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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/

 

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.

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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?

 

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.