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Hot on the heels of the New York Times project to construct out of whole cloth an alternative history of the United States where literally everything about the nation is based on slavery, this would be the infamous and historically illiterate 1619 Project, it seems that they are trying out a new alt-history. The theme is that slaves actually liberated themselves without anyone else doing more than holding their collective coat. The instrument for that is an essay by Jamelle Bouie titled Why Juneteenth Matters.
His thesis is ...
Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves. They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment, but they were not themselves responsible for the end of slavery. They were not the ones who brought about its final destruction.
Who freed the slaves? The slaves freed the slaves.
Bouie is one of those guys who are much more glib than smart and his prose is convincing to the profoundly stupid and to those who are look to New York Times columnists for their intellectual content. I’d like to laugh at it and ignore it but I can’t.
Seven years ago I learned a bitter lesson about ignoring what the tenacious American left is capable of accomplishing in the way of destroying civilization and American history. Seven years ago the US Supreme Court, back when we still fancied John Roberts to be vaguely conservative rather than a black-robed windsock in search of favorable press clippings, decided that marriage was an institution that was defined by validating emotions and not subject to legislative restrictions. This would be the infamous Windsor decision that upended marriage as it had been understood for a few millenia and opened wide the door leading to the egregious nonsense that is Obergefell. I was sublimely confident that, given the history of marriage in the United States, that a sane court would continue to allow states to define marriage. I was wrong. And since that time I’ve taken every one of the profoundly stupid ideas pimped by the left as being a deadly serious threat.
The 1619 Project is so rife with errors and arrant bullsh** that even leftwing historians…sadly, the history departments are another battleground we’ve ceded to the left ignoring George Orwell’s prescient “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”…were appalled. Try this on for size if you think I’m kidding
Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day.
And yet this racialist fantasy has been uncritically adopted into high school curricula across the country thereby assuring another generation of kids is even more poorly educated than we would have thought possible. Full Story @ RedState
We’re In A Cultural Civil War. It’s Time For Conservatives To Fight Back
Black Lives Matter movement is not a majority. It’s radical agenda can be resisted and defeated. But not if ordinary Americans stay silent.
The daily spectacle of angry mobs pulling down statues, taunting police, attacking passersby, and taking over entire city blocks makes it seem like Black Lives Matter is a mass movement, that pretty much everyone except knuckle-dragging Trump supporters is on board with its radical agenda, and that the new national consensus is that you’re either anti-racist or racist.
Under these conditions, many ordinary Americans feel disoriented and discouraged. Confusion abounds. When did it become racist to like the national anthem and Mount Rushmore? At what point did we decide George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were moral monsters, or that all police are racist thugs? Why are rioters and looters allowed to terrorize people and destroy property with impunity? Why aren’t local elected leaders enforcing the law? Read More
Behind the Veil of the Protest Movement, the War on the American People Is Gaining Pace
It is worth noting that the one institution seemingly immune from this purge is the Democratic Party, which served as the political wing of the Confederacy and, subsequently, the KKK
“This is not a momentary civil disturbance. This is a serious, and highly organized political movement…It is deep and profound and has vast political ambitions. It is insidious, it will grow. It’s goal is to end liberal democracy and challenge western civilization itself. .This is an ideological movement… Even now, many of us pretend this is about police brutality. …We think we can fix it by regulating chokeholds or spending more on de-escalation training. We’re too literal and good-hearted to understand what’s happening. …But we have no idea what we are up against. ..These are not protests. This is a totalitarian political movement and someone needs to save the country from it.” Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson is right, the protests and riots are not a momentary civil disturbance. They are an attack on the Constitutional Republic itself, the heart and soul of American democracy. Read More
