Posted on 04/21/2018 12:55:50 PM PDT by Liberty7732
It’s easier to sell the world is out to get you delusions and excuses if you can hide how people who suffered real opposition succeeded and disagreed with you still.
George Washington Carver “the peanut butter man” helped to make this privileged White guy a happy boy.
The sad part is that often conservative blacks are considered “Uncle Toms” by the Democratic blacks.
Bookmarked
Booker T. Washington was a truly great man and an American treasure. It is sad that so much of his wisdom has been ignored by those whom it could help the most.
Frederick Douglass was actually pretty cool. If we’re a black kid, I would choose him as a role model.
Today’s SJW’s valorize only left-inspired movements, erase the history of Black Americans.
One of the greatest inventors of all time. The black Leonardo they called him.
A good many inventions to his credit. I think far too many Blacks don’t pass this kind of success/example on to their children, so they make up fake heroes....shame.
I think I was in the 4th grade when I learned of this great man. I turn 70 later this year, so that was a very long time ago and in a much different America.
Exactly right
Perhaps the greatest of all Mexican-Americans is Harold Medina, a noted educator and jurist whose name became a household word in 1949 when, as a Federal judge, he presided over a sensational nine-month-long trial of 11 Communist Party leaders accused of advocating the violent overthrow of the US government. Beset by disruptive tactics by the Communists and their attorneys, attacks by liberal commentators, and protesters--The liberal anthem "If I Had a Hammer" emerged from these protests--Medina, nonetheless, presided over the trial until its conclusion, which resulted in the Communists heading off to the hoosegow.
Medina should be a role model for all Americans, but his name is absent from lists, anthologies, etc. of great Mexican Americans.
FTA: “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
They had their race baiters back then too like we have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
I believe you are correct; either 4th or 5th grade, a very long time ago, a very different America.
Instead of lionizing these hero’s of their race and culture, they have chosen instead to worship at the feet drug dealers, sports figures, and writers of disgusting so called music (rap).
Most American blacks today don’t even know who the real hero’s and titans of their culture are, currently, Dr. Ben Carson leads the pack, and in the past it was men like Booker T. Washington, Dr. Charles Drew (blood & plasma research etc.), and Dr. Daniel H. Williams (first successful open heart surgery).
I would be willing to bet that not one in ten thousand American blacks even know that these men existed, and in Dr. Carson’s case are still here to teach them.
Yep - 15 years ago I was considering a “Black History” class as an elective - had to drop out when the Black Professor running it decided that Booker T. was not a suitable subject for writing a thesis on...he was only interested in the more radical folks and wanted to ignore the sane and decent ones.....ironic....
Socialism is cynicism towards society and (concomitant) faith in government. Naturally socialists love racism as an accusation against society.Cynicism is extreme skepticism which does not merely suspect possible wrong but assumes it. Since government is an evil which is justified by skepticism towards society, cynicism towards society functions in the socialist mind as a way to promote government (that is, to denigrate freedom). Naiveté towards government naturally tends to allow government to tend towards tyranny.
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