Teaching history amid America’s history gap

The Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, August 15, 2017 | Deborah Simmons

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Across the country, mayors, governors and other elected leaders are weighing the cries: “Keep ‘em up!” “Tear ‘em down!”

Are we even teaching history to children anymore? We teach that blacks served on the Union side of the Civil War. Do we teach that blacks also served on the Confederate side, too?

More important, once most or all of the Confederate statues are removed, what’s next?

Should the museums along and near the National Mall — the ones that tell the history of Native Americans, Jews, African-Americans and women — come down, too, because there are pockets of Americans who don’t appreciate their historical renderings?

Should the nation’s capital be remapped and the Confederate states’ names be stripped? No more Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Florida avenues.

And, ooh, Tennessee. Let’s not leave out Tennessee, whose namesake slides through Capitol Hill, as Pierre L’Enfant intended. Tennessee, the Volunteer State, was home to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and founding father of the Ku Klux Klan. A millionaire cotton plantation owner, he also was a slave trader. He also was a Democrat.

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Excellent points by Deborah Simmons. Click the link to read the entire column. It's quite good.

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These jerks will go as far as we let them. They are opportunistic social terrorists. They are criminalizing our history.

[V K Lee]

In the beginning, our National Religion was destroyed... so much so that not even the 10 COMMANDMENTS ARE PUT ON DISPLAY.

Now they come for our history, our culture.

This nation was founded by Christians making us a CHRISTIAN nation. Even Ruth Ginsberg when asked if Egypt should use our Constitution when searching for one of their own, possibly realized this fact. OK, perhaps that is going just a bit too far but she might have had a lightening bolt of sudden intelligence.

John Adams believed it; if one would only research the history books which might still remain. Best hurry, they will be burning all books in the very near future
which do not meet their “high standards”.

Not to change the subject but will add this note to all Roku users. VIDMARK (a new channel, New & Notable) Is now being offered. This features the film “Hillary’s America” for any who failed to see it before the election. The one in which TRUMP beat her ass.

Another old movie which will give you insight as to what we might expect next - “The Mortal Storm” of 1940

GOD grant US Grace in that he has written we shall prevail as One NATION, under ONE GOD, saluting ONE FLAG.
Amen.