Tea Party Group Wants To 'Soften' Slavery In Textbooks

[UrbScotty]

Some political groups are asking Tennessee lawmakers to re-write history, or at least how it is taught. Some members of the Tea Party say what's in your kid's textbook may be giving them a negative opinion about our nation's founding history.

What do you remember about American History class? Chances are you took away the basics; the birth of a democracy and a roller-coaster of ups-and-downs. But some Tea Party members say those basics are flawed when it comes to textbooks.

"My biggest concern is that important information is being omitted, which creates a negative light on our Founding Fathers," said Tea Party activist Brian Rieck.

Many members of the group are asking Tennessee lawmakers to tweak textbooks so that doesn't happen. Notably, they're hoping to make changes in how slavery and encroachment on Native Americans are portrayed to students. "Slavery is of course portrayed in the textbooks nowadays I'm sure as a totally negative thing. Had there not been slavery in the South, the economy would've fallen," Rieck said.

http://www.wcyb.com/news/30309212/detail.html

[malaise]

1. Fuck the fugging

revisionists - racist ReTHUG scumbags.

[doc03]

2. The Civil War had absolutely nothing to do with

slavery, it was about states rights you know.


On edit: There is no sarcasm smiley.

[MiniMe]

4. Sarcasm smiley

[lunatica]

7. type in :sarcasm: and the smilie will show up.

[doc03]

9. Thanks I will give it a try

On edit didn't work the first time I didn't have the colons.

[Goblinmonger]

14. I only have one colon

[yellowcanine]

16. If it is a semi colon you will be full of sh*t more of the time.....

[yellowcanine]

15. There is a second page. The sarcasm smiley is the first one on the next page.

[UrbScotty]

19. Sad how they just gloss over the very real human toll of slavery, isn't it?

[JoePhilly]

3. Apparently, Slavery was kind of like a year round "summer camp"

[yellowcanine]

17. + 1000 Best description yet of the picture painted by the slavery revisionists.

[JoePhilly]

24. And I forgot to mention the free "Vacation Cruise" that Pat Buchanan liked to talk about.

[yellowcanine]

25. Right. All expenses paid cruise across the Atlantic with a close-up view of the cargo hold...

[CTyankee]

5. Cue up the chorus of "centrist" commentators saying that "not all Tea Partiers are racists."

It's time to run that one past us again...

[lunatica]

6. Cart before horse

Bullshit. If they hadn't had slavery there wouldn't have been plantations is what they really mean. There would have been plenty of regular farmers to take up that acreage. It's always about the 1%, even back then.

[HughBeaumont]

8. Soften THIS, fuckers.

[Javaman]

10. racists are like that. nt

[renegade000]

11. lol, actually i like where this is leading:

"...had there not been slavery in the South, the economy would've fallen," Rieck said.

So, logically, the economic prosperity enjoyed by the few wealthy Southern aristocrats was gained by violently coerced redistribution upwards... perhaps we should have that discussion...

[HopeHoops]

12. Oh, but EVERYBODY knows slaves were happy and loved being slaves!

FACE IT PEOPLE - History isn't always a fairy tale. Just wait until the teabaggers are mentioned in future history books. That's not going to be so pretty either.

[pinboy3niner]

13. Damn Liberals are always trying to give slavery a bad name!1!!

[yellowcanine]

18. Only thing BETTER than slavery was Colonialism......

You got to stay in your own country and get kicked around rather than get carted off to some strange place.....

[NoGOPZone]

20. In other words, Rieck wants students to get the message that all manners of explotation

no matter how horrible are acceptable if it results in profit.

[NightWatcher]

21. Changing "slaves" to "free boat ride recipients"...

is just the beginning.

[jwirr]

22. From the High School history books I have read if they soften it any further it will disappear.

[Kablooie]

23. Maybe the film "Song of the South" will make a comeback.

The main reason it's been suppressed is that it portrays slavery as a pleasant, extended family relationship.

It may have been so in some white owner's minds but I'm sure slaves did not feel that among themselves.

In a way it's a shame because the Uncle Remus animated sequences are very well done and some of Disney's funniest animation.

[joeybee12]

26. And yet if you called them a racist...

They'd be offended and Faux News would defend them.

[Marrah_G]

27. holy crap.........

"Slavery is of course portrayed in the textbooks nowadays I'm sure as a totally negative thing. "

... and they wonder why people think they are racist lunatics....

[renie408]

30. Yeah, you know, cause they are leaving out all the GOOD things about slavery....n/t

[Marrah_G]

33. It's frigging scary that it is NOT a story from the Onion

I don't want to share a country with these people

[Rex]

28. Fuck that!

WHY OH WHY do we have people in charge trying to hurt the children in this country? Doesn't DHS care about these kinda things? Maybe Fuckwad (L) should tweet about it.

[renie408]

29. This is almost unbelievable. Almost. n/t

[Jazzgirl]

31. The only thing I can say is

These motherfuckers are sick. That is all. Just plain sick.

[Number23]

32. And by "soften" of course that means

"erase as much as we can for now until we can remove all mention of it altogether."

[2ndAmForComputers]

34. Tell me again, what's the difference between this evil fuck and Holocaust deniers?

[Jennicut]

35. Doesn't matter, kids are too smart and savvy about the world today.

They know when they are being lied to. My 7 year old already has had discussions with me on racism and slavery. Kids aren't stupid and they can get access to info about history on the internet. They don't need a whitewashed bullcrap version of a history text book to tell them about the Founding Fathers.