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Mom Gets Textbook Publisher To Properly Acknowledge Slavery (Video) (1429 hits)

We salute Pearland, TX mother Roni Dean-Burren for taking a stand against the school systems that were incorrectly educating her son. Dean-Burren noticed that her son’s 9th grade social studies textbook failed to acknowledge slavery by replacing the word with “immigration”. She mentioned the error in a post as well as a video on Facebook which went viral.

Posted By: Jeni Fa
Tuesday, October 6th 2015 at 9:09AM
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Tuesday, October 6th 2015 at 9:10AM
Jeni Fa

In her video she reads an excerpt from the “Patterns of Immigration” section of the text which says, “The Atlantic slave trade between the 1500s and the 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.” She adds, “So (slavery) is now considered ‘immigration’.”

The concerned mother shared that the textbook merely referred to Africans during this time period as “workers” while negating the fact that they were forcefully brought to America and “worked” as “slaves”.

Dean-Burren’s video caught the attention of multiple news outlets including ABC7 Chicago and CNN. The textbook publishers, McGraw-Hill have since issued a statement about the situation.

“…We conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves” said the company of their Facebook page.

Tuesday, October 6th 2015 at 9:12AM
Jeni Fa

@jeni
Most kids aren't interested in subjects that aren't discussed in school. If that parent hadn’t looked into her 9th graders book, He would’ve grown up believing his parent was a liar about slavery.(lol)

Tuesday, October 6th 2015 at 10:53AM
Helen Lofton

@ Helen,

Oh to the contrary, in fact it was the child that pointed it out to the mother! Ha!

Friday, October 9th 2015 at 9:31AM
Jeni Fa