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Tennessee Tea Party Groups Issue Demand On How Textbooks Portray 'Minority Experience In History'

A coalition of Tennessee Tea Party groups has formulated a list of "demands" focused on the state's educational curriculum and political agenda that they want the state's legislature to heed this session.

As far as their educational concerns, the panel writes that they want to "compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government," a failure that they claimed had been brought about by "neglect and outright ill will," The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.

Hal Rounds, spokesman for the group, recently claimed at news conference that there was "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."

"The thing we need to focus on about the Founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn't existed, to everybody -- not all equally instantly -- and it was their progress that we need to look at," Rounds explained of his interpretation of the legacy of the Founding Fathers.

Pwns wrote:Can't say I agree with this, but there is a double standard. Do you think kids will learn that Darwin believed the different races to have different intellectual capacities? That Abraham Lincoln was an unequivocal white supremacist? That Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist? Nope, because those are all sacred cows in today's education system.

Pwns wrote:Can't say I agree with this, but there is a double standard. Do you think kids will learn that Darwin believed the different races to have different intellectual capacities? That Abraham Lincoln was an unequivocal white supremacist? That Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist? Nope, because those are all sacred cows in today's education system.

Appaholic wrote:

Pwns wrote:Can't say I agree with this, but there is a double standard. Do you think kids will learn that Darwin believed the different races to have different intellectual capacities? That Abraham Lincoln was an unequivocal white supremacist? That Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist? Nope, because those are all sacred cows in today's education system.

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Pwns wrote:Can't say I agree with this, but there is a double standard. Do you think kids will learn that Darwin believed the different races to have different intellectual capacities? That Abraham Lincoln was an unequivocal white supremacist? That Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist? Nope, because those are all sacred cows in today's education system.