Tea Party Demands American Schools Erase Slavery from History Textbooks

Why? Why must my state be so horrid? I’m so glad I’m leaving for grad school in the Fall.

As sad as it is slavery is a part of our history, a darker part but still a part none the less. Its not something that can be forgotten. When you forget where you came from you will never know where your going, that or be doomed to repeat your past. 

First favorite line: “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indian or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another” One: Someone obviously failed history in school because they did do all of those things, two: they did intrude on Native Americans, and kicked them off their ancestral land (trail of tears ringing any bells? No well… Just refer to point one then), and three : they did own slaves, not tried to stop slavery, but partook in it readily (hell most of them had at least one mistress that was a slave so yeah… There is that…) So nothing was really “made-up” about the founding fathers, it was just that the process in which our country was formed wasn’t hidden from us.

Second favorite line: “The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of the time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody- not all equally instantly- and it was their progress that we need to look at,” I’ll give them that… Well sort of.  They were kind of revolutionary in their theory of how the newly formed United States (which might I remind you was still only the original 13 colonies at the time) would look like (equality for all has been discussed numerous times, but each time when put into practice falls flat and usually stops at white males who own land… Just saying). However referring to the first point of my first favorite line, you obviously were not very good at history.  There was in fact a group, and not even a small group but a fairly substantial number of people, who after the Revolutionary War wanted to make President Washington not President, but King George the I of the United States of America.  There is also that tiny little detail that the founding fathers (after settling on the “No, not a king, we just fought to get away from a king” thing) did indeed have slaves who, I’m sure if we could talk to them, would disagree with your “all were equal” theory.  As well as the Natives who were murdered and/or displaced (sometimes both, displaced first and then murdered), and the women who weren’t people but property.  Yes… All were equal.  IF you happen to be white, with property, and were born with a Y-chromosome, then yes equality for all! Only… Not.

That´s ridiculous. So slavery has been reduced to a *minority experience.* Well, now that doesn´t sound so bad. Future generations will look back and say, *Bunch of whiners…It was just a minority experience.* I mean I don´t even know what to say. It´s just stupid. I think that American history should be studied in its entirety. Nothing can be gained from teaching a watered down version of our country´s history or pretending that we were always the good guys. The US I knew as a child is no more real than fairy tales. Maybe different parts of history should be taught at different times to children of differend ages, but by the time we reach high school, we should already have been exposed at least in part to the reality of our country´s past. Just a thought.

WTF????? I’m part black and i do not give a crap!