Protestors rally to support the national African American museum and Black history

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2. "Was it really this bad 30 years ago? Doesn't seem that way."

It most certainly was that bad as many school systems were attempting to actually get curricula updated to include black/African historical contributions, not just in the U.S., but around the world, and that had been dubbed "Multiculturalism", with a subcategory of "Afrocentrism". That alone caused heads to explode leading to research into why this type of resistance to presenting a comprehensive view of history keeps happening over and over and over (eventually dubbed "Critical Race Theory", a term I had never heard of until recently as it wasn't really "named", but covers attempts to uncover and describe structural and institutionalized racism).