RE: Tennessee Tea Party Trying to "Rewrite" History
January 28, 2012 at 5:42 am
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2012 at 5:57 am by Justtristo.)
(January 23, 2012 at 12:52 pm)Diamond Wrote: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01...?mobile=nc
Quote:The changes included referring to the country’s first black president as “Barack Hussein Obama,” and requiring students to “contrast” Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ inaugural address with Abraham Lincoln’s philosophical views.
To whitewash one of the darkest practices in America history, conservatives proposed that textbooks refer to the slave trade as the “Atlantic triangular trade.”
We have nutters like that in Australia who seek to whitewash the bloody conquest of this country by the British settlers from the Aborigines. At least in North America the native american tribes at least signed treaties when they gave their lands away. But the British settlers in Australia just took Aboriginal land, without any pretense to sign a treaty with the particularly nation they stole it from.
Search Keith Windschuttle and the The Fabrication of Aboriginal History and that will give you a fuller picture of this mentality.
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