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To: mairdie

THIS is the history book that other articles are complaining has become the text book for their children’s schools. THIS is the information that needs to spread widely and create a backwash that’s a tsunami. LONG.

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/30/america-the-racist/

Weekend Long Read

An excerpt from Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America.

America, the Racist

Mary Grabar

FTA:


839 posted on 08/31/2019 6:30:42 AM PDT by mairdie (Get Smart - Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers - https://youtu.be/IQlMoDNHT38)
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To: mairdie

Sorry.

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Writing in the December 1991 issue of Academic Questions, Fred Siegel, associate professor of history at Cooper Union and a self-described liberal and Democrat, bemoaned a fashionable trend in history writing. The “New Historians,” he quipped, saw American life as “a story of defeat, despair, and domination. American history became a tragedy in three acts: what we did to the Indians, what we did to the African-Americans, and what we did to everyone else.”

That’s a pretty fair description of A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn winds up Act 1 of his book on the oppression of Indians and women only to launch into Act 2 on slavery—beginning with an eight-line description from J. Saunders Redding’s 1950 They Came in Chains of the ship carrying the first slaves to the colonies in 1619: “a strange ship, indeed, by all accounts, a frightening ship, a ship of mystery . . . . through her bulwarks black-mouthed cannon yawned. The flag she flew was Dutch; her crew a motley. Her port of call, an English settlement, Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia . . . . her cargo? Twenty slaves.”


840 posted on 08/31/2019 6:31:30 AM PDT by mairdie (Get Smart - Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers - https://youtu.be/IQlMoDNHT38)
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To: mairdie

Thanks for the link, marking to read


1,568 posted on 09/03/2019 10:06:46 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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