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Article: After Mansa Musa.(Commentary)(Editorials)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 6, 1996
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A nearly universal condemnation understandably greeted the 1994 original draft of national history standards for students in elementary and secondary schools studying U.S. and world history. The U.S. Senate, echoing hundreds of mainstream historians, voted 99-1 to condemn the politically correct, grossly unbalanced, blame-America-first standards, which, for example, mentioned the Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" nine times (but the Federalist Papers not once) and Sen. Joseph McCarthy/McCarthyism and the Ku Klux Klan nearly 20 times each (but Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers not once).
Typical of the political correctness that permeated the 2,700 ...