The History Channel and Hollywood Team Up to Indoctrinate the Kids
ByJust relax. Take a deep breath. Sorry – just settling myself down here. This is supposed to be such a happy, joyous time of year. And it is, yet stories like this one cast a bit of a pall over the season. Not to ruin your holiday spirit, but if we aren’t aware of what’s happening we can’t do anything about it. This is just another reminder for parents to be vigilant over what your children are being taught in school and to speak up and speak out if these people rear their ugly heads.
Big Hollywood reported:
Children are uniquely malleable beings, readily convinced of magically colorful tales – Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are the first that come to mind. This innocence is beautiful, but it is a quality that can easily fall victim to radically foreign ideas if taught consistently and pervasively at an early age. One need only look at the birth of fascism or socialism to see a recipe for how radical ideas become ubiquitous among a nation’s youth.
Enter Howard Zinn – an author, professor and American historian – who, with the help of Hollywood and the History Channel, intends to change the way our pre-K through high school children learn American history. His current curriculum suggestions, like introducing three-year-olds to the lynching of African-Americans, or quizzing seven-year-olds on which Presidents owned slaves, should be a red flag to parents.
Zinn has spent a lifetime teaching college students about the evils of capitalism, the promise of Marxism, and his version of American history – a history that has, in his view, been kept from students. His controversial 1980-book The People’s History of the United States paints traditional American history as a façade – one that has grotesquely immortalized flawed leaders and is based on principles that victimize the common man. In 2004, Zinn wrote a companion book entitled Voices Of A People’s History Of The United States, which includes speeches and writings from many of the people featured in The People’s History.
These two books have now become the basis for a new documentary, entitled The People Speak, to be aired December 13th at 8pm on the History Channel. The trailer portrays the documentary as a collage of compelling one-person readings, told through the words of “ordinary” people who have struggled throughout American history against oppression. Produced by Zinn, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Chris Moore,
the documentary appears to be cloaked, ironically (given Zinn’s admitted socialist agenda), in many of the traditional ideas that were behind our founding. The verdict is still out on the doc, but it is not for the books that inspired the film as well as the educational initiative associated with it.
Perhaps due to their one-sided perspective of America’s past, Zinn’s history books have largely been limited to colleges and universities, until now. In the press release announcing the broadcast, HISTORY introduced a partnership with VOICES Of A People’s History Of The United States, a nonprofit led by Zinn that bares the same name as his companion book, to help get his special brand of history into classrooms.
Delving into Zinn’s nonprofit is where this story gets interesting, and the organization’s grade school educational ambitions concerning. ….
Be sure to read the whole thing and watch the videos. The only way to stop it is to be aware.
While on the topic of children, education and indoctrination, check out Gateway Pundit for more on Obama’s sick twisted Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings. You may want to pour yourself a drink first. Oh, and take a deep breath. Sorry. But again, we cannot combat the radical agenda by burying our heads in the sand.
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This should be a serious 4 alarm wake up call to all Americans. Any taxpayer in a school district should attend their school board meetings. We DO pay taxes to the schools don’t we? Just because some of us don’t have kids in school doesn’t mean we can’t have an input. Find out what’s going on as far as curriculum. If you find school curriculum including Marxist teachings, spread the word to the district in any fashion you can and demand resignations and accountability from those responsible. We have to live amongst their product now don’t we? Presidents like Mr. Obama don’t just spring up; they’re built and mentored over a long period of time, so if some serious changes aren’t made in the world of academia, expect more of what we have on a regular basis. I for one have had enough of what we already have.
You bring up an excellent point, Michigan. I don’t know about where you live (Michigan?) but here in New York our property taxes are outrageously high. Partially to fund Medicaid and partially to fund the schools. I’d prefer to do away with public schools and slash property taxes. The savings over a lifetime would be more than enough to pay for private schools for our children. They put so many of us in a bind. We can’t afford to pay the high property taxes and pay private tuition. And we pay those high property taxes for as long as we own property. Long after the kids are out of school. So you’re absolutely right. Every taxpayer should demand accountability from the schools we fund, even if we don’t have children in those schools at the time. It’s our money.
Yes, I am in Michigan and we, like you are in the same boat. I’m pretty fed up with what is being pumped out of public schools. Not enough students are graduating and those that do are going to be relegated to pay in taxes for the Nair-do-wells that didn’t. Too many students are not even close to being ready to either enter the work force with skills or pass a college entrance exam. The schools are pumping out inferior products that don’t do justice for our money or country. This is the genesis of collapse and tyranny and it must cease if America is to prevail.