*MUST read*-Texas textbooks Slavery is "Atlantic triangular trade" and much more

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Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history

The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy.+


Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights movement and the horrors of slavery.

The new curriculum asserts that "the right to keep and bear arms" is an important element of a democratic society. Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology.

The education board has dropped references to the slave trade in favour of calling it the more innocuous "Atlantic triangular trade", and recasts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as driven by Islamic fundamentalism.

A LIBERAL private school.

California controls automobile manufacturing standards. "California emmissions" as we all learned about from "The Price is Right" include catalytic convertors which the auto industry itself back in the day claimed would cause cars to burst into flames. Now they are required just like air bags.

Texas doesn't have more students than California but they waste money (TAX PAYER MONEY) simply to buy influence over textbooks. As the article points out the Texas schoolboard has been overrun with fundies. As this article clearly points out the Dominionists have focused their energy on influencing school boards (it is cheaper to get people elected on to those):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1716115&mesg_id=1716115

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Meet the Dominionists -- biblical literalists who believe God has called them to take over the U.S. government. As the far-right wing of the evangelical movement, Dominionists are pressing an agenda that makes Newt Gingrich's Contract With America look like the Communist Manifesto. They want to rewrite schoolbooks to reflect a Christian version of American history, pack the nation's courts with judges who follow Old Testament law, post the Ten Commandments in every courthouse and make it a felony for gay men to have sex and women to have abortions. In Florida, when the courts ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed, it was the Dominionists who organized round-the-clock protests and issued a fiery call for Gov. Jeb Bush to defy the law and take Schiavo into state custody. Their ultimate goal is to plant the seeds of a "faith-based" government that will endure far longer than Bush's presidency -- all the way until Jesus comes back.

I think I'll start a new textbook company: Not Bumfuck Crazy Books.

of the trading system, they're out of line.

If they are simply adding the 'Triangle Trade' to the discussion, good for them. It is entirely relevant to an understanding of the forces that drove the slave trade.

Fuck.