Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

Texas Schoolbook Edition:

The State Board of Education voted to include President Obama in a revised social studies curriculum on Thursday after a Republican board member temporarily offered —but then withdrew — an amendment that would have listed the president's full name — Barack Hussein Obama.


"The intent behind what you're doing, I think, is pretty obvious," board member Bob Craig of Lubbock said after his fellow Republican, David Bradley of Beaumont, offered the amendment. "I just don't that's correct."

"We don’t have to insult the president of the United States," Lawrence A. Allen Jr., a Houston Democrat and an African-American, told Bradley. "I'm asking you to please withdraw your amendment."

Another member, Mary Helen Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi, said the motion would be "humiliating" to the nation's first African-American president.

"I'll put an end to the whining," Bradley said. "I'll withdraw the motion."

"I don't consider it whining," snapped Mavis B. Knight, D-Dallas, an African-American.

The board accepted Allen's amendment to specifically note that Obama is the nation's first black president.

And these are the people in charge of educating millions of students in Texas.  Jesus wept.