More Heroes to zeros because of Cultural Marxism - Granite Grok

More Heroes to zeros because of Cultural Marxism

School house…and demanding that long dead heroes of Texas live up to the Political Correctness sinkholes of today’s Progressive Totalitarians (who never seem to remember the “mote in your neighbor’s eye – the log in your’s” parable. Oh wait, that’s a Biblical reference – what AM I thinking??):

So let me get this straight: in Dallas, Texas — Dallas, Texas! — the school board is thinking about expunging the names of Sam Houston, as well as Alamo heroes Jim Bowie and William Travis? That is even more shocking than Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin. If you’re not from Texas, or never lived there, it is impossible to overstate the reverence with which Texans hold men involved in the Texas Revolution.

Rod Dreher adds this on history as well:

That graphic is from DISD data, which also reveal that whites make up only five percent of DISD students. What is troubling is that racial identity is so strong that black and brown Texans may not see the state’s history as their history — and indeed, may not see American history as their history, owing to the impure thoughts and deeds of 18th and 19th century men with regard to race.

Imagine the impoverishment of the minds who believe the most significant thing to know about Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin, is that they were in some way tainted by slavery. Imagine the ignorance of school leaders who are going to investigate whether William Travis and Jim Bowie — both of whom died in 1836 at the Alamo — could have been involved with the Confederacy, which came into existence in 1861.

And imagine the spiritual decrepitude of those who would scrub the names of Travis and Bowie from Texas schools if they were found to have had anything at all to do with the Confederacy. It’s disgusting, this iconoclasm.

And the kicker.  Having solved all of their really major problems with their actual mission of educating children…oh Wait!

In 2015, 40 percent of DISD’s schools received a failing grade from the state.

Irony abounds – as well as poor management.

(H/T: Instapundit)

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