Cenk Uygur
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Mother Outs Textbooks That Call Slave Trade Worker Migration Instead
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October 6, 2015
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6:17Now PlayingA woman in Houston is going after a textbook publisher in Texas for whitewashing history. Her son’s 9th grade history text book portrayed the Atlantic Slave Trade merely as worker migration. The mother was upset because she feels it downplays the effects of slavery. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn’t about alcohol, dating or money for the movies.
It was about history.
Her son, Coby, had sent her a photo of a colorful page in his ninth-grade McGraw-Hill World Geography textbook. In a section titled “Patterns of Immigration,” a speech bubble pointing to a U.S. map read: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”
“We was real hard workers wasn’t we,” Coby retorted in a subsequent text.”
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