Posted on 12/21/2019 7:16:03 PM PST by robowombat
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Reconstruction: “The selling of everything of vslue in the South for pennies on the dollar”.
When I see “reparations” I wonder how the North will be charged for it’s theft of Negro slaves’ production.
The selling of everything of value in the South for pennies on the dollar”.
Well that certainly is what happened to my mother’s family. In order to keep their house and enough land to survive on they sold out a large part of their farm (not plantation) so they could pay the accumulated federal taxes in 1865.
Do you know Mary Graber?
For those who might not know LS, aka history professor Larry Schweikart, he’s an antidote to Howard Zinn and a whole lot more. Check out his web site and his books at Amazon.
https://www.wildworldofhistory.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Larry-Schweikart/e/B000APV7AM
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IIRC one of my SC kids had this book in school. It refers to “Carpetbaggers” as enlightened “missionaries” who went south to bring new ideas to the darkness of the south of the time.
My Stuart family history includes passing by the Lee estates (on the way to smaller lands) and being invited to stay for a break.
It is a terrible thing to lose a war.
___ Howard Zinn and the snake he slithered in on.
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“ It is a terrible thing to lose a war.”
Yes. It is! I’m afraid we are still losing from the looks of the red state - blue state map and the wackos that took over the House.
I still remember his soft voice. He was already a legend. With the hot coeds in particular. Why he hasn't been #metood is the reason not to listen to feminists. Zinn and his radical communist agitator friend Eric Mann were sick people.
Ask me about them sometime. I saw him up close and personal. It wasn't pretty.
Zinn can and should be discredited and mocked; however his malign evil influence like that of malign Ailinsky progeny BarackHusseinOsama, has manifested itself in very many milliennials and especially in the Left fascist Antifa new violent (”up against the wall”) young murderers in incubation.
Marquardt is piggybacking on Grabar’s book to peddle an agenda of his own concerning Reconstruction and the Civil War. I wouldn’t necessarily assume that she shares his views about those matters. It’s certainly possibly to disagree with Howard Zinn without buying the neoconfederate agenda.
James Loewen authored the book “Lies My Teacher Told Me” which was filled with his own leftist lies. He is a radical leftist, like Howard Zinn.
I wonder if this John Marquardt is related to the author of the No.1 bestseller, The Late George Apley by John P. Marquardt, from the late 1930s.
“In spite of the fact that the text has already sold well over two and a half million copies and remains high on a number of best-seller lists, a recent poll by George Mason University in Virginia placed Zinn’s work as the second least credible history book in print.”
Some day people who think they are conservatives will come to understand that it is NOT just ‘those schools’ poisoning the minds of America’s kids, it is literally EVERY SCHOOL, at least every government school...and yes, even the one that YOUR KIDS go to.
But, sadly, I doubt I’ll be around for the day when conservatives finally decide that letting government run education is a bad idea...as nothing has changed in my life time, not one bit.
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