It was a different time is the most typical American excuse to explain how we
treated each other in the past; as well as, the greatest
argument for revamped American educational paradigms. We can’t
change what we don’t understand; and we can’t understand if we don’t learn.
During the idealistic late 1960’s and early 1970’s it was thought that teaching
people a more inclusive version of history would strengthen
America and help her to live up to her
promise — it was a different time.