The Texas State Board of Education intends to rewrite history…
… to keep things neat, tidy, conservative and white.
The Board is in the process of making recommendations for changes to social studies, economics and history textbooks.
What is out? Thomas Jefferson as a writer who influenced the nation’s intellectual origins. What? Yes, the man who actually wrote the Declaration of Independence. Apparently, he wasn’t Christian enough for the Texas State Board of Education.
Also out, recent third party Presidential hopefuls Ross Perot and Ralph Nader. Topics getting de-emphasized are Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and nasty words like “American imperialism.”
What is in? More emphasis on the conservative movement of the 1980s and 1990s and country music as among the country’s most important cultural movements.
It would be funny if it weren’t so serious.
Conservative Christians and conservatives in general should understand that different – even disparate – ideas are good for the country. Are you listening – Karl Rove? Lynn Cheney?
