Pic Of The Moment: Texas' Shameful Whitewashing Of History

[EarlG]

Whitewash: New Texas history books will downplay slavery, omit KKK and Jim Crow

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[valerief]

1. And I'm sure those books are littered with "heroes" like Newt Gingrich.

Lies of fact and lies of omission. Just like Fox "News."

[riversedge]

2. How is it even possible to teacher US History without mention JIM Crow laws????

I mean really---!!!

[valerief]

4. They don't teach labor history either. nt

[markpkessinger]

15. My brother-in-law is a retired high school history teacher

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He would often lament, when he was still teaching, about how high school history books that came into use in the 1990s and later had completely discarded labor history in favor of chapters dealing with the 'Reagan miracle.' Ugh.

[valerief]

31. Holy shit, Reagan miracle? Yeah, it was a miracle how those thieves brainwashed

the gullible into believing they were "doing good."

[PatrickforO]

33. They didn't even teach labor history back in the 70s when I was in school

Guess they figured we didn't need no edumucation on no labor!

I'm a big labor proponent, but I wouldn't expect the truth to be in a high school text.

But now, Texas has gone WAY too far here. Slavery a SIDE ISSUE to the Civil War????

Really???

There were other factors that contributed, but slavery was right up there. And no Jim Crow? No Civil Rights movement? Downplaying the Klan???

Geez. If I lived there, I'd either home school (which is what the neolibs want - remember? Privatize, deregulate and gut all social programs including public schools), or move to Colorado.

What's that? I'm ALREADY IN Colorado...

Whew! That's a good thing! I was worried there for a minute...

[Chasstev365]

3. I suspect ultra "non-christian" David Barton!

The man is nuts!

[The CCC]

5. Pic Of The Moment: Texas' Shameful Whitewashing Of History

Texas likes them stupid. That way they're more likely to vote republiCON.

[procon]

11. This probably has more of the ring of truth to it than we like to admit. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

23. Stupid coming your way soon...

almost every state buys the books Texas approves.

[PatrickforO]

34. You got that right!

Remember what George Karlin told us about the American Dream back in the 70s?

[Gothmog]

6. It is tough living in Texas at times

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

12. Highly embarrassing

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. At least there is implicit shame in their actions.

[hobbit709]

8. Once again, Mark Twain's comment about school boards is proven accurate.

[PatrickforO]

35. Twain's comment is kind of funny, but

we're talking MILLIONS of kids here who won't even get close to learning the actual truth.

I'm surprised there aren't some major lawsuits going on over this. These evangelical crazies have spread like a cancer across this land, they and their concept of God they want to ram down our throats.

But if we call 'em on it, they scream that we're being intolerant.

You know what? I AM intolerant of this kind of ignorance when they are victimizing millions of people with it, yeah.

[mainstreetonce]

9. Texas text books

affect the whole text book industry.

This problem is bigger than just Texas schools.

[JDPriestly]

17. Yes. That information deserves a thread of its own. People don't realize that fact.

[Enthusiast]

24. +1

[d_legendary1]

40. I imagine this is how its gonna look like

[jtuck004]

10. The only way they can begin using them is if the teacher's teach from them, and if

the parents pay for it, and if the nation continues providing them money and protection for their teaching of hate.

That would mean there is not one bit of difference between all of them and the people who wrote, and those who approved and bought, the books, and those who enable the scheme under the banner of the United States flag.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/ferguson-racism-or-racial-bias/index.html

Racist country, coast-to-coast.

I don't think people are really proud of what they are doing, however, but they have no skills other than to argue for their individualism, their wrongness. The whole nation is infected with this.

Then again, I may be too optimistic.. Maybe all of us are just fucking evil.

[Kevin from WI]

13. This doesn't seem like it should be legal

Are there not standards that you have to meet? What else can they omit from the lesson plan? Can they just decide to omit the Holocaust, or remove and down play the civil rights movement? How stupid do they want our children? We are going to become an embarrassment to the global community if we don't even know our own history.

[SoapBox]

14. I was going to say that it's really criminal.

You beat me too it.

