Trump's Threat to Pull Funding From Schools Over How They Teach Slavery Is Part of a Long History of

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Politicizing American History Class

With the nation divided along political lines, amid ever-mounting suspicion of supposed outside influences undermining American security, a group of powerful people decided to go right to the root of what they saw as the problem: American students, they believed, were being taught a skewed version of their own history that was designed to weaken patriotism. To stop the corrosion, someone would have to intervene.

This scenario may sound familiar, but it didn’t take place just last week, when President Trump threatened the funding of California schools that teach the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which reframes the country’s origins around the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. (Material from the project has been used to supplement curricula in schools nationwide, though the extent of its implementation in California is not clear.)

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But in fact, that scenario could have taken place in the aftermath of the Civil War. Or in 1917. Or in 1948.

So it’s no surprise that historians’ collective reaction to Trump’s tweet—and a similar sentiment expressed earlier this summer by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton’s introduction of the Saving American History Act of 2020—was one of déjà vu. The teaching of U.S. History in public schools has always been political, and such concerns about whether curricula are “anti-American” are par for the course in moments of turmoil.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-threat-pull-funding-schools-205920229.html

Trump wants kids to be as stupid as him.

[Hoyt]

1. Oh, come on, slavery resulted from Christians

trying to help poor Africans by capturing and shackling them to be sold, traded, beaten, raped, to die in hot fields because white folks couldn’t survive in the heat, etc.

Screw trump and his supporters.

[Permanut]

2. "Christians" have played a major part..

Ephesians 6:5 -

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."

- NIV