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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
(snip) “ … I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it’s going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways,” Wood said in the interview.
The truth about slavery is that it was legal in this COUNTRY (the US) for 80 years (1783-1863), and in four years we’ll reach the point WHERE IT HAS BEEN OUTLAWED FOR TWICE AS LONG (160 years) - 1863-2023.
The “400 years” BS is just stewing race-hatred; chase down Britain, France, Spain, and Holland for that.
What you need to know about history: White people bad.
Tearing down statues and re-writing history. What a great idea. At some point, someone has to slam some Polonium in Soros’ neck and end, at least, some of this madness.
Interestingly, I saw a post from a guy I know, black guy, that was upset that his kids had a school project about the pilgrims. The teacher wanted them to write a story about what the trip would have been like, from a pilgrims perspective. He was rather upset as were some of his FB friends. He’s an ordained minister and the commenters also were rather clear in their beliefs in God. But, I can only assume they all think the Mayflower was a slave ship and not carrying people who were escaping religious persecution.
Amazing how little, so many, know.
Wonder if the 1619 Project will acknowledge that the colonies, as they were at the time, first slave owner was a black guy.
http://blackinamerica.com/content/272507/anthony-johnson-the-first-black-slave-master
Terrorists and 3rd world savages have and will continue to ruin to chip away at this country. But the Leftist, Liberal Hipster that believes and pushes agendas like this will destroy it.
*1619 propaganda ping*
And what could be considered, ironic, the very same people that are pushing this sh*t are aligned with people in other parts of the world....Africa, Middle East, Asia...that have an extremely active slave trade, as well all read this article and comment on it. Lets not forget about the human trafficking aspect of it as well, with girls being trafficked over our southern border to enter a life of prostitution or slave labor in a sweatshop.
The Left doesn’t seem to care too much about that.
These people are just as bad in their completely unrealistic portrayal of history as someone like Francis Parkman was during the 19th century. Back then, Parkman and other writers created a narrative that legitimized the English, Protestant, and white nation and culture as supreme and above all other races or ethnicities. The conquest of America and the native savages was something like that in action. Nowadays, it is denouncing whites and blaming them for the origins of slavery and other evils.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The 1619 Project is simply the latest way to piss off blacks and demean whites. Tell the truth: European colonists instituted slavery while Americans, in one generation, eliminated it. You can shove your “400 years” BS. I am officially over it. I have no guilt in that regard.
Again, for those interested, I have a series on www.wildworldofhistory.com called “The 1620 Defaut,” arguing that the “four pillars of American exceptionalism” start at Plymouth in 1620, not Jamestown, and that there was nothing “exceptional” about the Jamestown colony.
But everything was exceptional about Plymouth, including the fact that they did not have slaves.
Sign up for the VIP side at Wild World of History for the series.
“...written by journalists and opinion writers, ...”
No need to say more about the 1619 Project. We’re looking at folks who were in that university group that never had to even come close to a intellectually demanding course. Heck, let’s make that a 1900s high-school senior level course.
And just think, they’re also telling us about global warming, no - climate change, or whatever the new term will be. Guaranteed we’ll get a new term since their previous ones only were believed by other groups with no education - such as Democrats.
Slavery was much worse in South/Central America than in Colonial America, and in some areas exists to this day.
The Left is not merely ignorant of history. They need to rewrite history to incite an uprising.
Why do people wallow in the past and not report on the current slavery in the world? Possibly it is because they do not want to trace where this slavery exists and are afraid to criticize where it exists.
The NYT “1619 Project” is riddled with error and seem to be a deliberate attempt to change actual history.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/21/no-america-wasnt-built-slavery-faith-men-created-equal/
The Lies of the New York Times’ 1619 Project...:
A few months ago, I started posting this little historical exercise about Slavery in pre America:
Slavery was, not yet a reality, even in any British Royal American Colonies by 1619.
1619: The year, the first Endentured Africans, not slaves, were brought to Jamestown, is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history!
1619: First Africans:
In August 1619 “20 and odd Negroes” arrived on the Dutch Man-of-War ship at Jamestown colony. This is the earliest record of Black people in colonial America.[38] These colonists were freemen and indentured servants.[39][40][41][42] At this time the slave trade between Africa and the English colonies had not yet been established.
Records from 1623 and 1624 listed the African inhabitants of the colony as servants, not slaves. In the case of William Tucker, the first Black person born in the colonies, freedom was his birthright.[43] He was son of “Antony and Isabell”, a married couple from Angola who worked as indentured servants for Captain William Tucker whom he was named after. Yet, court records show that at least one African had been declared a slave by 1640; John Punch. He was an indentured servant who ran away along with two White indentured servants and he was sentenced by the governing council to lifelong servitude. This action is what officially marked the institution of slavery in Jamestown and the future United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jamestown,_Virginia_(1607–99)#1619:_First_Africans
Jamestown was not an American colony nor even a British Colony at that time, 1619.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Before going to the link above, everyone, ask yourself a simple question:
In what year did the former British/American Colonies, become America/the USA and recognized by the world powers as America.
Hint, It was not in 1619.
It was 1783! America’s independence was recognized by Britain in 1783.
The Emancipation Proclamation was in 1863, 80 years after we became a recognized country.
This year,2019, will make freedom from Slavery/1863, for 156 years in America, the USA. Thanks to the The Emancipation Proclamation being declared in 1863.
The US had legal slavery for 80 years! Liberal liars scream “400 years” of slavery, and it is a complete lie.
At this point, blacks in today’s America, have been free for much longer than their ancestors were slaves! (nearly twice as long).
*How many union soldiers died to free the Slaves: - Quora:
https://www.quora.com/How-many-union-soldiers-died
*Approximately 110,000 Union Soldiers died due to battle-related causes during the Civil War. Around 250,000 died of disease. Yes, you were more likely to die of illness later than on the battlefield. The deadliest battle for both sides was the infamous Battle of Gettysburg, totaling more than 50,000 casualties.
At least 360,000 Union soldiers died from battle causes or illnesses linked to their service in the Civil War. More suffered from physical and mental wounds for most of their lives post Civil War.
Women born just before, during and after the Civil War in the battleground states often died in their 20’s to 30’s. My Dad’s mother and one of her sisters died in their late 20’s. Women in their families before and after the civil war lived into their late 70’s to 80’s.
Lincoln: The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it that way!
PGA Weblog ^
Posted on 9/2/2019, 4:35:14 PM by ProgressingAmerica
Abraham Lincoln:
Judge Douglas asks you, “Why cannot the institution of slavery, or rather, why cannot the nation, part slave and part free, continue as our fathers made it forever?” In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
When Judge Douglas undertakes to say that, as a matter of choice, the fathers of the Government made this nation part slave and part free, he assumes what is historically a falsehood. More than that: when the fathers of the Government cut off the source of slavery by the abolition of the slave-trade, and adopted a system of restricting it from the new Territories where it had not existed, I maintain that they placed it where they understood, and all sensible men understood, it was in the course of ultimate extinction; and when Judge Douglas asks me why it cannot continue as our fathers made it, I ask him why he and his friends could not let it remain as our fathers made it?
The Founding Fathers could not undo in just a few short years what the King spent over a century doing.
Because of the false teachings of progressivism, it has become one of the greatest of ironies that the “Great Emancipator” was also one of the most ardent defenders of the Founding Fathers - specifically on the topic of slavery.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3776122/post