Yes, because 400+ years of colonialism, racism, discrimination and their social and economic aftereffects should have been completely erased the minute the the last piece of civil rights legislation was passed in the 1960s.
I didn't expect students, many of whom never lived a day in the 20th century, to beg for old-fashioned education. I can't even imagine what it must be like to be an African American in the US, learning dramatized horrors of slavery, year after year, starting in middle school and continuing through college. It must undermine your sense of self-worth, and make you feel isolated from everyone else.
Eventually, some of these students will be lucky enough to stumble into a social economics class, where irrelevant political commentaries cannot be inserted into the data. They'll learn that the horror of slavery was not violence, death, and economic exploitation, but that one man kept another man as a servile pet, restricting from him all life choices and any sense of self-determination. This trend continued long after the Emancipation Proclamation.
That's real education, supported by historical data, not a political commentary supported by sensational pictures or stories. Real education changes your world view, and your interpretation of modern events. Some people will advocate affirmative action insofar as it reverses economic discrimination. Others, like me, will become critical of the racist paternalistic plantation LBJ created in the 1960s.
These kids are basically begging to continue the foolishness of their parents and grandparents generations, and I have trouble believing they put themselves up to it.
