Revised AP curriculum is racist to the core
According to the revisions, "there was a debate among European leaders about how non-Europeans should be treated." Wow! What an interesting debate. I wonder who won?
I just finished reading the "revised" AP U.S. History framework which is supposed to offer top high school students a more "evenhanded" understanding of our nation's past. But the revisions amount to little more than a cover-up and an excuse for slavery, the slaughter of Native Americans, colonialism and the white supremacist ideology that justified it.
It seems that the powerful College Board has become little more than a propaganda machine for right-wing pols and academics. One can only imagine what the "right" answers are on the AP U.S. History exam. I feel sorry for the teachers that are forced to teach this crap.
Here are two examples of the latest revisions from Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Revised AP curriculum is racist to the core: