Posted on 06/29/2018 6:44:16 AM PDT by C19fan
Students and scholars are up in arms over a decision to cut thousands of years from the Advanced Placement World History curriculum, with some historians fretting it will make the course too "Western-centric."
“The College Board wants to remove over 8,000 of those years, and start the course in 1450 CE,” declares a petition seeking to prevent the change, which had already exceeded 11,000 signatures by press time.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Nice link....thanks
Unless the bull is gay and then they’re worth double because they’re special.
Surprised they aren’t starting it in 570 AD when mohammed was born.
According to Soetoro, America was founded by muslims and Africa.
I’m partial to Nov. 8, 2016.
You’re welcome!
FOX’s Watters did his man on the street yesterday. College morons thought we won our independence from Virginia in 1984 and George Washington did something with horses.
Even given that it's been so long ago that I've forgotten much of it, I gotta thank God for having been schooled in the Midwest back when teachers still taught things that mattered, actually seemed to care that you absorbed it, and the schools themselves were sane places because very little delinquent crap was tolerated.
Classical history and the small-L liberal arts has been under attack by the racists and opportunists who label anything from white people either as racist or as stolen by white people.
After the Weather Underground maggots failed in their attempts to gin up a violent overthrow of the US, Ayers went into education via the Annenberg (or Annenburg?) foundation which influenced public education via textbook writing and other stuff. I don’t remember much but this was discussed on FR some years ago when doing research about 0bola.
I remember doing home schooling in the early 80s and the text books even then were pretty bad; I can imagine now, since they invented globull warming and are shoving every imaginable kind of perversion and racism down little children’s throats on up to graduate school.
I thank my lucky stars I have no education.
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
Written in 1963.
Ancient Indian civlizations had writing.
The Crusaders were going after mohammedans, but didn’t do a good enough job, sadly.
The main lesson to draw from that is, don't rely on Gibbon's Fall of Rome. :^)
Ah yes, the “Black Athena” theory. Not only did the Ancient Greeks steal all the amazing black technologies and sciences, they hip-mo-tized all of them to forget any of that ever existed.
Not too shabby for a small group of ignorant white savages pulling off the greatest heist in the history of mankind.
Heh, I hadn’t been thinking of that, but good call. My favorite iteration of that has the Greeks stealing all the Egyptian (African) wisdom and learning from the Great Library of Alexandria — despite the fact that said library was built by Ptolemy, one of the Greek rulers of Egypt in a city built and named for Alexander the Great.
A++++
UB Right. AD is not Antoine Domino.
The crusades started because the Byzantine emperor asked the pope for some Western knights to help him fight the Turks. The Crusaders did help the Byzantine Empire regain some of their recently-lost territories...but unfortunately the "Franks" and the Greeks tended not to get along. Odo of Deuil's account of the Second Crusade shows a lot of mutual dislike already by then, more than 50 years before the Fourth Crusade.
The Fourth Crusade was a disaster in many ways but the diversion to Constantinople happened because an exiled member of the imperial family begged the Crusaders to help him restore his deposed father to power.
The most idiotic example of Afrocentric scholarship I have seen is a short article entitled “Who Homer Really Was.” The author (a black woman) claims that Homer’s poems were written by a committee of black Egyptian scholars.
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