Why the College Board Demoted the Founders

The National Journal -- The Corner ^ | 9-9-14 | Stanley Kurtz

[Liz]

College Board exams changed history answers....b/c revisionist historians developed different answers to the question of what America’s story is about. From their perspective, at the heart of our country’s history—like the history of any other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. At its core, say the revisionists, America’s history is about our capacity for self-delusion, our endless attempts to justify raw power grabs with pretty fairy-tales about democracy. ....

NOTE WELL: This terrifying revisionism is straight out of Third World textbooks---emphasizing the T/W effort to undermine US ntl security for the coming armed takeover.

The conniving T/W uses an ancient formula going back to Greco-Roman times---where savages, barbarians and thieves overrun a bountiful country lusting after its power and riches.

REFERENCE Some 10 years back, Texas schools started used Mexican textbooks for their backward illiterate Spanish-speaking students. Textbooks advocated the Mexican perspective including:

<><> anti-white, anti-capitalist anti-USA viewpoints;

<><> Mexican textbooks falsified US history,

<><> proselytized blood-thirsty La Raza savagery;

<><> using teaching as brainwashing;

<><> inculcating violent separatist, latino supremacy idealogy.

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The WH ding-a-ling's obsession w/ emptying out the Third World into the US is turning US schools into refugee camps........w/ big plans to inculcate the savage illiterates w/ hate-America, anti-American ideology....IOW reliable Democrat voters.

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SUMMING UP A primetime network news segment focused on an "impoverished" latino mother who paid big bucks to get her son coached to take the College Boards---but he was so stupid, he still couldn't pass them. So the C/B decided to "change" them so that Pedro could pass using T/W revisionist US history.

[aquila48]

If this is allowed to stand it will destroy any motivation for the defense of this country.

This type of revisionism has already taken place in the UK. They’ve succeeded in making the British ashamed of their own history and culture and thus defenseless.

[aquila48]

I want to also add that this is precisely Obama’s view of this country.

[BlueNgold]

Just another form of grooming....

[nathanbedford]

It is important to make the record explicit: this anti-American history perspective has not been arrived at serendipitously as the product of rigorous intellectual research but rather it is a calculated tool for the advancement of Marxism arising out of the critical theory spawned by The Frankfurt School.

The Marxist theorists of The Frankfurt School who have had so much influence over Western and American education deliberately set out to win politics by conquering the culture. To conquer the culture they undertook to undermine and if possible destroy every institution which over time has acted as a bulwark against Marxism: the family, the role of the father in the family, the role of sexual fidelity in maintaining the family, heterosexual marriage, the church, sexual morality in general, the courts and the rule of law, the media, the military, the concept of the nation state, and, as we see here, the school. The list is longer.

The "critical theory" is essentially a nihilist approach to epistemology and when applied to history permits virtually any interpretation which fits any Marxist objective. As noted, this is not a serendipitous evolution in modern American historiography, rather it is cynical in the extreme.

The means are being shaped to obtain the end. One of those goals is to abolish the nation state and, as one poster has already observed, it undermines the commitment to defend the country. The country is a principal bulwark against the onrush of world wide socialist Nirvana. This is the core, as another poster has observed, of our problem with Obama. He wants to see the the end of America as the world's policeman, he wants to see this obstacle to one world socialist government removed, he has set out from the beginning of his administration to be the agent to accomplish these ends. No other theory provides such a complete explanation for Obama's conduct in office.

But the problem, of course, is bigger than Obama; it has metastasized throughout virtually every American institution as we see it errupting here in academia.

[MeshugeMikey]

“our capacity for self-delusion, “

Projection at that depth... is truly astonishing.

Its what they do best..

[Hostage]

> “...but is simply “a more rigorous reflection of the current state of knowledge and practice in our discipline.” “

In other words academics get bored with the ‘old stuff’ and have to get creative to keep themselves feeling somehow relevant.

The Founding Visionaries and their impact mark the single most important seminal event in history after the resurrection of Jesus. Yet certain historians can’t be bothered to be satisfied with presenting these visionaries to new generations of Americans as an educational honor and duty, rather they must feed their own egos first with a subjective, jaundiced and uncalled for reordering of priorities.

I descend from a Mohican Indian Princess and I say ‘Indian’ knowing full well that PC dictates ‘Native American’ even though Indian organizations refer to themselves as Indian (http://www.ncai.org/tribal-directory/tribal-organizations) and knowing full well that the term ‘Indian’ was historical error in reference to peoples of the New World described by those that followed Columbus thinking he had landed in India.

But although I descend from Mohican people I also descend from Robert the Bruce as well as Irish settlers to the eastern seaboard before there was a United States.

