Texas' High-Minded, Principled Stand

I'm sure many of you have heard of the changes that Texas is making to their high school history curriculum, changes that will be voted on on May 21. I would like to spend this blog post commending the upstanding gentleman from Texas' Board of Education for their brave quest to uphold our common American beliefs. As principled conservative and Texas school board member Don McLeroy (who tragically has been voted off the board because of what his critics incorrectly call "a far-right indoctrination campaign") pointed out, "academia is skewed too far to the left", and these reforms put Texas schoolbooks back in the center of American politics. Some of the changes include deemphasizing Thomas Jefferson from Texas's curriculum because of his radical views on religion (he was a deist) and on the separation of church and state. Here in America (or at least in Texas) we know that government is essentially run by the Christian church and any non Christian politician is someone who should be watched closely for terroristic leanings and should probably be waterboarded just in case.

Other wonderful changes the school board is making include less references to Latino culture, the removal of hip-hop as an important cultural movement, and an explanation of how affirmative action has hurt the country. I have always decried affirmative action, as I decried the 14th and 15th amendments, as attempts to subjugate the white race. These gentlemen from Texas understand that African-Americans and Mexicans have contributed nothing to American society and thus should not be honored. Why, if they could, I'm sure these gentlemen would have tried to repeal the mistake that was the Civil Rights Act and return blacks to semi-servitude.

Another long-overdue fix that Texas has proposed is the changing of the word "imperialism" to "expansionism" in all textbooks due to imperialism's negative connotation. I have often thought that the U.S. army's attempt to kill all of-age male Filipinos in the early 1900's to stop the uprising there was overblown due to its necessity to win that war and subjugate that inferior race, and this change adopted by Texas will fix that and other problems.

Finally, the wonderful men from Texas are also turning their watchful eye on more recent history. Textbooks will now be required to explain how Title IX (the program that requires all girls and boys school sports to be equal) and other liberal programs had "unintended consequences" such as giving funding to any girls sports at all, which most (in Texas at least) find to be overstepping the bounds a woman should stay in. Also, conservative activists such as Phyllis Schlafly will be getting a bigger role in new textbooks. Shlafly, as you know, opposes equal rights for women, something that would be an abomination under god.

How does this affect us? Well since Texas is the largest buyer of textbooks in the country, many companies make their textbooks to Texas' standards, and other counties are forced to buy those. Just think, Texas' strong conservatism influencing textbooks here in Vienna, Virginia! I can't wait!