Posted on 09/07/2019 7:59:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I had kind of a funny experience (well, at least it was funny to me) with my introduction to Howard Zinn
My departed mother-in-law was, in life, a major-league liberal. She was a community organizer type of liberal. Now, I didn’t know this about her before I married my wife, but it wouldn’t have made a difference to me.
As the years went on, both my viewpoints and her viewpoints became known to each of us and we entered a phase where she would say things deliberately to get a response out of me (or to see if I would just sit and say nothing)
Needless to say, I wasn’t about to sit and get baited by my mother-in-law, so I gave back in like kind when she initiated something. This went on for a relatively short period of time, then we kind of came to a mutual understanding. Neither one of us said a thing, but the understanding was there nonetheless that we would keep the peace by keeping our tongue. Not to say she wouldn’t occasionally poke at me (or me at her) but after that, that was pretty much all it was. I was kind of got the impression she was doing it just to see if I would stand up for myself.
In any case, I received a Christmas present from her one particular year. She knew that I was a history buff, and I read history prodigiously, so it was no surprise to me when I opened one of her Christmas presents and saw a history book. It was a fairly good-sized glossy volume, and I figured I’d put my feet up when I got home and begin reading.
When I got home, I opened the book up and began reading. At first, I was puzzled. What the heck is this? I read little bit further, and got even more perplexed. What the hell kind of book is this? I thought to myself.
I immediately begin skipping through the book, preferentially stopping in key areas in American history. As I reached each section, I would read sometimes only a sentence, or occasionally a paragraph. After I had been through multiple sections in this manner, I stood up angrily and exclaimed screw this piece of crap!
I walked out in the garage and through the book in the trash.
The name of the book was The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
I was appalled. I had never seen a history book quite like that one. I was even more disturbed to find out later that this was an actual textbook used in public school classrooms all over the country. I’m still appalled at that thought.
In retrospect, it popped into my mind almost immediately as I was throwing the book in the trash, that this was perhaps my mother-in-law poking her finger in my eye. After a few more seconds of contemplation, I guessed that was not the case.
Knowing how my mother-in-law shops, particularly for Christmas presents, this book was almost undoubtedly on the bargain bookshelf at the front of the Borders bookstore when she walked in. I’d be willing to bet that she didn’t pay more than a few dollars for, because I doubt you could find it inside the store at regular price.
So, every time I hear the name Howard Zinn, I think of the anti-American far left political screed that was his book, that I had the pleasure to throw into a garbage can.
I remember you have some fun facts on this fiction author.
This is the re-writing of history by the Left.
Hard to stop and expose it, but necessary.
Good story.
This guy sounds like a POS and I’m VERY disturbed to find out it’s being used all across America in schools.
But to be honest, I don’t have a “no expiration” stamp on me may be gone by the time complete collapse comes.
If the young were taught well at home they will know it’s garbage and they need to fight back.
It’s their own world and future they’ll be building. Or destroying.
It is discouraging. When I got that book and threw it in the trash, I had no idea of its status in the world of education.
When I found out...I was flabbergasted. Just struck dumb. Honestly, I still cannot believe it, but...it’s true.
Of all the things that demonstrate the hold the Left has on education, the prevalence of Howard Zinn’s work in our schools would be one of the best indicators.
By the way, it has been my experience that many things maintain their effectiveness and quality after an expiration date...:)
Except milk. Milk goes bad immediately and predictably...DON’T BE MILK!
Regarding Christopher Columbus’s mission to find a new route to the spice islands by sailing west. In 1492 the overland trade routes from Europe to the Orient were blocked by the Ottoman Caliphate.
It is almost too late,
Thousands upon thousands of school districts have eagerly purchased and indroctrinated Zinn’s communist history lessons.
lol
I’m the exception. I spoiled before my expiration date :)
And this guy is welcome to come to Staten Island and give a lecture about what a monster Columbus was.
He probably wouldn’t leave in one piece since probably 60 percent of the island’s population is descended from Italians.
That might not be such a bad thing :)
Heh, if he wasn’t already room temperature, I would donate money for a one way ticket to visit you guys!
***The first was Columbus who is accused of genocide against the peaceful Arawak Indians.***
Before ZIN, it was known that the Arawak Indians were almost wiped out by the hostile Canabs or Carib Indians. It is where we get the word “Cannibal” and Caribbean.
Columbus found a Carib camp with pregnant Arawak women kept in cages. It appears the Carib-Canab Indians loved to snack on newborn Arawak babies.
I just looked. He lived a long time too.
I just read the whole article and now i am TWICE as sickened.
I never so many people live in a country where they are not forced to say who want to destroy it.
SMH
Have a good one.
I’m about halfway through Grabar’s book now and it is truly excellent and long overdue. Zinn has been the rock star of Marxist history for far longer than his actual merit warrants. If America were actually anything like his representation he’d have been stood up against a wall and shot rather than celebrated.
I wonder how much money the Zinn Educational Foundation gives to the teachers’ unions.
Howard Zinn has done more damage to this country than almost anyone else.
Blame Matt Damon:
Good Will Hunting popularized that lunatic and his propaganda.
“They will get lessons using Howard Zinns Marxist A Peoples History of the United States, and produced by the Zinn Education Project. Breaking publishing records, Zinns book has sold over 2.6 million copies since it was first published in 1980. Sales grow each year.”
“A Peoples History of the United States”
HEY, Dingbat Parents here. Wake Up!!! Zinn even uses a MARXIST codeword, “people’s” in the Friggen TITLE of his book - and your ‘wonderful’ public schools (I know, yours are ‘wonderful’, it’s all of those ‘other schools’ that suck) are buying them by the MILLIONS.
Please, just don’t blame anyone but YOURSELVES when your kids grow up to hate America - because you were warned here, over and over.
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