I know…what the Hell is that?
It seems that some US textbooks are teaching the slavery was just ‘black immigration’
WTF, right?
I have been writing about the sad condition of our educational process…..the dumbing down of the American student….
And the leader in this stupidity are those private Christian schools that teach the student garbage that poses as an education.
But I did not know just how far the stupid runs…..and the idea of ‘black immigration’ just illustrates these lies taught…..
One history textbook exclusively refers to immigrants as “aliens”. Another blames the Black Lives Matter movement for strife between communities and police officers. A third discusses the prevalence of “black supremacist” organizations during the civil rights movement, calling Malcolm X the most prominent “black supremacist” of the era.
Legislatures and boards of education around the US are currently engaging in acrimonious battles about how issues of race and equity are taught in public K-12 classrooms – the latest culture war in a decades-long fight around whose stories and contributions get highlighted in school. But largely left out of this conversation has been the education provided in private schools, thousands of which have quietly been excluding diverse voices and teaching biased versions of history for years.
While public school textbooks suffer from their own blindspots, a Guardian analysis has found that private schools, especially Christian schools, use textbooks that tell a version of history that is racially biased and often inaccurate. These textbooks, used in thousands of private schools, many of which receive tens of thousands of dollars in public funding every year, whitewash the legacy of slavery, frame Native Americans as lesser and blame the Black Lives Matter movement for sowing racial discord.
Revisionist history is destroying our educational process….a process that has been fragile at best.
I have said many times….American history, all of it, the good, the bad and the ugly, should be taught…..our children deserve a better historical education….
An honest curriculum shows students all the tragedies and triumphs of American history – an unabashed, candid look at the fullness of our history – rather than cherry-picking events without context in order to fight contemporary political battles.
A sound understanding of U.S. history must be firmly grounded as an educational endeavor, not a political project. To bring history to life, to teach it honestly, we must stop feeding teachers a script authored by journalists or activists who use curricula as tools for forwarding a specific political narrative. Such authors have already made up their minds about difficult questions and manipulate our history and our students for their own ends.
Turn The Page!
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
In Saner Thought 
So while the Right is screaming about CRT, they’re teaching this. Why am I even surprised?🤦🏻♀️
Sounds like the religious schools of Islam that they condemn….no difference in my opinion. chuq
Such nonsense should be hilariously laughable. But if one person believes it, then it becomes dangerous.
Best wishes, Pete.
And a lot of people believe it down here trust me.
Christians bitch about Islamic religious schools….what’s the difference? chuq
I too have noticed how Revisionist historians are trying to turn things into something they are not. I have resorted back to the physical library to find what I’m looking for without it being rearranged to fit someone’s idea who can’t face the truth.
Books printed pre-Internet days are far more accurate than those printed in the last 20 years.