Where's the Thread on "George Floyd" ????

Tecumsehsbones

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Give me a fu cking break. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You are as bad as the far left wingnuts. No different, just at the other end of the spectrum.
No, actually he's right. They do update the history books regularly.

Sometimes for accuracy, sometimes for political motivation. Recently the Texass Board of Education selected history texts that minimized Thomas Jefferson and said the Civil War was about "states' rights," not slavery.

Of course, Walter approves of that.
 

gerryh

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No, actually he's right. They do update the history books regularly.
Sometimes for accuracy, sometimes for political motivation. Recently the Texass Board of Education selected history texts that minimized Thomas Jefferson and said the Civil War was about "states' rights," not slavery.
Of course, Walter approves of that.

Technically, he's right..... realistically, considering his track record, I still say give me a fu cking break.
 

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Walter

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Give me a fu cking break. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You are as bad as the far left wingnuts. No different, just at the other end of the spectrum.
Try and find “Pirates and Pathfinders” in a grade five classroom. Try and find “Breastplate and Buckskin” in a grade seven classroom. Those were the texts for those grades in the 1960’s and 70’s in ON and now they are nowhere to be found. Just two small examples.
 

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No, actually he's right. They do update the history books regularly.
Sometimes for accuracy, sometimes for political motivation. Recently the Texass Board of Education selected history texts that minimized Thomas Jefferson and said the Civil War was about "states' rights," not slavery.
Of course, Walter approves of that.

Walt doesn’t care about states rights either.....well, that is of course while President Bunker Bitch is in charge.

Biden’s victory will change that.
 

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gerryh

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As a matter of fact they are. You need to get out more.

It's called updating. Not rewriting history. As for the american civil war, as TB has already pointed out, the secessionist states lost. The statues are in honour of traitors to the United states, and the Confederate flag was the flag of the losing side. American citizens took up arms against their fellow citizens and their government. That makes them traitors. Maybe its time that the history books reflected that FACT, and the secessionist leaders are remember for what they really were.
 

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It's called updating. Not rewriting history. As for the american civil war, as TB has already pointed out, the secessionist states lost. The statues are in honour of traitors to the United states, and the Confederate flag was the flag of the losing side. American citizens took up arms against their fellow citizens and their government. That makes them traitors. Maybe its time that the history books reflected that FACT, and the secessionist leaders are remember for what they really were.
The US was started by traitors in the first place.
 

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Crazy to think that the last surviving widow of an American Civil War veteran died in 2008.
 

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Of course, I knew someone wouldn't believe me and would therefore question me about it, so obviously I'm all prepared to explain (I'm not stupid). So here it is:

On 2nd February 1934, 86-year-old American Civil War veteran William M. Cantrell (born 1847) married 19-year-old Maudie Cecilia Acklin (born 7th December 1914). Cantrell died in 1937 aged 89 or 90, leaving young Maudie widowed. Maudie, meanwhile, remarried three more times and had three children. She died in a care home aged 93 in Lexa, Arkansas, on 17th August 2008.

 

Blackleaf

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Want to watch a bit of "blackface"?

Just view this sketch from The League of Gentlemen" (1999-02).

It'd give many 2020 softies severe palpitations:

 

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I have absolutely no idea how London mayor #SadiqKhan can see the #BlackLivesMatter riots in London and then jump straight to "muh far right", even though he can't define the thing and even though Tommy Robinson is saying exactly the same thing!