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Tenn. Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From Textbooks?

This was talkeda bout...

Back in January...

When "two dozen" tea partiers called for it. :roll:

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Oh marvelous. Why stop there? Why don't we just rewrite the whole damn thing. Get George Lucas, or Stephen Spielberg to ghost-write it, add some robots, some space battles, what the ****, right? This is asinine.
 
I doubt seriously that the majority of those in the Tea Party endorse this idea.

History is what it is. and it was corrected in the Civil War, much like the New Testament corrected some things in the Old Testament.

Our founding Fathers were working from a pretty much blank slate. and things were as they were at the time, and slavery was not just a practice here at the time.

Slavery was once widespread around the world and keep in mind that the Slavers in Africa were often black.

So tell it like it was, and explain what happened.

Never fear History or the truth.


To hide it or attempt to rewrite is where you can go very wrong.
 
more like re-whiting history.

Seriously. A small lunatic fringe will always be stupid, its best to ignore them and ostracize them to let them know that their behavior is not acceptable in civilized society. The worse thing we can do is make the assumption that this sort of thing is normal.
 
I'm failing to see the quote that states the TN tea party wants to remove all incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks. Maybe someone can point it out to me.
 
This is silly...of COURSE they should continue to teach our history. In fact they should expound...the history of Native Americans as slaveholders, the history of freed slaves as slaveholders, the history of slavery throughout the world...they should teach it ALL...not just the sanitized evil white Euroslaveholder history.

Might even be helpful to teach which cultures continue now as then to embrace the barbaric practice of slavery.
 
You can't be serious. :shock:

While Liberals are going to remove God and Christianity from America, what is wrong if some Tea Party members have respect to Founders and a little bit correct their image?
 
While Liberals are going to remove God and Christianity from America, what is wrong if some Tea Party members have respect to Founders and a little bit correct their image?

So you are ok with a lie if it furthers your agenda?
 
I live in TN and I support the Tea Party. I know people who are Tea Party members and never have I heard anyone wanting to remove slavery from textbooks.
 
While Liberals are going to remove God and Christianity from America, what is wrong if some Tea Party members have respect to Founders and a little bit correct their image?

Well God really had nothing to do with American politics until 1956 then we started to put it on our money and everything...
But seriously why would you want slavery removed from the textbooks? Does it make your "perfect little America" not look so perfect or something?
 
What is the lie?

The lie that there was no slavery.

Alfons, it has nothing to do with God. When teaching history, what happened should be taught. Slavery, while a horrible stain on our history, happened. Therefore, it should be talked about.
 
The lie that there was no slavery.

Alfons, it has nothing to do with God. When teaching history, what happened should be taught. Slavery, while a horrible stain on our history, happened. Therefore, it should be talked about.

Again, show me the proof that the TN tea party wants to remove slavery from textbooks.
 
While Liberals are going to remove God and Christianity from America,

Massive FAIL overgeneralization.

The typical far-right moronic talking point that keeps them so filled with fear...



what is wrong if some Tea Party members have respect to Founders and a little bit correct their image?

You couldn't fill a TEA BAG with everything the Tea Parties knows about U.S. History and the founding fathers...
 
What is the lie?

The founders were who they were, "trying to correct their image" implies that we should omit uncomfortable information, which would be a lie.
 
The founders were who they were, "trying to correct their image" implies that we should omit uncomfortable information, which would be a lie.

Well said.

We should infect the textbooks with smallpox...
 
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