Tennessee Tea Party Trying to "Rewrite" History

[KichigaiNeko]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01...?mobile=nc

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.

If it is such a "Whitewash" then how do you know about it...??? how is it public knowledge if it is the "cover-up" you are trying to support?

I am of the opinion that your information is incorrect or at least biased Trist. And yes ALL countries native peoples suffered under the "English invasion/ colonialism" The American Indian just as much as the Aboriginal. The only group I am aware of who signed a treaty were the Maori of New Zealand and only because they had a social structure that the British recognised and could deal with.