Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was ‘side issue’ to Civil War

Here is the official Declaration of Causes of Succession from Texas. It's on the State of Texas website. Read this document and then try and say the civil war wasn't about slavery with a straight face. Here's a little example: (you might notice too how the good christians used god and their religion to justify their discrimination, just as they do today with other groups)

"In view of these and many other facts, it is meet that our own views should be distinctly proclaimed.

We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding States."

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html

They get their textbooks from Florida, so..

They need to teach the truth about slavery. Who supported it. Who propagated it, who still benefits from it. If they're going to teach it at least teach the whole thing good and bad