Tim Wise in fine form, as usual. His latest column is on the decision to require that black history be taught in Philadelphia public schools, a move decried by some as being "divisive."
My favorite paragraph:
White critics of the plan complained that black and brown authors' stories wouldn't be "universal" enough in the themes they discussed, signifying the way in which Eurocentric thinking supplants rational thought. Such an argument assumes that white folks' perspectives are sufficiently broad to stand in as the generic "human" experience, while persons of color have experiences which are only theirs, and from which whites can learn nothing. This is, truth be told, the essence of white supremacist thinking.