Because I was so infuriated after reading this, I had to share:
Tea Party Group Wants To ‘Soften’ Slavery In Textbooks [WCYB.com]
“My biggest concern is that important information is being omitted, which creates a negative light on our Founding Fathers,” said Tea Party activist Brian Rieck.
Many members of the group are asking Tennessee lawmakers to tweak textbooks so that doesn’t happen. Notably, they’re hoping to make changes in how slavery and encroachment on Native Americans are portrayed to students. “Slavery is of course portrayed in the textbooks nowadays I’m sure as a totally negative thing. Had there not been slavery in the South, the economy would’ve fallen,” Rieck said.
Rieck told News 5 without offering that balance, the Founding Fathers, many of whom were slave owners, could be slighted for their contributions in the eyes of students.
I keep waiting for something like this to get started in South Carolina.
My son’s future history teachers will either love me or hate me.
Yeah, slavery benefited the economy in the south because southern plantation owners decided it was cheaper to constantly replace slaves than to treat human beings like human beings…. The economy would NOT have fallen in the south without slavery, it just would have forced people to get paid for their work and treated humanely… and why do that when you can enslave an entire race?
Ugh, things like that make my blood boil!
These racists are making it so obvious what their plan is to whitewash America’s history even more; make the next generation even more ignorant about real American history that includes more than just white people.