Written By: Tyler Kingkade
The Huffington Post
I have tried to stay away from blogging about politics during this semester, because I never know what to believe. But this article and video caught my eye, so I decided to blog about it. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed on Monday that most public universities in the University of California system do not offer American history courses. During his speech he makes that claim that he has read that seven or eight of the California University systems don't even teach an American history course. It's not even available to be taught. He says that it is sad that our nation seems to slowly be moving away from the necessity to teach students about their own history.
But underneath this short video of part of the speech that he gave on Monday, the author states that his claim is false. The evidence that he then uses is according to the Universities website, and a spokesperson for all 10 campuses. It just seems to me like the author Tyler Kingkade is saying that he is wrong and his information from a website can prove him wrong. To me that does not seem to be a very strong rebuttal. The words are hard to follow and he seems to be just picking a fight with a political candidate.
-Anna Srock
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