NEWS: Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks
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NEWS: Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks
When we thought it couldn't get any more idiotic...
First they wanted to whitewash a literary classic (Huckleberry Finn) and now they want to change history. I don't know whether it's a last attempt at justifying a bigoted world view or simply an allergic reaction to the shifting dynamic of American demographic, it's all borderline psychotic if you ask me.
I'm waiting for the day Americans borrow the guillotine from the French...
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/22/tennessee-tea-party-wants-slavery-removed-from-school-textbooks-to-make-founding-fathers-look-good/As if the Tea Party hasn’t butchered American history enough since their creation, the Tea Party in Tennessee is demanding the immediate removal of any mention of slavery as it applies to the Founding Fathers because they want schools clean up their image and teach students “the truth about America.” Tennessee now wants to join Texas in changing American history as it is presented in textbooks and how it is taught by teachers in school.
Multiple Tea Party members, including lead spokesman Hal Rounds, say they want the state legislature to force teachers to teach history in the way they see it. In other words, they want to re-write history to exclude the fact that the Founding Fathers owned slaves, because according to The Memphis Commercial Appeal, the group wants to address “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 group wants to change textbook selection criteria to say that “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.” It’s a fancy way of saying let’s take the role of minorities out of our American history textbooks so our past leaders will look good.
The Tea Party wants to whitewash American history as if the Founding Fathers were perfect in everything they ever did, which simply isn’t true. The Founding Fathers were great men but they had flaws. They owned slaves, they allowed slavery to be legal and yes, they did that despite hypocritically writing that all men are created equal. They also took part in the removal of Native Americans from their homelands, an action that resulted in the deaths of thousands. This information is well documented and acknowledged by professional historians and should not be censored. Students have the right to learn the entire truth about our history and not just the parts that conservatives want them to learn. Hiding knowledge is tantamount to lying and that’s what the Tea Party wants our teachers to do.
First they wanted to whitewash a literary classic (Huckleberry Finn) and now they want to change history. I don't know whether it's a last attempt at justifying a bigoted world view or simply an allergic reaction to the shifting dynamic of American demographic, it's all borderline psychotic if you ask me.
I'm waiting for the day Americans borrow the guillotine from the French...
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Re: NEWS: Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks
Wow. I mean wow.
That's ridiculous, if the tea party got everything they wanted they'd probably make America a fascist state!
That's ridiculous, if the tea party got everything they wanted they'd probably make America a fascist state!
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Re: NEWS: Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks
"The Truth about American History" is that slavery was prevalent, so their argument is null and void anyway. Do they7 want the Holocaust removed from German History? Do they wish to remove Pearl Harbour from History? Salem Witch Trials? As far as I am concerned, the Tea Party is pointless bunch of time wasters who are blocking the way for progress. If they had their way, the world would be flat, 4,000 years old and all non-whites would be "slaves".
I know enough about the Founding Fathers of the United States to know they were intelligent, revolutionary and in many ways awe-inspiring, pretty7 much every single significant person in history was like. They all had their faults. They are viewing them from both a modern, and let's face it, quite twisted standpoint. Slavery was not viewed as it is now, back then, by those in power, or, I day say, by the masses. Slavery built most Empires up until the 19th century as well, so removing slavery from history means removing all history up until this very point, since according to the UN, millions are still in slavery.
Excerpt from tea Party History.
"We are here, the End."
I know enough about the Founding Fathers of the United States to know they were intelligent, revolutionary and in many ways awe-inspiring, pretty7 much every single significant person in history was like. They all had their faults. They are viewing them from both a modern, and let's face it, quite twisted standpoint. Slavery was not viewed as it is now, back then, by those in power, or, I day say, by the masses. Slavery built most Empires up until the 19th century as well, so removing slavery from history means removing all history up until this very point, since according to the UN, millions are still in slavery.
Excerpt from tea Party History.
"We are here, the End."
Re: NEWS: Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks
Why.....why do people listen to the teaparty? They have around 10 IQ points between all of them. They are composed of every American stereotype and all I can ever imagine when I hear about them is "WOOO AMUURICA!!!".
How they can even suggest to change history to make the founding fathers look better is unfathomable. It's not as if people look back at the founding fathers and say "well they did found the country, but they are scum for owning slaves". Most people could probably recognize that moral and cultural values were vastly different back then, to what they are now. You don't need to change history to make them look better.
How they can even suggest to change history to make the founding fathers look better is unfathomable. It's not as if people look back at the founding fathers and say "well they did found the country, but they are scum for owning slaves". Most people could probably recognize that moral and cultural values were vastly different back then, to what they are now. You don't need to change history to make them look better.
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