by Calvin Russell
In a time when racial tension is unnecessarily raising it’s ugly head,why in the world would we want to attempt to open a wound that isn’t there in the first place.
Texas Association of School Administrator’s (TASA) exploration into Thomas Jefferson’s wording of the Declaration of Independence is appalling. To ask what Mr Jefferson’s meaning was when he used the words “ all men are created equal” knowing that slavery was going on at the time would seem an attempt to lead one to believe that Mr. Jefferson was either a hypocrite or a racist.
Five words, just five words to form an opinion of a man who pledged along with fifty-five other men “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to commit to what England would call treason and many did indeed lose their lives, most lost their fortunes, but none that I am aware of ever lost their sacred honor. That is unless we allow TASA’s biased attempt at discrediting one of our most famous Founding Father’s reputation to convince our youth that he was in fact without honor.
In times like these when our nation needs to be reminded of the greatness of our country’s heritage and the sacrifice in blood and treasure that was paid in full to allow us a freedom that our generation has never fully known, we allow one more “educational organization” to spew their anti-American agenda at our kids. Heck, we even fund it with our tax dollars.
That’s right, lets just put a few kids together in a group that we call Project Based Learning and let them discover for themselves what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote these five simple words included in one of the most respected and cherished documents in American history.
And that’s the way we do it today. No teacher to guide and teach, just heat the pot and throw in some junk and whatever comes out in the end must be an education.
