Posted on 01/05/2022 8:17:30 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
One of the most fascinating things I find about progressivism is how they create a problem, and then campaign against that problem all the while disclaiming any fault for its happening. So it is with the black heroes in early American history. But how did progressives accomplish it? How did they erase this? It's not that these heroes were unknowns. Who erased them?
I've said this before and I'll say it here again. This idea that "Americans forget" is unwarranted, NOT when progressives are involved. Progressives are thieves when it comes to all of the highlights of America history. Progressives hate America. No Americans accidentally "forgot where they laid down their car keys". Is it on the tv stand? Did it fall behind the dresser? No. This was an intentionally malicious and pernicious design and has been to erase all of our history. Now, progressives don't always set out with 50 year plans, but they do know how to use progressivism to build more progressivism and they do have more patience than their own lifespans in order to see their goals accomplished.
So it is with the works of Woodrow Wilson. David Barton's son Tim Barton lays this all out plainly, here. As Barton notes, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and others - Phyllis Wheatley, Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, and many, many others. All are missing from Wilson's work. Due to Wilson's prominence, these five volumes set the tone for all future historical works that would follow. This is an early progressive echo chamber.
This elimination of history has a predictable outcome if you follow the process. From the beginning with Wilson erasing the black heroes so long ago, it stands to reason that Black Americans feel ostrasized from America for more than a century instead of what it should be, that they earned this just as much as anybody else. This was done in the service of progressivism, which at the time was just as highly racialized as it is today just in a different way. It was not America that erased these heroes, it was progressivism. Am I wrong on this? I don't think so. Let's flip this over so that it's on the other side. The progressives have the power to correct this grievous wrong, do they not? Well then why don't they fix it then? Why don't they fix it?
Who controls universities? Progressives do. Who controls media? Progressives do. So it is progressives who could easily conduct a widespread campaign on every one of their news outlets, using every one of their publishing houses, across every one of their social media platforms, and in every university and textbook nationwide. But do they?
No.
Progressives created this problem. And they exploit it. It would be a detriment to progressive ideology to correct the record about black heroes in early America. This is all in service of progressivism from beginning to end and its over 100 years old. Even right now, as I type, progressivism receives dividends from Wilson's dreadful omission. Tomorrow, they will receive more dividends. And so it goes.
Now that the history books have been cleansed of all the black heroes - the progressives turn around and invent canards such as "white privilege" - this isn't white privilege, it's progressive privilege. Progressives have been causing problems for America and Americans for over a century and yet, still, they have not paid the price for their misdeeds.
Progressivism is America's cancer.
Here is Wilson's five volume set. Go ahead. Look inside, you can search the text with a web browser. No black heroes whatsoever. It's truely despicable. And here also, below, is a free open source audiobook I recorded several years ago from an 1855 text and put out into the public domain, information which in past days was more widely known. It's what I can do as an active and reliable saboteur of progressivism. Please give out copies to whom you can.
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, by William Cooper Nell (1855)
If we want to fix this, we must reverse Woodrow Wilson and we must champion American history. The progressive historians are our greatest enemy in this fight. They are NOT correcting the record. They don't want to.
“Progressives” don’t really care about black people. The only thing they care about is destroying Christianity, Christians, and any remnants of culture that are attributable to them.
It seems to me that Progressives have removed/substituted/destroyed many things which would advance blacks
Instead of Christian tradition, they promote Kwaanza
Instead of public safety, they have Soros DAs promoting “restorative justice”
Instead of stable families, they promote government bureaucrats
Instead of standard education, they promote CRT
They don’t read Frederick Douglass because there is not the hate they want.
“It’s not that these (black) heroes were unknowns. Who erased them?”
Happened here just last week; a progressive from up north tried to deny Holt Collier.
Actually makes perfect sense to me since virtually all the early Black heroes were Republicans-with the exception of the out and out communist W.E.B. DuBois. Then again, calling him a hero requires a very abstract definition of the word. One thing that puzzles me about cancel culture is how the Democrat Party-the heart of racism and oppression-always manages to escape the wrath of the morons.
Progressivism is a means for the less productive, those who simply cannot compete in straight economic reality, to disqualify the productive and acquire their trappings of success (confusing trappings of success, vs success itself).
Ergo, when allegedly fighting for a designated underdog group, they must eradicate any instances of people in that group being actually successful - lest that prove the Progressive narrative a lie.
How about sharing the most salient examples—instead of expecting Freepers to read six volumes to get to them?
Because they were “conservative”
They do it, in our faces, today. Clarence Thomas, Candace Owens, Ben Carson, etc.
Just like any other “diversity” group - they’re only valid if they’re down with the communist struggle. If you aren’t - you’re NOT that group.
Tl;dr - “y’all ain’t black if you don’t vote for me.”
Thanks for the reply.
I’m not sure how I could do this. The information is simply missing. I can’t cut and paste passages from a book that don’t exist.
My expectation is not for anybody to read six volumes. The text is word searchable.
If you could provide a way how I could do this considering the omitted nature of the information, please let me know.
There is some merit to this. But keep in mind though, some of these are heroes that were in the Founders time circa the 1770s-1790s.
The Republican Party wasn’t founded for another 60~ years give or take. Peter Salem died before anybody had any thought about a GOP.
If I understand you correctly and you are saying a 19th century text featured black heroes, but Wilson’s early 20th century didn’t cover them at all, why not just list a few names of these heroes, with a few words describing the deeds of each, that most demonstrate what you are claiming?
If you aren’t red, you aren’t allowed to be black.
It’s much bigger than this, but ultimately, yes, you largely have the concept correct.
Our early black heroes were widely known. Frederick Douglass was not just discovered 10 years ago. Phyllis Wheatley has had poems written about her if I remember correctly. Crispus Attucks’ role in the Boston Massacre was high profile after John Adams and the court trial. And similar situations for many others. They were all erased.
It’s not just “a 19th century text”. I only offer that one book because it’s an item I can quickly offer as a way to combat this. The progressives certainly aren’t going to do it. Nobody else has a vested interest here in defending America. It’s us or none.
You: “...why not just list a few names of these heroes, with a few words describing the deeds of each, that most demonstrate what you are claiming?”
Him: “As Barton notes, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and others - Phyllis Wheatley, Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, and many, many others.”
Me: how many do you want him to list?
Sounds like what mo-ose-ums want.
Douglass and Attucks are still very prominent names and were widely taught when I was in school decades (and decades) ago. If anything, modern historians and teachers have worked overtime to find black heroes to feature—and they get more than their share of coverage in education.
Was Wilson a vicious racist? Sure, but he hasn’t been particularly relevant for 100 years.
What you’re saying is perfectly accurate. The point I’m trying to get across is that the nature of conservatism is to promote life, freedom, equality and justice which would make it appealing to all patriots. This transcends party label and even race; there were groups and individuals pursuing these ends long before the formation of the Republican Party.
All along, there have been people on both sides of the divide. Booker T. Washington believed that many involved in the civil rights struggle were taking the wrong approach. He despised the politically oriented Black preachers and strongly advocated training mechanics rather than ministers. DuBois, on the other hand, sought to provoke a massacre of Blacks which could then be used as a bludgeon against white society to promote the power and influence of his “talented tenth.”
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