Should America Change Her History?

@woodss Said

Rubbish about the freemasons gets really old.

@crazylikeafox Said

Do you have proof it's to be less offensive though? Changing the word is typically done to better reflect the extent of the network. If they're looking at the entire trade network, then that's the better term. The only reason to worry is if they're changing the name but only focusing on the slave trade part of it.



Depends on the area, but tobacco, cotton, manufactured goods, rum, etc.

@Willi Said

in this triangle, ships carrying slaves came from africa and other places too?

@davii Said

I don't agree, or at least suspicious of the reasoning behind it. Filing the slave trade, something particularly painful to America, under a different header comes across - to me - as trying to throw a thin veil over it. That in itself could be considered offensive.

"What you really mean is the slave trade...".

Etc.

Not being American, or lived in America, it's just my opinion from the outside looking in and I realise you're saying that they're not looking to avoid teaching about it, but I'm left feeling cynical.

@crazylikeafox Said

It went from the Americas to Europe to Africa and back to the Americas. That's why it's described as a triangle. As to slaves, they only came from Africa yes.

@crazylikeafox Said

OK. What about the other 2 points? I found the fact the article complained about them more strange than the trade network anyways.

@crazylikeafox Said

OK. What about the other 2 points? I found the fact the article complained about them more strange than the trade network anyways.

@davii Said

About pupils walking out of lessons etc?

Quote:
The board changed references to the nation's first black president to read "Barack Hussein Obama" and required students to "contrast" Confederate President Jefferson Davis' inaugural address with Abraham Lincoln’s philosophical views.

@crazylikeafox Said

Huh? No, these 2 points



Why is referring to the President by his full name bad, and why is comparing and contrasting the Presidents of the USA and CSA bad?

@davii Said

I did refer to that in an earlier post. Why insist on refering to one president's full name and not all of them equally?

Is it because it's the Tea Party and the president in question is Obama? Why exactly is it relevent to single him out? Because he's the current president and that middle name is "Hussein"? Election coming up?

There's absolutely no reason to stipulate it, other than for their own political reasons.

Anything they say after that is bound to be treated with suspicion.

Comparing presidents I don't have an issue with.

@crazylikeafox Said

What, you mean like Franklin Deleno Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson? I'm pretty sure all text books use the President's full name at least once. This isn't the Tea Party that made those demands anyways. It was the Texas School Board.