[lastlib]

20. "How stupid do they want our children?"

Stupid enough to be meek, compliant serfs in the corporate machine.

"An informed and insightful citizenry is the archenemy of tyranny."--Jefferson. They don't want anyone smart enough to be enemies. Which explains Fox Nooze, dumbing down education, cutting/privatizing education funding, and all the rest.

[radicalliberal]

16. I'm not at all surprised about this.

There's always been a white racist element in the conservative movement.

[SheilaT]

18. History has almost always been badly taught in this country.

I will say that I don't recall learning anything about Jim Crow, and little or nothing about the KKK. I did learn about slavery.

Oh, and labor history was barely there.

Most kids hate history class, in no small part because it's so badly taught. Too often it's a recitation of dates and famous men, with nothing very interesting going on. I'd like to see history taught a series of biographies and scandals. That would get their interest.

[Enthusiast]

25. What was really really ignored was the genocide visited up the native inhabitants.

[Fritz Walter]

19. Over half of TX students believe the South won the Civil War

So this comes as no surprise.

No wonder Mexico politely declined our offer to take that state back into their nation.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. The Civil War was indeed about "states rights".

Specifically, the right for states to legally own slaves. People in the South can stop bullshitting about this unfortunate fact.

A hundred years later they fought vehemently against civil rights that would put an end to Jim Crow laws, not because it gave the federal govt too much rule over the states, but because of racial hatred. It's time to admit it and join the rest of the country in the 21st century.

[Dont call me Shirley]

22. Bush Family Values: Rewrite History, Cheat, Lie, Steal, Corrupt, Violentce, Abuse, Subjugate

It's not Common Core Standards, it's Rotten To The Core Standards

[Enthusiast]

26. What an excellent post! "Rotten To The Core Standards"

[Dont call me Shirley]

27. Thanks, Enthusiast!

[randys1]

28. White supremacy is TODAY as important to almost half of this country as it was during the Civil War

[HassleCat]

29. I'll give you favorable odds

They included 15 pages on the glorious heroes at the Alamo.

[freshwest]

30. WTF? This was heavily covered in TX public school texts in the 1960s. (VIDEO)

This is what comes from not voting for positions in the school boards of any state. They can easily brainwash students. Generally when these elections come up, people ignore them. They shoudn't.

We need to run candidates for every single job in state and local government from dogcatcher up.

Here's a long Keith Olbermann video in which everything he predicted has come to pass and will come to pass if we stay away from the polls.

I only dusagree with a couple of viewpoints. But only two have failed. The others are logical, but have not come to pass... yet:

[czarjak]

32. Speaking of G.H.W. Bush....

"This occupation will not stand." Read my lips, Dickhead.

[BlueMTexpat]

36. Any history teacher worth the name

should either use A People's History of the United States in place of these POS textbooks or make it required reading, not only to pass the course but to learn something about US history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_United_States

That is the only way to stop the dumbing-down of the US that has already reached - if it hasn't completely passed - the point of no return.

[trusty elf]

37. Why not do away with textbooks altogether?

Just let 'em watch tee-vee!




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[mainstreetonce]

41. Yes do away with text books

Itvis 2015. A world of varied sources is open to students with the Internet.

Text books should be obsolete.

[gademocrat7]

38. Shame on the Texas Board of Education

Students need to learn the truth about slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK.

[raouldukelives]

39. "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

One of the main obstacles to corporate profits is people who know things they don't really need to know nor have any business knowing.

All they need to know is how to pull the lever, what the lever does should never be of any concern.

Once you start wondering what your actions do. How one pushed button can lead to a family being scattered in varying sized chunks across a wedding reception.

How one small trade can eventually lead to women & children crushed under tons of cement for nothing more but the desire of more for myself and less for them.

How ignorance and avoidance of the reality of ones actions can lead to the extinction of virtually every species of wildlife, know and unknown, on our planet.

How people with a small slice of morals, a faint memory of empathy, a small understanding of history, can lead to massive changes that are bad for profits and hence, enemies of freedumb.

The only way to stand against it, is to not stand with it.