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Contributors
Sharon
Hughes- Contributor
A researcher,
writer and public speaker Sharon is the President and Executive
Director of The Center for Changing Worldviews, a non-profit
corporation founded for the purpose of increasing the conservative,
pro-family voice in a predominantly liberal society. Sharon
produces and hosts Changing Worldviews TALK Radio which is
the media outreach of The Center, and is heard Monday, Wednesday
and Friday on KDIA AM1640 San Francisco/Vallejo and online
daily at Oneplace.com. Sharon has worked to promote civic
responsibility on the grassroots level since 1992 through
various organizations such as Eagle Forum, so that America
will continue to be a land of liberty, respect for human
dignity and family integrity, as well as public and private
virtue. For further information on Sharon and The Center
go to www.changingworldviews.com or
contact her at sharon@changingworldviews.com [go to Hughes index]
 Anti-American
Professors
Not so Rare Any More…
[Sharon Hughes] 5/6/04
What
is happening to our educational establishment? Once the finest
in the world,
is it becoming a political platform to undermine
our liberty? What is the reason for teachers, such as Claudia
of Minneapolis, to say, "If I am forced to teach about the
pilgrims I will not!"
Revisionist history is not only relayed to our nation's children
in textbook form, but often it is in classroom instruction where
the most damage is done.
I received
a letter from Renee Doyle, Founding President of EdWatch a
great resource on the latest developments in education with
a terrific team of researchers,
some of whom I've interviewed on the radio, such as Professor
Allen Quist, author of FedEd - The New Federal Curriculum
and How It's Enforced. Renee gives an unbelievable example in her
letter of the undermining of our American heritage in the minds
of students from one of the college classes she attended recently
...
"One
day a student led a debate on whether or not it was ethical
for Judge Roy
Moore to place a granite statue of the
Ten Commandments in the Alabama courthouse rotunda. Our professor
told the class that a Christian placing the Ten Commandments
in a public building is the same as an Islamic terrorist placing
a bomb in a public building. As you can imagine, I was shocked
at this statement. The classroom was totally quiet as my hand
went up. I told the professor, 'Sir, there are many young, very
impressionable people in this classroom, and for them to leave
here believing that the Ten Commandments are analogous to a bomb
that would take innocent life is ridiculous.' You could have
heard a pin drop as the professor walked over to my desk, stood
very close, and with controlled anger said to me, 'People being
forced to enter a courtroom through the Ten Commandments is just
as injurious as a bomb that would kill them.' He then went on
to tell that religious fanaticism killed the Native Americans
when Christians sent blankets to them infected with small pox.
He said that religious fanatics like Judge Roy Moore burned the
black churches in the south, etc., By the time he was finished,
I noticed many young men and women looking down at their desks.
It was totally silent until one young mother attending school
to be a nurse said, 'I had us.' She hated her European heritage,
she hated our Christian heritage, and she hated that she was
an American."
We wonder
why our educational standards are becoming increasingly anti-American
such as in the "We the People" civics
curriculum? Could it be that our schools are filled with more
and more anti-American professors who propagate their politcal
worldview to young, impressionable high school and college students,
who then not only react like the young mother mentioned in Renee's
letter, but go on to replicate the teaching in their homes and
communities...and classrooms if they become teachers?
UNESCO, a
major organ of the United Nations wrote in 1983, "Introduce
an international or global perspective in primary schools. ..
to be incorporated into existing curricula wherever possible." Sounds
harmless enough, unless accompanied with an anti-American slant,
which is increasingly becoming the norm as so well documented
by sources such as David Horowitz's Frontpagemag.com and
others.
A major question
being posed to Americans today is, "Do
you want to be proud to be an American, or proud to be a World
Citizen?" Because of America's strength, in order for her
people to make the shift to world citizenship there has to be
a distancing of loyalty to and confidence in America.
What's the answer? For real Americans to rise up and speak up!
Apathy, passivity and procrastination are enemies as big as the
anti-American worldview espoused in our schools.
Ask yourself,
the old yet ever relevant question, if not me, who? If not
now,
when? The price of freedom is still eternal
vigilance. We are in a battle for the minds and hearts of our
children and the soul of our nation. As one of my favorite bumper
stickers says, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying
attention!" CRO
© Sharon
Hughes 2004 - Used with permission
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