REALITY CHECK – Conservatives like to say that the success of America – premised on their false interpretation of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America – was because of Christian values disseminated through local Protestant churches.
The fact of the matter is quite different, our success was due to stealing the most bountiful temperate untouched agricultural and mineral rich area in the world from the indigenous people living there, later stealing a third more of it from the Mexicans, building a good share of it on slave labor and planning it all from whiskey filled taverns.
What is at stake here is the printing of 5 million text books in the social sciences that will not change until 2020. That much money means publishers will make deals with many other states on the Texas version of history.
More than half of Texas 1st Graders are Hispanic and that majority will soon apply to other grades. Hispanic students also have the highest dropout rate in Texas schools. English Only and removing the names of successful Hispanics in History is a purposeful act to make matters worse.
School board member nutcake Dentist Don McLelroy – who strongly believes that his ancestors here in Texas were hunting dinosaurs a few thousand years ago – lost his primary to less of a nutcake Republican. But this being Texas one never knows how that may turn out. What if this new person sees an image of Christ down the barrel of his Smith and Wesson? That is a Texas trait you know, constantly looking down the barrels of our guns to see if they are loaded…
The other loud creationist on the "School Board 7" is Cynthia Dunbar. She is moving on to yet to be announced greener Right-wing pastures (oops, I suppose that should read "darker" Right-wing pastures). She has given her seat over to her handpicked choice of another Republican.
Though this may change the dynamics of the board come next year with them being reduced to the School Board 6 (of fifteen), it does nothing for the vote coming in a few weeks. Both McLeroy and Dunbar have said they intend to get their Christian licks in before they are replaced.
What these Christians are mostly about is removing Hispanics, Blacks, Indians and Unions from our text books, Also replacing positive references to other religions, cultures and political systems with references to Phyllis Schlafly, the Heritage Foundation, Jerry Falwell and of course Jesus.
A couple of the most contentious changes this gang of nutcakes is trying to pass is removing Ralph Nader and Ross Perot and substitute them for Confederate War General Stonewall Jackson and to put passages written by Jefferson Davis on equal footing with Abraham Lincoln. Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts
The first vote comes in a few weeks and the final vote in May.