Students are being taught a fraudulent version of American history that is transforming their understanding of the past.
h/t Marvin
History – distortion of
White woman is filmed vandalizing Oregon monument to only black member of Lewis and Clark Expedition while screaming about ‘unity’
The unidentified woman was filmed using purple spray paint on Tuesday to deface the bust of York at Mount Tabor Park in Portland, Willamette Week reports.
York was a slave who became the first black man to cross America as part of the Corps of Discovery with explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the early 1800s. He was enslaved by Clark at the time.
Petition launched to remove Ontario statue of Pierre Elliott Trudeau over ‘historical racism’
“Recently, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found in a grave near a Residential School in Kamloops BC. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada while this school was open, and refused to take action.”
U.S. Constitution: Original Intent of the Founding Fathers
As a social contract between the States and the newly formed federal government, the U.S. Constitution grants to the federal government a limited number of powers, reserving the remaining powers to the States (Tenth Amendment). The limiting principles set forth by the U.S. Constitution were designed to protect the States’ sovereignty while giving the federal government enough authority to properly protect and preserve the union of individual states. As a result, the United States of America was not designed to be a nationalistic entity, but rather a federation of sovereign states that have granted the authority to maintain the union to a federal governmental system. To understand that the Founding Fathers looked upon the new country as a federation of states, and not a nationalistic entity, one must only look to the language they used.
The Second Amendment, the Founders, and Original Intent
The Amendments were written to amend the Constitution because the state delegates demanded that it be done. That is why we call them the Bill of Rights. They are rights that the people demanded be written to ensure the Federal government could not abuse them.
Both of these articles are several years old but they do a good job of explaining what the Founders’ intents were.
Black history must become part of Ontario’s curriculum to help fight systemic racism in schools, advocates say
Natasha Henry, the head of the Ontario Black History Society, told CTV News Toronto that her organization has been trying to push the province for decades to have Black history part of learning mandated in Ontario.
“It’s an example of systemic anti-Black racism in the country,” Henry said. “There isn’t a level of recognition that’s consistent as it relates to the 400-year presence of Black people here in Canada.”
But Poppy Day bad!
Chicago To Review 41 Potentially ‘Offensive’ Works Of Art Including Statues Honoring Lincoln, Washington, Grant
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Wednesday that the city would begin a “public process” of reviewing 41 “statues, plaques, and works of art” honoring potentially “offensives” historical figures, including statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant.
Sir John A’s Defenders Are Fighting Back
Macdonald is richly deserving of harsh assessments but many people have grown concerned that the criticism has gone too far. Macdonald is being measured against 21st century standards and both his intentions and his administration are being interpreted wrongly and, sometimes, dishonestly, writes Patrice Dutil.
State school standards banish lessons about World War I, II, Holocaust, Civil War
Replacing those significant history topics will be “systemic racism,” how democracy has “excluded certain groups,” an “awareness” of “the LGBTQ+ community” and how the disenfranchisement of freed blacks during Reconstruction connects to “persistent discrimination and inequity” today.
h/t Mom
Liberal Education Group Uses Capitol Riots to Push Reparations
The Zinn Education Project, a progressive network that develops teaching resources, sent an email to its 125,000 followers on Wednesday recommending a lesson plan in which students craft their own reparations legislation. The email says the activity will help students reflect on “what a path toward justice might look like” following the riots. It also compares the Capitol riots to the Civil War and claims that following the war, the United States cared more about “traitorous Confederates” than African Americans.
Pentagon Begins The Process To Purge Confederate Names From Military Bases
The Pentagon is moving forward to satisfy a congressional directive in the 2021 defense policy bill that will result in the renaming of at least 10 Army bases and possibly two Navy ships that honor the Confederacy.
Historic Lincoln Statue Removed from Downtown Boston
The statue depicted a formerly enslaved man and was taken down after officials unanimously voted for its removal.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a Democrat said “After engaging in a public process, it’s clear that residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue, and its reductive representation of the Black man’s role in the abolitionist movement.”
San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School
A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him’.
The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.