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

[Zaac]

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

Social studies books for Texas public schools will minimize the importance of slavery in the Civil War and omit any mention of both Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan, the Washington Post reported.

Lessons covering the Civil War will list the reasons behind the conflict as being, “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery,” in that order.
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As Business Insider noted, the new textbooks come five years after the state board of education revised the curriculum. Republican board member Pat Hardy stated at the time that he considered slavery “a side issue” in the war.

The books are set to be issued to the state’s 5 million public school students not long after the renewed debate regarding the Confederate flag, spurred by Dylann Roof’s terrorist attack inside a South Carolina church last month that killed nine people, including state Sen. Clementa Pinckney.

“It’s the obvious question, it seems to me,” Texas Freedom Network spokesperson Dan Quinn told the Post. “Not only are we worried about the flags and statues and all that, but what the hell are kids learning?”

Neither Hardy nor board chair Donna Bahorich has commented on the new curriculum. Publisher McGraw-Hill addressed concerns over whether the materials downplaying slavery would be distributed outside Texas in a short statement, saying, “Content that is tailored to the educational standards of states.”

Currently, students in Texas schools are required to read Jefferson Davis’ inauguration speech when he became president of the Confederate States of America. But according to the Post, they are not required to read a speech by Davis’ vice president, Alexander Stephens’ “Cornerstone speech” of 1861, so named because he called slavery the “cornerstone” of the Confederate government, while stating, “the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/whi...-will-downplay-slavery-omit-kkk-and-jim-crow/

 

[Crabtownboy]

Texas buys a whole lot of books and the publisher wants to sell books. The driving motive is not truth but profits.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

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

Social studies books for Texas public schools will minimize the importance of slavery in the Civil War and omit any mention of both Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan, the Washington Post reported.

Lessons covering the Civil War will list the reasons behind the conflict as being, “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery,” in that order.
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As Business Insider noted, the new textbooks come five years after the state board of education revised the curriculum. Republican board member Pat Hardy stated at the time that he considered slavery “a side issue” in the war.

The books are set to be issued to the state’s 5 million public school students not long after the renewed debate regarding the Confederate flag, spurred by Dylann Roof’s terrorist attack inside a South Carolina church last month that killed nine people, including state Sen. Clementa Pinckney.

“It’s the obvious question, it seems to me,” Texas Freedom Network spokesperson Dan Quinn told the Post. “Not only are we worried about the flags and statues and all that, but what the hell are kids learning?”

Neither Hardy nor board chair Donna Bahorich has commented on the new curriculum. Publisher McGraw-Hill addressed concerns over whether the materials downplaying slavery would be distributed outside Texas in a short statement, saying, “Content that is tailored to the educational standards of states.”

Currently, students in Texas schools are required to read Jefferson Davis’ inauguration speech when he became president of the Confederate States of America. But according to the Post, they are not required to read a speech by Davis’ vice president, Alexander Stephens’ “Cornerstone speech” of 1861, so named because he called slavery the “cornerstone” of the Confederate government, while stating, “the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/whi...-will-downplay-slavery-omit-kkk-and-jim-crow/

One more reason I love Texas. We moved back to Alabama because that's where my family is, and closer to my wife's family in Tennessee. But Texas was a close second.

Glad to hear they want to give children a more balanced view of the Civil War. These morons who just parrot "Slavery! Slavery!" over and over are really starting to tick me off.

 

[Jordan Kurecki]

public school textbooks have never been the bastions of truth.

just get yourself a biology textbook and you'll quickly find the fairy tales in it

 

[Scarlett O.]

public school textbooks have never been the bastions of truth.

You should try reading some history books from Christian school curricula. I taught from the A Becka at a two different Christian schools for 4 years.

I'm quoting verbatim from the 4th grade American History book. "Slaves in the Civil War days were for the most part very healthy due to the fact that they got plenty of fresh air and sunshine."

:BangHead:

 

[Zaac]

One more reason I love Texas. We moved back to Alabama because that's where my family is, and closer to my wife's family in Tennessee. But Texas was a close second.

