Fuck all these teachers. Fire them all and ship them to Somalia.
A darker side of Columbus emerges in US classrooms
What does this story have to do with the global jihad you ask? Everything. The war that the Muz-scum are waging against us is a civilizational one. They want their civilization (if it can be called that) to crush our own. We need to fight that and crush theirs instead.It’s a zero-sum game. In order for us to do that, we have to have a sense of what our civilization is, and be proud of it, and want it to prevail without apology. Our civilization is Western Civilization, and it is the best civilization that the world has ever known. That is a statement of FACT. And these disgusting teachers are teaching kids to hate it, therefore helping our enemies to destroy us. Scum.
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO
The Associated Press
Sunday, October 11, 2009; 10:43 AM
TAMPA, Fla. — Jeffrey Kolowith’s kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer’s picture on a timeline through history.
Kolowith’s students learn about the explorer’s significance – though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend.
Nuance!
“I talk about the situation where he didn’t even realize where he was,” Kolowith said. “And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy.”
“Bossy?” what are we like 5?
Columbus’ stature in U.S. classrooms has declined somewhat through the years, and many districts will not observe his namesake holiday on Monday. Although lessons vary, many teachers are trying to present a more balanced perspective of what happened after Columbus reached the Caribbean and the suffering of indigenous populations.
Aww, de poor, poor indigeoes, boo hoo
“The whole terminology has changed,” said James Kracht, executive associate dean for academic affairs in the Texas A&M College of Education and Human Development. “You don’t hear people using the world ‘discovery’ anymore like they used to. ‘Columbus discovers America.’ Because how could he discover America if there were already people living here?”
Brilliant logic Sherlock. It was a discovery for Western Civilization, get it? Western Civilization didn’t know it was there before then. See? →Discovery. Would it help if I diagramed this?
In Texas, students start learning in the fifth grade about the “Columbian Exchange” – which consisted not only of gold, crops and goods shipped back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, but diseases carried by settlers that decimated native populations.
How the @#* is that the settlers’ fault? So now they’re villains just for getting sick? Fuck you!
In McDonald, Pa., 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, fourth-grade students at Fort Cherry Elementary put Columbus on trial this year – charging him with misrepresenting the Spanish crown and thievery. They found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison.
“In their own verbiage, he was a bad guy,” teacher Laurie Crawford said.
Oh sure, I’m sure you didn’t coach them one bit there Laurie. I’m sure they came to that conclusion all on their own.
Of course, the perspective given varies across classrooms and grades. Donna Sabis-Burns, a team leader with the U.S. Department of Education’s School Support and Technology Program, surveyed teachers nationwide about the Columbus reading materials they used in class for her University of Florida dissertation. She examined 62 picture books, and found the majority were outdated and contained inaccurate – and sometimes outright demeaning – depictions of the native Taino population.
Um, can we have an example or two? Or are we just supposed to take this woman’s word for this. Hey AP writer, how bout throwing some quotation marks around that shit rather than stating it as fact.
The federal holiday itself also is not universally recognized. Schools in Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle will be open; New York City, Washington and Chicago schools will be closed.
The day is an especially sensitive issue in places with larger native American populations.
“We have a very large Alaska native population, so just the whole Columbus being the founder of the United States, doesn’t sit well with a lot of people, myself included,” said Paul Prussing, deputy director of Alaska’s Division of Teaching and Learning Support.
Are you on crack? Who ever called him the “founder” of the United States? (whatever that means) He discovered North America on behalf of the Europeans. FACT. Seriously, how does this dude have a job in education?
Many recall decades ago when there was scant mention of indigenous groups in discussions about Columbus. Kracht remembers a picture in one of his fifth-grade textbooks that showed Columbus wading to shore with a huge flag and cross.
Oh the horror! I can’t believe the indigenous population had to endure such a horrible sight! They probably went blind! In fact, all blindness everywhere on earth is the fault of evil Columbus!
“The indigenous population was kind of waiting expectantly, almost with smiles on their faces,” Kracht said. “‘I wonder what this guy is bringing us?’ Well, he’s bringing us smallpox, for one thing, and none of us are going to live very long.”
Again, what is this kook talking about? Columbus was not on a mission to bring smallpox to the indigenous population. It was an unexpected (and inevitable) byproduct of mingling populations. This is complete West-hating fiction being sold as “education.”
Kracht said an emerging multiculturalism led more people to investigate the cruelties suffered by the Taino population in the 1960s and ’70s, along with the 500th anniversary in 1992.
However, there are people who believe the discussion has shifted too far. Patrick Korten, vice president of communications for the Catholic fraternal service organization the Knights of Columbus, recalled a note from a member who saw a lesson at a New Jersey school.
The students were forced to stand in a cafeteria and not allowed to eat while other students teased and intimidated them – apparently so they could better understand the suffering indigenous populations endured because of Columbus, Korten said.
Come on educators, why stop there? You should be strapping the kids into seats and electrocuting their genitals with jumper cables while forcing them to watch pictures of Columbus on a big screen with those Clockwork Orange clamp things holding their eyes open. Only then will they know the true evil of Columbus!
“My impression is that in some classrooms, it’s anything but a balanced presentation,” Korten, said. “That it’s deliberately very negative, which is a matter of great concern because that is not accurate.”
In Kolowith’s Tampa class, students gathered around a white carpet, where they examined a pile of bright plastic fruits and vegetables, baby dolls, construction paper and other items as they decided what would be best for their voyage.
“Do you think it would be good to take babies on a long and dangerous boat ride?” he asked the class. “No!” they replied.
“Yes!” replied the SuicidaL anD BombeD Army.
Fifteen miles away, in Seffner, Fla., Colson Elementary assistant principal Jack Keller visited students in a colonial outfit and gray wig, pretending to be Columbus and discussing his voyages. The suffering of natives was not mentioned.
“Our thing was to show exploration,” he said.
Better not say that too loudly dude; apparently our schools are under the total control of rabid, West-hating historical revisionists, and anyone who speaks rational common sense is duly castigated.
Meanwhile, Crawford’s Pennsylvania class dressed up as characters from the era, assigned roles for a mock trial and put Columbus on the stand. Out of a jury of 12 students, nine found him guilty of the charges.
“Every hero is somebody else’s villain,” said Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, a scholar and author of several books related to Columbus, including “1492: The Year the World Began.”
“Heroism and villainy are just two sides of the same coin.”
Please spare us your Cracker Jack philosophies.
The fact is that Western Civilization was way the fuck better than what those stupid native Americans had, and there’s nothing wrong with saying so. Backward indiginous Americans should be thanking their lucky stars that the Europeans finally showed up to teach them a thing or two, otherwise they’d still be doing rain dances in loin cloths and eating off of plates made of dried buffalo dung, which is the most those retards ever achieved on their own.
We here at Suicidal and Bombed say, Thank you to Europeans for showing up and bringing great Western Civilization, thank you to the great Christopher Columbus, Happy Columbus Day to all, and FUCK THE INDIGEOS!!!!!!!!