Posted on 12/09/2009 11:15:53 AM PST by NMEwithin
Children are uniquely malleable beings, readily convinced of magically colorful tales – Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are the first that come to mind. This innocence is beautiful, but it is a quality that can easily fall victim to radically foreign ideas if taught consistently and pervasively at an early age. One need only look at the birth of fascism or socialism to see a recipe for how radical ideas become ubiquitous among a nation’s youth. Enter Howard Zinn – an author, professor and American historian – who, with the help of Hollywood and the History Channel, intends to change the way our pre-K through high school children learn American history. His current curriculum suggestions, like introducing three-year-olds to the lynching of African-Americans, or quizzing seven-year-olds on which Presidents owned slaves, should be a red flag to parents.
Zinn has spent a lifetime teaching college students about the evils of capitalism, the promise of Marxism, and his version of American history – a history that has, in his view, been kept from students. His controversial 1980-book The People’s History of the United States paints traditional American history as a façade – one that has grotesquely immortalized flawed leaders and is based on principles that victimize the common man. In 2004, Zinn wrote a companion book entitled Voices Of A People’s History Of The United States, which includes speeches and writings from many of the people featured in The People’s History.
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Ironically, he was a Communist sympathizer.
bttt
Another reason to homeschool... and cancel “The History Channel.”
He was a huge lib and was investigated but nothing was found.
He was not blacklisted.
Love his comedy, hate his politics.
Enter Howard Zinn
Has anyone noticed that these old leftists seem to live forever? I guess the devil takes care of his own.
There is a history channel piece on Stalin that kids should watch.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9118985704353138889#
Guard your kids!
Not only is this a reason to homeschool, but also to send an angry complaint to the History Channel.
As far as I know, there has only been one who fits the category: Barack Hussein Obama. And fittingly, he is probably the only president born after 1776 who is not a native born American citizen, perhaps not even an American citizen at all! The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they put the NBC clause into the Constitution.
ML/NJ
You bet they did! Now the fraud must be exposed..
Obama wasn’t raised in America, that is certain. He did not grow up in an America loving household (at least until after age 10). Momma was globe trotting, trying to find something “else”.
Bill Clinton and moreso John Kerry were also Red Diaper Doper hippies in the 1960s. Loathe the military. Raise up the Communists. Lie to Congress about warcrimes. Aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime. Treason in a word.
I would agree with you that they were on the left in the 1960s and that Clinton was a "doper" (he used marijuana but "did not inhale" - LOL!). But neither was a "Red Diaper Baby", which means that neither was born into a family with parents who were Red - at least in so far as we know. That distinguishes those two from O.
However, IIRC, Al Gore’s dad was a Red, or at least a sympathizer, or at least a willing shill, paid off by Armand Hammer. And recall how close he came to being President.
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