SHOULD GOVERNOR ABBOTT SANITIZE OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY FOR TEXAS STUDENTS?

"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

It's a wonder I can think at all

And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall"

Paul Simon, "Kodachrome"

Governor Abbott

Governor Abbott is not the sharpest tool in the shed.  His current attempt to meddle in Texas school curriculum reeks of blind Trumpism, a loyalty history will not view kindly.

Abbott signed House Bill 3979, a misguided piece of legislation designed to control the way history is taught in Texas, vowing to do even more to block the teaching of "critical race theory."

Senator Ted Cruz goes off the deep end, claiming that including the incontrovertible truth that the United States utilized and permitted black slavery for 400 years is a claim that "all white people are racists."

Cruz is not that much of a simpleton.  He's simply taking a page of the Trump playbook, playing on the fears of his political base.

Denying our country's long history of slavery is the equivalent to saying Nazi Germany's obliteration of 6,000,000 Jews in the holocaust never occurred.

Abbott is embarrassing himself and the State of Texas by trying to shield our kids from the truth of our country's history.