Proposed HB 1255 entitled “An Act Relative To Teachers’ Loyalty” intends to ban public school teachers from promoting any theory that depicts U.S. history or its founding in a negative light, including that the nation was founded on racism. Obviously this bill will spark some pushback from any teacher that has what doctors call a backbone. To alleviate that, I suggest that we make sure students are taught that Africans were not brought to the U.S. in the 1700s and 1800s to be enslaved, whipped, shackled and worked to death, but that they were, in fact, “tourists” just like the folks who visited the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Furthermore, all that cotton picking was actually done by the plantation owners who would set down their lemonade glasses at 6 a.m. sharp to “pick that cotton ’til the sun goes down.” They were certainly hard working folk. Students can be taught that all those slave auctions were just for fun and that all the money raised went to charity. America was a kind-hearted, friendly place for all them African “tourists.” Teachers should either get on board with the new program of re-writing American history and suck it up or they can just go on strike. Alternatively, if the law passes, teachers could simply go on strike en mass until the law is repealed. Sound good?
Andre Tremblay
Concord