Riginslinger, you comment that in one school library in an African American school you "found history books [which] for almost two hundred pages [talked]about how much the African immigrants had to do with the colonization of America. When it came to talking about what the English had to do with colonizing the United States, they summed it all up in two-and-a-half pages".

Reverse your point and perhaps you can catch a slight glimmer of how I and others felt and how students who are African American and other non-European races & ethnicities still feel about the education systems' overwhelming focus on European history & European cultural contributions to the world.

Wirh regard to those books you happened upon in that particular library, perhaps the African role in the colonization and settling of America was the focus of these specific books.

And-though I doubt that this was the case- if ALL the books in that school library focused on African contributions to the history & culture of the USA and this world, then perhaps that librarian was making some small effort to provide her/or his students access to books other than the Euro-centric textbooks,library books, and other teaching materials that are over-whelmingly found in and used in most public schools in the USA.

You are right-funding is not the only problem.