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.
Don’t forget Thomas Sowell, who I think is arguably one of the greatest minds in America. And sadly, he is also one of the greatest UNKNOWN minds in America, thanks to the progressives.
Phyllis Wheatley...
‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
Oops.
The last Presidential election proves that the left doesn’t need them anymore. A nonexistent person has no color.
Agree. Currently, Candace Owens is impressive in her conservatism, not to mention she is a babe. She is a beautiful inside and out black woman. Then you have Maxine Waters who is ugly inside and out. What a contrast.
And a quick Google (no less) search for America's black heroes from colonial times renders top results as these:
African Americans in the Revolutionary War - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › African_Americans_in... In the American Revolution, gaining freedom was the strongest motive for Black enslaved people who joined the Patriot or British armies. African-American Patriots · Fate of Black Loyalists · Fate of Black Patriots
African American Men: Moments in History from Colonial ... https://www.washingtonpost.com › Metro African American Men: Moments in History from Colonial ... Colonial Times, 1492-1776 ... 1492: Among the crew on the Santa Maria during Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas is Pedro Alonzo Niño, a black man.
Africans in America | Part 2 | The Revolutionary War - PBS https://www.pbs.org › wgbh › aia › part2 The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters and, consequently, more blacks fought for the Crown. An estimated 100,000 African Americans ...
African Americans and the American Revolution - History Is Fun https://www.historyisfun.org › learn › learning-center Yet by 1783, thousands of black Americans had become involved in the war. ... African Americans, most of them enslaved, were living in the 13 colonies.
I am not black, I don’t care. Or, put another way, not my tribe, not my problem.
well, ya just can’t have free slaves not claiming victim status or it looks bad
Woodrow Wilson is well known as one of the most colorist Presidents, so I would guess he had very few, if any, black heroes in his writings.
And sure, you found a bunch on Google/Wikipedia.. But how many of those names have you ever heard before?
Not many, while if the MSM in general describes non-blacks, it is often with an increasingly negative tone.
Thomas Jefferson was familiar with Phillis Wheatley's poetry but did not rate it highly. Was that just evidence of his racism?
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