Article: OPINION: The revolution we need isn't in Jena.

Byline: Gene Smith

Sep. 29--We can discuss race angrily and endlessly, and sometimes it seems we're fated to do that. But we truly can begin to close the books on America's great unfinished business once we understand that Americans have for centuries been miseducating themselves about race and race relations.

It began with miseducation and must end with education -- but I don't mean sensitivity training, or "safe" textbooks that sanitize history by reducing whole epochs to a few paragraphs. Our high-schoolers, at least, need to be exposed to certain insensitive, offensive and hurtful things and then draw their own conclusions and ask their own ...

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