Oscar Romero: no longer taught
We were drawn to the story of the Texas School Board revising its curriculum standards a couple of weeks ago. Here is the pull quote from the NYT’s article “Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change” by James C. McKinley Jr. Note that Texas is home to somewhere between 9-10 million Hispanics:
“Efforts by Hispanic board members to include more Latino figures as role models for the state’s large Hispanic population were consistently defeated, prompting one member, Mary Helen Berlanga, to storm out of a meeting late Thursday night, saying, “They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist.”
“They are going overboard, they are not experts, they are not historians,” she said. “They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world.”
The Colbert Report was on the case last week:
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I’m interested to see how do they get to this conclusion. It really bothers me when people make conclusions driven by pure opinions. How many and who got removed from these books!? Were their actions really relevant for History!? I would love to see data and facts. Not opinions. Plus, let’s not make assumptions that all conservatives are racist. Let’s all stop being so stereotypical. We are turning into the same thing we complain about.
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