Apparently, sometimes the losers get to write the history books.
Posted on 04/23/2018 8:11:24 AM PDT by servo1969
It is sadly common for conservative presidents and political leaders to be portrayed in a less-than-flattering light in the left-leaning textbooks used in public school and college classrooms, but a new volume on American history gives a new spin on the term “rush to judgment.” Less than a year-and-a-half after taking office as America’s sitting president, Donald Trump is already being maligned in the pages of an upcoming high school history text which insinuates that he and his supporters are driven by racism and that he is mentally unfit to serve as our Commander-in-Chief.
Textbooks rarely receive a high profile before their publication, but the new history text “By the People: A History of the United States” written by New York University Professor James W. Fraser and set to be published by the Pearson Education publishing company has already proved controversial for its radical left-leaning and insulting narrative on Donald Trump’s election as president. The book’s one-sided nature was exposed not by an educator but by high school student Tarra Snyder, a junior and AP History student at Rosemount High School in Minnesota, who was provided with Fraser’s book as a sample text that might be used for class instruction next year. Snyder was so incensed by the work’s slanted portrayal of history that she shared images of the book with Indianapolis radio show host Alex Clark, who tweeted images of the text along with commentary that quickly went viral:
In case you didn’t think there was an effort going on in public schools to indoctrinate kids with an anti-conservative agenda, a friend of mine took pictures and highlighted parts of this AP US History book. pic.twitter.com/rj2AN3MIqI — Alex On-Air (@yoalexrapz) April 13, 2018
The book’s concluding section titled “The Angry Election of 2016” puts NYU Professor Fraser’s hatred and disdain for President Trump on full display. “Most thought that Trump was too extreme a candidate to win the nomination, but his extremism, his anti-establishment rhetoric, and, some said, his not-very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters,” Fraser writes.
“Trump supporters saw the vote as a victory for people who, like themselves, had been forgotten in a fast-changing America—a mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white group,” he adds, blatantly stereotyping those who supported Trump’s victory.
In another section, he has the audacity to question Trump’s mental fitness for office: “Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the…country…They also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he & his supporters brought to the nation.”
“It was really, really surprising to me,” whistleblower Tarra Snyder commented on viewing Fraser’s text, which is intended to replace an older AP History text in classrooms across the nation next year. “I really believe that learning should be objective and that students can make their own decisions based on what they’re able to learn in a classroom and if the facts are skewed then students aren’t able to make well-rounded decisions on what they believe.”
Responding to Fraser’s claims that Trump supporters are mostly older white rural voters, Snyder said, “I really am surprised by that, I know the multitudes of people who are diverse and who do want to be represented, and when the Democratic Party…pushes them out of the frame, that’s what’s doing the Democratic Party harm because people do feel like they are being forgotten, not just white suburban people living out in the country.”
Snyder is correct in her assertions. Trump, in fact, garnered a higher percentage of African-American, Asian, and Hispanic votes than Republican candidate Mitt Romney did in 2012.
Fraser’s left-wing bias does not begin and end with President Trump. His text also contains a section on the officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the Black Lives Matter movement which casts the police in a highly negative light. According to Fraser, Michael Brown’s parents “were kept away at gunpoint” after he was shot and “The nearly all-white police force was seen as an occupying army in the mostly African American town…the police increased the tensions, defacing memorials set up for Brown and using rubber bullets on demonstrators.”
Scott Overland, a spokesman for the Pearson publishing company, told Fox News that the text was “developed by an expert author and underwent rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity.” He further asserted that it was “designed to convey college-level information to high school students” and “aims to promote debate and critical thinking by presenting multiple sides” of the 2016 election.
Pearson Education’s defense of an obvious ideological left-wing smear campaign to discredit President Trump and his supporters in the eyes of American schoolchildren is ultimately even more disturbing than the content of Fraser’s text itself. The notion that a textbook this one-sided was reviewed by multiple academic historians in a “rigorous peer review” process and found to be not only acceptable but to promote “debate and critical thinking” should be cause for even greater concern.
Apparently, sometimes the losers get to write the history books.
