Eric Foner is in the middle of the Texas History Textbook War? ROTFLMAO

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Born in February 1943 in New York City, Columbia University history professor Eric Foner is widely considered one of the foremost professionals in his field. He is a former President of both professional historical associations and is regarded as academia's leading expert on the Reconstruction period, the tumultuous era that followed the Civil War. Professor Foner was raised in a notable Communist family. His uncle Philip Foner was the Communist Party's official labor historian. Another uncle, Moe Foner, was a Communist labor activist with the Service Employees International Union.

Eric Foner was an anti-American 1960s radical, and as a historian is an apologist for American Communism. On October 4, 2001 he contributed to a London Review of Books symposium of reactions to the 9/11 atrocity. In that piece, Foner focused not on the attack itself but on what he perceived to be the threat of an American response:

"I write this in an ominous lull between the talk of vengeance and vengeance itself. The moment any such retribution is sought with bombs and guns will be the moment for the mobilisation of anti-war forces all over the world ... [Terror] merely enhances and exaggerates the feeling among exploited people that the matter of protest has to be left to a few martyrs. And just as the signs were growing of a renewed confidence in the world anti-capitalist movement, the attention of the world's leaders is focused on a single, dreadful act that gives them the excuse they need to gun the engines of oppression."

Of the Bush administration's response to 9/11, Foner stated, "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House."

That Dr. Foner is even CONSIDERED in this battle over the nature of facts in teaching history TO UNSHAPED MINDS is a farce. Dr. Foner and others of that ilk (William Ayers) have a place. Critical analysis of American history should be reserved for those who are mature enough, and can take such opinions of history when inculcated into a course and then be equipped to find the original materail and facts for themselves and be critical not only of the USA and it's foibles, perhaps, but also of those who teach that uniform frankly anti American view.

They are not just another opinion, they are another SIDE.

THE OTHER ONE.

The position at the apex of american historical academia of such people is a mark of uniform EXCLUSION of other, by such people, see PHIL JONES. It is a mark of shame that the monotone emanating from such places cannot allow OTHER to enter because it cannot sustain itself against facts which violate the dialectic.

Time for VDH.

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