Learning to Read

I am amazed on how intelligent Malcolm X was when he was in jail. When he was in jail he did a lot of reading and was surprised on how little the black history section was. This reminded me of Cheney's article about how women's history is not a major focus in some history text books. Why do American's only focus on the White man? To this day every time I even open up a U.S. history text book and look for the Japanese internment section I am disappointed to see it is only a small paragraph long and the rest is on the bombing of Hiroshima and the war. Japanese internment is a very important part of my heritage and I hope for text books to elaborate on this issue. If textbooks would willingly print out a longer section for the Japanese internment it would educate the younger generation of our mistakes. It seems to me that the White man is embarrassed for his error and just wants to forget it all together.