The Pentagon oversees greater than 150 faculties for the kids of service members. They educate some 64,000 college students in grades Ok-12.
And this 12 months army youngsters are going to be taught that Thanksgiving Day is predicated on a falsehood and that the US is “stolen land.”
OpenTheBooks.com is a conservative watchdog group and so they’ve uncovered a nefarious plan to undermine one in every of our biggest nationwide holidays. The anti-Thanksgiving classes are a part of the Pentagon’s variety, fairness and inclusion program.
“DoDEA staffers had been offered with a e-book referred to as Teaching for Fairness, which rebukes capitalism, ‘patriarchy,’ traditions like Thanksgiving, and America’s existence as a rustic,” OpenTheBooks stated in its report.
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The army faculties are utilizing a textbook that instructs lecturers to explain Thanksgiving as a vacation that celebrates a nation based on stolen lands by means of the genocide of native individuals.
“These books are blatantly racist in the direction of tons of of hundreds of thousands of Individuals and delegitimize the founding of America itself,” Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., stated in a letter to the Protection Secretary. “Radical woke ideology is rotting out the colleges of our service members’ youngsters and as an alternative of addressing this, you’ve gotten solely exacerbated it. Our service members mustn’t have to decide on between serving their nation or saving their youngsters.”
One textbook really dismisses the story of the Pilgrims and Indians sharing a meal – suggesting as an alternative that the Pilgrims really massacred the Indians.
What within the identify of the Wampanoags is the Pentagon doing, of us?
“In the US, we not often keep in mind that we’re on stolen lands, lands that had been taken by means of blankets deliberately contaminated with smallpox, by means of damaged treaties, and thru outright genocide,” the e-book stated. “Our lack of reminiscence, and the intentional distortion of fact, has led to the macabre. Take Thanksgiving, for instance… usually celebrated with an enormous meal and household gathering… Historical past has been sanitized, and the brutality of colonialism has been erased. This perpetuates the facility of White supremacy.”
Oh, shut up and move the giblet gravy.
Todd Starnes is an award-winning journalist and best-selling creator. He labored at Fox Information Channel for 15 years. Previous to that he was a information anchor at KFBK in Sacramento, California. He’s a conservative.
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