This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Did you know that several states in our union, several states in America

mandate that black history and or civil rights history has to be taught in

their public schools.

Did you also know that I think none of them are teaching it.

Matter of fact, I met with a school official

last couple of weeks ago, and he pulls out the state law

in New Jersey that mandates that they teach, it's called the Amestat

law, that they have to teach black history and he said, you know, Karen, nobody's adhering

to this, nobody's really doing it.

And it's a mandate, which means you must do it.

And it's crazy when we look at school systems all over the country,

public schools that are telling black kids that they can't wear their hair

the way it grows out of their head because somehow is a distraction and against

the law, but they're not adhering to the law which says you have to teach the history.

So maybe the administrators need to learn a history first, but more importantly those of us who are complaining about the schools

miseducating our kids, we need to step it up and make sure that the school system is doing what is mandated to do.

I remember not because I was around because I wasn't born until the late 60s, but when Brown

versus Board of Ed mandated that schools could no longer be separate but unequal or

separate but equal. I'm putting up air quotes around equal because they weren't.

When they mandated that schools did

didn't integrate until the 1970s.

And usually those that did so by a horrific busing

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