Race Pride School Pride

In 1962, Malcolm X rhetorically asked during a speech, "Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much that you don't want to be around each other?" Today, a necessary corollary would be to ask, "Who taught you pride?"

Few institutions reveal our societal values more than schools. The national story passed from generation to generation is complete with detail...