Teaching Black history can help end racism
2/17/2022, 6 p.m.
Black history matters for the same reasons Black lives matter.
The 90 percent white Republican Party of Donald Trump doesn’t get it.
Failure to teach Black history is shameful. That failure contributes significantly to the dumbing down of America. To know the truth about slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and
today’s systemic racism is the only way our country can overcome more than 400 years of evil racism, our country’s national sin.
More than anything else, the white Republican Party stands in the way of our ending racism.
PAUL L. WHITELEY SR.
Louisville, Ky.
