Posted on 02/01/2021 7:59:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, during a panel discussion, said he believed that the country’s education system needed to reemphasize certain principles, including teaching “the good, the bad, the ugly.”
During his live-streamed talk with the Office of Strategic Services Society on Thursday, Mattis said he believed that education in the U.S. should not gloss over uncomfortable topics, such as the effects of slavery, which still reverberate in contemporary society.
“As I look at the way American history is taught in our public schools, in many of our universities, I’m not sure how much affection I would be building in my students the way it’s being taught,” Mattis said.
“I believe in teaching the good, the bad, the ugly — and our country was born with a birth defect that we imported from the Old World — called slavery — and we’re still dealing with the after-effects of it,” he added.
Mattis’s comments come as senior U.S. military leaders have grappled with the racial inequality protests throughout the country in recent months. The protests culminated in a dramatic stand-off as National Guard forces were deployed in several states and federal troops were placed on stand-by orders in the summer.
Military leaders like U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, issued memos saying that the services were aware of the “frustration” many Americans were feeling and that the military needed a transparent discussion about the effects of racial injustice.
Admiral Mike Gilday, the Navy’s top officer, said in a video that, “we can’t be under any illusions about the fact that racism is alive and well in our country… and I can’t be under any illusions that we don’t have it in our Navy.”
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“I believe in teaching the good, the bad, the ugly — and our country was born with a birth defect that we imported from the Old World — called slavery — and we’re still dealing with the after-effects of it,” he added.
Ok, here we go, setting the stage for reparations for slavery.
Sigh.
He needs a double dose of reality.
I respect his service, but yes, generals can be dumbasses.
Now the elites plan to enslave everyone—and use the military to do it...
He ever manage to find a girlfriend yet? Or he still going with that warrior monk shtick as his beard?
Woke leftists.
Only 5% of African slaves were brought to the US Colonies. The vast majority went to Brazil and the Caribbean. History isn’t Play dough.
Leftists looooove to talk about slavery and evil whites..Never do they talk about the Africans who got stinking rich off of selling their own people....
A Birth Defect, hmm?
Some would say we IMPORTED our little Defect.
If only we’d have picked our own damn cotton.
Who are you to be stating facts in such a manner? It’s off to the re-edumacation camps for you, comrade.
Dumbass or not, he is telling us that he has sold out to the Radical Left...like most of the active senior military leadership.
This man is a wing nut I think.
I also think we’ll be hearing a lot of such nuttiness in the next three weeks as they start facing their demons- as they become public and law enforcement knowledge.
Buckle up.
In other words - America would have been so much better off without them pesky negroes?
Wow. Somebody get this guy a nice new robe and hood! He's the KKK poster boy of the month!
I respect his service, but yes, generals can be dumbasses.
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And they can be politically motivated.
I recall something happened in the mid 1800s...
Didn’t we like, fight a war to remove that “defect”?
Of course if that were true we’d have memorials and such to that war - but we don’t have any so...
A man so far removed from the esprit de corps of the old OSS— people like Casey (under Reagan)— who is a pussy of a marine, really a no body who names himself (HIMSELF) as “mad dog”. he has no business talking about the Leftist Reset, as he lines his pockets with Chi-Com military money. MONEY.
Marines (real ones) sound off on this jacka@@.
Mattis is a viper.
Nor do they talk about the same slave traders selling over 1 million Europeans into slavery.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and Religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
But didn't declare America as a Judeo Christian nation.
Another indication that our military leadership is compromised.
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