smh @ Texas

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.10826/title.texas-board-of-education-declare-hip-hop-is-not-a-cultural-movement

I blame SRP

lol...the only state further behind the times is Virginia. smh

Okay, the cultural thing is a big deal, but they did a lot worse than just this. They're trying to spin the Civil War, making it seem like Ronald Reagan didn't give the biggest tax hike in history, calling America a "cultural republic" instead of a democracy, etc etc etc. THE WORST SHIT ABOUT ALL OF THIS? Texas is one of the biggest text book consumers, so some of these changes will affect textbooks ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. This is why everyone should care about politics.

Uh... no one is mentioning that because this is about hip hop..

Hip hop also is about education and culture. Ignoring a culture's existence is one thing (and bad enough as it is) but going farther to exploit the poor through education is a completely different thing. It's as if they're seriously trying to set back the country a century.

smh. I was joking

Yeah, but Linker wasn't.

I heard about this bullshit. It made me sick to my stomach. They are also adding emphasis on Christianity in a backdoor fashion. It's a conservative screwjob to whitewash history some more. They even tried to vilify the Civil Rights Movement.

Education has increasingly become all politics in my home state.

And they will be teaching conservative economics and playing up the positives of free trade. This SHIT REEKS OF AGENDA!

TheHazardous wrote:

I heard about this bullshit. It made me sick to my stomach. They are also adding emphasis on Christianity in a backdoor fashion. It's a conservative screwjob to whitewash history some more. They even tried to vilify the Civil Rights Movement.

Education has increasingly become all politics in my home state.

And they will be teaching conservative economics and playing up the positives of free trade. This SHIT REEKS OF AGENDA!

Co-sign to the fullest.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1253

The ugly details:

Here are some of the other signal shifts that the Texas Board endorsed last Friday:

- A greater emphasis on “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s.” This means not only increased favorable mentions of Schlafly, the founder of the antifeminist Eagle Forum, but also more discussion of the Moral Majority, the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association and Newt Gingrich's Contract With America.

- A reduced scope for Latino history and culture. A proposal to expand such material in recognition of Texas’ rapidly growing Hispanic population was defeated in last week’s meetings—provoking one board member, Mary Helen Berlanga, to storm out in protest. "They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist," she said of her conservative colleagues on the board. "They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world."

- Changes in specific terminology. Terms that the board’s conservative majority felt were ideologically loaded are being retired. Hence, “imperialism” as a characterization of America’s modern rise to world power is giving way to “expansionism,” and “capitalism” is being dropped in economic material, in favor of the more positive expression “free market.” (The new recommendations stress the need for favorable depictions of America’s economic superiority across the board.)


- A more positive portrayal of Cold War anticommunism. Disgraced anticommunist crusader Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator censured by the Senate for his aggressive targeting of individual citizens and their civil liberties on the basis of their purported ties to the Communist Party, comes in for partial rehabilitation. The board recommends that textbooks refer to documents published since McCarthy’s death and the fall of the Soviet bloc that appear to show expansive Soviet designs to undermine the U.S. government.

- Language that qualifies the legacy of 1960s liberalism. Great Society programs such as Title IX—which provides for equal gender access to educational resources—and affirmative action, intended to remedy historic workplace discrimination against African-Americans, are said to have created adverse “unintended consequences” in the curriculum’s preferred language.


- Thomas Jefferson no longer included among writers influencing the nation’s intellectual origins. Jefferson, a deist who helped pioneer the legal theory of the separation of church and state, is not a model founder in the board’s judgment. Among the intellectual forerunners to be highlighted in Jefferson’s place: medieval Catholic philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas, Puritan theologian John Calvin and conservative British law scholar William Blackstone. Heavy emphasis is also to be placed on the founding fathers having been guided by strict Christian beliefs.

- Excision of recent third-party presidential candidates Ralph Nader (from the left) and Ross Perot (from the centrist Reform Party). Meanwhile, the recommendations include an entry listing Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a role model for effective leadership, and a statement from Confederate President Jefferson Davis accompanying a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

- A recommendation to include country and western music among the nation’s important cultural movements. The popular black genre of hip-hop is being dropped from the same list.

None of these proposals has met with final ratification from the board—that vote will come in May, after a prolonged period of public comment on the recommendations. Still, the conservatives clearly feel like the bulk of their work is done; after the 120-page draft was finalized last Friday, Republican board member Terri Leo declared that it was "world class" and "exceptional."


SNEAKY MUTHAHUCKAS!!!!

These peeople need to be shot. Where's Trae at on this one?

Tex-ASS is the most racist state in America, fuck them. I bet they'd approve country music being taught, racist bastards!

N3R0 wrote:

TheHazardous wrote:

I heard about this bullshit. It made me sick to my stomach. They are also adding emphasis on Christianity in a backdoor fashion. It's a conservative screwjob to whitewash history some more. They even tried to vilify the Civil Rights Movement.

Education has increasingly become all politics in my home state.

And they will be teaching conservative economics and playing up the positives of free trade. This SHIT REEKS OF AGENDA!

Co-sign to the fullest.

Wheres that "Co-Sign Motivation Poster" when you need it?

"Tex-ASS is the most racist state in America, fuck them. I bet they'd approve country music being taught, racist bastards!"

That's actually on the LIST! WTF

It used to be a joke.

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION MOTHERFUCKERS

http://www.tfn.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2682&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS

LET PEOPLE KNOW YOU WON'T STAND FOR THIS BULLSHIT

"as well as removing important references of Latino and Hispanic figures throughout history."

That's bullshit. Why does it matter your race to contribution, if something positive came from it, everyone should be endowed with the knowledge of how and what went down.

Sign the damn petition.

No offense to my more open minded and with the times white bro's and sisters but these dumb ass white people fuck up almost everything they touch.

N3R0 wrote:

Sign the damn petition.

I did, that site has some other cool info too. The sex ed videos making fun of Texas' curriculum were funny.