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One ever feels the twoness - an American, a Negro;
two   souls,   two  thoughts,  two  unreconciled
strivings;  two warring ideas in one dark body...
The Souls of Black Folk
The problem of the twentieth century is the
problem  of the color line.
Black Folk Then and Now
The turbulence  that was  experienced during the   1960's  (and  in academia during the early  1990's) was  in part according to the late Dr.   Samuel  L.  Banks,  an effort to make  "elementary-secondary school  and  institutions  of higher  education  address  the  rich  and variegated history of Black and non-white Americans."     According to Dr.  Banks,  in the majority of the  16,000 school  districts that comprise  our nation's  public  school  system,  there  has  been  an exclusion of programs  that define the African experience  as  a factual   account  of Black  Americans'   accomplishments,   travails,   and culture  in  a  coherent  manner.   "Afrocentric  Perspectives:   Fact  and Mythology,   1991."
According to Dr. Molefi Keye Asante, the education of European-American  children  reinforces  their history  and heritage   "as  a matter of course."  African-American  children  should  also  be  taught in  such