Tennessee Tea Party Trying to "Rewrite" History

[Diamond]

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.”

[Tiberius]

I thought Obama was called Barack Hussein Obama? :-S

[frankiej]

I thought Obama was called Barack Hussein Obama? :-S

As did I.

[JohnDG]

If we don't have history to help us not make the same mistake's it may happen again.

[Diamond]

If we don't have history to help us not make the same mistake's it may happen again.

I'm guessing they didn't consider that...

[Doubting Thomas]

It's funny because all over the internet you see conservative idiots making sure they put Obama's middle name in there, sometimes in all caps, like they're trying to get the point across. As if nobody knew what his middle name was before they read it there, and are going to think, "Hey now wait a gol damn minute. That name sounds like one of them thar furriner mooslim names. We can't have no gol damn darkie furriner mooslim in the White House!" It didn't scare people away from voting for him in 2008, and I doubt it will do much in 2012.

[Minimalist]

When will progressives and moderates begin to understand that these knuckle-dragging cunts do not mind being racists....they just don't want to be called racists.

Frankly, this kind of stuff is chickenshit compared with the widespread attempts to deny the right to vote to minorities.

[JohnDG]

A song fit for the topic, somewhat. Old school brainwashing book "Little Black Sambo".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_o...lack_Sambo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CESlLTzs...re=related

[Justtristo]

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.

[kılıç_mehmet]

But Obama is not a descendant of the slaves that were brought to America.
Really, what does it matter now?
Is the US gov paying slavery reparations to the blacks in the US?