What Voucher Schools Teach: Slaves Were Treated Well, the KKK Was a Source of Moral Authority, and Africans Still Need Religion
Republicans, and even some African-Americans, tout the potential effectiveness of school voucher programs. What they don’t tell you, however, is that 
many of those programs substitute in the school’s curriculum fact with right wing propaganda.
For example, Mother Jones listed a few of the most egregious historical rewrites from Louisiana’s voucher curriculum:
Africa needs religion: “Africa is a continent with many needs. It is still in need of the gospel…Only about ten percent of Africans can read and write. In some areas the mission schools have been shut down by Communists who have taken over the government.”—Old World History and Geography in Christian Perspective, 3rd ed., A Beka Book, 2004
Slave masters were nice guys: ”A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.”—United States History for Christian Schools, 2nd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 1991
“[The Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross. Klan targets were bootleggers, wife-beaters, and immoral movies. In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians.”—United States History for Christian Schools, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2001
So if you want your kids to totally forget what their ancestors went through, just enroll them in Louisiana’s voucher program, or any other privatized school system for that matter.
The attempt to rewrite history is nothing new though. Glenn Beck and other white conservatives have consistently tried to convince black and white Americans that slaves stood by their slaveowners at all costs, even fighting and dying beside them during the Revolution. It’s a nefarious attempt to blur the line between master and slave. What’s more, it’s not true. Watch this bit from PBS’ History Detectives to get a sense of what I’m getting at:
Watch Wearing the Confederate Uniform: Slave or Soldier? on PBS. See more from History Detectives.
The larger point is that privatization of schools is the quickest way to rewrite history and create drones instead of people who know where they’ve come from, and what they’ve been through. And a people who don’t know what they’ve come up out of certainly can’t tell you where they’re going.
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this video has been very informative, well put togather, and very factual thanx
If I were a parent in that Louissiana school system, I have the school board restrict such lies & promote the truth about The RACIST KKK, and let all the students know how blacks suffered at the hands of these degenerate Bigoted and Deep Seated RACISTS!!
I am the ORIGINAL ‘Derrick’ on this site!!! Why are so many HATERS imitating and duplicating my name?
IS THIS AN ACT OF JEALOUSY, ENVY AND HATE?
Anyway, the public school system is full of cracker, racist, klanners, who are dumbing down our children!!!
Anything that is a carbon copy is ‘lighter’ than the ORIGINAL!
CHECK!
It was either bear arms for the Confederates or
bear the brunt of the harshness of his Masters WHIP!
Gush it up all you want too, Leopards DO-NOT change their SPOTS, Don’t believe ask ; Wade Michael Page!
Racism continues durante vita, the Slaves & Ours!
All ethnic groups write their own history and promotes their culture.According to racist all positve events/things in history were made by caucasians.They even make Black people white i.e Hebrews/Egyptians/Phoenicians/The Moors . It is still “white surpremacy” taught in schols.
curious that they built a church right after so-called freedom. we have been f***ed up since day one. sad and pathetic. d**n.
well to all who wants to listen a book every human being should read is by INDUS KHUSH WHAT THEY DID NOT TEACH YOU IN HISTORY. AS FAR AS THE KKK EVERY MAN CAME FROM A BLACK HUMAN BEING I DO NOT CARE WHAT ETHNICITY YOU ARE EVERY HUMAN CAME FROM THE PIGMY TRIBE IN THE BEAUTIFUL CONTINENT OF AFRICA. RELIGION PLEASE ALL RELIGIONS CAME ONCE AGAIN FROM THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA. SLAVERY WAS NOT A GOOD THING. I DO NOT KNOW WHY WHITE PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE BLACKS, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGER GENERATION THINK SLAVERY WAS OK IT WASNT OK. DONT MAKE IT SEEM THAT IT WAS. I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU RE-WRITE THE HISTORY BOOK AND YES IF YOU BREAK THE WORD HISTORY DOWN ITS HIS-STORY. THE WHITE MAN HAS ALWAYS LIED, CHEATED, RAPED, STOLE AND THERE ARE MANY MORE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE DONE TO MY ANCESTORS AND TO MY PEOPLE IN THIS MODERN DAY THAT WE LIVE IN. SO DONT TRY TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE SLAVERY WAS A GOOD THING IT WASN’T. AS A MATTER OF FACT KKK WASN’T FORMED TO BE A HATE GROUP IT WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER WHO WANTED IT TO BECOME A HATE GROUP. KKK DOESNT KNOW THEIR OWN HIS-STORY I BET. I AM A TEACHER OF OVER 15 YEARS AND I TEACH MY STUDENTS OUR-HISTORY AND A LITTLE OF THEIRS. LIKE YOU MAY THINK OUR WONDERFUL PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT. OOPS NO HE WASN’T SHALL I NAME THEM.
