Just what we need — textbooks that say slavery wasn’t so bad and the Klan had its good points - Dansville, NY - Dansville - Genesee Country Express

Just what we need — textbooks that say slavery wasn’t so bad and the Klan had its good points

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By Pat Cunningham

It says HERE that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (above) is promoting a scheme to teach children a scurrilously fictional account of American history and a wildly perverted version of science:

Under a voucher system introduced by the state’s governor Bobby Jindal – a rising star of the Republican party – pupils attending 119 schools in the state, many of them run by the religious right, will be reading textbooks which tell that dinosaurs co-existed with humans,  slaves did not have it so bad and the Ku Klux Klan had some good points. Oh, and that Mark Twain was hopeless and Emily Dickinson, ...

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