of the Eulogists for Wilbur Wright was G. W. Carver from Tuskeegee. I also knew that poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar was from Dayton. What I didn't know was how intertwined Dunbar was with the Wright brothers. Dunbar was a classmate of Orville at Dayton's Central High School, where he was editor of the school paper and President of the literary club. Dunbar graduated from the High School, but ironcially, neither Wright Brother did. The Wright brothers, several times put up money or services early on to get Dunbar started in various writing projects, including giving him the remaining "newspaper funds" to try to start a paper when they moved on to their bicycle and aerodynamics works. There are verses written on the Wright Brothers shop wall for Orville by Dunbar.

Dunbar rode in the Inauguration Parade with McKinley, and Teddy Roosevelt at one point made him an "honorary Colonel for a day".

For a time, Dunbar was an Assistant Librarian at the Library of Congress.

I did know, however, that black Americans were commonplace in federal service until the Wilson Administrations "Back to the Cornrows" policy, where blacks were dismissed from federal employment in all non-servile jobs.

I bring this up, because it is contrary to most of what is taught about U.S. history in regards blacks.

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