Last year’s Texas public school enrollment included
2.3 million Hispanic, 1.6 million white and 671,871 African- American
children.
Dumbutt, Texas – Over the past three days the Texas Board of Education has been discussing what we will teaching Texas Children by rewriting Texas history and social science textbooks. As expected the 7 Taliban members of the board are winning the battle. So much so that all but one of the Democratic members of the 15 member board walked out in protest. The issues are about replacing terms like SOCIAL JUSTICE with FREE MARKETS, with removing references to gays and unions and their struggles, and putting in names like Phyllis Schlafly, Jerry Falwell, The Heritage Foundation and so on. But mostly it is about Republican racism to remove whatever they can regarding Hispanics and African Americans in their historic struggles. It is clearly the White Republican members against the Black and Hispanic members. Though there are presently 7 white Christian creationist Fundamentalists on the Board, they usually get an extra 2 votes from the remaining white conservative Republicans to get their way. Texas Board of Education defeats Religious Freedom Amendment
Their views on sexual reality can be summed up in this exchange:
The board also rejected experts who recommended a
sociology standard for high school students to "differentiate between
sex and gender as social constructs and determine how gender and
socialization interact." The focus would shift to "transgender,
transvestites and who knows what else," predicted Barbara Cargill, R-The
Woodland, calling the proposed standard "totally inappropriate."
"Talking about your heterosexual experiences" is
inappropriate, added Terri Leo, R-Spring.
Their views on race and culture can summed by this.
Republicans then got their way, including removing
hiphop as an example of a "significant cultural movement" in American
society for high school history. Country music survived.
But the coup de grace, the face of these very white ugly Texas Christians is best understood in the following exchange.
Mavis Knight, D-Dallas, was unable to attract any
Republican support for her motion to teach students that government is
not supposed to favor any religion. Knight’s proposed amendment:
"Examine the reasons the Founding Fathers protected religious freedom
in America by barring government from protecting or disfavoring any
particular religion over all others," was defeated.Board member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, a Liberty
College law professor, called Knight’s proposal inaccurate. "We don’t want our religious history to be drawn
from a viewpoint that is not historically accurate," Dunbar said.
The question arises as to what can be done about this level of ignorance and intolerance? Which sadly they wish to further embed into our educational system. Walking down the street here talking to my fellow voters, the answer is obvious, NOTHING CAN BE DONE. Ignorance, Intolerance and of course the guns are what we in Dumbutt, Texas are most proud of. If you are out of state and have trouble grasping what that is all about, just listen to Sarah Palin, she gets it.