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American (revisionist) History: Part One
By Bob Chochola
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Issue
National Examiner
In the film Space Cowboys a young shuttle astronaut becomes indignant with an over-the-hill and out of retirement shipmate he’s forced to work with (Clint Eastwood) to prevent a doomed Soviet satellite secretly armed with nuclear warheads and guided by an American guidance system (Skylab) from crashing to Earth. The cocky flyboy touts the fact that he spent a bundle of cash getting a college education in order to work for NASA. To wit a sarcastic Eastwood replies, “Maybe you should get your money back?”
This sums up the majority of higher education in America since the 1960’s – particularly Ivy League schools – where the distortion of fact and twisting of truth are so rampant that history is completely unrecognizable from its original form. Consider the fact that “American colleges now employ approximately 84 percent of the former leadership of the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground, assign books that argue that Jews are responsible for slavery (The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews – Wellesley College), and offer courses on transgenderism, mail order brides, whiteness, and adultery.”(1) What kind of a job can you get with a degree in “whiteness” anyway?
In addition, people like foreign billionaire George Soros, who began his career confiscating property from Jews during World War II (And they call republicans Nazis!), do have an influence - like it or not - on the writing and recording American history. Soros told CBS’s “60 Minutes” Steve Kroft regarding this work, “…if I weren’t there, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow.”(2) Didn’t the president use that same line during his 2008 primary campaign to defeat Hillary?
To be fair, revisionists have been distorting the American story since long before “Hanoi” Jane Fonda posed for cameras with the troops (ahem, enemy troops, that is) in Vietnam. JFK’s now proven legacy of drug addiction and an uncontrollable desire to be in the company of hookers magically transformed into “Camelot” by the time it made print in a newspaper, and to this day many Americans become giddy with delight and lost in the wilderness of wrong information at the sound of the Kennedy name.
The same media distortion holds true in a negative way for Richard Nixon, who resigned in the wake of Watergate - a scandal that consisted of charges that would have ended many politicians’ careers, had they been pursued as vigorously as they were in this particular case. Who else used the FBI and U. S. Justice Department to harass and bug the offices of their political enemies, you ask? Why presidents Roosevelt, Johnson, and Kennedy, just to name three.(3)
Unless you are a total news junkie, you may have missed this:
Fast forward to last week when the United States Senate voted unanimously to adopt a resolution apologizing for slavery. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) wondered “why we didn't do it 100 years ago” and spoke for every American who was not here 100 years ago erroneously and without “collective” consent when he said, “It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice." That’s a nice sentiment were it to have happened that way.
It is unclear when exactly the “collective” voice of America gave the go-ahead for the U. S. Senate to issue this surrogate apology. Senate republicans must have been in appeasement mode – again! It didn’t exactly make the front page after it happened either. But in a nutshell, many Americans (most of which were not even born 100 years ago to suffer - or perpetrate - the indisputable wrongs of slavery, and in many cases belong to families who arrived on these shores during WWI & WWII, long after slavery ended and have always stood on the side of those who were wronged by it – like me, for example) apologized for what they did not do and, more importantly, vigorously oppose. Next thing you know we’ll be collectively sorry for the (first) OJ verdict.
The “apology” forever institutionalizes two things: first, that all Americans (white Americans anyway) plead “guilty” to the “crime” of slavery. Second, another segment of the population, by virtue of skin color alone and regardless of direct lineage linking them to an actual slave, will forever have victim status in the American story.
The True History of Slavery
Most Americans have in their mind a media-generated image of an electoral map defining an intellectually superior multicultural secular progressive blue state region in the north versus a “Bible thumping” racially intolerant gun toting bunch of uneducated redneck hicks in the south. Setting aside the obvious bigotry towards white, Christian, blue collar, conservatives, had there been such a thing as television news during the Civil War, this election day image would be flip-flopped (no reference to John Kerry here) where red state conservative republicans dominate the northern states, and liberal blue state democrat slave owners would control the south. This is a 180-degree geopolitical reversal of the TV map as it is right now and just one of the many details ignored by revisionist history.
