Take a look at these lines from a poem written by a little girl:

'Black lands taken from your hands, by vampires with no remorse," the aspiring actress and poet wrote. "They took the gold, the wisdom and all the storytellers. They took the black women, with the black man weak. Made to watch as they changed the paradigm of our village.

"Yeah white nationalism is what put you in bondage. Pirates and vampires like Columbus, Morgan and Darwin." '

Read about this here:

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Quidamae/109301/#c280877

Found the news story here:

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60921.htm

I don't really care to comment on this issue except that it prompts me to recomend the book Morning by Morning 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507744/104-1622286-1257517?v=glance&n=283155 

This is an interesting perspective written by a homeschooling African American Woman of who is a Christian. It gave me some good food for thought... I strongly recomend that you read it if you are white (pastey) like me, or of a darker shade. My favorite line (by one of her sons) was "college is an artificial construct" (sounds like something I would have said to my mom) and her reaction, "Duh! You got to work with the system kid"  She had after-all taught him, (by example) that he did not (I loosely paraphrase). This book made me laugh and gave me a fresh perspective.... PLEASE (oops did I shout?) check it out (I got mine from my library). If nothing else Morning by Morning will give you practical tips for getting your kids into Ivy League Institutions...but then your child might say that they are all "artificial constructs"..hmmm I gotta like that guy.

Gena, I think someone on your staff needs to interview Paula Penn-Nabrit the author in TOS.