Its on of a list of the five legislative priorities presented to state legislators by several Tennessee tea parties, includes a proposal to eliminate from history books references to the Founding Fathers owning slaves or encroaching on Native American lands, originally reported by a Memphis newspaper.
We asked if you can seperate [sic] slavery in our country from the centuries old struggle for racial equality, Rounds believes you can adding "White people were whipped to."
Damn, I think I'm gonna move. If it isn't pill heads or meth heads in this state, it's the fucking racist white redneck snaggletooth motherfuckers.
It goes to the right's hatred of teachers and any education in general. Schools are bad? Instead of investing more in them, just send kids to private schools. You can't cover the difference between the voucher and cost of the private school? Tough shit.
It's idiotic and dangerous. Teacher standards need to be raised yes, but it needs to go hand in hand with a bump in salary.
"(The kids) are being taught (the Founding Fathers) were hypocrites and slave owners and part of the teachings about slavery was that it was inherently cruel."
He's probably right though. Maybe it was all just a big misunderstanding and they didn't mean any harm in buying and abusing people.
This ignorance of southern Americans just makes me shake my head.... Why are they so old/ignorant/stupid?
To be fair, most known racist organizations are in the northwest and central plain states, as well as central Canada. Alberta is really bad. But yeah, we have those idiots down here, too.
Speaking for all Albertans I can verify we're super racist here! We won't even drink our coffee black.
This ignorance of southern Americans just makes me shake my head.... Why are they so old/ignorant/stupid?
To be fair, most known racist organizations are in the northwest and central plain states, as well as central Canada. Alberta is really bad. But yeah, we have those idiots down here, too.
Yeah I wouldnt be surprised about Alberta.... I mean central Canada's pretty isolated and this is coming from a country thats filled with a shit tonne of isolation. I just find it ignorance ridiculous considering Vancouver's a pretty diverse city.
@Fajita_Jim: I just cant rap my head around how people can be so fucked up. The most important part about having a history is so those in the present and future can learn from its mistakes!
Wrong. It will always be 1841. Get your shit together, man. Stop listening to the liberal media lies! Lies, I tell you!
Oh well, thank god, someone was able to help me understands what's going on around here. I guess this means I oughta get to churning my butter and using racial slurs to describes anyone who's not white. Thank you kind sir.
I took a US military history class in college when I was earning my BA. My professor did a really good job discussing the good and bad of all involved in US military battles and politics including those deemed enemies and those deemed heroes by us living in the US. While discussing the revolution, George Washington was talked about a lot. His great points and flaws were all discussed openly and honestly. During one lecture, my professor brought up a quote from Washington. Essentially, Washington was disgusted by seeing slaves (who were fighting for the colonies) talking and socializing with the European-American soldiers. My professor explained it this way; Washington was a great man but, "Like all great people throughout history, he was still a product of his environment and provides a looking glass into that time. His flaws can't discount his positive attributes. Rather, they show that he was human and no more immune to societal norms then the rest of us."
I tell this story because I think it is appropriate to tell all sides of every story to children as early as possible. Talk about the good in American history and the bad. Approach the war from the side of the 'enemy' so that the children might learn empathy. Ignoring it the bad and glorifying the good, as is being proposed by these people in Tennessee, not only ignores past mistakes (making it more likely that we as a people will repeat them) but also makes those who came before us seem inhuman.
I think this is the first time I've seen someone use the word "snaggletooth" in something that isn't a movie. Oh, and that story is pretty messed up too. Doesn't surprise me though. Not with their War of Northern Aggression, or whatever some southerners call it.
You should always be honest about slavery. Slavery is never good, but slavery in one country at one time in history, isn't necessarily as bad as slavery elsewhere, elsetime. Sometimes they have rights, sometimes they're only criminals and debtors. Sometimes they are people taken against their will, and are worked to death.
I wish it was ok for officials to just punch people in the face when they make stupid suggestions like this. So when these people made the suggestion either they got punched in the face in the office of their representative, or if they just did it by mail then send someone to their home to knock them out for what they said.
I wish it was ok for officials to just punch people in the face when they make stupid suggestions like this. So when these people made the suggestion either they got punched in the face in the office of their representative, or if they just did it by mail then send someone to their home to knock them out for what they said.
I say we enslave them, tell them it's like summer camp.
"(The kids) are being taught (the Founding Fathers) were hypocrites and slave owners and part of the teachings about slavery was that it was inherently cruel."
He's probably right though. Maybe it was all just a big misunderstanding and they didn't mean any harm in buying and abusing people.
Really, they were doing them a favor taking them away from scary Africa and letting them live in 'MERICA!
Dammit Jim, stop giving the assholes a reason to be bigots about inferred bigotry. Every time a thread comes up that has some fucked up shit, and is also set in the south, these fuckin nazis come in and talk like every citizen below a certain latitude is an inbred hillbilly, as if they're not aware of their irony.
This ignorance of southern Americans just makes me shake my head.... Why are they so old/ignorant/stupid?
To be fair, most known racist organizations are in the northwest and central plain states, as well as central Canada. Alberta is really bad. But yeah, we have those idiots down here, too.
Don't remind me of Alberta, I'd rather it didn't exist. It's like Tennessee north.
Dammit Jim, stop giving the assholes a reason to be bigots about inferred bigotry. Every time a thread comes up that has some fucked up shit, and is also set in the south, these fuckin nazis come in and talk like every citizen below a certain latitude is an inbred hillbilly, as if they're not aware of their irony.
To be fair, people are mostly talking about the tea party here and not the south in general. Even when the south is mentioned, it's mostly recognized as being more racist on a sliding scale (as compared to more tolerant places) and not filled to the brim with idiots. No one actually thinks that every person from the south is a racist asshole.
This ignorance of southern Americans just makes me shake my head.... Why are they so old/ignorant/stupid?
To be fair, most known racist organizations are in the northwest and central plain states, as well as central Canada. Alberta is really bad. But yeah, we have those idiots down here, too.
Don't remind me of Alberta, I'd rather it didn't exist. It's like Tennessee north.
Hey! I live in Alberta! We uhh....ah fuck it, you're right. We're essentially the south of the north.
This ignorance of southern Americans just makes me shake my head.... Why are they so old/ignorant/stupid?
To be fair, most known racist organizations are in the northwest and central plain states, as well as central Canada. Alberta is really bad. But yeah, we have those idiots down here, too.
Don't remind me of Alberta, I'd rather it didn't exist. It's like Tennessee north.
Hey! I live in Alberta! We uhh....ah fuck it, you're right. We're essentially the south of the north.
I don't know...maybe.
Alberta is racist for Canadians
On the grand scheme of things, the level of racism here cannot even be remotely compared to some of the stuff seen south, south of the border.
Since Canada completely lacks a history of slavery and tends to be pretty multicultural by its own creation, racism here is a lot more benign than most Tea Party antics.
Sure racism exists here, and there are some extremist groups near southern Alberta, but they have no political clout and you rarely hear about them in the media.
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