Okay, vesta, you need proof. Most of the time, the big states dictate what is in the history books, just by the sheer volume of books those states buy. So, you know which state dictates what's in the history books of the US? California, to a large extent. Oh, sure--Texas and NY have their say, but New York tends to follow California's lead. I seriously doubt that history books that are used in California are devoid of any mention of Harriet Tubman. And seeing that states such as Alabama and Mississippi don't have the financial resources that HY and CA have, guess what the books that they use are going to have in them? Yup, Harriet Tubman. While I agree that Ms. Tubman played a role in the development of our country, what said states do to make up for all of the "diversity and multiculturalism" they promote is that they exclude what they call "dead white men"--guys like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and the like.
Want proof? Just check the books, vesta. Also, BS given for your ignorance.
JEESH Most of the information I get on our text books today comes from Glen Beck and then there is a personal involvement here.
Driving across cross country from Maine to California with a brand new husband, better educated then I and a Chief on a Nuclear Sub, raised in California a place I had not at that time visited.
He somewhere in the midwest full of nothing asked me what I wanted to see in Northern California.
I told him I wanted to see the camps the Japanese Americans were inturned in WW2.
He thought he had just married a Dummy Woman [ perhaps that was what he wanted] and told me I was crazy, There is no way the government can come in and remove American citizens from their homes. The Germans did that, but we have a Constitution that can never allow that to happen.
That's when the fight started, on our honeymoon no less.
About 4 days later when we got to his parents home the subject was brought up again by my new mother in law, what did I want to see.
I took a deep breath and said I wanted to see the internment camps.
New Hubby is standing behind her rolling his eyes at his dad when his Mother said the camps were just up the road about 10 miles, and they were building a Museum for the Americans that died there.
Horrid thing both parents said, they were living there when it happend. Nothing anyone could do about it but they still after all those years felt uneasy at how this had come about.
You see they had come from Canada and become naturalised Americans ---there was unease that if people who had been in America for 3-4 generations could be dragged from their homes simply because of race or country of origion they could be next.
So for the sake of a new marraige I just left the room. I never once in 12 years brought this up to him, never said I told you so, but, I do wonder how all those kids in Walnut Creek California from 1946-1970 + did not know about the Camps just up the road.
Do these students of today know about them, are they in the their school history books?
Any school teach about WW! and the fight along the southern border, the Alamo----Does anyone know about Andersonville or the prisons in the north that may have been worse.
We need to get the freakin liberals, and or, history changers out of the text books. Remember large numbers of these kids will go on to be teachers themselves and they will teach what they have been taught. If these kids are taught wrong they will pass it down to other generations as fact.
