Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, uncivilized and unemployed Negroes were given free passage on cruise ships from Africa to America with a stopover in Jamaica. Upon their arrival after their time spent in the tropics, they were welcomed by white people who were happy to give them a new home. Jobs were provided along with a lifetime of free room and board here in America; they learned to speak English, sing hymns, and revel in the glory of God through the Gospel of Christ in place of their heathen savagery.”
This is from the official state social textbook of the time. Virginia: History Government and Geography. This is their description of the institution of history.
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Critical Race Theory is a dangerous concept because it threatens the truth of History and America’s sin. History happened, and discomfort and guilt have nothing to do with it. History is not a feeling; it is a fact of occurrence. Critical Race Theory opposes Black History, being taught in the educational system because it makes white children uncomfortable. It also opposes Jewish History for the same reason.
History is a factual accounting, a description, an interpretation, and perhaps viewpoint. Whites have eliminated the teaching of black History for ages by way of omission. History can be cruel and does not always present a good light. I am part of the generation that fought for Black History to be taught in the schools, at the college level, with African American history departments to be recognized as a discipline in its very own right. Unfortunately, Black History has been throughout the ages a history denied and too often filled with misrepresentation and even lies. Most importantly, the viewpoint is critical.
The book “Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream” by Lerone Bennett was quite controversial when he added his pen to the 15,000 volumes on the subject of President Lincoln. His perspective was not traditional and suggested Lincoln saved the union by freeing the slaves as a tacit power, not moral. However, read a book by John Hope Franklin, and you see a different history not necessarily recorded in the traditional history book. Franklin became the benchmark for Black History, as he provided a different perspective on Blacks in America.
History looks different to the slave master than it does to the slave, so the viewpoint is critical. The stories of “white privilege” show abuse, absolute power, cruelty, and greed are real and true. Slaves were beaten, raped, and lynched. This is not imagination. Slaves were considered nonhumans, slaves were considered three-fifths human for political reasons. Slaves were not considered citizens. It is fact and sometimes it is too much to bear to read as Blacks trace history and lineage to families. Men and women were not permitted to marry and men were killed if they stood up to protect their women and children. Slaves were not allowed to read or attend school. Families were broken and often destroyed. Black men were jailed for trivia.
These cruel things happened. White supremacy was on stage with the hate of Adolph Hitler as he engaged in practices that killed six million Jews because they were Jews. For Hitler, Jews were an “inferior race” and he wanted a “superior” race. It was indeed an act against humanity but it was an act against a people to be annihilated, and hate was the cause. It was racism. A volume of history talks about “The Jewish Problem” and “The Negro Problem.” This cannot be denied. And Whoppi Goldberg cannot talk about a history that she is ignorant about on national television.
We cannot ignore real history with the stupidity of Critical Race Theory that chooses to change, alter and forget a genuine history, for emotional reasons.
If you think white children feel bad upon learning of the cruel and demonic things their forefathers did, how do you think the Black child feels when he learns that his ancestors were killed for looking someone in the eye, who just happened to be of another skin color?
I have a friend who discovered the real historical account of a lynching in his family. He had been lead to believe that a great uncle had been lynched for a minor incident involving a white encounter. He was hung from a tree on a Sunday afternoon. This had been a slight conversation in his family. As a full-grown man, he began to dig for the truth of the matter. He found that his great uncle had a twin and that the lynchings entailed murder for both of them because it was said that they looked at a white woman, and she thought both of them would rape her. Both men hung from the tree, and their testicles were cut as though they were trophies. He found a blurb in the newspaper about the incident. He did not know his uncle had a twin brother. He discovered the real reason for his family relocating to Chicago. There are stories. My father talked about the “migration” as the “great escape.”
We hear the Jewish story where the soldiers, Hitler’s army, came to homes to take the Jews to the gas chamber and how sometimes they were hidden in unusual places to be saved. Or how the children were thrown off the cattle car and told to just run to escape death. We hear about the shower that was the gas chamber in the concentration camps where people were worked to death. How do you think the Jewish families feel when they learn of these historical accounts?
Black people are a rainbow of skin color with different hair textures and features because of the rape from the enslaver with the slave women. We learn the story of Emmitt Till, who was brutally killed because he looked at a white woman and muttered something with a stutter. His tragic death was used as an example for Black boys and White ones. The men were guilty as charged, but a white privilege, white conspiracy freed them as they confessed guilt to Look Magazine after the trial. They said they were forced to kill Till because they had to “preserve the white way of life” and maintain the white woman on a pedestal. They got away with a hideous murder, that many knew they committed.
And a deep dig in Black history finds so much about living in America with a constant denial. We learn an accurate account from The 1619 Project and call it controversial because it speaks the truth without discomfort.
Critical Race Theory kills history. You cannot kill the truth of history by banning books by Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. I have vowed not to watch another slave movie to watch the rape, the lynching, the beating, the slave fights that entertained, and to learn of the Black women that were called “comfort women.” I become emotional when means sad and angry. I also refuse to watch the Jewish accounts of the starvation and the reduction of humanity caused by Hitler and his people. It makes me cry and sad.
But what you do learn from the realness of history is to appreciate politics, because all of what the slave master did to the slaves and Hitler to the Jews, was legally brought to you by the politics of evil.
Never again. And damn Critical Race Theory. It is dangerous and this country should curse it at every opportunity. The African slave ship cannot be identified as a ‘cruise ship’ for any reason. And the Jews did not take vacations in concentration camps. This is history that all should know about. America will never reach its destiny of full social justice and equity if we continue to live in ignorance and denial.
