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Teacher promotes hatred "a different point of view"
 Cleveland Elementary School (San Francisco) teacher Bill Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.
He has replaced it with a PC-warped more realistic look at the genocidal and hegemonic war waged against totally innocent, spiritually-vastly-superior indigenous holy people by EEVILL European white male Christian heterosexual Crusaders = complex relationship between Indians and white settlers. A spokeswoman for Concerned Women for America, a conservative organization. [said] "He is teaching his students to hate their country. That is a very distorted view of history, a distorted view of Thanksgiving."'
A member of the Maricopa and Tohono O'odham tribes of Arizona who works as a substitute teacher in Los Angeles, said back home, we'd call this child abuse, but hey, it's California younger children should not be burdened with all the gory details of American history. A[nother] teacher at Kettering Elementary School in Long Beach, decided to alter the costumes for the annual Thanksgiving play a few years ago after local self-identified and probably more authentic than Ward Churchill Indians spoke out against students wearing feathers, which are sacred in their culture unless used to stuff pillows and parkas or to decorate ladies' hats. As everyone knows, any complaint or criticism from anyone who claims to represent any PC-favored non-hegemonic culture about anything must be taken as the gospel truth.
Laverne Villalobos a 100% full blooded indigenous American with no trace of European ancestry or cultural influences and who in fact never learned to speak a syllable of English but had to be interviewed for this article using sign language, a member of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska who now lives in a traditional Omaha dwelling made of indigenous materials in a very expensive portion of real estatein the coastal town of Pacifica near San Francisco, considers Thanksgiving a day of mourning.
She went before the school board last week and through a government-paid interpreter asked for a ban on Thanksgiving re-enactments and students dressing up as Indians. Rather than dress up as the real Indian she was, she attended the meeting in the nude to draw emphasis to the authenticity of her complaint. Photos of her at the meeting taken by our reporter have been passed around the newsroom but will not be published since Ms. Villalobos is 5 feet tall and weighs 400 lb. We still have some standards of journalistic decency. She also complained about November's lunch menu which continues to omit traditional Omaha fare such as young dog or old horse meat and that pictured a caricature of an Indian boy.
The mother of four said the traditional Thanksgiving celebrations in schools instill "a false sense of what really happened before and after the feast. What I want to instill is a different false sense of what happened. And I'm still mad that the Omaha tribal council sponsors a Thanksgiving dinner for their elders. The council pays no attention to me but you idiotic Californians don't know any better."
Morgan, a teacher for more than 35 years, said that after reading the collected works of Noam Chomsky and Antonio Gramsci for the 58th time conducting his own research, he changed his approach to teaching about Thanksgiving. He tells teachers at his school this is a good way to brainwash the next generation of PC-speakers at a time when they are most susceptible and least able to exercisenurture critical thinking, He went on to complain that the school board won't allow him to infect his students with smallpox as a way of illustrating the genocidal consequences of the European invasion.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-22 |
