AP History Is Wrong, US Ended Slavery

[MrsSmith]

Conservative CO school board member: AP history is wrong, US ended slavery ‘voluntarily’
David Ferguson - RawStory
03 Oct 2014

A member of the Colorado Board of Education said the United States ended slavery “voluntarily” while defending a revised, nationalistic history curriculum for AP students. Some conservative counties in the state have adopted the new curriculum to protest the current national Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) curriculum.


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“As an example, I note our slavery history,” Mazanec wrote. “Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional.

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Rex (46,609 posts)
3. The US didn't end slavery voluntarily! What a bunch of BULLSHIT!

Racists just cannot admit that the South LOST THE ****ING WAR...EOM.

GET OVER IT.

blkmusclmachine (11,949 posts)
7. Revise, deny, and lie. That's the Republican Way.

    OK, so exactly what major world power or supernatural power jumped into the US and forced us to stop slavery?

I notice no one made mention of the fact that slavery DOES still exist in other countries.  Tsk, tsk, that reality based community makes themselves look stupid again.   

[dutch508]

    OK, so exactly what major world power or supernatural power jumped into the US and forced us to stop slavery?

That's kind of how I looked at the comment. WE as a country put a stop to slavery IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

The more the left tries the twist the past to suit their own needs the more confused the rest of us get.

[Delmar]

“Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today!

Lurking DUmmies, read the bolded part.  What a bunch of dumb SOBs.

[MrsSmith]

I have to wonder what they thought actually forced the US, as a whole, to give up slavery.  Of course, it wouldn't do to admit that Christians and Republicans fought for years to get rid of it.   

[Ralph Wiggum]

And conveniently yet again, the DUmmies ignore the FACT that the southern Democrats wanted to continue slavery, created the Ku Klux Klan, meanwhile Northern Republicans fought to end slavery.

[Dori]

If they are so eager to pick apart what people say, how come they never pick apart all of Obama's lies and contradictions?