Years ago, Richard Rorty, the pragmatist philosopher, defended the leftist slant at American colleges and universities with a kind of thesis-antithesis approach. Focusing on the teaching of U.S. history, he said that in high school students should learn the basic facts with a conventional narrative and in college they should study challenges to that narrative (from the left, of course).
You raise an excellent point -- one that's particularly important because, I'm told, some colleges are requiring that students take at least one African American Studies course.
Great piece Paul. If African American Studies is that bad in high school, imagine what it's like in college, where you can major in it.
Jim Dueholm
Thanks, Jim.
You raise an excellent point -- one that's particularly important because, I'm told, some colleges are requiring that students take at least one African American Studies course.