"Let's face it, for all its heroes, black history in America is mostly a downer. It's ugly. Unlike keepers of the Holocaust, which is taught in all its graphic detail (albeit perhaps not to kindergarteners), keepers of black history are still struggling with its meaning — is it triumphant, tragic, both? What should blacks emphasize, and when? I understand the importance of being positive. But black people excising, or glossing over parts of our history for the sake of uplift, commit the same crime of denial as whites excising those same parts because they'd rather not think about black history at all."
In the Los Angeles Times, Erin Aubry Kaplan discusses the Los Angeles charter school that stifled a student presentation on Emmett Till.
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