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Texas Moves to Rewrite History, Says There Was No Slave Trade | Race in America | Change.org Change.org Home View Causes Animals Criminal Justice Education Environment Gay Rights Global Poverty Health Care Homelessness Human Rights Human Trafficking Immigrant Rights Poverty in America Race in America Social Entrepreneurship Sustainable Food Women's Rights Take Action Start a Petition Join Login Your Email Address Your Password Forgot password? Remember me Race in America Race in America Homepage Hot Topics racism Civil Rights The GOP Ethnic stereotypes Texas Moves to Rewrite History, Says There Was No "Slave Trade" by Tamara Winfrey Harris May 19, 2010 02:01 PM (PT) Topics: Affirmative Action, racism, The GOP 4717 Views "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." History has shown that oft-repeated quote by Spanish philosopher George Santayana to be true. And so I wonder what horrors future generations will be doomed to repeat if conservatives are s uccessful in rewriting the history taught in American classrooms. Legislators in Arizona have already deemed that contributions by people of color have no place in curricula. Now, the Texas State Board of Education — a Republican-dominated group led by evangelical Christian activist Cynthia Dunbar — is proposing changes to that state's social studies curriculum to advance a conservative agenda and "promote patriotism." At the same time, it does so by obscuring truths about slavery, the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War, to name just a few. "We are fighting for our children's education and our nation's future," says Dunbar. "In Texas, we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology. There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections." Among the "corrections," according to The G uardian: renaming the slave trade the "Atlantic triangular t! rade;" a dding information about...
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