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On the Texas texbook Outrage

When children learn history they shouldn't learn it based on someone's political views. The truth should not be twisted so that lies are made to look like the truth.
The right wing conservatives on the Texas school board are changing the history books that will be used not just in Texas but by kids all over the country to reflect their own "white is right" agenda.

This directly concerns Africa. It concerns the way children are being taught to view slavery.

Below I have added some important information from one of many articles about the Texas texbook outrage.

I appreciate you reading this as it directly affects our cause.
Clarita

Excerpts from the article:
"Texas textbook war: 'Slavery' or 'Atlantic triangular trade?"

Changes to social studies textbooks in Texas proposed by conservatives
have resulted in a partisan uproar and generated interest far beyond the
Lone Star State.

California this week passed a bill out of a Senate committee that would ensure no California textbooks contain any Texas-driven changes.

Protesters at a "Don't White-Out Our History" rally outside the building where the Texas State Board of Education was meeting Wednesday in Austin. Conservatives are pushing for changes in social studies textbooks.

Conservatives dominate Texas Board of Education

The root of the uproar is a regular process in which the Texas Board of Education revises the state’s standards. Far more than in most states, the elected board is entrusted to write standards itself, rather than merely approve them. With a 10-5 Republican majority, including a coalition of seven social conservatives, the board has pushed what some see as a particularly partisan agenda.

Among the changes: Students would be required to learn about the “unintended consequences” of Title IX, affirmative action, and the Great Society, and would need to study conservative icons like Phyllis Schlafly, the Heritage Foundation, and the Moral Majority.

The slave trade would be renamed the “Atlantic triangular trade,” American “imperialism” changed to “expansionism,” and all references to “capitalism” have been replaced with “free enterprise.”

The role of Thomas Jefferson – who argued for the separation of church and state – is minimized in several places, and the standards would emphasize the degree to which the Founding Fathers were driven by Christian principles.

California this week passed a bill out of a Senate committee that would ensure no California textbooks contain any Texas-driven changes.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0519/Texas-textbook-war...

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