Juneteenth and the lack of black lives in US curricula

[Dill]

(06-23-2020, 01:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: There were also reasons white people idolized bank robbers in the 1930's, but we moved past that.

I understand there are reasons for blacks to be impressed by the amounts of money made by selling crack or pimping whores.  But they have to get over that also.

Those white people who idolized bank robbers were not blocked from loans, housing and education by their race for decades after the 1930s, were they? 

Wide ranging opportunity might have made "moving past" a little easier.

"They have to get over that" doesn't seem like much of a program.  And quite unlikely to work without some better understanding of why "pimping whores" should be attractive to, seriously what, maybe .01% of the total population of African Americans in the U.S.? Less?

Your framing of these social problems seems rather reductive, given the easy comparison is to "some white people back when" followed by a wag of the finger.