Each of Mexico's 47 consulates in the United States has a mandate to introduce Mexican textbooks into schools with significant Hispanic populations. The Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles showered nearly 100,000 textbooks on 1,500 schools in the L.A. Unified School District this year alone...
The Mexican sixth-grade history book celebrates the troops who fought the Americans during the Mexican-American War. But "all the sacrifices and heroism of the Mexican people were useless," recounts the chronicle. The "Mexican people saw the enemy flag wave at the National Palace." The war's consequences were "disastrous," notes the primer: "To end the occupation, Mexico was obligated to sign the treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo," by which the country lost half its territory to the United States.
Study exercises that include discovering "what happened to your territory when the U.S. invaded" don't clarify things. The textbook concludes by celebrating Mexican patriotic symbols: the flag, the currency and the national anthem.
What in the HELL is wrong with our national government??
State Government, too. Now we're hooking up California and Mexico schools by video conferencing so they can practice their language skills and learn from each other; it looks like a quasi-merger of our school system! Oh, yeah. we're gonna help get Solar installed in Mexico, too! Check out the Governor's latest Radio Address.
(snip)We saw two classes linked by videoconference where the students talked back and forth, shared ideas and improved their language skills. These are the first two sister schools but we are going to expand this program to as many schools as possible so more children from California and Mexico can learn from each other.
As we find new ways to bring the leaders of tomorrow together we are also working hard to solve the challenges we face today, challenges like expanding our economy.
That's why it's important to speed up the movement of goods across our border and build new economic partnerships like the one we're creating in high tech, between our Silicon Valley and the Silicon Border, or the steps we're taking to bring California solar technology to Baja to help them meet their energy needs.
If I remember correctly weren't they the first ones to fire a shot in the Mexican-American War? Also, if I remember correctly, shortly thereafter, there is also the incident at the Alamo where Santa Anna could have won without firing a shot by starving them out, but declared that there was no honor without bloodshed. Hence went out the cry "Remember the Alamo!"
Sounds pretty factual to me.
The Mexican War was probably the least-justified in American history, as pointed out by many politicians of the time, including A. Lincoln, who lost his seat in Congress for opposing it. Even many of the soldiers who fought in the war, such as US Grant, believed it to be unjustified aggression.
What a gift those arrogant Mexican fools have given us. We need to get a hand on a few copies of those.
Then why did the LA school system let those books in?
Thanks for posting this. I had heard about it and everyone should! Mexican consulate also gives these text books out in our prisons.