How did progressives successfully expunge all of America's black heroes from the history books?

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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.

[Claud]

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.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The last Presidential election proves that the left doesn’t need them anymore. A nonexistent person has no color.

[A Navy Vet]

"Don’t forget Thomas Sowell, who I think is arguably one of the greatest minds in America."

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.

[daniel1212]

Your case lacks clarity. As you saying that liberals edited out all of America's black heroes from the works of Woodrow Wilson, or that he did, and that this means liberals edited out all of America's black heroes from the history books? Even though liberals present do a biased view of history, the logic here seems specious and useless to make its case.

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

• 1 African-American Patriots
• 2 African-American sailors
• 3 Patriot resistance to using African Americans
• 4 African-American Loyalists in British military service
• 5 Dunmore's proclamation
  • 5.1 Patriot military response to Dunmore's proclamation
• 6 Black Regiment of Rhode Island
• 7 Fate of Black Loyalists
• 8 Fate of Black Patriots
  • 8.1 In Popular Culture
• 9 Role of other combatants with African ancestry

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.

[Magnum44]

I did wonder what happened to "Handyman!!!!"

[Rich21IE]

I am not black, I don’t care. Or, put another way, not my tribe, not my problem.

[Chode]

well, ya just can’t have free slaves not claiming victim status or it looks bad

[Svartalfiar]

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?

[x]

Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West was a disappointment. My Junior High School self thought it was the book version of the Debbie Reynolds' movie How the West Was Won. Bummer. I think I did get through the whole book though.

[daniel1212]

"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.

[Verginius Rufus]

Crispus Attucks was perhaps the ringleader among the men who were killed in the Boston Massacre, but John Adams did not have a high opinion of him or the other victims--they certainly were not heroes in his view.

Thomas Jefferson was familiar with Phillis Wheatley's poetry but did not rate it highly. Was that just evidence of his racism?