As usual, once you read the article (NYT) there is some good and some bad.
Dr. McLeroy, a dentist by training, pushed through a change to the teaching of the civil rights movement to ensure that students study the violent philosophy of the Black Panthers in addition to the nonviolent approach of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He also made sure that textbooks would mention the votes in Congress on civil rights legislation, which Republicans supported.
Mr. Bradley won approval for an amendment saying students should study âthe unintended consequencesâ of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation. He also won approval for an amendment stressing that Germans and Italians as well as Japanese were interned in the United States during World War II, to counter the idea that the internment of Japanese was motivated by racism.
Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term âseparation between church and state.â)
Some of the changes seem reasonable, after all there was a large group that espoused violence in the civil rights era.
And God knows the Great Society was an utter disaster...probably did more to further ignorance and poverty among blacks than any other govt program. But that last one about religion just blows my mind. Whatever is written in the Constitution (and I know it doesn't say seperation of church and state), the founders and early presidents knew damn well that the govt should not do anything to favor religion. But at least now I know why they wanted Jefferson taken out.
Dr. McLeroy, a dentist by training, pushed through a change to the teaching of the civil rights movement to ensure that students study the violent philosophy of the Black Panthers in addition to the nonviolent approach of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He also made sure that textbooks would mention the votes in Congress on civil rights legislation, which Republicans supported.
Mr. Bradley won approval for an amendment saying students should study âthe unintended consequencesâ of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation. He also won approval for an amendment stressing that Germans and Italians as well as Japanese were interned in the United States during World War II, to counter the idea that the internment of Japanese was motivated by racism.
Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term âseparation between church and state.â)
Some of the changes seem reasonable, after all there was a large group that espoused violence in the civil rights era.
And God knows the Great Society was an utter disaster...probably did more to further ignorance and poverty among blacks than any other govt program. But that last one about religion just blows my mind. Whatever is written in the Constitution (and I know it doesn't say seperation of church and state), the founders and early presidents knew damn well that the govt should not do anything to favor religion. But at least now I know why they wanted Jefferson taken out.
