PODER

By now everyone has heard about the big fight over text books and history curriculum here in Texas. To sum it up, there was a push to put a number of far right-wing fundamentalist conservatives on the Texas State Board of Education where standards are set every ten years or so. Many people, in particular Democrats were asleep at the wheel and lo and behold, the far right organized, packed the board 10-5 and then proceeded to dismantle current standards by removing historical figures like Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall and many other heroes and sheroes of Black and Brown people and replaced them with conservative folks like Jerry Falwell and Newt Gingrich. It’s just now many of us are reporting on this, but according to activists and educators on the ground here in Texas, this has been brewing for a very long time...