Posted on 01/05/2022 8:17:30 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
“Progressives” don’t really care about black people. The only thing they care about is destroying Christianity, Christians, and any remnants of culture that are attributable to them.
It seems to me that Progressives have removed/substituted/destroyed many things which would advance blacks
Instead of Christian tradition, they promote Kwaanza
Instead of public safety, they have Soros DAs promoting “restorative justice”
Instead of stable families, they promote government bureaucrats
Instead of standard education, they promote CRT
They don’t read Frederick Douglass because there is not the hate they want.
“It’s not that these (black) heroes were unknowns. Who erased them?”
Happened here just last week; a progressive from up north tried to deny Holt Collier.
Actually makes perfect sense to me since virtually all the early Black heroes were Republicans-with the exception of the out and out communist W.E.B. DuBois. Then again, calling him a hero requires a very abstract definition of the word. One thing that puzzles me about cancel culture is how the Democrat Party-the heart of racism and oppression-always manages to escape the wrath of the morons.
Progressivism is a means for the less productive, those who simply cannot compete in straight economic reality, to disqualify the productive and acquire their trappings of success (confusing trappings of success, vs success itself).
Ergo, when allegedly fighting for a designated underdog group, they must eradicate any instances of people in that group being actually successful - lest that prove the Progressive narrative a lie.
How about sharing the most salient examples—instead of expecting Freepers to read six volumes to get to them?
Because they were “conservative”
They do it, in our faces, today. Clarence Thomas, Candace Owens, Ben Carson, etc.
Just like any other “diversity” group - they’re only valid if they’re down with the communist struggle. If you aren’t - you’re NOT that group.
Tl;dr - “y’all ain’t black if you don’t vote for me.”
Thanks for the reply.
I’m not sure how I could do this. The information is simply missing. I can’t cut and paste passages from a book that don’t exist.
My expectation is not for anybody to read six volumes. The text is word searchable.
If you could provide a way how I could do this considering the omitted nature of the information, please let me know.
There is some merit to this. But keep in mind though, some of these are heroes that were in the Founders time circa the 1770s-1790s.
The Republican Party wasn’t founded for another 60~ years give or take. Peter Salem died before anybody had any thought about a GOP.
If I understand you correctly and you are saying a 19th century text featured black heroes, but Wilson’s early 20th century didn’t cover them at all, why not just list a few names of these heroes, with a few words describing the deeds of each, that most demonstrate what you are claiming?
If you aren’t red, you aren’t allowed to be black.
It’s much bigger than this, but ultimately, yes, you largely have the concept correct.
Our early black heroes were widely known. Frederick Douglass was not just discovered 10 years ago. Phyllis Wheatley has had poems written about her if I remember correctly. Crispus Attucks’ role in the Boston Massacre was high profile after John Adams and the court trial. And similar situations for many others. They were all erased.
It’s not just “a 19th century text”. I only offer that one book because it’s an item I can quickly offer as a way to combat this. The progressives certainly aren’t going to do it. Nobody else has a vested interest here in defending America. It’s us or none.
You: “...why not just list a few names of these heroes, with a few words describing the deeds of each, that most demonstrate what you are claiming?”
Him: “As Barton notes, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and others - Phyllis Wheatley, Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, and many, many others.”
Me: how many do you want him to list?
Sounds like what mo-ose-ums want.
Douglass and Attucks are still very prominent names and were widely taught when I was in school decades (and decades) ago. If anything, modern historians and teachers have worked overtime to find black heroes to feature—and they get more than their share of coverage in education.
Was Wilson a vicious racist? Sure, but he hasn’t been particularly relevant for 100 years.
What you’re saying is perfectly accurate. The point I’m trying to get across is that the nature of conservatism is to promote life, freedom, equality and justice which would make it appealing to all patriots. This transcends party label and even race; there were groups and individuals pursuing these ends long before the formation of the Republican Party.
All along, there have been people on both sides of the divide. Booker T. Washington believed that many involved in the civil rights struggle were taking the wrong approach. He despised the politically oriented Black preachers and strongly advocated training mechanics rather than ministers. DuBois, on the other hand, sought to provoke a massacre of Blacks which could then be used as a bludgeon against white society to promote the power and influence of his “talented tenth.”
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