Nicely and eloquently said.
All best,
Kevin
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:57:36 -0400
>From: James Brothers <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: SOLs and History
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Unfortunately to compensate for excluding people in the past we are
>now including relatively unimportant people primarily because of the
>color of their skin or their sex. And because of limited teaching
>time excluding other more important people. While I think excluding
>someone as a result of them not being White and/or male is wrong,
>neither is it correct to include them primarily because they are
>not. It is demeaning, racist and/or sexist. There are lots of
>Americans of all sexes and ethnic background worthy of study. I would
>rather be ignored than included as someone's token anything.
Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
Department of History
James Madison University