Residents of the city of Philadelphia voted overwhelmingly for Obama and his big government programs in 2012. Therefore it hardly comes as a surprise to hear that city council members there want to inject a little socialism into the city’s public schools.
Former College Fix assistant editor Robby Soave reports for The Daily Caller:
Philadelphia city council members have approved a resolution that calls for socialist historian Howard Zinn’s book “A People’s History of the United States” to be taught in public high schools.
The resolution was backed by council members Jim Kenny and Jannie Blackwell, who believe that Zinn’s far-left socialist vision of American history is currently missing from high school textbooks…
Zinn was an apologist for communist dictators like Fidel Castro, who has brutalized and oppressed the people of Cuba for decades.
Like Zinn, Councilwoman Blackwell defended the Castro regime.
“Castro did not do everything wrong, or he would not have lasted so long,” she said in a statement to CBS.
Read the full story at The Daily Caller.
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