Reply #2: All I can say is "hahahaha" [View All]

In the country where every high school history textbook paints the last 300 years as nothing but progress (read: we may have had some rough spots, but everything will turn out OK in the end), we have the nerve to complain about a DIFFERENT country's textbooks? How about learning the TRUTH about the history of the US before telling other countries what to print in theirs?

Just ask any high school student or college freshman about Helen Keller's life. Of course, you'll get the standard being blind, Anne Sullivan, etc., but how many can tell you of her adult life as an outspoken Socialist? Probably not too many, since American history books never mention that fact.

At the time Keller became a socialist, she was one of the most famous women on the planet. She soon became the most notorious. Her conversion to socialism caused a new storm of publicity--this time outraged. Newspapers that had extolled her courage and intellegence now emphasized her handicap. Columnists charged that she had no independent sensory input and was in thrall to those who fed her information. Typical was the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, who wrote that Keller's "mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development."

--From Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/156584100X/ref=ed_oe_h/107-1232445-8788525

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