So I am an American in every sense of the word ‘American’ which derives from Amerigo Vespucci.

If I want to learn more about Native American history, and I do spend time in its study, and if I was attending a school, then I would expect to first learn classical history including Christian history and Western Civilization followed by American History followed by focused studies in Native American History, in that order. Only then would I understand the importance of the Founding Visionaries to the World at large.

Educated people everywhere all over the globe understand the enormous impact of the visions of the Founders of the United States. It is lunacy to demote these Founders. Their impact and relevance goes far beyond the Continent of North America, their visions go to the core of all human behavior and its governance.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Hear! Hear!

[DoughtyOne]

The sad thing is, the college board shows their ignorance by doing this.

Our founding documents were framed to keep our government from dominating even us. The idea it was an imperialistic entity is so bogus, it’s just pathetic.

This board should be vacated and some actual Americans brought in to replace them.

They certainly don’t qualify on that count.

[itsahoot]

The Founding Visionaries and their impact mark the single most important seminal event in history after the resurrection of Jesus.

How many noticed when they changed BC to BCE and AD to ACE?

[itsahoot]

The sad thing is, the college board shows their ignorance by doing this.

Not ignorance, but complete disdain for the Republic and all that it stands for.

Freepers should have all seen Megan Kelly's interview of Ward Churchill.
Interview With Ward Churchill - Dinesh D'Souza - The Kelly File

There are probably better links somewhere, this is just a taste.

[Billthedrill]

I don't have a difficulty with alternative historical narratives at all. They provide a change in perspective that serves to illuminate the overall picture. That isn't what we're looking at here, however. What we're looking at is a deliberate alteration of historical narrative to which no alternative is allowed, a forced change in perspective that is not broader, merely different, that illuminates nothing.

That has been the story of the Left in academia since time immemorial: the argument first that alternatives be considered, next that they be accorded equal status, next that they be accorded superior status, become canon, and finally that alternatives to them be suppressed. It is academic fascism, and its proponents are after power, not enlightenment.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Bump

[bgill]

As much as I can’t stand hussein, this revising history tests has been going on for generations. Twentysome years ago, our exchange student’s high school US history book was not even close to what I learned in school.

[DoughtyOne]

I saw a few moments of it.

Caught him in a lie right off.

He said he didn’t mean all those who died on 09/11 were Hitlarian and deserve it. He tried to make a distinction now. When he made the presentations, he made no distinction in his comments, so yes he did mean all those people.

I don’t know what to do about people like that. It’s one thing to have free speech, but it’s another to say some stuff like this that is clearly a lie, anti-American, and as disrespective of the families of those people as it could possibly be.

Perhaps them using a gun to take the bastard out should be protected free speech too.

[aquila48]

Yes - the left is much bigger than hussein.

One of the biggest revisionist of American History was Howard Zinn with his “A People’s History of the US”.

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

This became the textbook for american history in many colleges and even high schools. It is essentially the same tripe that is being advance by the History AP board.

[Hostage]

Actually it’s BC to BCE and AD to CE.

I’ve challenged many on the internet for this corruption of the terms BC and AD.

For those in learning mode BCE is defined as ‘Before Common Era’ and was meant to replace BC or Before Christ. CE is defined as ‘Common Era’ and is meant to replace AD or Anno Domini which is latin for ‘Year of Our Lord’.

Non-Christians are behind the altering of these terms because of racism or something. Actually the terms were originally configured as BCE meaning Before Christian Era and CE meaning Christian Era. But this posed the problem of having to explain the meaning of the word ‘Christian’ to non-Christians. So they changed it to Before Common Era/Common Era.

To me it reveals insecurity and fear on the part of non-Christians and it reveals what certain groups will do to suppress Christian heritage. To me if there was an objection to BC/AD, the complainers could adopt their own calendar conventions. For example, it is 5774 in Hebrew years. But by altering the Christian calendar conventions, non-Christians encroach upon Christianity because they publish the altered conventions in media that is international.

A reasonable mature adult publisher would for example list the Hebrew year 5774 and put in parentheses (3761 BC). But the encroachment action is chosen because the publishers and writers are not mature and not wise.

[itsahoot]

For those in learning mode BCE is defined as ‘Before Common Era’ and was meant to replace BC or Before Christ. CE is defined as ‘Common Era’ and is meant to replace AD or Anno Domini which is latin for ‘Year of Our Lord’.

Thanks for the clarification.

Being a post depression era Okie, schools always taught BC meant Before Christ and AD was simply After Death, tho we were taught AD meant Anno Domini.

Lately I seem to know a lot more than I actually know.

[Hostage]

AD can’t be after death because that would leave a 30 year gap between BC and AD.

So AD is the year of His birth and BC are all the years before His birth.