Oklahoma state legislature Credit: blog.ansirh.org
An Oklahoma lawmaker filed a bill that would ban the current Advanced Placement United States History curriculum and replace it with one that taught “foundational documents” that include the Ten Commandments, numerous sermons, and three speeches by Reagan — but none by any Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson.
The bill’s sponsor, state representative Dan Fisher (R), told CNN that the problem with the current course is that, “in essence, we have a new emphasis on what is bad about America.”
The revised course, however, would replace a “robust analyses of gender and racial oppression and class ethnicity and the lives of marginalized people, where the emphasis on instruction is of America as a nation of oppressors and exploiters” with “an emphasis on America’s founding principles of Constitutional government.”
That emphasis would include teaching students Jonathan Edwards’ sermon “Sinners in the Hands of a Angry God,” the purpose of which is to remind the people that God may cast a sinner into Hell at any moment, so the best course of action is to accept Christ immediately. It would […]
The Left has made just as much effort to suppress the truth about American imperialism since they have left the lies regarding 9/11 in our children’s history books. Also, Obama has incarcerated more government whistleblowers than Bush ever did. He kept reporters out of the Gulf of Mexico after the Deep Water Horizon oil spill so I see a very fine line between the Left and the Right. There’s always hope that the two sides implode on one another and anarchy takes over, but I’m not holding my breath about it!