Black History Month And The Content Of Our School's Text Books

I've always been rather indifferent about Black History Month. On one hand, we live in a society where racism and racial divides are still quite strong, so in order for black oriented history to be noticed, acknowledged or celebrated, special occasions (like the month of February) must be established for it. On the other hand, it seems to me that establishing special occasions for something specifically race oriented kind'ah sounds like a facet of racism itself.

Trying to remember way back to when I was in high school, it seems to me that my history classes could have simply been titled "Caucasian American History" or "Caucasian American Literature", etc. However, one thing I'm not particularly sure about is whether or not our schools' textbooks have been modified to reflect a broader or fuller version that fairly and rightfully encompasses everything.

So, I'm just going to assume that for the most part, our kids today are reading the same textbook content as I did many years go. However, if modern textbooks HAVE been fairly modified, there's no point in reading past this sentence because then the point I'm going to make wouldn't make any sense anyways.

I have a friend who's an educator and through this person, I've come to learn just how BUSINESS ORIENTED our school systems really are. That said, obviously the cost of re-writing our schools' textbooks would be enormous and it'd be the taxpayers who'd have to pay for it.

Here's the thing, if you were to survey how many people would be willing, if given the choice, to pay a substantially larger school tax bill so that new textbooks could be manufactured, what do you suppose the survey results would be? Just saying, asking people for more money isn't always the nicest thing to ask for.

***Stares off in another direction while thinking about how to word the rest of my text so that those who like the "act" offended have less to "act" on.