This is just next level up to erase and create propaganda that slavery didn’t exist. From an article in Huffington post in 2010 that Texas was setting up their schools books and teaching practices to purposely have children forget points in history related to the treatment of indigenous and african ppl. By Bryan Monroe While the rest of the nation was distracted by mid-term primaries, the Gulf oil spill, or where LeBron James will play next season, a handful of conservatives in Texas quietly plotted to rewrite history and reshape the education — and the minds — of nearly five million young Texans. And perhaps your child, too. How? By pushing to erase the mention of the word “slavery” in parts of their textbooks and trying to pretend Barack Obama was never elected president. Seriously, I’m not making this up. After two years of heated political debate, the Texas State Board of Education spent the past week incorporating their own conservative values into final guidelines for history and social studies classes taught in the state’s public schools for the next 10 years. They voted late Friday to adopt a host of sweeping changes. In the process, their decisions may force the entire nation to also adopt their radical right-wing re-write of history. Among the proposed changes were plans to “teach” children to challenge the “solvency” of “long-term entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare” and other euphemistic views of history that, for example, would refer to the slave trade as simply the “Atlantic triangular trade.” Oh, the conservative members of the board also hoped that no one noticed that they omitted from textbooks the name of the 44th President of The United States: Barack Obama. The last two proposals were eventually amended. The “Atlantic triangular trade” language was finally changed to the “trans-Atlantic slave trade.” And one Republican board member ultimately relented in his demand to refer to the first black president only by his full name: Barack Hussein Obama. Continued in comments below #texaserasinghistory #decodethemedia #theywantustoforget #rememeber #whitesupremacy #shameoneducationsystem #decolonize #whereelseisthishappening
