I find myself chuckling at all the hoopla the liberals are making about the changes in Texas textbooks. They are screaming because due to the changes made by the State Board of Education (SBOE). They object to the government being called a republic rather than a democracy, they scream because Jefferson Davis is compared side by side to Abraham Lincoln. They complain because the board did not see Cesar Chavez, hip-hop music and other radical liberals along with their ideas worthy of mention in a history text.
They have several campaigns to stop these changes underway. They have already paraded out college student stooges in coordinated T-shirts emblazoned with “Save our History” (bear in mind that that slogan is nothing more than a campaign of the History channel, so the shirts amount to corporate sponsorship and advertising. Imagine if they were all wearing matching Goldman-Sachs T-shirts embalzoned with “save our banks” and then you will understand the ludicrous picture this really is).
They have enlisted Vermont Public Radio in their efforts as well. When was the last time you heard straight news, without a liberal slant from anything on NPR?
The efforts to confuse the people continue with the Jefferson Movement. Although many Southrons were strong Jeffersonians, the view of Jefferson they espouse is very different than the real Thomas Jefferson, who strongly supported Secession, Gun Rights, States Rights and even advocated that any government official can declare government acts as ‘unconstitutional’. Imagine if Texas courts began declaring the policies of the Obama administration as ‘unconstitutional’ based on Jeffersonian ideas? I would love to see that Jefferson presented in the schools, yet, the version they will get is the one that advocated the “wall of separation between church and state” along with his admiration of the Koran (even though he was the first President to go to war against an Islamic nation).
The battle rages. The liberals are using Thomas Jefferson as a lightning rod, but don’t be fooled. They are wanting hip-hop, Cesar Chaavez, down grading of Christian influence and other changes to the textbooks all in the sacred name of ‘progress’. The Nashville Agrarians saw the danger of the use of the term ‘progress’ often being used to hide the true agenda. They are screaming at the fact that Texas students and others may learn the truth concerning culture and values.
Liberty and truth for Texas and the South!
J Murrah
Books, Culture, Current Affairs, response to Text books, Save our History, State Board of Education, Texas SBOE, Text books, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Movement
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