Posted on 05/28/2016 5:36:19 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Democrat Louisiana state representatives launched an attack against the phrase “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence Wednesday in response to the state House’s consideration of an education bill.
State Rep. Barbara Norton (D) led the charge against HB 1035, a measure that would require local school boards of education to have students in grades four to six recite a specified section of the Declaration of Independence after the current daily period of silent prayer or meditation and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The bill, introduced by state Rep. Valarie Hodges (R), would require students in the specified grades to recite the following passage:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Hodges, however, tabled her bill under pressure from African-American colleagues Norton and state Rep. Pat Smith (D), who argued that school children should not be required to recite words that were written during a time in history when slavery was prevalent. Norton said directly to Hodges:
One thing I do know is, all men are not created equal. When I think back in 1776, July the 4th, African-Americans were slaves, and for you to bring a bill to request that our children will recite the Declaration, I think is a little bit unfair to us to ask those children to recite something that’s not the truth.
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According to Nola.com, Norton then proposed an amendment to Hodges’ bill that would have elementary school children recite the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which addresses citizenship rights and was passed as one of the Reconstruction Amendments after the Civil War. Similarly, Smith then proposed an amendment that students recite a text drafted during a Women’s Suffrage conference from the 19th century. Additionally, state Rep. Ed Price (D) proposed that students recite part of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Hodges, however, pulled her bill prior to consideration of any of the other amendments.
Bigga, please...
Unbelievable. The crazies are in charge.
Our 8th grade history teacher required us to memorize the preamble to the constitution. I suppose there’s nothing offensive in that.
Well libs if you’d just left well enough alone the past 7 years and stopped trying to push your grand social experiment failure down our throats you wouldn’t have to be contending with this type of thing but you forced our hand by harassing us just a little too much. Expect a lot more pushback in the yearst to come.
“All transgenders were created more equal...”
We still have a few good ones.
Conservative Rep Read His Colleagues the Bible to Condemn Them for LGBT Amendment Vote
Does she believe that the Founding Fathers created mankind?
Thinks a principle is the head of a school.
State Representative Barbara Norton (D-Shreveport), from House District 3.
All men are created equal in the eyes of God. What happens after that is the consequence of living in a sinful world.
However; in the case of Rep. Norton maybe God did hold something back.
I agree. We are not all equal. It’s good Masonic propaganda on Jefferson’s part, but the phrase as written is too vague to be meaningful.
Oh. Just. Nightmares.
” African-Americans were slaves”
They ignorantly think being black meant being a slave and that wasn’t true.
Besides, blacks started slavery in America. Anthony Johnson, a black man, enslaved John Casor, a black man.
This stupid negress deserves to be in chains on a chain gang breaking rocks for a living instead of making laws. She obviously knows nothing about history nor does she care a whit about America, our Founding Documents, or even her own heritage. All she cares about is her twisted version of her own tribal identity. She is a disgrace to Louisiana and this country.
OUCH ! ! !
O M G
I’ll take some eye bleach please, a gallon for each eye!
The DoI was a breakup letter to Britain. The colonies were basically telling Britain to go pound sand.
What is your point other than being obnoxious?
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