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

[go2church]

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.

I hoping this is somehow a terrible tounge in cheek comment.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

I hoping this is somehow a terrible tounge in cheek comment.

I was being facetious.

Come on, if we can't laugh at human bondage and misery, what can we laugh at?

 

[JonC]

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.

I always found it ironic that today most of the racist incidents are not in the "deep South."

 

[JohnDeereFan]

I always found it ironic that today most of the racist incidents are not in the "deep South."

Born and raised in Alabama. I knew literally one overt, flat out, "I don't like them blacks" racist. One.

And he was ostracized. We rolled our eyes and thought of him as not being a good person. Our parties were integrated.

I moved to New Jersey and I cannot tell you how many people heard my accent and would lean over and whisper in my ear, "Yeah, how 'bout them blacks?" Because I was from the South, these Yankee racists just assumed I was some racist fellow traveler.

My grandparents came to visit one year and stayed in a campground for the summer. A couple actually invited them to a Klan meeting for no other reason than that they had Alabama tags on their RV.

I never saw racism like I did after I moved up North.

I do get a little tired of the stereotype from people who need to clean their own house before they start criticizing mine.

 

[JonC]

I never saw racism like I did after I moved up North.

My experience was the same.

 

[777]

^ It's especially rampant in New England but here in the PNW Left Coast, it's really not an issue.

All these changes mean is that the KKK and Jim Crow subjects don't HAVE to be taught any more not that they are censored. And I've always thought there should be a separate course on the Civil War taught because it was THE major event in the US and it's after-effects can still be seen today. Was it over states' rights or slavery?:

http://www.civilwar.org/education/h...fcauses.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Unexcerpted, I'd have to say both were causes.

 

[targus]

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

Other than accusing others of racism what are you doing about it?

What did you do today to divest yourself of your white privilege?

 

[Revmitchell]

If we are going to get rid of things related to slavery then the Democrat party should be on the list.

 

[Revmitchell]

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?

You are aware that blacks were slave owners as well...right?

 

[Revmitchell]

 

[InTheLight]

I've always thought there should be a separate course on the Civil War taught because it was THE major event in the US and it's after-effects can still be seen today. Was it over states' rights or slavery?:

It was about the states' right to have slavery.

 

[wpe3bql]

You are aware that blacks were slave owners as well...right?

Not only were some blacks slave owners, but also some Native-Americans owned slaves back then, most notably were the Cherokees.

They comprised a major portion of land, especially in the north and western part of what was originally known (beginning in 1834) as "Indian Territory." Eventually, in 1907, "Indian Territory" became the state of Oklahoma.

Many people are unaware of this fact, because the PC crowd only wants us to look at how President Andrew Jackson victimized them by forcibly removing them from their original "nation" that formed parts of GA, NC, TN, & also a small part of NW SC & NE AL to travel along the "Trail of Tears" to their new homes west of the MS River.

Granted, they, along with parts of the other remaining "Civilized Tribes," had to suffer much misery, starvation, and death along the way, but they did "start anew" and eventually began to recover economically---until the "runs" that began in the late 1880's and continued on into the 1890's. (The play/film Oklahoma! was a fictionalized account of the 1893 "run.")

IOW, we're still supposed to feel sorry for what happened some 180 years ago and continue to grieve about their lot (originally forced on them by [Don't forget.] a Democrat President) forever and ever.

Well, it's an historic fact that they did own slaves. Some of their slaves might have been treated humanely, but some of them might not have been treated in a humane fashion. But the fact remains that some Cherokees did own slaves.

 

[poncho]

ANTHONY JOHNSON

Black slave owners have not been studied as a part of American history, rather as a datum to American history, and yet slavery as a perpetual institution is legalized based on a case brought before the House of Burgess by an African, who had been indentured in Jamestown, Virginia 1621 and was known as Antonio the Negro according to the earliest records. He later Anglicized his name to Anthony. Anthony Johnson was believed to be the first Black to set foot on Virginia soil. He was the first black indentured servant, the first free black, and the first to establish the first black community, first black landowner, first black slave owner, and the first person based on his court case to establish slavery legally in North America. One could argue that he was the founder of slavery in Virginia.

Continue . . . http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=the-black-slave-owners

 

[Zaac]

You are aware that blacks were slave owners as well...right?

Yep. That doesn't undo the history of slavery in this country in which Whites enslaved and murdered Blacks and continue the same type of marginilzation of their lives today.

 

[poncho]

And here's some of that history . . .

http://russp.us/racism.htm

The only difference is today the actors in the democratic party and it's supporting cast members in the corporate media have enslaved their minds and programmed them to think everything is the "white man's" fault so they might never learn it's the democratic party's socialist programs and policies that are causing most of their misery today.

 

[righteousdude2]

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

Once again ....

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[righteousdude2]

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/

How many people has Obama enslaved to a welfare and unemployment check over the last seven years? Talk about slavery, the master in chief is well on his way to being the next Jim Crow, well sort of?!

 

[Doubting Thomas]

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?

Because the black on white crime, heck, the black on BLACK crime is the much more contempoary pressing issue and causing many more deaths currently.

 

[Revmitchell]

Yep. That doesn't undo the history of slavery in this country in which Whites enslaved and murdered Blacks and continue the same type of marginilzation of their lives today.

However it does mean they are just as guilty.

 

[Zaac]

Because the black on white crime, heck, the black on BLACK crime is the much more contempoary pressing issue and causing many more deaths currently.

It may be a much more contemporary pressing issue to WHITE people. But it's been an issue that has been being addressed in black communities for a long time. The white media just doesn't cover that.

Besides there's nearly five times more white on white crime. Is that too a contemporary pressing issue.

You must not know many black folks.

So stop with the deflection.

White people tend to throw out the "much more contemporary pressing issue" line because they don't want to take responsibility for anything but always spouting off about "personal responsibility".