Antifa and Black Lives Matter have been cancelling history by pulling down statues and liberals have chipped in by renaming everything that bares the name of a white guy. One democrat sees this as a nickel and dime approach and thinks history itself should be cancelled. An Illinois state lawmaker is demanding that schools stop teaching history because it is racist.
NBC Chicago reports:
Leaders in education, politics and other areas gathered in suburban Evanston Sunday to ask that the Illinois State Board of Education change the history curriculum at schools statewide, and temporarily halt instruction until an alternative is decided upon.
At a news conference, State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.
Before the event Sunday, Rep. Ford’s office distributed a news release “Rep. Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools,” in which Ford asked the ISBOE and school districts to immediately remove history curriculum and books that “unfairly communicate” history “until a suitable alternative is developed.”
The state representative is sponsoring a bill that would require elementary schools to teach students about the civil rights movement.
“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,” said Ford.
So he basically wants to remove white people from American history? Isn’t that going to be a little confusing? Let’s take a look:
In the 1600’s black people from African came to the New World for some reason and discovered a mysterious uninhabited country. For several hundred years the black people worked for free until one day in the late 1800’s they decided they should probably receive some kind of compensation for their labor.
In the years following the labor revolution, blacks would occasionally hang themselves and burn crosses on their front yards.
In the early part of the 20th Century a black dude named George Washington Carver invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, except peanut butter. Meanwhile inventions and discoveries like electricity, penicillin, the telephone, the automobile, and the airplane fell magically from the sky.
For several decades black people chose to have their own bathrooms and water fountains. It’s unclear who they were segregating themselves from since black people were the only ones in the country. This segregation stopped in the mid 1960’s by some unidentifiable force of nature.
Immediately following the segregation period, black people rioted across the land because a black guy had unsatisfactory service at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
For a while, black people went to South East Asia to kill Vietnamese people, but got bored with that and came home.
George Clinton brought the funk, which turned into disco, which eventually became rap. Talking over samples with made-up words that rhyme became the preferred method of communication for black people.
In the 1980’s black men thought that having a greasy afro-mullet looked cool and so began the Age of the Jheri Curl. That soon gave way to the Crack Era, which begat the shooting each other over Air Jordans Epoch.
In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first President of the United States. After 8 years of doing nothing, he retired and the country hasn’t had a president since.
In 2020 a black guy on drugs died of a heart attack in Minneapolis, Minnesota which caused black people to loot Target stores, burn down police stations, and paint Black Lives Matter on a bunch of streets.
Sure, there’s a few gaps, but that sounds like a solid history that all kids should be learning. Now we just have to do something about math and science, which everyone knows are even more racist than history.
