My favorite local radio talk show guy, Bob Lonsberry, broadcasts from WHAM Rochester, NY, but he’s a down home red, white and blue champion of conservatism from rural Livingston County. He was once fired from WHAM over aired comments deemed politically incorrect and racist by the left. He also lost another show by offending the politically incorrect “right,” by backing a more conservative candidate. He was restored to WHAM in time, when his listeners abandoned the sponsors.
I just pulled off the highway to listen to Lonsberry’s full segment on the fascinating and significant life of Harriet Tubman. If I can find a transcript, I’ll post it, but this is what was on his website today:
http://lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=3990
I’m a former history teacher, freed to teach using original sources and published books. Even my school district knew that who writes the textbooks controls the narrative fed to our children. I knew Tubman’s story, and included it in my curriculum. I knew Jackson’s story, too, and included the matter of defying the U.S. Supreme Court to forcibly remove the Cherokee from NC to Oklahoma.
Soon, Tubman’s home in Auburn, NY will be made a national historic site. It’s been in the works for decades. A few years ago Pres. Obama made a bus tour of the area, visiting the commonly visited Women’s Rights sites in nearby Seneca Falls. Tubman’s great grandniece went on TV begging the president to visit the Tubman site. He spent the night at the Auburn Holiday Inn on the same street. Next morning, he did his workout at the YMCA across the street, then rode right on by the Tubman home without stopping, her sobbing relative and others holding signs on the lawn. He was on the way to observe a rural high school lacrosse team practice. I’ll be thinking of that when he says anything regarding Tubman.
As Lonsberry said today, she earned this honor on the basis of the content of her character. He’s glad for it, and so am I. What distresses me is that our Secretary of the Treasury was ready to jettison Alexander Hamilton from the ten until he saw a hip hop Broadway show.
Thanks,that was interesting.