One can easily discuss the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution and come to the conclusion that the current Republican party is completely insane.
I don't even think you need to discuss the DoI or the Constitution to reach that conclusion.
"He's hardly the kind of role model that ought to be held up to our children as someone worthy of emulation," Rev. Marshall wrote.
History is only made by role models.
Sounds like Rev. Marshall ought to be held up to our [collective] children...as a piņata.
Are they confusing Cesar Chavez with Hugo Chavez?
None of this should come as any surprise to readers of historian James Loewen.
Next on their list is to remove Ghandi from world history books. He was such a revolutionary...
"...discussing America's historical relationship with Islamic nations and peoples."
Yes, including the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified unanimously in the Senate in 1797 and signed by President John Adams, which read in part from Article 11:
As the Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion...
"Next on their list is to remove Ghandi from world history books."
Good idea, as long as they replace it with Gandhi.
"Are they confusing Cesar Chavez with Hugo Chavez?"
No, and the thought that they might be does not reflect well on you.
In addition to being anti-labor and anti-PoC, right wingers can't abide by the notion that a boycott against industry is a legitimate political instrument in a democracy. They would have been delighted to see Cesar Chavez beaten to death by their hired goons.
Why would they need to focus on Sam Houston in a US History class? All Texas students have to take Texas history, and I'm pretty sure he'll come up in that class.
The reason this is so important, and that Sam Houston would be inserted into the text for a US history book (irrespective of his placement in a Texas history book) is that as goes Texas' order for books, so goes the entire country.
Texas is the 2nd largest purchaser of textbooks in the country behind only Califoria, and due to the weird way publishers have consolidated, there are now only about 3-4 publishers that produce all the textbooks for use in schools around the country.
The publishers poll what Texas wants in its books, and that becomes the model for the whole country.
Regretfully, another blemish for the Lone Star State.
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What Steve says about textbook adoption is really important. I suppose New York and California could combine to counter it, but there simply aren't groups pushing an overtly "liberal" bias to textbooks in the same way that conservatives do. Even without these actual standards, it's possible that textbook companies will revert to more traditional forms of the genre to forestall complaints and sell to the nation's second largest state.
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