{"id":159,"date":"2006-06-02T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2006-06-02T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T15:52:21","slug":"kate-smith-is-deadand-i-dont-feel-so-good-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/02\/kate-smith-is-deadand-i-dont-feel-so-good-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Smith is dead….and I don’t feel so good myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Smith<\/a> is dead – and I don\u2019t feel so good myself.<\/p>\n

The state of Michigan has already eliminated the words \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cAmerican<\/a>\u201d from its MEAP [Michigan Educational Assessment Program ] test.<\/p>\n

Now, this from the Detroit New<\/a>s <\/p>\n

Michigan’s politically correct bureaucrats almost killed the use of “America” in social studies classes. Fortunately, state school Superintendent Mike Flanagan says he is stopping this nonsense. But taxpayers and parents must remain vigilant against this dumbing down of our students<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An employee of the Michigan Department of Education, Karen Todorov, recently suggested that Michigan teachers not use the words \u201cAmerica\u201d<\/a> or \u201cAmerican\u201d in their teaching duties. <\/p>\n

“We use the United States after the founding of the nation, and before that ‘the colonies of North America’ or ‘North Americans,'” she wrote in an e-mail.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press quotes Todorov as saying, \u201cit’s important in an increasingly global world to recognize that America also refers to other countries in South America and elsewhere in North America\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201d”Our intention is as we’re moving forward in our global world that we recognize that other people share this hemisphere with us,” Todorov said on a Detroit radio show.<\/p>\n

I am not making this up.<\/p>\n

We are all \u201cNorth Americans\u201d you see. It would be more \u201cinternationally friendly\u201d to say so. Less exclusionary.<\/p>\n

Less \u201cethnocentric\u201d.<\/p>\n

Less American – more borderless continent<\/a> with the \u201cfree flow of goods and people \u201cI am thinking.<\/p>\n

Along with a common language, Christmas and our borders, the word \u201cAmerica\u201d is headed to the scrap heap of politically incorrectness.
\n:
\nI was thinking about Todorov when I read about Harry Reid and Ken Salazar.<\/p>\n

Before the United States Senate voted for another amnesty to illegals – both employers and aliens – last week, Senator James M. Inhofe, offered an amendment to the now passed \u201camnesty \u2013again\u201d legislation that would make English the \u201cofficial language\u201d. A U.S. Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, had this to say:<\/p>\n

“This amendment is racist<\/a>. I think it’s directed basically to people who speak Spanish,” <\/p>\n

Before it was eventually approved, the wording of the amendment was dutifully changed to \u201cnational language\u201d.<\/p>\n

Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado dismissed the amendment as \u201cdivisive and anti-American\u201d.<\/p>\n

Maybe he meant \u201cun-United States\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate Smith is dead – and I don\u2019t feel so good myself. The state of Michigan has already eliminated the words \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cAmerican\u201d from its MEAP [Michigan Educational Assessment Program ] test. Now, this from the Detroit News Michigan’s politically correct bureaucrats almost killed the use of “America” in social studies classes. Fortunately, state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}