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We are crashing. We're crashing hard. Texas conservatives have won the vote to rewrite history in their textbooks. Not only are they eliminating Thomas Jefferson and instead replacing him with “religious right icon John Calvin.” -Huffington Post, but they are also doing away with church vs. state which is VITAL to the direction our country is headed. They have also decided to drop references to the slave trade and have begun referring to it as the Atlantic triangular trade. Cool! Let's just pretend there was no such thing as the slave trade. Let's just not take responsibility for one of the most hostile, brutal, and inhumane acts in all of human history. Yeah, that's a great idea. The more we erase, the better we appear. Which isn't even true. The more we erase, the stupider we look. The less educated we become. The further back we recede.
Can I just say that America, it seems, has the largest population of ignorant, hateful, oblivious, and uncultivated humans on the planet? And stupid people like to breed more stupid people. They like to teach them ridiculously insignificant information, and this is where our country is headed. White. Conservative. Religious. Hateful. How can we just rewrite history? It happened, there is no escaping that. It's so embarrassing. It's shameful.
I feel like the comment left by Westdale on that Huffington Post article I linked to was very right on:
"We are quite sincerely at a critical hingepoint in history. The country that boasted it represented the standard of liberty for the entire world, and usually lived up to that claim, is disintegrating as the rest of the world watches. I'm Canadian, and the open lies told about our (and others') national health care system by the right-wing/Republican faction are appalling - not just because they are being made but because no one challenges them. Listen, people - it's not just the Texas school book situation, it's multiple facets of your political, social and economic culture. Change it now or a generation in the future the U.S. will be assessed in a similar vein to Botswana and Albania. Really."
2 comments:
not too suprising, remember how Texas was 'threatening' to secede from the union if obama taxed them where they didnt like it? im sorry to say it but theyre just hicks who found a lawbook on the side of the road and now think theyre lawyers when they cant even read on a 11th grade reading level./ sorry but dumb is stupid.
p.s. sorry to harp but you realize this isnt the futureof america, this is just =what happens when you have a change happening thats so dramatic. the conservative whites are petrified cause they know The Browning of America is just starting to roll down the hill and pick up momentum. these are the last days of TWD total white domination in terms of numbers..and theyre scared. thats why theyre flailing around so much trying grab at what thin straws they can before they become the minority. I was brown before it was cool 2010.
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