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Thread ID: 18013 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-04-28
2005-04-28 22:30 | User Profile
[font=Times New Roman][size=4]Welcome to the Web site of The Textbook League!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
[url="http://www.textbookleague.org/"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/[/color][/size][/font][/url]
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅThe Web site of The Textbook League is a resource for middle-school and high-school educators. It provides commentaries on some 200 items, including textbooks, curriculum manuals, videos and reference books. [/size][/font]
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅThe Textbook League was established in 1989 to support the creation and acceptance of sound schoolbooks. Our chief activity is the publication of The Textbook Letter (or TTL, as it is called), which we mail to subscribers throughout the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Read more about The Textbook League and TTL, here: [/font][/size][url="http://www.textbookleague.org/missn.htm"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/missn.htm[/color][/size][/font][/url]
[font=Times New Roman][size=4]Selected articles follow:
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Analyzing errors, disinformation, and bias in Joy Hakim's "history"
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅJoy Hakim is the writer of ten of the books which constitute A History of US, an eleven-book series -- sold by Oxford University Press -- that purports to deal with American history. The eleventh book in the series is anonymous. All eleven books are dated in 1999. Oxford University Press promotes these books as instructional materials, and the California State Board of Education has adopted them for use in
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅIn the article that we present here, Alice Whealey examines some of the material that Hakim has put into Book 2 of A History of US. Book 2 is called Making Thirteen Colonies, and it allegedly covers American history in the period 1600 through 1740. Whealey encountered Making Thirteen Colonies when it was used as a 5th-grade textbook in a public school that her son attended -- the
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]More, here: [/font][/size][url="http://www.textbookleague.org/121hakm.htm"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/121hakm.htm[/color][/size][/font][/url]
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[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Multi-Culti Joy
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅTeachers who have bought into the multi-culti fraud want textbooks that will help them to advance that fraud in their classrooms, and such products are now abundant. Schoolbook-writers have toiled to meet the demand for texts that present multi-culti claptrap as "history" -- and no schoolbook-writer has toiled more diligently than Joy Hakim has. Indeed, Hakim has distinguished herself by putting both the Asian-nomad fantasy and the "blending" fantasy into the same book. As far as I know, she has produced the only book in which there are, quite explicitly, two sets of "first Americans," and she has even mustered the gall to employ the phrase "the first Americans" as the book's title.ââ¬Â[/size][/font]
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]More, here: [/font][/size][url="http://www.textbookleague.org/111joy.htm"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/111joy.htm[/color][/size][/font][/url]
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[size=3][font=Times New Roman]More Hokum from Hakim
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]ââ¬ËThe Chinese were weaving silk and making beautiful artifacts when most Europeans were living in caves and wearing animal skins.ââ¬â¢
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅThat isn't history. It is multi-culti hokum, and its only purpose is to denigrate Europeans by misrepresenting the findings of archaeologists. According to the archaeological record, Europeans began to weave textiles from flax fibers and from hemp fibers before any Chinese wove any silk. [/size][/font]
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅMulti-culti propagandists devote a lot of energy to inventing stories that denigrate Europeans -- and unscrupulous writers often inject such stories into schoolbooks, so that the books will appeal to teachers and school-district officials who have embraced the multi-culti brand of racism. The racist fantasy that I have quoted above appears in The First Americans, a schoolbook written by Joy Hakim. The First Americans is Book 1 of A History of US, a series of eleven small volumes, published by Oxford University Press and dated in 1999, that purport to describe the history of
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅJoy Hakim has spiked The First Americans with lots of multi-culti rubbish, and I recently have described, in these pages, one of her most repugnant stunts: Eagerly pandering to the multi-culti crowd, she promotes two different fables about when and how
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]More, here: [/font][/size][url="http://www.textbookleague.org/113hak.htm"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/113hak.htm[/color][/size][/font][/url]
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[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Schoolbooks Teach Falsehoods and Feel-Good Myths About the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅAmong all the American legends that are touted as history in schoolbooks, none is promoted more extravagantly than the story of the Underground Railroad. In textbook after textbook, students read that, in the time before the Civil War, abolitionists established an extensive network of secret routes and hideouts for conducting fugitive slaves to freedom; and in text after text, students find elaborate descriptions of this network and of some of the people who allegedly were associated with it. Unfortunately for the students, very few of the "facts" that appear in schoolbook accounts of the Underground Railroad have any historical foundation, and most of the "facts" are demonstrably false. [/size][/font]
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅI recently have analyzed the material about the Underground Railroad in five so-called history textbooks that are being used in American schools, and I have found that all five tell the same tale -- a mess of feel-good myths masquerading as historical information. These myths, ranging from imaginary conceptions of the Railroad itself to patently fictitious claims about the exploits of Harriet Tubman, are delivered to students in sentences, paragraphs and illustrations that often are interchangeable from book to book. It seems that all the writers have tried to imitate one mythic model while diligently ignoring real history.ââ¬Â[/size][/font]
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]More, here: [/font][/size][url="http://www.textbookleague.org/121tubby.htm"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/121tubby.htm[/color][/size][/font][/url]
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[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Crucify Her!
