Texas Board of "Education"

I love Texas. I love being a Texan. But sometimes (well okay, often) our governing bodies are just flat out wrong. Believe me, it's not always easy being a liberal in Texas. This is and will always be a conservative "red" state and while I don't like it, I accepted this fact a while back.

So the talk down here recently has been the "updating" of history textbooks in schools. Seems like the Texas Board of Education thought they didn't lean to the right enough for their liking. They make small changes in terminology, omits some contributions of Hispanics, and emphasizes the (hilariously-termed) "conservative resurgence of the 1980's and 1990's". Another of my favorite changes:

Language that qualifies the legacy of 1960s liberalism. Great Society programs such as Title IX—which provides for equal gender access to educational resources—and affirmative action, intended to remedy historic workplace discrimination against African-Americans, are said to have created adverse
“unintended consequences” in the curriculum’s preferred language

This also hits other states. Because Texas is so big, textbook manufacturers will often force out texts to other regions. Welcome to the South, New Hampshire!

Last but not least, the current draft is set to include country and western music as part of the nation's important "cultural movements". Rap music, however, was struck from that list. Can you be more blatantly racist, Texas? Yes folks, we all admire the plight of the redneck as told through song, right? Country music should be celebrated, for it has long been the breeding ground for tolerance, understanding, and level minded thinking.

Well done Texas Board of Education. Thanks for moving Texas into the current era and proving we are indeed a forward-thinking state. Now, if you'll excuse me, I evidently need to get back to proving that darn "evolution" thing wrong.