Latinos and blacks should be offended and angry over TX State
Board of Education’s decision to dismiss minority contributions
from school textbooks  LatinaLista — Democracy is a dying U.S.
ideal — thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE).
In a vote of 10-5, the board, dominated by social conservatives,
preliminarily adopted a new Social Studies and history
curriculum that includes replacing the word “democratic” in
referring to the form of U.S. government and opting instead to
call it a “constitutional republic.”  Diana Gomez, left, and
Garrett Mize, along with other University of Texas students,
rally before a State Board of Education meeting in Austin,
Texas, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. A group of 40 students
marched to the public hearing to ask “the far-right,
conservative faction of the state board to not inject their
political agenda into the social studies and history
curriculum.” (Associated Press)  In fact, these newly adopted
standards exemplify everything bad when one faction calls th