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅIn 1851, while trying to cross the
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅThe slavewoman, a Cocopah called Nowereha, succeeded in escaping from her Mojave owners, but after a few days she was captured and was returned to them. On the next morning, the Mojaves built a wooden cross and fixed Nowereha to it by driving wooden spikes through her hands and ankles. Then they summoned their other slaves, Olive Oatman among them, to watch as they tortured Nowereha with arrows until she died.ââ¬Â[/size][/font]
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]More, here: [/size][/font][url="http://www.textbookleague.org/84cruci.htm"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/84cruci.htm[/color][/size][/font][/url]
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[size=3][font=Times New Roman]The Kwanzaa Hoax
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]ââ¬ËAnywhere we are, Us is.ââ¬â¢
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅThat looks like a line from an Amos 'N Andy show. One can easily imagine that it served as the motto of the Mystic Knights of the Sea, and that it was recited by such characters as The Kingfish, Andy Brown and Algonquin J. Calhoun. [/size][/font]
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅIn fact, however, the line that I have quoted is the motto of a real organization -- a real organization that was originally named United Slaves but now calls itself The Organization Us (or simply Us or US). It was created some 40 years ago, in
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]ââ¬ÅKarenga -- known chiefly as the inventor of Kwanzaa, a fake "African" holiday that he contrived in 1966 -- has enjoyed a truly colorful career. He was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s, when his organization was involved in various violent operations. He was sent to prison in 1971, after he and some of his pals tortured two women with a soldering iron and a vise, among other things. He emerged from prison in 1974, and a few years later -- in a maneuver that even The Kingfish might have found difficult -- he got himself installed as the chairman of the Department of Black Studies at
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]More, here: [/font][/size][url="http://www.textbookleague.org/114kwanz.htm"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.textbookleague.org/114kwanz.htm[/color][/size][/font][/url]
2005-04-29 03:04 | User Profile
Glen,
Welcome to Original Dissent, good info in your post-should be most helpful to victims of the brainwashing programs at your local skool.
:cheers:
2005-04-29 06:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Blond Knight]Glen,
Welcome to Original Dissent, good info in your post-should be most helpful to victims of the brainwashing programs at your local skool.
:cheers:[/QUOTE]Thanks, BK.
I found the [url="http://www.textbookleague.org/"]Textbook League [/url]while researching the textbooks used by the [url="http://www.calvertschool.org/engine/content.do"]Calvert[/url] and California Virtual Academy homeschools.
Many rightists believe that the anti-White problem in public schools can be solved by sending their children to private schools. Others say that homeschooling is the answer. The fact is no public or private educational program on the market is trustworthy. Parents must review and evaluate all curriculum content at the textbook level. The content of benign "sample" lessons and endorsements by "renowned" conservatives can be misleading. The "multi-culti" history texts authored by [url="http://www.textbookleague.org/113hak.htm"]Joy Hakim[/url], for example, are used by the [url="http://k12.com/"]California Virtual Academy[/url], a homeschool program [url="http://k12.com/about/board.html"]endorsed[/url] by [url="http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/bennettw.htm"]Dr. Bennett [/url]of "Book of Virtue" fame.
Several cyber-activists on various Internet forums are teachers, or so they claim. Why hasn't a White K-12 homeschool curriculum been developed?
2005-04-30 15:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Glen]Many rightists believe that the anti-White problem in public schools can be solved by sending their children to private schools. Others say that homeschooling is the answer. The fact is no public or private educational program on the market is trustworthy. Parents must review and evaluate all curriculum content at the textbook level. [/QUOTE]This effort should be copied in many other areas. Significant work and diligence were needed to write these texts and will require the same level of effort from parents to fight the malignant influence of contemporary America.