Bedford/St. Martin textbook company declares war on White history.
It’s bad enough that High School text books now preach anti-white bigotry and are designed to instill white guilt. Now Bedford/St. Martins Publishing has decreed that white people should not even be pictured on the front cover of a textbook on Western Civilization.
This is the new 9th edition of a History of Western Society from textbook company Houghton Mifflin. It is touted as the “gold standard” textbook for AP European History. AP means it is for “advanced placement” classes in High School. They are intended to be college level and many major colleges grant incoming freshman credit hours for AP classes.
Instead of putting a Western man on the cover an obscure Mulatto is placed on the cover.
This shit has been going on for a number of years. When I was taking Western Civ in high school, during my Senior year, we were using the same Houghton Mifflin textbooks that St. Louis University used about ten years earlier. And of course, it focused entirely on the accomplishments of white people, like it should. However, when I was getting ready to graduate, my Western Civ teacher showed me the H/M W/C textbook that would be used in next year’s class. They were already starting to creep in units about India (Raj and post-Raj), China and the Arab/Muslim world. Even my teacher, who was (and presumably still is) somewhat left-of-center politically, was taken aback. What he said to me is something I won’t forget even if I live to be a thousand years old: “If they wanted to publish a world history textbook, that’s fine. But just don’t pass that off as Western Civilization.”
As an aside, the only problem I had with Western Civilization, as interpreted before the PC madness began, is that Greco-Roman, Eastern European and Slavic, and Western European cultures are all considered Western Civilization. I don’t lump them all together anymore — The late Carroll Quigley, who was a Georgetown University history professor that blew the lid off the Anglo-American establishment, (and was murdered because of it), considered Greco-Hellenistic-Roman civilization, Western Civilization and Slavic Civilization to be distinct constructs. While he rightly concedes that GHR heavily influenced Western and Slavic, and that Western and Slavic are cousins, that there is a difference between Western and Slavic, and they are not samey-same. Quigley cites Charlemagne as the founder of Western Civilization, and that two legacies of Charlemagne’s life’s work were to: (1) Fuse Roman ways with Germanic ways, and (2) To Christianize formerly Pagan Germanic peoples. I could add that his grandfather set it all up for him by beating back the Islamic invasion in what is now central France.
