{"id":189937,"date":"2010-01-27T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/27\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-8\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:02:00","slug":"can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/27\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Please Give Texas Back to Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an author named Bill Martin, who wrote a political treatise called Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation<\/span><\/p>\n

There is another author named Bill Martin, who wrote a children’s book called, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?<\/span><\/p>\n

They are different authors, but it appears that the the right wing morons who control the State Board of Education did not realize this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What do the authors of the children’s book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and a 2008 book called Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation have in common?<\/p>\n

Both are named Bill Martin and, for now, neither is being added to Texas schoolbooks.<\/p>\n

In its haste to sort out the state’s social studies curriculum standards this month, the State Board of Education tossed children’s author Martin, who died in 2004, from a proposal for the third-grade section. Board member Pat Hardy, R-Weatherford, who made the motion, cited books he had written for adults that contain “very strong critiques of capitalism and the American system.”<\/p>\n

Trouble is, the Bill Martin Jr. who wrote the Brown Bear series never wrote anything political, unless you count a book that taught kids how to say the Pledge of Allegiance, his friends said. The book on Marxism was written by Bill Martin, a philosophy professor at DePaul University in Chicago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You see the phrase, “Brown bear, brown bear, what do I see?<\/span>” is just so similar to, “that would in effect overturn the imperialist system, and that would depend on creating, as Mao saw, self-reliant economies, not liable to exploitation.<\/span>“<\/p>\n

The stupid, it burns<\/span> us!!!!!<\/p>\n

H\/t La Figa
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