US History classes often don't tell the full story in the eyes of BIPOC communities; parents explain

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There's a version of U.S. history students in K-12 classrooms are exposed to, most of which lacks perspectives from communities of color.

From a European perspective, Christopher Columbus discovered America. From an Indigenous perspective, Columbus and other European explorers stole the homelands of various Native tribes.

"The United States was a territory inhabited by Indigenous people and then there were European settlers who came, colonized, and formed a government. That’s just a fact, you can have feelings about that fact, but that is a fact, to say otherwise would not be accurate," said Dr. Jennifer Ho, an Ethnic Studies Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.

"Individual people, as well as people connected to the U.S. government, like Thomas Jefferson, bought people from Africa, enslaved them to work on his property without any remuneration, right? That’s the system of chattel slavery. That simply happened."

Dr. Ho added that most of us do not have an accurate sense of U.S. History based solely on what we are taught in K-12 classrooms.

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