See my tagline. Stop letting really evil people call us names. Just go out and defeat these jerks and for God’s sake let’s take back our schools and yes even our media.
There really is not that much new here. As far as I recall, my history books were terrible and left much out that would have helped in my understanding.
The better way to capture the history of the times is to read good historical fiction. But clearly you cannot trust everything in that either.
One thing though. When Trump entered the race it immediately became clear to me that he was someone who honestly represented the way I feel about the country. As an Eagle Scout, I have wanted someone who called it like it is for some time. And of course I expected to lose this election like I have lost most of the other ones.
But not this time. MAGA.
Another decade and there will be no words, just pictures with a good or bad symbol over them.
It’s time for a book burning!!!
Recent history book: Marilyn Monroe in, George Washington out.
School textbooks have been and reviewed written by cultural Marxist educators for decades. This is just another examlple. Parents - read your kids’ textbooks!
Trump's supposed racism was only perceived by people who hated him and weren't going to vote for him--the kind of people who think that building a border wall is racist. Open racism today alienates more people than it attracts, which is why no politician who wants to win uses it (except anti-white racism in some Congressional districts).
Textbook publishers are part of the Ministry of Propaganda.
AP = Advanced propaganda
Because the left hates the fact that a White nominally-Christian was elected. They want the presidency given in turn to black, woman, gay, trans, and then, God save us, muzzy.
The presidency is a symbol for them. Why else would they be seriously considering oprah, michelle and lez warren?
If Trump had the time, while saving the world, improving the economy, draining the Swamp, and defending himself from the Hillary coup attempt, he could sue every liberal who claims he is insane and get a lot richer than he is now.
I think the College Board, who writes and administers
the AP test, would like to hear from us.
212-713-8000
The American Negro has with the help of authors, media, willfully misinterpreting American History, has managed to segregate himself almost totally once again plus allowing his race to be victimized and kept on the 'plantation' by political, media, and glamor PIMPS of the Negro race.
How much money from the soros group involved in these book printers?
I was pretty neutral before Michael Brown & Trayvon Martin.
Now, I am totally on Trump’s side. Call me what ever you want-—but you can also call me ARMED & WILLING to shoot.
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Publishing houses for school text books are not only left leaning, they are squarely in lockstep with the Radical Left (Now Mainstream Left).
It is well known that they are job havens for people with Black Studies, Native American Studies, Hispanic Studies, Women's Studies, and LGBQTXZY Studies. These are people whose "education", worthless as it is, consigns them to pigeonholes in their line of work, where they metastasize out as they gain experience.
I am pretty far to the right on everything, and in this blue state, it is a struggle. My now deceased Mother-In-Law was very left leaning, and she would occasionally bait me over the years, and I would dutifully return the fire and then some, but my wife told me she read her mother the riot act years back to give it a break, so there existed a state of relative peaceful coexistence between us.
My mother in law was well known for shopping the bargain racks of all kinds for Christmas presents, and when I opened a gift from her a year or two before she passed on, it was a book on American history named "A People's History of The United States" by an author named Howard Zinn. She knew I was a big history buff, so this was a thoughtful gift, I thought.
So, immediately after unwrapping it, I like to get a quick feel for books like this to see where the author is likely to go on various issues, and it is always interesting to open a book to a random page and read a paragraph, so I opened to a random page and began reading, I went "Huh? What the Hell?"
So I flipped to another page and began reading..."WTF?" And another, and another. After five or six random tries, I just walked over to the garbage can and just dropped it in.
She was getting on in years, and I have since concluded she had no idea (as I did not) about that author or that book. But apparently, he was a notorious, Leftist Radical, and when you read the book, every single example I read talked about how racist, greedy, intolerant, corrupt, you name it, that the United States of America is and has been. I believe she just saw it on the dollar rack.
So, you can imagine my shock when I investigated, to find out this was a popular US History book in US high schools, and that Howard Zinn was notorious. I read a book by a conservative female author of note, and she explained the swamp that is the school textbook industry.
Winners write the history books? Nope, history books write the winners. This one is not a history book though, it's a shallow, bigoted piece of agitprop. Thanks servo1969.
America is at that awkward stage....
ML/NJ
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