Glad to hear they want to give children a more balanced view of the Civil War. These morons who just parrot "Slavery! Slavery!" over and over are really starting to tick me off.

You poor thang. More balanced. Sounds like something FOX News tried and then everybody figured out they weren't trying to be balanced, but trying to present their narrative as the CORRECT narrative.

Racists and racially prejudiced folks have been trying this whole "present a more balanced view" of the Civil War schtick for decades.

Folks with good sense see right through it.

A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,” and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction. This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin…

As a separate republic, Louisiana remembers too well the whisperings of European diplomacy for the abolition of slavery in the times of an*nexation not to be apprehensive of bolder demonstrations from the same quarter and the North in this country. The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.

Upon the principles then announced by Mr. Lincoln and his leading friends, we are bound to expect his administration to be conducted. Hence it is, that in high places, among the Republi*can party, the election of Mr. Lincoln is hailed, not simply as it change of Administration, but as the inauguration of new princi*ples, and a new theory of Government, and even as the downfall of slavery. Therefore it is that the election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration, on the part of a great majority of the Northern people, of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions—nothing less than an open declaration of war—for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and. her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans.

...in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states....

You too know, that among us, white men have an equality resulting from a presence of a lower caste, which cannot exist where white men fill the position here occupied by the servile race. The mechanic who comes among us, employing the less intellectual labor of the African, takes the position which only a master-workman occupies where all the mechanics are white, and therefore it is that our mechanics hold their position of absolute equality among us.

Among us the poor white laborer is respected as an equal. His family is treated with kindness, consideration and respect. He does not belong to the menial class. The negro is in no sense of the term his equal. He feels and knows this. He belongs to the only true aristocracy, the race of white men. He black no masters boots, and bows the knee to no one save God alone. He receives higher wages for his labor than does the laborer of any other portion of the world, and he raises up his children with the knowledge, that they belong to no inferior cast, but that the highest members of the society in which he lives, will, if their conduct is good, respect and treat them as equals.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/

The morons parrot slavery, slavery, slavery because that's what the morons who tried to secede kept saying it was about.

 

[go2church]

Slavery, slavery, slavery! Whether you wanted to actually own people or if you wanted each individual state to decide if it was okay to own people....slavery, slavery.

 

[Revmitchell]

 

[Zaac]

I mean SERIOUSLY, do people really remember the racism of a lot of folks of the Confederate South?

That's where a lot of the stereotypes about Blacks today really got amped up.

If you're gonna put it in a textbook, then show the kids just how heinous and hateful it was and is for anyone to think they have the right to enslave another person, and to parade around thinking they are superior in every way just because of the color of their skin.

But this man has the audacity to talk about a "more balanced view" when with every fiber of their being, the states and their leaders made it clear that the secession and ensuing war were about slavery.

 

[Zaac]

Taught tactic for how white supremacists teach others to marginalize and undervalue the lives and viewpoints of anyone who isn't white.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Rev. you really do hate being confused with the facts when they do not fit your lily white world. Tell you what. Why don't you gather some real facts by doing what John Howard Griffin did back in 1959. Take medications that your doctor can prescribe that will turn your skin dark. Then travel around, not just in the South, keep a journal and publish a new edition of Black Like Me. I'd like to hear or read a first hand account of how you got along as an African-American.

Wanna try it? They you would have real, first-hand facts.

PS: You can buy the book from Amazon for only $5.00 or less.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

You should try reading some history books from Christian school curricula. I taught from the A Becka at a two different Christian schools for 4 years.

I'm quoting verbatim from the 4th grade American History book. "Slaves in the Civil War days were for the most part very healthy due to the fact that they got plenty of fresh air and sunshine."

:BangHead:

They had a job, food, housing, clothing, didn't have to find a wife because one was provided for him...

Sounds pretty good.

Other than the job and the wife, sounds like what they have now with welfare.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

You poor thang. More balanced. Sounds like something FOX News tried and then everybody figured out they weren't trying to be balanced, but trying to present their narrative as the CORRECT narrative.

