Tennessee – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:56:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tennessee – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Are you annoyed by those pesky Indians and Black folk? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:56:48 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056 Continue reading Are you annoyed by those pesky Indians and Black folk? →]]> All that whinging and hand wringing about slavery, taking the land from the Indians, and all that stuff is very annoying, especially when the assertion is made that our founding fathers had anything do to with all that. Even though they did. But still, it is very annoying to have the names of those who saw fit to found this nation besmirched by the so called “facts” of “history.”

And that is why the Tennessee Tea Party wants to make it illegal in the Mottoless State of Tennessee to teach the truth. Here’s the wording they propose:

“No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”


Emphasis fucking added.

According to one source, “Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.”

And there’s a lot more where that came from.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/feed/ 14 5896