Having Mr. Barton on was a great invite. He gave me permission to post his documentary online. But Perryman sued the Democrat Party for their crimes against blacks, Shelby Steele’s been talking about revisionist history for years, and despite academia being the primary culprit for revising history, Beck had on a professor.
It goes back much further than Beck and his guests stated.
I was born in 1943. I _never_ recall being taught about black Founders. I discovered a tiny bit of suppressed history on my own, such as the existence of black slaveholders and black soldiers, while the Reconstruction era was presented from a 50s Southern Democrat Party position.
Having a mixed audience that obviously included history majors/grad students who were black was also a good touch, although there wasn’t enough time for too many questions from the audience.
Beck is also teaching that we need to get beyond the sports team version of politics. Party is irrelevant. We need to disseminate information and grill candidates on real ideas, not on buzz-word shorthand hot button substitutes like *prayer*, *choice*,*States Rights*, etc. Everyone on all sides has too much of a knee jerk response to such presentations.
We live in a *star* culture. Shelby has a limited audience and his books were ignored or marginalized, so the information didn’t get fair or wide dissemination. The professors Beck had on at least went out and did the research, wrote books and founded organizations and are being given a platform for the first time.
Bob, you are right, but if the real history of all of us as Americans is going to be revealed, we need to accept those who do it, even if they are academics or any other category we resent. Our enemies want us divided. They need us to fight among ourselves. They need history distorted to their ends. We need millions of people of all races, religions, professions to know all of the truth, good and ugly, so when we are told “Blacks cannot be conservative.” or “Artists cannot be conservative.” (this is the dismissal I have received), we just laugh and tell more truth. It is about truth, not anything else. The goal is to re-unite America and end the Balkanization used to enslave us.
We all need to be freed from all the various plantations. Beck is teaching a Refounding. He is going to be awkward and sometimes make missteps, but those walking point usually do.