Posted on 11/21/2020 8:36:14 PM PST by blueplum
Full title: How the 'radical left' canceled the Pilgrims: Senator Tom Cotton says US ignored the 400th anniversary of The Mayflower's arrival because of the 'charlatans' at the 1619 Project who want to 'rewrite history'
November 21, 2020 is the 400th anniversary of the day the Mayflower arrived at what we now know as Plymouth, Massachusetts. The event is arguably the most important date in American history, marking the day the first Pilgrims came onto America's shores to establish the 13 Colonies/ Celebrations commemorating the event were postponed or canceled earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the historic day has come with little fanfare elsewhere.
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Cotton wrote: 'Regrettably, we haven’t heard much about this year’s anniversary because the Pilgrims have fallen out of fashion in elite circles. 'Just this week, The New York Times food section published an article that called the Pilgrim story, including the First Thanksgiving, a “myth” and a “caricature.”
Ilhan Omar, never one to let a patriotic comment go unchallenged,.snarked in response to Cotton's Senate speech and Fox op-ed: "'When your sense of history doesn't go beyond your 3rd grade coloring books and actual history terrifies you... "
I had not heard a thing about it and I did watch Newsmax today. Can’t blame liberals if conservatives aren’t discussing it too. I don’t think we’ve ever celebrated this before.
I bet there were a couple of slaves on board among the passengers.
The Pilgrims’ story will not go unrecognized in my household. I told and retold the story to my children every year as they grew up. This year they will get a much more adult version of the socialist utopia envisioned by the Pilgrims along with a comparison to current day Democrats and RINO visions.
in the words of William Bradford: “ For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work...” while the women complained of frailty. After 2 years, the colonists abandoned their 7-year communist contract, choosing instead to allow people to benefit from their own labor, lifting the colony from a cloud of thievery, famine and starvation to a land of well-nourished and industrious men and women.
http://libertyunderfire.org/2011/11/1430/
Exactly the lesson I was thinking.
“The Black Book of Communism, a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone [65+ million for communist China under Mao Zedong]), and some say that number is too low.”
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
by Jonah Goldberg, August 2008
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“[Patrisse] Cullors [CO-FOUNDER “BLACK LIVES MATTER”] weaves her intellectual influences into this narrative, from black feminist writers like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.
Reading those social philosophers “provided a new understanding around what our economies could look like,” she says.
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Aric Jenkins | Time Magazine | February 26, 2018
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“I went through a year-long organising programme at the National School for Strategic Organising (NSSO), and it was led by the Labour Community Strategy Centre. We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao...”
-—Patrisse Cullors, co-founder Black Lives Matter
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Profile: Mao Zedong (aka Mao tse-Tung)
“Mao Zedong was the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976.
Mao is arguably the greatest mass murderer in history, eclipsing even the murderous Joesph Stalin in this regard. Some 70 million Chinese, along with countless Tibetans, Mongolians, Manchus, Koreans, Hmong, Uyghurs, and other nationalities, perished at his hands during his long and brutal reign.”
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Grossly distorted and misleading! Evincing a poor understanding of American history!
Regards,
What color were they?
Regards,
I was thinking it was because of the Wu Hu Flu but they could have done something virtual...
Is NYC planning a 400th celebration for the arrival of the ship New Netherland in 1623 ???
The first ship full of immigrants from Europe to NYC and the NY colony ??? about 30 families...
Perhaps this is why our Left wants us to forget the Pilgrims:
Pilgrims Beat ‘Communism’ With Free Market
https://www.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/commentary/pilgrims-beat-communism-free-market
Why the Pilgrims Abandoned Communism
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285981/posts
Not to worry...
Today - Democrats will memorialize the 57th anniversary of JFK's death.
Kennedy was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald, a Right wing nationalist who was wearing a MAGA cap when he was arrested.
The pilgrims were NOT the first to come ashore. A colony existed in Jamestown. The Mayflower wass headed to Jamestown when a storm blew them off course.
Virginia had a lot to do with forming this country.
With that said...as a kid in school, I got to go on the Mayflower as part of a 4-H trip. It’s one of my most favorite memories. Also present nearby was the USS Constitution. I didn’t get to go onboard but she was a beautiful site to see.
Back to the Matflower; it seems the just did a major renovation.
I don’t want to see history abandoned, neither should it be fictitious.
Yesterday I watched the movie “The Plymouth Adventure”, starring Spencer Tracy (who did an outstanding acting job), Van Johnson, and others. Excellent cast, great scenes on the Mayflower itself, especially the storm scene, and wonderful dialogue between the characters. Not a false note anywhere. Spencer Tracy should have gotten an Oscar for his superb acting in his role as the cantankerous Captain of the Mayflower. I highly recommend this movie directed by George Stevens (it was on TCM). Find it if you can, as it is perfect at this Thanksgiving time of year.
Slaves to the Church of England and they ran away from their masters to worship God, not a church dogma.
We're all descendents of slaves ....
Where's my reparations check !?
A good book about the Pilgrims: “Saints And Strangers” by George Willison.
Also “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims” is another good book, even if it is meant for children.
Thanks. I’d forgotten about that one. Haven’t read it, but might get it for our nieces and nephews if they don’t already have it.
Despite being for children, it’s also a good read for adults.
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