McGraw-Hill to rewrite textbook after mom's complaint

[DonCoquixote]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/living/mcgraw-hill-slavery-textbook-mom-complaint-feat/index.html

"Roni Dean-Burren took to Facebook last week to vent her frustration over the wording of a passage in her son's "World Geography" textbook that calls African slaves "workers" and "immigrants."

Seriously folks, whenever I hear people wonderign why we still talk about race, we have to point out crap like this, that was NOT an accident.

[elleng]

1. OMG, REALITY coming to Texas textbooks???

"We believe we can do better," McGraw-Hill posted on its Facebook page Friday. "To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor."

[beac]

2. Well, they could hardly do worse.

Though I would argue "forced migration" is not much of an improvement. That's still a massive soft-peddling.

Maybe they should open one of those dictionaries they publish and look up "kidnapping."

[cui bono]

5. +1

[Downwinder]

3. Texas Schoolbook Committee should be

billed for the costs.

[workinclasszero]

4. Slaves equals workers?

Well yeah you know it all fits in with American exceptionalism right?

We never committed genocide against the native Americans either...uh they just gave us the whole country and committed suicide, yeah that's it!