The problem of White Supremacy - Spinoff from Buffalo Shooting thread

Given that MLK was killed in 1968 and I was in high school in the late 80's, I don't think there was a lot of ANY other history taught that occurred much beyond the 70's.

Yep, I was in high school at the same time and, yes, not a lot of history was taught past that time period, but those 20 or so years of history should have been taught and some more recent history was taught in my Civics class. Although it mostly focused on the elected officials and politicians of the day.

There wasn't really any discussion of the current state of the Cold War or the reforms that Gorbachev was making to effectively end the Cold War. Nor was there much of anything taught about what was going on in the Middle East. But, all of those things, including the effects of racism and slavery still happening, should have been taught and still should be taught.

It was odd that American history classes seemed to spend a lot more time talking about what happened hundreds of years ago as opposed to what had gone on in the last 30 or 40 years. The same was true of World History classes.