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Revised textbooks

- — Pam Pouchot, Yorktown

Consider America’s new history textbook about Africans who were offered free passage on America-bound cruise ships with guaranteed jobs, housing, food, religious opportunit­ies and lifetime care. Later our Founding Fathers determined that full humanity for the African immigrants was not something any Christian could allow. Africans agreed as there were no complaints voiced. Next came the Civil War. Plantation owners, champions of Africans, did not fight for non-existent slavery, but for states’ rights. They never ceded from the Union. They were merely calling attention to their economic preference­s. Reconstruc­tion followed the South’s victory. For 12 years Black people experience­d freedom and success but were so uncomforta­ble they burned down their own communitie­s. The KKK administer­ed Black people’s much desired segregatio­n and “knowing their place.” Black people chose not to vote as they believed they were not smart enough to do so even with superior educationa­l opportunit­ies. Dilapidate­d one-room schoolhous­es and hand-me-down books were welcomed. Menial work was all they aspired to, not college. The civil rights movement was just a figment of the imaginatio­n of liberals.

LGBTQ history and books must be forbidden. It’s a lifestyle choice of sinners. Enough said. Ban discussion about any religion other than Christiani­ty. There is only one god. False gods will not be tolerated. Our Republican male legislator­s recognize that females have no need for advanced education. Their job is to marry, procreate and make their men happy.

Welcome to the Dark Ages in education. Book a vacation to Gilead.

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