The Patriot Post® · Nation of Islam Classroom Handout Says Mount Rushmore Presidents Were Racist

Fox News’ Todd Starnes has the latest on the out-of-control nature of our so-called “education” system. “The mother of an eight-year-old wants to know why a Tennessee school teacher gave her child a handout from the Nation of Islam that portrayed the presidents on Mount Rushmore as being racists,” Starnes reports. “Sommer Bauer tells me her son was given The Nation of Islam handout at Harold McCormick Elementary School in Elizabethton. The handout asked ‘What does it take to be on Mount Rushmore?’ The handout then explains that George Washington hailed from Virginia, a ‘prime breeder of black people.’ Of Theodore Roosevelt, it was alleged he called Africans ‘ape-like.’ There were also disparaging remarks made of Thomas Jefferson (he enslaved 200 Africans) and Abraham Lincoln.” The school is reportedly investigating, but the teacher insists it was all a mistake and a misunderstanding. The question is how anything from the Nation of Islam became education material in a public school. More…