Posted by: liz
Comment: #1
Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:06 PM
As a Latino, you are upset at the presentation, or non-presentation of the contributions of Latino's. As an American, you should be outraged (in my opinion). I suggest that many American's, due to a corrupt, biased educational curriculum have never been exposed to the truth. Ever. Books (and programming) are approved which present history only as the public school system educator's (read government) would have the public know it, just as religion based schools present their history as they would have their religious followers know it. This does of course give a very slanted racist/biased/divisive account or mis-account of our history and our nation. All children, exposed only to stories of white male superiority and dominance over Indians, Spaniards, Mexican's, Women, etc. have thus been early indoctrinated that their particular culture, race, religion, sex, etc. is inferior and they should have respect and allegiance and to believe in white male superiority which fosters a racist/seperatist mindset and continues to feed and foster the divisions within our communities . Our school curriculum is corrupt, taught with the slant to dehumanize those from whom this country was wrested and to marginalize the contributions and sacrifices made by other races and cultures and to cover up the atrocities and horrors which took place while capturing and settling this country. Does the term "dumbing down of America" sound familiar? How about dumbing down of American's? Our educational system needs a complete revamping so children of all races and cultures will have that self-same pride you seek, knowing, because it's written right there in their schoolbooks or presented on educational programming, that their forefathers contributed in a great way to the making of this country.
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