As a historian and former teacher myself, I read with consternation Tom McLaughlin’s column, which complained that “nothing by white men is allowed in a ... high school English class.”

Did Mr. McLaughlin lodge a similar complaint when all that was taught in high school English classes were works by white men? That we should be required to elevate Hemingway over Achebe, Fitzgerald over Morrison, Faulkner over Wright and Baldwin seems rather a narrow-minded view of literature.

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