{"id":1591968,"date":"2022-08-06T08:47:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591968"},"modified":"2022-08-06T08:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:47:50","slug":"jerry-newcombe-falsely-teaching-our-children-that-america-is-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jerry-newcombe-falsely-teaching-our-children-that-america-is-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Newcombe: Falsely Teaching Our Children That America is Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjerry-newcombe-falsely-teaching-our-children-that-america-is-evil%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For 42 years American school children have been subject to a barrage of misinformation about our American history. This has helped cause many of them to hate America. And virtually every day we read about the results.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For example, there\u2019s a curriculum clash in one of our nation\u2019s most conservative states. On Friday, Gary Bauer <a href=\"https:\/\/ouramericanvalues.org\/stuck-past%C2%A0polling-propaganda%C2%A0combatting-crt\">reported<\/a> that the Oklahoma Board of Education decided to downgrade the Tulsa Public School District\u2019s accreditation. This is because in Tulsa, they\u2019re still teaching Marxist critical race theory&#8212;which is now against the law in the Sooner State.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oklahoma\u2019s Secretary of Education is Ryan Walters, who <a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=0018I8w07_W8lYZLr5J0USGUAUjqtzvAKlmgiZURXoJeTGe1ikor8MMrvZsTeDibWTNMX6WYkrk8aksORoMy4MoR9UUvX0DAyhQyJrQxXafI4sMWznqjzRPnI_dgsELnBrPz9RivT57SUZKWRQ9O6ASTEGl7rbY2gLFoP0N9sBahVATGTe8c4hw49tiOGiEYpxJ5AcA0MfyDOpFhm9KOWAHOBJ17glqN5UeVnjuOvwPp9rm_BfWHo50No_lRyaf9RhGzUMxVW-rtowJPTqNKPwCpw==&#038;c=Eit3KM2pY9EfJ0nA7onAfargmENKA2neqPMwMoriyR-ZRQMvBCFt4A==&#038;ch=queudHhgtJgtwfYDbuO-Xwhae2K04OjQEff9269ugjAo2LfAVlwD5g==\">told<\/a> Fox News: &#8220;What we&#8217;ve got to do is go back to teaching our history and ensuring that every young person has the ability to be successful and be inspired by our history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He added, \u201cWe\u2019re the greatest country in the history of the world, and our kids need to know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But how will children in Oklahoma, and all the other states, learn to appreciate our country when so many have been brainwashed with a false view for so long?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHoward Zinn died in 2010, but [his book] A People\u2019s History of the United States lives on and carries the rhetoric of past decades of leftist politics forward with it.\u201d So writes Dr. Mary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marygrabar.com\/\">Grabar<\/a>, author of the book, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (2019).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grabar is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentprof.com\/\">founder<\/a> of Dissident Prof Education Project, Inc. She has taught at the college level for two decades, including at Emory University.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grabar describes the late Howard Zinn, the American history professor who would\u2019ve turned 100 this year, as a \u201ccommunist propagandist.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fake-History-Generation-Against-America\/dp\/1621577732\">book<\/a>, Grabar observes, \u201cZinn\u2019s pervasive influence is a national tragedy, especially considering just how distorted, manipulative, and plain dishonest A People\u2019s History of the United States is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Zinn\u2019s work has been widely read by many who assume it is truthful. Indeed, A People\u2019s History remains among the most widely-assigned history textbooks in America. But Zinn was a self-described Marxist, and author Daniel Flynn once described him as an \u201cunreconstructed, anti-American Marxist,\u201d whose book was a \u201ccartoon anti-history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grabar quotes many reputable historians who similarly find Zinn\u2019s historical standards sub-par.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I spoke with Dr. Grabar for a <a href=\"https:\/\/providenceforum.org\/blog\/podcast-with-dr-mary-grabar-on-howard-zinns-revisionism\/\">radio<\/a> segment on Zinn and his influence. She told me, \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s another book on American history that has sold as many copies as Howard Zinn\u2019s has. It has been in constant publication since 1980 when it first came out\u2026. His view of American history\u2026has become the dominant one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I asked her if there is a link between Zinn\u2019s teachings and the mobs in the streets tearing down historical statues related to American history. She answered \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d She noted that readers of Zinn tend to \u201cget this very jaundiced picture of the founders, of Christopher Columbus. These people are presented as enslavers, committing genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For example, in her chapter, \u201cColumbus Bad, Indians Good,\u201d Grabar states, \u201cZinn was instrumental in the sea change that has transformed Columbus from the discoverer of America into the genocidal villain whose murder and enslavement of the Indians is the original sin that makes America a crime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Zinn leaves out such facts as the explorer\u2019s log <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/quotes\/6610884.Mary_Grabar?page=3\">entry<\/a> for October 12, 1492: \u201cI warned my men to take nothing from the people without giving something in exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Graber <a href=\"https:\/\/providenceforum.org\/blog\/podcast-with-dr-mary-grabar-on-howard-zinns-revisionism\/\">told<\/a> me: \u201cIt\u2019s all done through lies about American history. Very little of it is accurate, so there\u2019s this false picture of the people we have justly honored.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Graber continued, \u201cWe have generations of people who have grown up disillusioned with this country&#8212;thinking there is something better off on the horizon. And what they think is better is socialism.\u201d And Zinn deserves a great deal of the credit\u2014or rather, blame\u2014for that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is all astounding when you think about it. Zinn was a propagandist for the Communists, who were guilty of far worse atrocities than the men and women who founded America. The records are not comparable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A couple of disillusioned former communists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2012\/10\/genoveses-question\">summarized<\/a> the legacy of seven decades of the atheistic U.S.S.R. in one phrase: \u201ctens of millions of corpses.\u201d And yet Zinn continues to poison the minds of millions of Americans against our country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This reminds me of the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/herald-citizen.com\/stories\/liberals-knowing-so-much-that-isnt-so,36531\">quip<\/a> from Ronald Reagan: \u201cThe trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they&#8217;re ignorant; it&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What is America in its essence? Very simply this: self-rule under God. Both of those phrases are necessary for a free and prosperous future for our country. May God spare us from the propagandists who withhold that information from present and future generations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jerry Newcombe, D.Min., is the executive director of the Providence Forum, an outreach of D. James Kennedy Ministries, where Jerry also serves as senior producer and an on-air host. He has written\/co-written 33 books, including George Washington\u2019s Sacred Fire (with Providence Forum founder Peter Lillback, Ph.D.) and What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? (with D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.). www.djkm.org \u00a0 \u00a0 @newcombejerry \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrynewcombe.com\/\"><em>www.jerrynewcombe.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 42 years American school children have been subject to a barrage of misinformation about our American history. 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