Nick Anderson for October 09, 2015

Blazing Saddles lampoons this brilliantly!

Look at all those happy sla … I mean guest workers.

This is a great cartoon. The image and message is so clear..Slaves working land stolen from Indians made our country great and we must not pretend otherwise..

irving school district hired a person to make sure their curriculum was not pro-islamic. paid them $60k. qualifications were the person was a social and fiscal conservative AND watches glenn beck a lot.

Actually, the Texas choice of Textbooks problem went out when computers became capable of changing the truth in the textbooks sent to other states and inserting the messages that Texan’s wanted their children taught………………………………………….

I managed to get through about a year and a half of Texas history in the 1960’s and had to move to Illinois to find out that the defenders of the Alamo were actually rebelling against the Mexican government because they had outlawed slavery.

“Forced migration” isn’t much of an improvement.

This is what the movie “Gone With the Wind” would have us believe, that the southern plantation slaves were happy with their lot.

I’m waiting for the GOP to start accusing the slaves of being anchor babies. You know it was a part of a plan on their part – the Africans smuggled themselves onto the slaver ships, posed as slaves all those years only so they could get free stuff and make Real Americans “politically correct” in the 2000’s. Yes a diabolical plan, but the TeaTrumpublicans see right through it!

The tragedy and irony of laughing at such an accurate cartoon.

Sure, and the Civil War was because of the abolition of workers.

When I graduated from High School in 1952 the history books were written by History professors. Now they arppear to be cut and paste jobs by cheapest available. I used to be on the local School Board textbook advisory committee but no longer have them. Apparently folks who choose them are political appointed by Gov. or such.

Richard Feynman wrote a really interesting account of being on a board to select math and science books for California. It’s in “Surely You’re Joking”, but it can also be found here:http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htmSome years back I was asked to evaluate a college text book, and I gave it a pretty bad review. When it came out, without any of the changes I suggested, I was thanked (among others) in the acknowledgements. I’ve never agreed to evaluate another textbook.

Hmmm, slaves are now identified as “workers from Africa”.

This wouldn’t be PC or anything, would it?

Nah, Republicans/Fox “news” viewers are just sick and tired of political correctness and they just yearn for people who tell it like it is.

And OBAMA IS COMING TO INVADE TEXAS!