Sadly Somali pirates are not as colourful, or as awesome, as these pirates
I have just learned that the reason why so many Somalis are turning to piracy is because their local fishing industry has been devastated by European companies dumping TOXIC WASTE off their coastline, and other companies over fishing in the deeper waters.
It would take a Ph.D. in History to explain what a massive fail this is.
Man, I wish I was kidding.
Basically a new curriculum has been passed in Texas that has been deliberately constructed to push a distinctly right-wing agenda.
Highlights:
They are removing the slave trade, presumably because it gets in the way of them saying that America always does the right thing.
They aren’t going to talk about how horrible slavery was for the slaves.
Time will be spent talking about the “positive” contributions of the pro-slavery leaders in the civil war.
The civil rights movement will be sidelined, with equal time given to the Alabama Governor George Wallace, thus implying that he was supporting “white civil rights”.
Furthermore, the civil rights movement will be spoken about as if, and I’m quoting now, it created “unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes” among minorities.
Thomas Jefferson will be left out, because he promoted the separation of Church and State.
And it gets worse from there.
