No, the United States wasn’t born in 1776 with the idea that “…all men are created equal (and) endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…” According the U.S. history curriculum designed by The New York Times, our country was born in 1619 when the Jamestown colony first imported slaves from Africa.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the new history, “won” a Pulitzer Prize and her curriculum is used in at least 4,500 classrooms around the country at this writing. I wrote a few paragraphs about her in a June column wondering if the Pulitzer committee was aware of her previous writing in which she declared: “The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.” She also called whites “bloodsuckers” and “barbaric devils.”
How many times is the editor of the Conway Sun going to print the same racist theme from this man. I appreciate that we are a country that supports free speech. I agree with that. But this man is boring and repetitive as well as upsetting in his views. He just find ways to describe the same position.
This is a total misrepresentation of the Newton South English curriculum. Eleventh grade English is "an exploration of American Literature" including: Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller. Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" is taught Freshman year along with Shakespeare and Homer. I was quite impressed by the literary selections across the grades. I have also come to expect McLaughlin to cherry pick, bend facts and misrepresent to fight his private culture war.
Scott the fact that socialist's who have taken over the education system in many places is not just "One mans private war." There are millions of us who are daily discovering the twisted socialist education that has become the norm and we are pushing back. Tom is far from alone. As soon as the American revolution began one of the goals was to end slavery. Slaves who joined were given their freedom. America ended the import of any more slaves and eventually we fought a war to end slavery entirely. The slave ships were primarily British or Portuguese flagged not American. Americans are not "Inherently evil." We are changing the education system to represent the truth about America complete with all the bumps and mistakes which we constantly drive to correct. We may not be perfect but we are not evil. The problem with the dishonest socialist education system is why so many parents where they can opt out and do private rather than public schooling where they can. A voucher system is a very good idea.
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How many times is the editor of the Conway Sun going to print the same racist theme from this man. I appreciate that we are a country that supports free speech. I agree with that. But this man is boring and repetitive as well as upsetting in his views. He just find ways to describe the same position.
This is a total misrepresentation of the Newton South English curriculum. Eleventh grade English is "an exploration of American Literature" including: Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller. Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" is taught Freshman year along with Shakespeare and Homer. I was quite impressed by the literary selections across the grades. I have also come to expect McLaughlin to cherry pick, bend facts and misrepresent to fight his private culture war.
Scott the fact that socialist's who have taken over the education system in many places is not just "One mans private war." There are millions of us who are daily discovering the twisted socialist education that has become the norm and we are pushing back. Tom is far from alone. As soon as the American revolution began one of the goals was to end slavery. Slaves who joined were given their freedom. America ended the import of any more slaves and eventually we fought a war to end slavery entirely. The slave ships were primarily British or Portuguese flagged not American. Americans are not "Inherently evil." We are changing the education system to represent the truth about America complete with all the bumps and mistakes which we constantly drive to correct. We may not be perfect but we are not evil. The problem with the dishonest socialist education system is why so many parents where they can opt out and do private rather than public schooling where they can. A voucher system is a very good idea.
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