Texas Governorâs âPatriotic Educationâ Law Puts Propaganda Over History
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
When former President Donald Trump, in September 2020, called for mandatory patriotic education for students in the United States, Democrat Susan Rice â former national security adviser under President Barack Obama â was appalled and told CNN s Erin Burnett, I thought I was listening to Mao Tse Tung running Communist China. Republicans, however, haven t abandoned Trump s patriotic education idea, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed into law a bill that calls for patriotic education in the Lone Star State.
When Abbott signed into law Texas House Bill 2497, a.k.a. the 1836 Project, he declared, The 1836 Project promotes patriotic education about Texas and ensures that the generations to come understand Texas values. But critics of HB 2497, according to
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ThyBlackMan.com) The new White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, came to the briefing room on Tuesday with domestic
Susan Rice. This came two days after CNN’s Brian Stelter celebrated the “refreshing” arrival of “transparency and truth” at the briefings.
Rice is best remembered in conservative circles for spewing falsehoods on five Sunday talk shows on Sept. 16, 2012, when she was White House national security adviser: She claimed the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans was a “spontaneous reaction” to an Islamophobic YouTube video, not a terrorist attack. “Protesters” showed up with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, but the attack was somehow “spontaneous.” CBS later reported Team Obama knew on Sept. 11, the day of the attack, that it was a terrorist attack.