The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Not 20 minutes after I posted that "joke" I was forwarded this story:

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/tx709

The TX State Board of Education has hired 6 "experts" to determine what will be in the books their schools use. Some of these "experts" are arguing that the state’s social studies and history textbooks are giving "too much attention" to some of the most prominent civil rights leaders in US History, amely Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall.

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The same "expert" wants to eliminate Thurgood Marshall, a prominent Civil Rights leader who argued the landmark case that resulted in school desegregation and was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice. He wrote that the late justice is "not a strong enough example" of an important historical figure to be presented to Texas students.

David Barton, the one quoted above, is a noted Christian Right author who has specifically attacked the separation of church and state.

So yeah, let us know what Texas' future looks like, Brad.