Ah yes, and he also got a Rhodes scholarship. A very smart, charismatic,
ambitious man. But that's like saying that every black kid in the ghetto can
become president because Barack Obama became president.
Miriam
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Miriam wrote, "... The kids in Arkansas are living in a very different
environment, one that doesn't encourage intellectual curiosity."
Tisk tisk, you seem to have forgotten that intellectual giant who became
governor of Arkansas, and then led our nation to eight years of mediocrity,
cleverly pretending to be a Moderate Liberal, while selling out the Working
Class(also known as the "Middle Class") And oh yes, becoming very rich in the
process.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/5/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Abby,
But you lived in New York when you were growing up, and in the metro area.
The kids in Arkansas are living in a very different environment, one
that doesn't encourage intellectdual curiosity.
Miriam
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Even in high school, it was obvious to me that the history I wanted to
know wasn't in the names of presidents and dates of wars. The Peoples
History satisfied my longing. I hope the students in Arkansas will
find this book, just like I found the banned Catcher in the Rye Abby.
Abby
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Bill Introduced to Ban Howard Zinn
Books From Arkansas Public Schools
When the long entrenched Ruling Class is threatened, regardless of
when or where in Time, one of the first Defensive Acts is the
Offensive Act of destroying any literature or materials which disagree with
the Ruling Class.
From the burning of the Alexandria Library...and probably far earlier
examples, to the Nazi Purge of non Aryan people, declared inferior to
the Master Race, and the burning of any books that taught, or
suggested a different belief, to the more recent times when Christian
groups burn the Koran, the practice has been an effort to protect the
Ruling Class, and for the most part it has been a total failure.
But here we go again. One of the truly great historical works, A
Peoples History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, is seen as a
threat to the White Supremacists Ruling Class in Arkansas. Clear
minded people understand that the effort to remove Zinn's book from
circulation is simply an admission by these White Racists, that they
have no rational defense for their long established control over the People
of Arkansas.
As an Agnostic, I disagree with books such as the Holy Bible or the Koran.
And yet, there is great value in these books. If my best argument
against the belief that there is some Intelligent Creator directing
our lives, is to rush about burning their books, then I, and my beliefs, are
failures.
But beyond all of this, what people need to watch out for, is that
once the books have been removed, the next step is to begin removing
those people who subscribe to the teachings in the newly banned books.
First from their jobs. Next, from their communities. Prison. And
even execution.
Are we witnessing the res erection of the Witch Hunts of early
America? Are we going to purge our People of whatever the Ruling Class finds
undesirable?
Will we wind up with everybody looking and acting like Donald Trump?
Carl Jarvis
Sent on 3/5/17:
> Howard Zinn. (photo: The Progressive)
Howard Zinn. (photo: The Progressive)
Bill Introduced to Ban Howard Zinn Books From Arkansas Public Schools
By Max Brantley, Arkansas Times
04 March 17
he deadline for new legislation is fast approaching and it can't come
too soon. Just in from Sen. Rep. Kim Hendren: Legislation to prohibit
any publicly supported schools (you, too, charters) from including
in curriculum or course materials any books or other material
authored by Howard Zinn.
(Actually, anything Zinn wrote before 1959 is not covered.)
Zinn, who died in 2010, was a Ph.D. historian, social activist andwrote the best-selling "A People's History of the United States." A
more who
version for young readers came out in 2007.
His New York Times obituary probably gives you a taste of the danger
Kim Hendren sees in Howard Zinn:
Proudly, unabashedly radical, with a mop of white hair and bushy
eyebrows and an impish smile, Mr. Zinn, who retired from the history
faculty at Boston University two decades ago, delighted in debating
ideological foes, not the least his own college president, and in
lancing what he considered platitudes, not the least that American
history was a heroic march toward democracy.
Almost an oddity at first, with a printing of just 4,000 in 1980, "A
People's History of the United States" has sold nearly two million
copies.
To describe it as a revisionist account is to risk understatement. A
conventional historical account held no allure; he concentrated on
what he saw as the genocidal depredations of Christopher Columbus,
the blood lust of Theodore Roosevelt and the racial failings of
Abraham Lincoln. He also shined an insistent light on the
revolutionary struggles of impoverished farmers, feminists, laborers
and resisters of slavery and war.
Such stories are more often recounted in textbooks today; they were
not at the time.
"Our nation had gone through an awful lot - the Vietnam War, civil
rights, Watergate - yet the textbooks offered the same fundamental
nationalist glorification of country," Mr. Zinn recalled in a recent
interview with The New York Times. "I got the sense that people were
hungry for a different, more honest take."
Even some on the liberal side thought Zinn's revisionism went too far.
That criticism barely raised a hair on Mr. Zinn's neck. "It's not an
unbiased account; so what?" he said in the Times interview. "If you
look at history from the perspective of the slaughtered and
mutilated, it's a different story."
He inspired a movie, documentaries and song. Dangerous stuff for the
Arkansas student in one legislator's
