Slaves were immigrant workers says Texas History Book

[Ichingcarpenter]

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Book publishing giant McGraw-Hill is saying it will rewrite a textbook after a Pearland mother voiced concerns on YouTube about the portrayal of slaves as immigrant "workers" in her son's school book.

In the video, Texas mom Roni Dean-Burren calls out the textbook, "World Geography."

Dean-Burren pointed viewers to a section called "Patterns of Immigration." Reading from the book, she notes the inclusion of slaves as immigrants.

"'Immigrants,' yeah, that word matters," Dean-Burren said, &quot Reading from the text) 'The Atlantic slave trade between the 1500s and the 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations. So (slavery) is now considered 'immigration'."

http://abc13.com/education/mom-calls-out-textbook-publisher-for-interpreting-slavery-as-immigration/1014971/

These books are used nationwide in teaching history in public schools

[left-of-center2012]

1. OMG !

Just that = OMG !

[Generic Other]

2. If I had to teach out of that textbook

I would have students annotate that page with truthful comments. Every year. On post-its addendums that stayed in the book from year-to-year for other students to see.

[Zorra]

3. "Democrats moving to the middle is a double disaster

that alienates the party's progressive base while simultaneously sending a message to swing voters that the other side is where the good ideas are.' It unconsciously locks in the notion that the other side's positions are worth moving toward, while your side's positions are the ones to move away from. Plus every time you move to the center, the right just moves further to the right." ~ George Lakoff

The rewriting of history books to reflect RW insanity would not be possible if Democrats had no moved so far to the right that ludicrous ideas like "slaves are immigrant workers" can now make their way into our children's classrooms.

Wake up, Democrats. Move left, and stay there, so that RWers putting RW total bullshit like "slaves are immigrant workers" in nationally used history books remains impossible forever.

The right wing is never where the good ideas are. Never, ever where the good ideas are.

[newfie11]

4. Lol Texas history changes with the wind

It is whatever that suits those in power!

[Igel]

5. Two points.

1. It doesn't matter. If the textbooks were already adopted the on-dead-tree version cannot be changed and the online versions must conform to the paper copies. Additional copies of the textbook purchased must be the same as those adopted.

2. The last claim is unverifiable. Texas textbooks are often very similar to those adopted by the rest of the country (now that there are Common Core standards, Texas is the odd state out and doesn't have the one-time outsized power it had in 2009 or thereabouts). However, the Texas editions are demonstrably and verifiably different from those offered in the rest of the country because the textbooks now conform both/or to TEKS or CC standards. Sometimes they're similar, sometimes they're not.

The science textbooks we use are similar to those used elsewhere. But they are explicitly and often quite in-your-face different from those used in most of the country.

[Chisox08]

6. If the slaves were immigrant workers then somebody is due back pay...

with interest.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Slavery concerns and contains not only racial justice

but social justice and economic justice


Its economic in the end...... child labor, slavery of women forced into illegal prostitution, slave labor, prison labor, and sweat shops in Asia.


Texas has a long history of it......... my son was born there as were a lot of my relatives if anyone wants to go that route 66 on me about South bashing.

Now we want to talk about back pay?

I think the bailouts and welfare systems created for mega corporations, banks and energy companies should be addressed ......


They got bailed out, then given tax breaks where they paid nothing but got money back
and then food stamps cuts, and more fuck you to the middle class and poor are the answer to this insane equation.

The world knows its history
no matter who is trying to rewrite it.

[lunatica]

8. I bet Lynn Cheney, Dick Cheney's wife wrote the book

I remember when Dick was VP that she bemoaned the fact that American history was portrayed in such a 'negative' light. She decided she would write 'better' history books for grade schools.

[reddread]

9. I suspect slavery, famine and modern war refugees played the largest of roles in recent hominid hist

what major changes aggression and oppression have written in our gametes.