Black focused school approved in Toronto

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But haven't you all heard - Europe is the only continent, other continents just sat around empty until Europeans colonized them.

I never said that I think kids should only learn European history. It should be a ballanced package about influential events and occurrences throughout history, and Africa shouldn't be left out entirely. But frankly, what came out of Africa the last 2,000 years that justifies making it the primary focus, putting it ahead of Egypt, the near East, China and Europe?

They complain that normal schools have a white/European bias. While I think it's important that history classes also show what happened elsewhere in the world there's no denying that for the last 1,000 years at least European powers, and from some point on the Americas, were a whole lot more influential than sub-Saharan Africa. History isn't just written by, but also dictated to a large degree by the "victors".

Additionally I have a hard time figuring out why so many black Americans (including Canadians) still feel connected to Africa even though the skin color is about all they have in common with their ancestors who got shipped over.