Posted on 01/28/2015 4:43:02 PM PST by Maceman
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s voucher schools are teaching Louisiana kids that most slave owners were kind to their slaves, and that the KKK are civic reformers.
Bobby Jindal’s usage of Louisiana as a prop for his 2016 presidential campaign is doing a lot more damage to the state than the rest of the country can ever possibly imagine. However, Jindal’s isn’t just wrecking the state for today. His “school choice” plan is being used by the far right to teach rewritten history and whitewashed racism to the state’s children.
Jindal’s voucher schools will be free to teach lessons like slave owners were pretty good 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.”
Louisiana’s kids will also be learning that the KKK is just misunderstood.
In Jindal Land’s classrooms, the KKK is really a reform organization that was concerned with morality, “[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″
According to Crazy Crawfish’s Blog, “Louisiana’s state Superintendent of Schools, John White, is aware of these troubling texts being used, as is BESE president, Chas Roemer, but they believe a parent’s choice to send their kids to a school (that teaches slavery has gotten a bad rap) is not just ok, but should be defended at any cost. They feel it would be an injustice to interfere in the teachings of voucher schools. . . at least those that teach that ownership of other human beings was not something to be ashamed of, but something to be proud of.”
This is the kind of education that Bobby Jindal wants to give to all poor and middle class Louisiana kids, on the taxpayers’ dime.
Bobby Jindal is ruining Louisiana today, destroying the state for tomorrow, and he wants to be your next president.
I think Armistead was freed in the 1780s a few years after the war, thanks to Lafayette’s efforts on his behalf, not after Washington’s death (Dec. 14, 1799).
I don’t care what forms of evil charter schools teach as the virtue of school choice overrides this.
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The absolute toilet bowl of communication.
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Lafayette went to congress on Armistead’s behalf when Monroe was president. Monroe invited the Marquis de Lafayette to the USA and he ran into Armistead.
People ask why Armistead’s master didn’t just free him but its not quite so simple. The law that freed slaves who served in the war also forgave debts that the slaves were collateral for. Simply freeing a slave would be like selling the house that you had put up as collateral.
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The KKK was the religious arm of the Democrat party.
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At first. The Black Panthers started out quoting the constitution, but soon became Maoist commies.
Yep.
Fake Maoists at first.
They’d go over to SF Chinatown and buy op Little Red Books cheap, then sell them to liberals in Berkeley at a huge mark up to make some easy money.
Then, as the legend goes, they eventually began to read it themselves.
The KKK remarks quoted, if about the Klan of the 20s, by far the most powerful iteration, are 100% accurate.
The Klan of the 20s was more powerful outside the South, where it focused on immigrants and Catholics. Since those were key components of the “outside the South” Democratic Party, the Klan in these areas tended to ally with the GOP.
In many areas there weren’t many blacks, Catholics or immigrants, so they focused on wife beaters and bootleggers.
The murder of a slave was always a crime in the US. Prison sentences of 5 or 10 years were quite common, and executions were not unknown.
Never knew that.
I have a friend who has been telling everyone for years that more Mexicans were hung than blacks.
I have been unable to confirm this, even though I doubt it.
I suspect your friend is nuts, if he’s referring to lynchings. Outside Texas, the SW and CA, there just weren’t many Mexicans around until recent decades. OTOH, he might be right for CA and the SW, cause back in the day there were darn few blacks around the lynch.
Lynchings, BTW, while a sad episode in American history, have been grossly exaggerated.
Less than 5000 people total were lynched since 1882. None for 60 years. If I remember right, about 2/3 of them were black, the rest being lumped together in the stats as white.
It is probable most of those who were lynched were guilty of serious crimes, and quite a few probably would have been executed if they been given a fair trial.
But 5000 people in a country of this size over 140 years just isn’t that many.
Not trying to be an apologist for lynching, just to put it into perspective.
That’s about how I read it.
It has a context and perspective in that maybe in CA or the SW,more Mexicans were hung than blacks but, how does one quantify that?
Here is an excellent pictorial set of graphs, which demonstrate there was no real count for Hispanic or Latinos until the 1970’s.
http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=169073.0
Blacks don’t come en masse to California until 1940 when, for instance, in Los Angeles they number 63,000.
By 1970 their population is around 700,000 in the state.
But, how many latino/Mexicans were living in California between 1848 and 1948?
Certainly more than there were blacks.
The Dems can never allow the Blacks to realize that they could leave the plantation and still be OK.
Uh-boy.
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