My story was not about Michael's or Troy's shame but about my son's shame -- and tears and his sleepless nights. Michael quit wanting to play with my son that day. He didn't enter junior high for another year and a half, Their were no other black children in his class, he began playing with another white boy in our neighborhood.
My son learned all about the holocaust a few years later and because he has German ancestors he took that very hard also.
Of course we have to learn history but the general attitude from teachers these days is the same as yours. Tell what happened and make sure the white kids feel the full force of guilt about what white people did in the past -- and yes it is about skin color. Never mind that the child's actual ancestors might have been in Ireland during the slave years or Greman-Americans in America during WWII -- it's the simple fact of being white that makes them in the wrong to most people.
It's clear from this very forum that hatred and bigotry toward Christians is perfectly acceptable, statements about how "nasty" they Christians are and how everyone of them turns rotten the minute they leave the church, are are allowed to stand when such statements would be attacked if they were made about any other religion or race. It's tied in with what is being taught in schools from elementary through college that white people are bad people, period.
