Posted on 05/29/2010 5:59:14 AM PDT by bocopar
What a childish response. In the meantime, we’ll just call it envy instead, because that’s exactly what it looks like.
It says a lot about you that you’re less concerned about the truth getting to a larger audience than you are about who gets the credit for it.
View the entire Glenn Beck show of May 28, 2010 Founders' Friday- Black American Founders without commercials.
No need for that. A lot of folks who were trying to warn people about what was happening for YEARS regarding the Communist left and the "Liberation" movement are angry at 'Johnny come latelys' like Hannity and Limbaugh. Neither got/get into the important details. Both were afraid to even use the 'C' word (Communist) to describe what was happening. Hannity still rarely uses it. Limbaugh has only, within the past 1-1/2 years or so, begun using it. And forget .jack*ss Bill O'Reilly
You’re entitled to your opinion, and making it personal says something about you as well.
The goal should be to see how many folks can be changed with the message of the role of the black man in our history, not who delivers that message. Anything else is self serving.
A great segment on a very important and neglected part of our American history. My only gripe is that Beck does exaggerate a little bit to make his point. Armistead was certainly not the only “double agent” working for the Americans during the Revolution and if any “double agent” could be credited with saving/winning the American Revolution, it almost certainly should be John Honeyman of New Jersey. Armistead was an important figure in the history of Revolutionary War spying but Beck unintentionally goes a little too far and I think that actually makes a mockery of the historical record.
Agreed. He often sound likes a blatant, and ignorant, shill for the Right. The good news is that he drives the Left crazy. He probably drives the Indies away.
And before every sixth or seventh word comes a "you know", which just drives me nuts.
Oops! Is THAT the "black history" that is being discussed here? I assumed it was the black radical, revolutionary communist "Liberation" movement. Oh well, hopefully anyone who didn't know much about it before does so now. I'm very busy getting ready to leave the house and so didn't read the topic very carefully. Sorry folks! :)
What part is "shame". That Beck got it on national news viewed by millions - or that no one called you for permission?
Fire! Ready! Aim!
Do you think he'd be second if he was following Larry King?
So, Glenn Beck isn’t black enough? What’s the beef? I didn’ know anything about black FF before Glenn’s show. Now I’m educated on the subject and will start educating others.
I thought the show was wonderful and I said as much on another thread. I learned a lot in that hour show. For instance, I had no idea that David Barton of Wall Builders helped get much of the information about these Black patriots back into Texas (and thus many other states’) textbooks. Beck has the viewership horsepower to get this out to the masses and he did just that. You’re sounding like Mark Levin when he claims Beck is always stealing his ideas. It sounds petty and does our cause no good. I’m just happy the word is getting out.
Oh, come on. You wrote an opinion piece of your own and posted it here for comment. Criticizing your opinion and including what appears to be the motive behind your opinion is hardly ‘making it personal’.
Was I supposed to pretend that you’re just an anonymous poster and not the guy who wrote the piece? If so, I apologize for outing your deftly chosen anonymous screen name.
It goes back much further than Beck and his guests stated.
I was born in 1943. I _never_ recall being taught about black Founders. I discovered a tiny bit of suppressed history on my own, such as the existence of black slaveholders and black soldiers, while the Reconstruction era was presented from a 50s Southern Democrat Party position.
Having a mixed audience that obviously included history majors/grad students who were black was also a good touch, although there wasn’t enough time for too many questions from the audience.
Beck is also teaching that we need to get beyond the sports team version of politics. Party is irrelevant. We need to disseminate information and grill candidates on real ideas, not on buzz-word shorthand hot button substitutes like *prayer*, *choice*,*States Rights*, etc. Everyone on all sides has too much of a knee jerk response to such presentations.
We live in a *star* culture. Shelby has a limited audience and his books were ignored or marginalized, so the information didn’t get fair or wide dissemination. The professors Beck had on at least went out and did the research, wrote books and founded organizations and are being given a platform for the first time.
Bob, you are right, but if the real history of all of us as Americans is going to be revealed, we need to accept those who do it, even if they are academics or any other category we resent. Our enemies want us divided. They need us to fight among ourselves. They need history distorted to their ends. We need millions of people of all races, religions, professions to know all of the truth, good and ugly, so when we are told “Blacks cannot be conservative.” or “Artists cannot be conservative.” (this is the dismissal I have received), we just laugh and tell more truth. It is about truth, not anything else. The goal is to re-unite America and end the Balkanization used to enslave us.
We all need to be freed from all the various plantations. Beck is teaching a Refounding. He is going to be awkward and sometimes make missteps, but those walking point usually do.
IMO, Hannity is a mile wide and an inch deep on most subjects that he chooses to pontificate on. Take your original parenthetical statement and it applies to most of Hannity’s rantings. Thus: lather, rinse, repeat.
Have I made myself clear or just clouded the discussion?
Sadly, most Americans have never read the authentic histories of the founding period, as written by early historians. Instead, they have been exposed to revisionist histories, written by 20th Century writers who deliberately erased those facts which did not fit their "Progressive" agenda for "change"--that is, making all citizens slaves to a political elite in Washington, D. C., in cahoots with other "global" powers.
Not only have they, in effect, as Lynn Cheney once wrote, "erased our national memory," but they have endangered the liberty of future generations.
Wallbuilders.com has a tremendous library of original writings for any who wish to search out the facts for themselves, as do other web sites.
Well, Mr. Parks, you are one impressive fellow! I can see from the video you were aware of what Beck presented quite a while ago. But...rather than resent him in this...I see his presentation, with his popularity, a conduit to getting this information out to more people.
Finally, maybe, the truth will out!
Do you have a personal biography available? I just wonder how you escaped the prevailing mind set that has captured most blacks through the efforts of Jackson, Sharpton, etc. and the prevailing efforts of the liberals to keep blacks ‘in line’.
You must have had wonderful parents.
More like “uncovering” than discovering. The leftists stereotype all blacks as being in the W. E. B. DuBois, 0bama model.
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