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| Subject: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:28 pm | |
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- Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History
A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery in a more positive light, a group of Tea Party activists in Tennessee has renewed its push to whitewash school textbooks. The group is seeking to remove references to slavery and mentions of the country's founders being slave owners.
According to reports, Hal Rounds, the Fayette County attorney and spokesman for the group, said during a recent news conference that there has been "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."
"The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn't existed, to everybody -- not all equally instantly -- and it was their progress that we need to look at," Rounds said, according to The Commercial Appeal.
During the news conference more than two dozen Tea Party activists handed out material that said, "Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States. We seek to compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government."
And that further teaching would also include that "the Constitution created a Republic, not a Democracy."
The group demanded, as they had in January of last year, that Tennessee lawmakers change state laws governing school curricula. The group called for textbook selection criteria to include: "No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership."
The latest push comes a year after the Texas Board of Education approved revisions to its social studies curriculum that would put a conservative twist on history through revised textbooks and teaching standards.
The Texas revisions include the exploration of the positive aspects of American slavery, lifting the stature of Jefferson S. Davis to that of Abraham Lincoln, and amendments to teach the value of the separation of church and state were voted down by the conservative cadre. Among other controversial amendments that have been approved is the study of the "unintended consequences" of affirmative action.
The board approved more than 100 amendments affecting social studies, economics and history classes for Texas's 4.8 million students.
The influence of the amended textbooks will likely reach far beyond the state of Texas. The state is one of the largest purchasers of textbooks, and many other states adopt Texas's books and standards.
The curriculum changes were pushed through by a majority bloc of conservative Republicans on the Texas school board, who have said the changes were made to add balance to what they believe was a left-leaning and already-skewed reflection of American history.
"There is some method to the madness besides vindicating white privilege and making white students feel as though they are superior and privileged and that that it is the natural order of things," Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas State NAACP, told The Crisis magazine last year about this time. "The agenda being pushed and the ultimate impact intended is to make young people automatically identify with one political party."
A number of groups, including the NAACP, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens and the Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education have joined forces to beat back the measures, which they said would have a negative impact on minority children.
The groups sought a federal review of the state's public education and have raised claims that the Texas State Board of Education has violated federal civil rights laws. In a formal complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education, the groups charge that the new curriculum was devised to "discriminate."
The measures went as far as to replace instances of the trans-Atlantic slave trade with "Atlantic triangular trade."
"It is going to be extremely psychologically harmful to African-American young people because they are marginalized in the curriculum," Bledsoe said. "It will require them to be taught things such as the benevolence of slavery and the problems with affirmative action rather than the good and the bad."
"They voted down a motion that requires students to be taught about the terrorism brought about by the Ku Klux Klan and what they did to ethnic and racial minorities, but they turn around and pass a provision that requires the teaching of the violence of the Black Panther Party."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/tea-party-tennessee-textbooks-slavery_n_1224157.html The republican party in a nutshell (with the emphasis on NUT) first they want to rewrite The Constitution. Now they want to rewrite history. | |
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Suzi …is a Power Member.
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:46 pm | |
| I have to agree with you, it is nuts. History is history they can't change facts. | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:04 pm | |
| "...to put slavery in a more positive light". Fucking assholes. | |
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Forgiveness Man …is a Chamber Royal.
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:06 pm | |
| - Suzi wrote:
- I have to agree with you, it is nuts. History is history they can't change facts.
History books have no problems changing the facts when it suits an agenda of making America or religion look worse or make them and their pet causes look better. Tea Party group is likely using a poor tactic. Why try to whitewash the founding fathers' slave ownership when you can use slavery to accurately slander the Democrats? | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:43 pm | |
| NewSpeak Textbook:
"In 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee a group of white men wanted to form a Greek Fraternity. They called it Kappa Kappa Kappa." | |
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zthatzmanz28 …is Significant.
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:05 pm | |
| Arizona is currently white-washing its multicultural program--they are doing it via ELIMINATION altogether. If you can't rewrite it to be EURO friendly, just ban a few books and call them SOCIALISTIC... | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:55 pm | |
| LOL, just when I think I could no longer be baffled...... | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:33 pm | |
| - Nystyle709 wrote:
- LOL, just when I think I could no longer be baffled......
