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Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History
The latest push comes a year after the Texas Board of Education approved revisions to its social studies curriculum that would put a conservative twist on history through revised textbooks and teaching standards.
Trymaine Lee, Huffington Post
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A person portraying a blacksmith inspects a "slave" during a re-enactment of a mid-19th century slave auction in St. Louis, Missouri on Jan. 15. Such portrayals of U.S. history have become heated with recent pushes in states like Tennessee and Texas to overhaul how it is taught.
A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery in a more positive light, a group of Tea Party activists in Tennessee has renewed its push to whitewash school textbooks. The group is seeking to remove references to slavery and mentions of the country's founders being slave owners.
According to reports, Hal Rounds, the Fayette County attorney and spokesman for the group, said during a recent news conference that there has been "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."
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