1. THOMAS JEFFERSON
2. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
3. ANDREW JACKSON
4. HANNIBAL HAMLIN
4. CALVIN COOLRIDGE
5.DWIGHT EISENHOWER
6. WARREN G. HARDEN ( FAMILY IS AFRICANS)
7 JOHN HANSON WHO TECHNICALLY WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN(1781-1782)
IM GONNA STOP RIGHT HERE BECAUSE I CAN GO ON AND ON. SO MEMBERS OF THE KKK LEARN YOURRRRR HIS-STORY BEFORE YOU SPEAK.
OH TO ADD ON IF ANY OF YOU HAVE A $2 BILL LOOK ON THE BACK OF IT. YOU WILL SEE A DARK FACE MAN. THAT IS OF COURSE THE ONE AND ONLY JOHN HANSON. WHO WAS UNANIMOUSLY VOTED IN BY CONGESS TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS TECHNICALLY THE 8TH PRESIDENT. HE VOTED MR. JOHN HANSON TO BECOME PRESIDENT. LOOK HIM UP HE ESTABLISHED THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT THE DAY THANKSGIVING SHOULD BE OHHH I COULD GO ON AND ON.
HERE ARE THE SIX OTHER PRESIDENTS THAT WERE ELECTED AFTER JOHN HANSON.
ELIAS BOUDINOT (1783), THOMAS MIFFLIN (1784), RICHARD HENRY LEE (1785), NATHAN GORMAN (1786), ARTHUR ST. CLAIR (1787), AND CYRUS GRIFFIN (1788) – ALL PRIOR TO GEORGE WASHINGTON TAKING OFFICE. SO AGAIN KKK AND THE WHITE POPULATION PLEASE LEARN THE FACTS BEFORE SPEAKING OR JUDGING OTHERS. AS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS LEARN OUR-HISTORY. OK IM DONE I THINK LOL.
Misinformation is the most effective tool in the colonization of any people; force is the most effective tool in enslavement. One of the best exposes on the mis-teaching of America’s school children is Professor James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me.” In order for us to be effective teachers and move the country toward correction of the intentional misteachings, we cannot begin our responses with “I don’t care…”
For the record, John Hanson was never elected nor appointed president of the United States, which is, the head of state. Hanson was chosen as head of “Congress Assembled”; also, the Black Hanson wasn’t the same Hanson. In November 1781, he was the first person to be elected as the presiding officer of the Continental Congress, leading some historians to claim he was the first President of the United States…but this Hanson was white. Don’t you think that if whites are racist now, they’d have been racist then?
By the way, the states were “confederated” then, but not yet “united.” The office of the President of the United States in Congress Assembled was, despite the name, not an executive post. It bears a closer resemblance to the modern Speaker of the United States House of Representatives or Vice President of the United States. The office was in existence from 1781 to 1788, under the Articles of Confederation. It was replaced by the modern office of President of the United States when the Constitution took effect in 1789. The modern office is significantly more powerful as an executive position…just some facts that won’t be taught at voucher schools.
I was still admiring Aphrodite Rockaz while ROFL and LMAO….no fun-poking intended. I applaud your enthusiasm, if not your research Aphrodite. The point, no matter how we arrive at the same conclusion is the imposition of the false image of the benevolent colonial racist whites versus modern racist whites…pot calling the kettle black (no pun intended)..the game stays the same…only the tactics and the subtlety has transformed..in some cases for the worse….
“Black Survival in White America: From Past History to the Next Century”. Amazon.com
Schools have never taught the entire history of our race and ancestry correctly so why are we surprised when stuff like this pops up in text book?
More parents need to be like my parents. They sent me to school to learn but they never put their faith in schools to teach me everything that I needed to know. At home there was always self-study. It wasn’t like extra homework it was super casual, like you should read this or look at these photos.
Children are much smarter than we give them credit for. Ignite a fire and a passion for learning and history in them at a very young age. They’d tell me about some injustice and I’d say, “That’s not right, we should do something about it!” As a result, I was reading high school literature like Native Son and the Bluest Eye for fun in elementary school. My first protest was to free political prisoners (namely Mumia) when was at 11. All while my textbook I’m sure was spreading lies and bullsh*t to my classmates, but I knew better.
“If you don’t know your history, you are doomed to repeat it.”