Oh come on. You're not really surprised are you? | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:20 am | |
| It is stupefying, isn't it? | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:52 am | |
| Of course they are. This is just what the Tea Party does. Next they'll be arguing that the KKK deserves Tax Exempt status. | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:54 am | |
| - Impact wrote:
- Of course they are. This is just what the Tea Party does. Next they'll be arguing that the KKK deserves Tax Exempt status.
They did get something right though... we ARE a republic not a "true democracy". | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:03 pm | |
| Heh. I never get offended when the Tea Party says something bigoted or stupid....because it just proves their reputation. | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:45 pm | |
| - Forgiveness Man wrote:
- History books have no problems changing the facts when it suits an agenda of making America or religion look worse or make them and their pet causes look better.
You have examples of this? | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:40 pm | |
| - captainbryce wrote:
- You have examples of this?
No, he actually does have a point. Look up the revisionist views about drooping the A bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as one example. | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:27 pm | |
| - Alan Smithee wrote:
- No, he actually does have a point. Look up the revisionist views about drooping the A bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as one example.
Oh yeah, I have been quite vocal every August for years in the local press whenever they try to vilify our actions in that war. Forget that multiple thousands more of our soldiers would have died trying to take the Japanese mainland (as evidenced by the suicidal fights for all those Pacific islands)
And after all of our warriors and us older next gen are gone they will be free to make u.s. the absolute villain in that atrocity. (They'll forget the torture and abuse the Japs did to our PW's, the canibalism - cutting up the prisoners while they were still alive, the fact that PW's in Japan died in massively greater numbers than those held by the Nazi monsters) | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:04 pm | |
| - Shale wrote:
Oh yeah, I have been quite vocal every August for years in the local press whenever they try to vilify our actions in that war. Forget that multiple thousands more of our soldiers would have died trying to take the Japanese mainland (as evidenced by the suicidal fights for all those Pacific islands)
And after all of our warriors and us older next gen are gone they will be free to make u.s. the absolute villain in that atrocity. (They'll forget the torture and abuse the Japs did to our PW's, the canibalism - cutting up the prisoners while they were still alive, the fact that PW's in Japan died in massively greater numbers than those held by the Nazi monsters) See. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:17 pm | |
| - Alan Smithee wrote:
No, he actually does have a point. Look up the revisionist views about drooping the A bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as one example. I'm aware of those views, but they are merely OPINIONS, not necessarily matters of fact and therefore not included in most "history books", thus invalidating FM's point. Sure, everyone knows about the different conpiracy theories as it pertains to the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, but that is hardly taught as history. Most people that actually know the history of WWII, and the events leading up to the bombing of Japan, don't take these views and eventhe ones that do certainly don't do it with the intent of "making America look bad" just for sh*ts and giggles like FM seems to suggest. IF we dropped the bomb on Japan just to scare the Soviets, then it might make American look bad in some people's eyes, but who cares? It's a conspiracy theory! Anyway, I guess I was more interested in his example of "history books" intentionally make "religion" look bad and finding out exactly what "agenda" and it's pet causes he was referring to (though I'm honestly not expecting one seeing as how that was basically just a nonsensical rant). | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:29 pm | |
| It may be an opinion but it is also being taught in public schools. And I don't just mean Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I will, however, amend my statement to clarify that he isn't right that it is always left-wing/liberals who seek to revise history. | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:13 pm | |
| - Marc™ wrote:
- Heh. I never get offended when the Tea Party says something bigoted or stupid....because it just proves their reputation.
Kind of like when the Democrats say their endless rants of bigoted foolishness. | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:56 pm | |
| - Alan Smithee wrote:
- It may be an opinion but it is also being taught in public schools. And I don't just mean Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I will, however, amend my statement to clarify that he isn't right that it is always left-wing/liberals who seek to revise history.
Far be it for me to defend FM, but in all fairness, he didn't actually say that (although it is heavily implied). | |
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| Subject: Re: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:27 pm | |
| - captainbryce wrote:
- Far be it for me to defend FM, but in all fairness, he didn't actually say that (although it is heavily implied).
That's why I said it. | |
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