LaShawn Ford, a Democrat in the Illinois General Assembly, has called for the immediate removal of history books and for history lessons to be abolished in the state, claiming they “lead to white privilege and a racist society”
Ford argued that history curriculums in Illinois do not sufficiently focus on contributions by women, members of Black, Jewish and LGBTQ communities, and other groups.
Sparking concerns over what sounds like an Orwellian revision of history, Ford said:
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“I’m calling on the state board of education to end the teaching of history and the local school districts to take immediate action by removing the current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history”.
RT reports: His vague plan calls for temporarily replacing history classes by devoting greater attention to civics and ensuring that students “understand our democratic process and how they can get involved.”
Ford, who formerly taught history and coached basketball in Chicago Public Schools before becoming a real estate broker and eventually getting into politics, didn’t provide specifics on how the state’s new history curriculum should look. He did, however, introduce a bill last month that would require Illinois schools to teach classes on the US civil rights movement.
“So today, I’m calling for the abolishment of history classes in Illinois. We’re concerned that current school history teachings lead to white privilege and a racist society.“
“It costs us as a society in the long run, forever, when we don’t understand our brothers and sisters that we live, work and play with,” Ford added.
Ford’s proposal comes amid rising controversy over US public school history curricula. Republican US Senator Tom Cotton last month introduced a bill to ban schools from using federal funding to teach curricula based on the New York Times 1619 Project, which he called “a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble freedom and equality on which our nation was founded.”
Ford’s radical initiative raised quite a few eyebrows on social media, with one Twitter user wondering:“So we are done with toppling statues, now we are going to rewrite history?” Another replied with a photo of ‘1984’ author George Orwell saying, “Boy, did I call it or what?”
Orwell described the dystopia in his novel: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Ford’s idea nevertheless found support online, with some commenting that “incredibly biased” American classrooms had indeed “whitewashed” history. And while the lawmaker’s office literally titled its press release“Rep. Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools,” others nonetheless argued the proposal never called to abolish history courses outright, but merely to replace the current curriculum with a more “inclusive” one.
Niamh Harris
He wants them ignorant Hes a traitor to intelligence Hes a snake in the grass and a whore
As the racist lawmaker speaks! If you would teach your children correctly the racism they perceive through your lessons would not exist!!!
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This lawmaker must worship Pelosi and the democrapic leaders who want to change history and tear down America’s past!! He is just an ANTIFA disciple!!!
I’m sure he does want to get rid of history so the next generation will believe anything. But the truth is….
Southern Democrats owed slaves.
The Democrats plunged this country into it’s bloodies war to try and keep them.
The Democrats formed the KKK to try and control and kill them.
Democrats formed the White League and Red Shirts to keep black from holding office.
The Democrats established Jim Crow Laws.
Southern Democrats, called the “Dixiecrats”, opposed the 1960s Civil Rights laws.
George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Bull Connor, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and Robert Byrd were famous racist Democrats!
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER
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Another dumb nigger.
I believe you’re a fake account – posing as a conservative to discredit conservatives. We are not racist. DemoKKK-rats are.
Not a fake account. I’m a lifelong Constitutional Conservative. I tell it like it is. My posting history is there for anyone to see. If you don’t like it that’s too fucking bad for you. Snowflakes like you are why the left always gets the upper hand. I know how to fight back.
What should we do, pretend there never was a slave trade? Pretend the Democrats didn’t start a war to keep slavery legal? Pretend the Democrat KKK never existed? What the….?