Racists and racially prejudiced folks have been trying this whole "present a more balanced view" of the Civil War schtick for decades.

Folks with good sense see right through it.

Your ignorance is duly noted.

I mean SERIOUSLY, do people really remember the racism of a lot of folks of the Confederate South?

Since none of us were alive then, I'm going to say no.










http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/

The morons parrot slavery, slavery, slavery because that's what the morons who tried to secede kept saying it was about.[/QUOTE]

 

[Crabtownboy]

They had a job, food, housing, clothing, didn't have to find a wife because one was provided for him...

Sounds pretty good.

Other than the job and the wife, sounds like what they have now with welfare.

How about the beatings?

What about the paddy rollers?

How would you like your kids sold away from you, never to be seen again?

How would you like to eat from a pigs trough? That is how many had to eat, especially slave children.

How would you like to share you wife with the 'master'?

How would you like your wife to live miles away and you can visit only on Sundays when the 'master' gives you permission?

The list could go on and on.

This was also described in The Autobiography of Frederick Douglas. According to Douglas, mush "was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground. The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush. He that ate the fastest got most; he that was strongest secured the best place; and few left the trough satisfied." Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(New York: Doubleday, 1963), p. 30.

 

[InTheLight]

Texas buys a whole lot of books and the publisher wants to sell books. The driving motive is not truth but profits.

They are going to buy the books at some point. The driving motive is brainwashing.

 

[Lewis]

Well let's be sure that all history books tell the truth about slavery. By all means.

But if it makes anyone happy [Zaac?], black-on-white crime today is much higher than the reverse.

Here is the latest example of the trend, captured on video for your convenience. My goodness this is real progress

But yes, let us continue to talk about injustice from 150 years ago.

 

[Zaac]

Well let's be sure that all history books tell the truth about slavery. By all means.

But if it makes anyone happy [Zaac?], black-on-white crime today is much higher than the reverse.

Here is the latest example of the trend, captured on video for your convenience. My goodness this is real progress

But yes, let us continue to talk about injustice from 150 years ago.

Again, an attempt to marginalize and undervalue the lives of the folks to which the injustices happened to during slavery, during Jim Crow and today.

So why should folks acknowledge black on white crime when the ongoing injustices against non-white people at the hands of white people has continued for the 239 years of which this country has been in existence?

 

[Zaac]

They are going to buy the books at some point. The driving motive is brainwashing.

Pretty much. It's part of the historical undervaluing of the lives of Blacks in this country.

If we can teach our kids that slavery really wasn't that big a deal as it pertains to US History, then it helps keep them from being sympathetic to Blacks or anyone who doesn't look like them.

The attacks on the education system worked so well with liberal dogma that the supremacists have decided to try it.

 

[Lewis]

Again, an attempt to marginalize and undervalue the lives of the folks to which the injustices happened to during slavery, during Jim Crow and today.

So why should folks acknowledge black on white crime when the ongoing injustices against non-white people at the hands of white people has continued for the 239 years of which this country has been in existence?

Nonsense. Every attempt has been made to right the wrongs of the past.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

Your racist tendencies were duly noted a long time ago too.:thumbs: You give the good folks of Alabama a bad name.

Yeah, I know. Everybody who disagrees with you is "racist". Blah, blah, blah.

You weren't alive when the Bible was written either.

First of all, the Bible wasn't written. It was compiled.

Second, no, I wasn't, which is why I wouldn't be so stupid as to ask if anybody remembers being under the conditions that existed when it was written.

Pretty much. It's part of the historical undervaluing of the lives of Blacks in this country.

How many black Founding Fathers can you name?

If we can teach our kids that slavery really wasn't that big a deal as it pertains to US History, then it helps keep them from being sympathetic to Blacks or anyone who doesn't look like them.

Actually, the books don't teach that slavery wasn't a big deal. They teach that slavery was not the primary cause of the war, which it was not.