What's wrong with Texas?

[Uncle Ted]

Your second link doesn't support your thesis. From the link:



That's the reason the states' rights argument is so dumb. They wanted to preserve the right to own slaves!

And sure you can find plenty of links supporting the states' rights argument. They are all wrong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...ong/?tid=sm_fb

Both the North and South knew that slavery was morally wrong. It is just like most know that using drones to drop bombs on children is morally wrong (but the United States under even Obama's command continues to do it any way). The South was economically dependent on slavery at the time. The North's economy had very little, if any, dependence on slavery. If the North's economy depended on slavery I am sure their opinion would have changed.

[Uncle Ted]

This Fall, Texas schools will teach students that Moses played a bigger role in inspiring the Constitution...

What the fuck?

OK, here is what the textbook apparently states about Moses "inspiring the constitution":

“Moses helped establish a legal system, including the Ten Commandments, to govern his people. Similarly, the founders of the United States wrote the Constitution and established a system of laws to govern Americans."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...stitution.html

It doesn't say anything about Moses inspiring the constitution. Where do you get this bullsh*t news from?

It could be worse... I saw lots of sh*t for news articles claiming that the textbook said that Moses was actually an author of the constitution while searching for some news article that actually stated was was written.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I am not sure what the context of this is but slavery was actually, in fact, more of a secondary issue for causing the civil war. The chief issues were economic issues and states' rights. Most people believe the civil war was totally over the moral issue of slavery.

See, for example:

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/..._civil_war.htm

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetect...the-civil-war/

Your second link doesn't support your thesis. From the link:

A key issue was states' rights.

The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn't support, especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished.

That's the reason the states' rights argument is so dumb. They wanted to preserve the right to own slaves!

And sure you can find plenty of links supporting the states' rights argument. They are all wrong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...ong/?tid=sm_fb

Perhaps most perniciously, neo-Confederates now claim that the South seceded for states’ rights. When each state left the Union, its leaders made clear that they were seceding because they were for slavery and against states’ rights. In its “Declaration Of The Causes Which Impel The State Of Texas To Secede From The Federal Union,” for example, the secession convention of Texas listed the states that had offended them: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa. These states had in fact exercised states’ rights by passing laws that interfered with the federal government’s attempts to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. Some also no longer let slaveowners “transit” through their states with their slaves.…
Teaching or implying that the Confederate states seceded for states’ rights is not accurate history. It is white, Confederate-apologist history. It bends — even breaks — the facts of what happened.

Across the country, removing slavery from its central role in prompting the Civil War marginalizes African Americans and makes us all stupid. De-Confederatizing the United States won’t end white supremacy, but it will be a momentous step in that direction.

[Uncle Ted]

Way to go, Texas.

It is alarming that 150 years after the Civil War's end children are learning that slavery was, as one Texas board of education member put it in 2010, "a side issue."

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-t...history-2015-7

I am not sure what the context of this is but slavery was actually, in fact, more of a secondary issue for causing the civil war. The chief issues were economic issues and states' rights. Most people believe the civil war was totally over the moral issue of slavery.

See, for example:

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/..._civil_war.htm

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetect...the-civil-war/

This Fall, Texas schools will teach students that Moses played a bigger role in inspiring the Constitution...

What the fuck?

[Jeff Lebowski]

If you're black and trying to decide whether to live in Texas or California, I think it's important to pay attention to whether they mention Moses in history class as opposed to whether the state government is spending billions of dollars to build a train to Bakersfield, California. Also, maybe you should look at the poverty rates in general and for your ethnic group.

I know it's a real Sophie's Choice here. Do you expose your kids to that Moses discussion, or do you go to the state that wastes tens of billions on vanity projects and where your ethnic group has a 50% higher chance of living in poverty?

White, non-Hispanic SPM Rate, 2010-13 Black, non-Hispanic SPM Rate, 2010-13 Hispanic SPM Rate, 2010-13 Asian SPM Rate,2010-13
California 14.8% 30.1% 33.7% 17.9%
Texas 9.7% 19.9% 22.7% 14.1%
National Average 10.8% 24.7% 27.7% 17.1%

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/C...mo/p60-251.pdf

It's hilarious how morons are distracted by this kind of shit.

Quips CMBF, without a hint of irony.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Way to go, Texas.

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-t...history-2015-7

If you're black and trying to decide whether to live in Texas or California, I think it's important to pay attention to whether they mention Moses in history class as opposed to whether the state government is spending billions of dollars to build a train to Bakersfield, California. Also, maybe you should look at the poverty rates in general and for your ethnic group.

I know it's a real Sophie's Choice here. Do you expose your kids to that Moses discussion, or do you go to the state that wastes tens of billions on vanity projects and where your ethnic group has a 50% higher chance of living in poverty?

White, non-Hispanic SPM Rate, 2010-13 Black, non-Hispanic SPM Rate, 2010-13 Hispanic SPM Rate, 2010-13 Asian SPM Rate,2010-13
California 14.8% 30.1% 33.7% 17.9%
Texas 9.7% 19.9% 22.7% 14.1%
National Average 10.8% 24.7% 27.7% 17.1%

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/C...mo/p60-251.pdf

It's hilarious how morons are distracted by this kind of shit.

[TripletDaddy]

haha. texas is a really stupid place.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Way to go, Texas.

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-t...history-2015-7

This Fall, Texas schools will teach students that Moses played a bigger role in inspiring the Constitution than slavery did in starting the Civil War. The Lone Star State's new social studies textbooks, deliberately written to play down slavery's role in Southern history, do not threaten only Texans — they pose a danger to schoolchildren all over the country.

It is alarming that 150 years after the Civil War's end children are learning that slavery was, as one Texas board of education member put it in 2010, "a side issue." No serious scholar agrees. Every additional issue at play in 1861 was secondary to slavery — not the other way around.

By distorting history, Texas tells its students a dishonest and damaging story about the United States that prevents children from understanding the country today. Also troubling, Texas's standards look likely to affect more than just Texans: The state is the second-largest in the nation, which means books designed for its students may find their way into schools elsewhere, too.

[Pelado]

Looks like blue bell has been trying to murder people as far back as 2007

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/h...ck-as-2007.ece

Does Craig James feed Blue Bell to hookers at SMU?

[TripletDaddy]

Looks like blue bell has been trying to murder people as far back as 2007

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/h...ck-as-2007.ece

[Moliere]

Can we get some links about blue bell ice cream murdering people now?

I ate some blue bell homemade vanilla last night.

[TripletDaddy]

Can we get some links about blue bell ice cream murdering people now?

[Uncle Ted]

Shootout among rival biker gangs in Texas restaurant kills 9

Did someone let Pee Wee back in Texas?

[myboynoah]

Shootout among rival biker gangs in Texas restaurant kills 9

[Jeff Lebowski]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/...-over-sermons/

That sounded unbelievable. Then I noticed it was Fox News.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/houston.asp