New US History Textbook Raises Anti-Trump Red Flags About 'Not-Very-Hidden Racism' of His Voters

CBN ^ | 4/18/19

[Altura Ct.]

A new Advanced Placement American history textbook is raising red flags because of its anti-Trump language and its suggestion that Trump supporters are racist.

By the People: A History of the United States is the newest edition of a Pearson Education history book that could be made available to high school students if school districts opt to use it.

The book has not yet been distributed to students but has been introduced to teachers to see if they would want to use it as part of their curriculum in the next couple of years.

Tarra Snyder, a student at Rosemount High School in Minnesota saw a sample copy of the book sent to her high school history teacher and snapped an image of its material.

She told CBN News why she decided to share the image on social media.

"I know people all over the country are supporters of the conservative part and to say that they are all one-sided and they are all white, suburban and rural and they wouldn't vote for Hillary because she was a woman, and they were nostalgic for an earlier time, I think they were completely out of line," she said.

In the book's final section, titled "The Angry Election of 2016," the author, New York University Prof. James W. Fraser, compares Trump and Hillary Clinton supporters.

"Clinton's supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country," it reads. "They also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation."

"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," it continues.

The book goes on to describe the demographic of those voters.

"Trump's 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, an overwhelmingly white group," the sample copy reads.

Fraser said he wrote the book to "help make US History courses more lively," according to his NYU bio page.

The ordained minister said the purpose of the book was to focus on the lives of everyday Americans from differing "communities, times, and places," not to divide.

"As a writer and teacher I see it as my job to put the information about history, including elections in front of students as honestly and clearly as I can. I tried to do the same for Trump vs. Clinton as I did for Adams vs. Jefferson or any other election," he wrote in a statement sent to CBN News.

"I never want to indoctrinate but to encourage students to listen to various arguments and multiple perspectives," he added.

"Keeping facts from students rightly makes them distrust all textbooks," Fraser continued. "Laying out the facts as clearly as I know how and doing so in comparison to other information or facts is the best way to encourage the kind of thoughtful engagement with history that every historian should work for."

Scott Overland, a spokesperson for the British-based Pearson Education, told CBN News that the textbook was designed to meet specific Advanced Placement standards.

"AP History 'By the People' was developed by an expert author and underwent rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity," he wrote in a statement. "This work is designed to convey college-level information to high school students and meet specific Advanced Placement standards."

He said the purpose of the text is to promote critical thinking for students.

"U.S. history and government are important topics for students that can evoke passionate responses as they explore difficult and often controversial issues," he wrote in a statement.

Snyder told CBN News the textbook missed the mark.

"In order for you to be thinking critically you have to have both sides of the story," she said. "If only one side of the story is brought forth then the facts are skewed and people are not able to think with the full plethora of information, which would lead people to not make an educated decision on where they stand on the political spectrum."

Snyder did caution against taking things at face value.

"It is healthy for any person to be questioning the material that they are consuming and reading," she added. "I think it is a really important thing to get multiple perspectives."

It's up to individual school districts to determine if they want to adopt the textbook into their high school curriculum.

[GOPJ]

Racism used to be very real... now it’s BS about hurt feelings.

[joma89]

The big lie continues to be told.

JoMa

[a fool in paradise]

Stalinists lie. Always

Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”

“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”

“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”

“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”

“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”

Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo

“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”

Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff

[a fool in paradise]

>>Students all across America are being taught that every white person is a racist, no matter how hard that person may try to expunge racism from their thinking.

Louis FarraKKKhan tells black people that white people are the result of a science experiment by a wise African scientist who created white people as the embodiment of evil the world (”white devils”).

If white people are so horrible from birth, it is because a black man alledgedly made us this way. #CircleOfGuilt

[caww]

Heck blacks then would be racists against their own kind since THEY don’t like certain things of how their people are in their culture.

[caww]

The author of this article 'Talia Wise'....

[ronnie raygun]

If you are white you are automatically racist

[kearnyirish2]

So true...and it is incredible that “racism” is used to explain a white man beating a white woman in an election.

I’ve said since Trump won that the “stolen election” narrative was going to be used to explain how the “most evil man in the world” (Trump) beat the “smartest woman in the world” and followed the “best human being ever” (Obama) into the White House - because the fact is Hillary was a criminal and Obama an incompetent token with a teleprompter.

[9YearLurker]

“The full plethora of information”?

Even their spokesman is a hack poseur.

The idea of us getting our history books for our children from the lost Brits is pathetic.

[9YearLurker]

For anyone interested in a refreshing antidote to this nonsense, here is a great interview with VDH that is already going viral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn9q7JEscqY

[NetAddicted]

All in all, just another brick in the wall.

[fwdude]

I’ll bet these “history” textbooks also declare that Obama “slowed the rise of the oceans.”