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progressoid

(49,944 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 08:16 AM Oct 2015

Texas School Books Refer to Slaves as Immigrants Who Came to America to Work as Agricultural Workers

Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill announced that it will rewrite a textbook after a mother in Pearland, Texas complained that the book described slaves as “immigrant” workers. Texas textbooks and education has fallen victim to Republican-led revisionist history. The conservative agenda to change American history is starting to backfire.

“‘Immigrants,’ yeah, that word matters,” said Roni Dean-Burren, “(Reading from the text) ‘The Atlantic slave trade between the 1500s and the 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.’ So (slavery) is now considered ‘immigration’.”

The publisher offered an apology and will correct the textbook.

Video at link http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/10/05/texas-school-books-refer-to-slaves-as-immigrants-who-came-to-america-to-work-as-agricultural-worke/
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Texas School Books Refer to Slaves as Immigrants Who Came to America to Work as Agricultural Workers (Original Post) progressoid Oct 2015 OP
The official Republican party of TX platform in 2012 included this one. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #1
I used to listen to Radio Havana in the 60's... Jerry442 Oct 2015 #2

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. The official Republican party of TX platform in 2012 included this one.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 08:31 AM
Oct 2015

They were against the teaching of critical thinking in the schools because it was a liberal plot.

Tells you what you need to know and it doesn't say much for the book publishers that they are willing to kiss the ass of the TX textbook commission in order to sell books instead of insisting on facts.

Jerry442

(1,265 posts)
2. I used to listen to Radio Havana in the 60's...
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 08:39 AM
Oct 2015

...on my shortwave radio. Even as a teen, I was amazed by the lame level of propagandizing that I heard and wonder how anyone, even someone somewhat sympathetic to the cause, could be ever be persuaded by that dreck.

Now, I'm hearing the same kind of dreck in my own country, even from school textbooks.



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