Posted on 12/05/2012 6:51:16 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
PHILADELPHIA — Like many of his third-grade classmates, Mario Cortez-Pacheco likes reading the “Magic Tree House” series, about a brother and a sister who take adventurous trips back in time. He also loves the popular “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” graphic novels.
But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white. “I see a lot of people that don’t have a lot of color,” he said.
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But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white
Well yes. You are in America. Not Africa or Mexico. Then factor in that most of the writers are white and well....
Let’s not forget the Battle of Gonzales. One of the best flags in American history!
I thought the Texicans took his LEG?
Or perhaps you meant tale, LOL!
Unfortunately there IS an image missing in all readers that the schools buy and that is a family ie husband and wife raising their kids.
Maybe the future gang member doesn’t understand that the reason “white” people are in the majority of what he is reading is for the fact that this country was founded by “white” people and that most of the inventions we enjoy in today’s society were invented by “white” people.
As a matter of fact, “white” people used to be the majority in this country before his “brown” people invaded us from the south.
Just sayin’
You are in part wrong.
I would advise you to read up on the founding of Texas. There were many Mexicans involved in the revolution that gained freedom from Mexico. When you visit the shines of the Republic of Texas founding, there are old line Mexican Spanish families that played a significant role in the founding.
The same is true in New Mexico and California. If you recall, Zorro, a semimythical character was actually of Spanish heritage. California was founded by Spanish
Maybe the problem is that today’s school libraries engage in censorship. In the 1960s (when I was in elementary school) I read books like:
And Now Miguel?
Call It Courage
The King’s X
Paddle to The Sea.
Lots of books about kids of color — Asian, Hispanic, Native American, African, Pacific Islander. Good reads, if not necessarily hewing to the political correct mores of today. Wonder what happened to them?
.......Paddle to The Sea.......
And don’t forget “The Tree In The Trail”
Sometime back actually I visited the starting point of Paddle to the Sea and traced the route as far as lake Michigan.
I purchased a used copy of Paddle to the Sea on Amazon for my grandson and it is in the library I am making for him.
> The tail of Santa Ana?
> I thought the Texicans took his LEG?
> Or perhaps you meant tale, LOL!
Good catch.
This should teach me mot to post with a kitty begging for attention on my lap!
(Get your tail out of my face!)
Your argument fails once people realize Spain is in...wait for it...Europe...and just chock full of White people.
So to be an “old line” Spanish family is to be a family of White people.
First of all, I am a native South Texan and well aware of the “revised” history of Texas.
Second, you stated “there are old line Mexican Spanish families that played a significant role in the founding.”
There was a HUGE different between the Spanish and Mexicans.
Texas was settled by SPANISH land grants....not Mexican land grants.
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