Yesterday we did an article about Texas Governor Rick Perry appointing a Christian Creationist to replace another Christian Creationist to head the State Board of Education in Texas – the organization which decides public school text book content and curriculum. We also took note that Health Education courses (students learning to prevent obesity, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases) were no longer required courses in the state of Texas. Rick Perry Picks Creationist Gail Lowe to replace Creationist Don Mcleroy
Keeping in tune with an educational system of ever duller knives and larger guns we learn today that this same body controlled by the Texas Taliban is planning on reducing or removing from Texas textbooks content about Abraham Lincoln (Yankee war criminal), Ceaser Chavez (Hispanic communist activist) and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Black Attorney who won Brown v Education which struck down segregation in public schools). This all in the face of an ever increasing Hispanic and Black populace. So say two of the six experts assigned to this project which includes Peter Marshall of Marshall Ministries – a Texas Preacher aligned with the Christian Constructionist movement which strives to REPLACE The Constitution with the Bible. Peter Marshall Ministries
On the dark side – these Texas Taliban members have not only the committee votes to pass this crap, but the voting public on their side. To add to the darkness the Texas buy for these textbooks is so big that other states will opt in to save money. I am sure you can guess which states those might be.
On the bright side – along with guns on college campuses, in bars, workplace parking lots and of course churches – children outside of Texas will have a much better advantage to succeed in college, compete for good jobs and survive to find such jobs.
Many of us, though a vast minority, down here in Dumbutt find ourselves lying when asked where we are from.