I don't know if you have been made aware of this in your neck of the world but, Texas Education Board has been rewritten history and now Tennessee's Tea baggers want to do the same. . Some people are so enamored with their own agenda they forget every choice we make affects someone else. Don't think this won't some day be a problem for any children you have a vested interest in. Because Texas purchases so many volumes of books, the state has a large influence on publishers and what the rest of the schools in the country will be teaching when it comes to history. These books are not changed for up to ten years!

Some of the things I that were eliminated, deleted,rewritten, and disparaged are people such as Columbus,the Civil Right Movements, and In the article it is also mentioned the study of Darwin will be replaced with military advanced technology. Many names were dropped because they are considered no longer relevant to history. Can you imagine the uproar in the meeting room when it was suggested our POTUS not be included in the book? How could he not be included when his election was such a major accomplishment for America....heck the world. Wow.Wait, and to cause a row about the man's middle name is ludicrous. People, Obama didn't name himself. I even have a nephew named Jesus (pronounced as in my Savior) and his parents definitely don't belong in the Bible.

 At one time the in the boardroom the discussion was to also eliminate Christmas from the list of important holidays. Crazy.





 After writing my biographical version of America's History I can understand the need to leave out some people because there are just too many to applaud. But to leave out people and events because they are not deemed socially correct or don't further your politically agenda is ridiculous. I at least included a list of as many people as possible in the back of the book. In my mind history was written in more than Black & White and that is how it should be read.

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I won't even say, excuse my profanity. I just want to know how in hell anyone thinks its okay to erase the facts of slavery from the history books? How in Hell can slavery be seen in a positive light? How in hell can anyone think its okay to basically say, it's no big deal our U.S. founders had slaves because that was just a part of the times? The torture, rape, murder,mistreatment of a group of people means nothing because that was the norm?  Let's just sweep that little fact under the rug and pay more attention to how they (founders) fought for the republic.

Well that's exactly what the Tea Party Groups in Tennessee want to do. 

 [During a news conference held in Tennessee, more than two dozen Tea Party activists handed out material that said, "Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States. We seek to compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government."] (via HuffingtonPost-) Again I say, what in hell? Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism (as in not real) about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another. Theses people also demand-  lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculum, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”(via- The Commercial Appeal) In other words, forget that America's founding fathers built their wealth and country on the backs and blood of the minorities. Forget that they were kidnappers, murderers, and baby sellers. Forget that they broke up homes and destroyed lives because that only happened to Black people, and Indians. It's not the White experience so it doesn't matter. I am flabbergasted. And to top it all off these people want a hand in educating your children. They want to teach your little Black, minority babies that history was a lie and what their ancestors went through was not real.


The horrible thing is this group is following in the footsteps of the Texas School Board, who little more than a year ago succeeded in doing pretty much the same thing in text books. Anything showing Whites in bad light was eliminated. Many of the revisions passed then are being fought for review.

If we continue to let others change the history books to mirror their opinions and political agenda, we will end up with a country of American's who know absolutely nothing about the true Multiracial, history of their country. We will have people who believe slavery was just a myth and we will fall back into the past as easily as one can smother in quicksand.History and the books measuring history should mirror all races. It should include everything about it's country's formation rather it is good or bad. History is history people. Face your damned ghosts and deal with it.


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I read this article a few months ago in The Guardian "Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns" about the new things put in the history books.  Today it has resurfaced due to the Tea Party trying to change more of history. What I had never known is that whatever is chosen to be included in the history books by a few people from Texas is eventually taught to all children in American public schools. What a bunch of crock. This is nothing to close our eyes to.

The value of American history is about to be changed. What is expected to be voted on and more than likely to succeed is the elimination of vital parts of Our history. Any mention of the slave trade will be eliminated as will be Thomas Jefferson. People who were extreme believers in slavery, the necessity (not right) to bear arms will be illuminated. In the article it is also mentioned the study of Darwin will be replaced with military advanced technology.

This article is alarming because Texas with its purchases of millions of books tends to rule the publishing world. The majority of what is considered Liberal views will be eliminated from the history books. This is not even to mention the fact they want to put a black mark (excuse the pun) on the Civil Rights Movement.

The main thing I get from this article is the fact a few run it all. All it takes are a few radicals with crazy ideas to get in a group and make a change and for better or worse it affects everyone. the writers of this book even took out the author of a child's book because they confused his name with someone else. Way to research. If they couldn't get this right can you imagine what else 'wrong' this board of educators will be teaching the future rulers of America?

-->Hate and intolerance and ignorance will start in the history books, moves to sociology and before you know it is in the first readers of the kindergartners If there is a way to vote this down or eliminate the indoctrinate into the public school system, it should be done. It may seem like a little thing and not much can come from it, but look back into history (Jewish, racial, religious....) and you will see the little slaps, annoyances became tools of wars and mistreatment and the annihilation of many lives.
“I feel that we as Americans are all equal and held together by a common thread. Like a treasured beaded necklace of different colors held together on a string, we are held together by our necessities and our circumstances and our humanity. Every color helps to make the necklace beautiful. We can never be a totally separate entity! Americans of all colors are so integrated that if we hurt one, we hurt all. Just like that necklace of treasured beads, leave one out and the gap is seen. Break the chain and many of us are lost.”

.What do you believe? This is my belief and I won't change it. 

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This is the reason I wrote Beads on a String America’s Racially Intertwined Biographical History, so that equality and tolerance can be taught to our children.

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