I see nothing objectionable about Women's Studies, Chicano Studies, African-American studies, Irish-American studies, Polish-American studies, Russo-American studies, Sino-American studies, or any other focused collections of data around some coherent thread.

It is perfectly true that American citizens must be equal under the law, but that does not mean they should not study their divergent and vividly different backgrounds.

Understanding history does not make one racist or destructive. Those come from failing completely to understand the present.


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