Posted on 04/24/2009 5:20:14 PM PDT by nobama08
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wasn't the first to discover the book he gave to President Obama last week in an attempt to ease diplomatic tensions — college students in the U.S. have been turning its pages for years.
The 317-page "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" has been identified on the syllabi of at least 20 U.S. colleges and universities since 2003, and it's been taught for decades on American campuses.
The virulently anti-American book tells how for 500 years Europe and then the U.S. exploited Latin America, leaving it impoverished and governed by corrupt leaders.
It outlines how U.S. capitalistic forces purportedly raped the region's natural resources and stymied Latin America's own development, exploited trade agreements and tariffs for its own interests and victimized the people of the region in exchange for the U.S.'s industrial growth.
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I bet Nobama had already read it.
I bet Nobama had already read it.
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And I bet the fine Reverend Wright read many of his sermons from it....
People are spending big bucks to mis-educate their kids.
So now of course they get to pillage us back!
So it’s a good bet BO already has a copy with his notes in the margins in his own library.
The US is only ~ 250 yr old and was abused by England prior to formation. L.A. should go pound sand and Spain.
Not at all. I worked in a university and was secretary to the Africana and Latin American Studies program. Nothing surprises me regarding their attitude toward America.
Over springbreak, my son & I visited colleges. I expected to see the “lovefest” with “O” but one college was proud of being the first college to offer a major called “sustainability.” THEN, I saw the posters defining “sustainability”: The jist was that America was NOT sustainable with its current Constitution - we must become like the rest of the world. GAG MOI!
Hopefully your son did not choose that colllege.
Nope - He’ll be a music major and the student tour guide mentioned about how the professors also work for the local symphany orchestra and make up lessons when they return from tours... Bless his heart - he was smart enough to know that would affect HIS time in the program. (Proud of that boy!)
You should be proud!
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