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| Wouldn't want these young Memphisites to get the wrong idea about George Washington, would you? From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. |
1. Tennessee Tea Partiers are concerned about the way slavery is presented in local history textbooks:
what's in your kid's textbook may be giving them [sic] a negative opinion about our nation's founding history.... "My biggest concern is that important information is being omitted,
which creates a negative light on our Founding Fathers," said Tea Party
activist Brian Rieck. (WYCB Television, Bristol, VA; h/t Great Lakes Liberal at Kos)
So they'd like the state legislature to do some editorial work on the texts, just [jump]
