Copyrighted Image? DMCA | In 2010, the conservatives who controlled the Texas Board of Education caused an uproar when they made radical changes to the history curriculum for the state's 4.8 million public school students. The changes included referring to the country's first black president as "Barack Hussein Obama," and requiring students to "contrast" Confederate President Jefferson Davis' inaugural address with Abraham Lincoln's philosophical views.
To whitewash one of the darkest practices in America history, conservatives proposed that textbooks refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade." |
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