Texas schools board rewrites US history

US Christian conservatives drop references to slave trade and sideline Thomas Jefferson who backed church-state separation
Chris McGreal, Houston
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 16 May 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history
Cynthia Dunbar is one of a clutch of US Christian evangelists who have grasped control of the Texas education board. According to her 'There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology... We had to go back and make some corrections."

So this will actually effect most of the country.

Hope this is not a re-post.

 

Oh, great. And we wonder how American kids are do dumb compared to the rest of the world at this point. How do these people get this crap approved? Surely, not everyone in Texas is that stupid. After all, we have Tammy. Tammy, go set them straight!

 

Corrections? Some folks need the dog shit slapped outta them.

 

It's called 'indoctrination' and 'political propaganda'.

Hopefully these 'changes' are overturned over time, but I hate that Conservatives have this cognitive dissonance with U.S. history.

RIght wing conservatism has been the font of intolerance, bigotry, sexism and racism, whatever the 'party' has chosen to call itself at the time.

Mucking around with the history of the Civil Rights movement, or suggesting that SOuthern resistance to Civil Rights was based almost exclusively on the perceived threat of racial integration, will only result in dumping loads of culturally illiterate adults into the U.S. population from the Lone Star State.

What's most stunning is how little regard right wing, cultural conservatives have for Thomas Jefferson.
THeir attempt to marginalize the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence is laughable.

Remember, these are the same folks who want to run the Federal government.:axe:

 

Truth takes a beating once again. What is crazy is that U.S. history as taught in schools started to become objectionable based on actual evidence and information from persons that lived during that era when I was in school. The mini-series Roots for example opened up the need to look at slavery from the eyes of the slaves for the first time. Now there are people who are scared at the 'recent developments' in our society so they want to change it through Thought Reform in the name of God and patriotism, as if God is a frightened, racist American.

 

awww the convenient truth...the only time you are expected to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god as you are swearing on a stack of bibles is in a court of law...people don't like the truth...

:smt011

 

Paniro, read shit before commenting on it.


NO ONE said the Texas School Board is 'removing' Thomas Jefferson from the curriculum, what they're doing is attempting to redefine his role in American history.

 

http://www.whitewomenblackmen.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13973

No worries over here though. I figure the more people who know about this travesty, the more can be done to correct what's happening to our education system in this country.

It's this particular backwards way of thinking that won't allow us to progress as a nation and by attempting to hide the truth about the history of America, they’re only making matters worse.

 

I missed your post. Glad he did repost it.

This is just all kinds of wrong.

 

I heard of those changes on Crazy Beck's show a year or so back. Such utter nonsense should be banned in my opinion.

 

exactly.....

 

Not since historians in the early part of the 20th century mentioned about "happy" slaves does this shyt returning again. Those fools must be called out hard.