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