re: Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum

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Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum

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We've been doing BHM since 1976. The goal may have been laudable at the time...to actually make a point of incorporating potential historical contributions that were left out of the history books made by black Americans, etc. Makes sense to me. I'm fully in favor of history being taught taught as accurately as possible.

But we started this in 1976...the Bicentennial year. The same year Rocky came out. The #1 song of the year was Silly Love Song by Paul McCartney & Wings. Presumably we've had enough time BY NOW to fully incorporate anything left out into the same history we teach the rest of the year, right?

So...if we've done that by now, then why are we STILL having an entire month for this separately? Why are black people STILL expected to have tons of separate things like this that may have had good intentions at first, to give representation where there had been none, after decades of fixing the very problems that caused the need for these "separate" things in the first place?