In his article “Drenched in Blood of Slavery”, author Roger Hedgecock covers some important ground on Civil War history and the origins of slavery.
Here are some important facts Hedgecock reveals:
• The Republican Party was formed, among other reasons, to oppose slavery and its first President Abraham Lincoln responded to Southern, Democrat-led secession with a successful war that preserved the union and freed the slaves.
• After Lincoln's assassination (by a Democrat), the Republican-led Congress (over the objections of the Democratic Party minority) amended the Constitution to confirm the liberation of the slaves (13th Amendment: slavery abolished), and the 14th Amendment (freed slaves are citizens equal to all citizens) and the 15th Amendment (right to vote guaranteed to freed slaves).
• Southern Democrats spent the next 100 years trying to keep freed slaves down with segregation laws, poll taxes to deny the right to vote, and lynching to enforce the social order.
• The KKK was formed by a Democrat; no Republican has ever been a member of the KKK. This is the heritage of the Democratic Party.
• The Democratic Party was formed in the first place to defend and expand slavery.
• In 1840, the very first national nominating convention of the Democratic Party adopted a platform which read in part: “Resolved, that Congress has no power... to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states... that all efforts by abolitionists... made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery... are calculated... to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union.”
• [The Democratic Party] was born defending slavery as necessary for the happiness of the people and threatened secession and war if slavery were challenged.
• The same party platform language was used in 1844, 1848, 1852 and 1856. In 1860, the Democrat commitment to slavery took a harsher tone. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by Congress in 1850. This monstrous law provided that, since slaves were the personal property of their masters, runaway slaves must be returned to their owners. The law required all law enforcement officers to assist in the recapture of runaway slaves or risk a fine of $1,000 (about $100,000 in today's dollars).
• The Republican Party was formed in the 1850’s in part as a political reaction to this unjust law.
• In their national convention of 1860, Democrats harshly responded to certain Northern (Republican) states that were passing state laws to evade the Fugitive Slave Law by adopting a plank in the Democratic Party Platform which read: “Resolved, that the enactments of the State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect.”
• During the civil war, the Southern Democrats led the Confederacy out of the Union; Northern Democrats formed a separate party which opposed the war. The 1864 (Northern) Democratic Party platform adopted a "peace" plank which read in part: “...after four years of failure to restore the union by the experiment of war... justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand... a cessation of hostilities... to the end that... peace may be restored...”
Here is the origin of today's Democratic Party: "Peace at any price, better red than dead, why can't we all just get along" foreign policy. The war was started by Democrat secessionists, and just as President Lincoln was on the verge of victory, the Northern Democrats wanted to save the South and slavery with peace talks. Voters knew better in 1864 and re-elected Lincoln.
• In 1868, Sen. Harkin's party condemned the Republican Party in its party platform as the "Radical Party," and condemned Reconstruction in these unforgettable words: “Instead of restoring the Union, [the Radical Party] has dissolved it, and subjected ten [former Confederate states]... to military despotism and negro supremacy.”
• As recently as 1964, when the Senate debated the Civil Rights Act, Southern Democrats (including Al Gore's father) voted “no” while Northern Democrats voted “yes” - their votes were not enough. The deciding votes to pass this landmark bill were provided by Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-IL, and [other] Republicans.
Revisionist liberals will argue that this is all “ancient history” as a “lame attempt to evade the true origins of [the Democratic Party].” According to Hedgecock, “It's Harkin and the Democrats who should apologize and pay reparations… Republicans should be proud of their heritage of liberation of the slaves and civil rights voting record."(4)
Amen to that!
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[1] GUILTY, Ann Coulter; pp135, 2009 Crown Publishing, New York.
[2] Steve Kroft, interview with George Soros, CBS News transcripts, December 20, 1998.
[3] See e.g. Paul Johnson, Modern Times (1983), pp650-651.
[4] Article: ”Drenched in the Blood of Slavery” by Roger Hedgecock.
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