created a negro history bulletin. he was trying to translate academic work into lesson plans that could be used by teachers. so a very explicit and specific purpose which was this was meant to be a brief for negro citizenship. in full quality. and to see the heartbreaking element of this is i mean the inspirational part of it is called visionary. doctor woodson was. but the heartbreaking part of it was we are 96 past year the initial effort and we still have the necessity to do exactly what he did. and the thing i keep returning to amidst all of this fighting, and i want to get into some of these laws is that you know, i had an incredible history education. in the very lucky. in the top, top percentile. i had incredible history teachers. and there was so much i didn t know. there s so much i didn t know about the nature of
is a remarkable irony given the space of the snowflake stuff we were subjected to over the decade. short, and i think the ideas that we want to terrorize children, of course, we believe in teaching things that are age-appropriate. you scale according to the complexity the children can grasp in at any point in time. but it s very dangerous to impose the standard of comfort because you cannot really teach anything that the history of this country to the extent that we can say that there s greatness in this country is about people overcoming circumstances that we decidedly uncomfortable. so that s the actual tradition that we should be keeping up. instead, we needed history in order to serve outside of a lesson. it can t even serve as an inspiration, in this context. yeah, we jelani cobb, who carries on proudly the tradition of dr. woodson. who i had never heard of before,