Ethics

Peter Morrison: Racism? What Racism?

By Ed Brayton

In his speech to school kids last week, President Obama told students that while they will face many obstacles, they can't let that stand in their way, they must work harder to overcome them. Who could object to such a message? Well, one of the crazed ideologues named by the wingnuts on the Texas Board of Education to consult on the social studies curriculum, that's who.

Peter Morrison, who isn't even the worst of the advisory board on social studies standards (David Barton and Peter Marshall are actually worse) objects to that because, he says, racism and discrimination no longer exist. My friends at the Texas Freedom Network have the details:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).