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Tenn. Tea Party wants slavery removed from history textbooks

The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers:

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The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would stain the image of the Founding Fathers:

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports:

As a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”

“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.

The issue of revising curriculum’s to teach history in a manner that encourages the glossing over of the uglier factors of the past has popped up in other states over the past year.

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