Let’s get Real about Racist History
It was during the Enlightenment (1700s) that scientific racism was born. The whole of the Western world learned from men in academic and social settings—those who helped to ruin the world with the ideology of white supremacy and class oppression. In the world of today, one must be wary of unscrupulous web references such as Prager University, which is not a university at all, but according to most credible sources, a conservative propaganda website. This is where a lot of foolish people get their false information. We have indeed been manipulated by a false political history of how we came to be as individuals and as a nation, with racism playing a leading role.
Look at the “Sambo” Lt. Governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, who attacks the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He is following the line of white supremacists and is a bona fide political idiot to say the least. Racism shaped this country, and the struggle against it, is dismissed by Robinson. This, we will never accept. The base structure of American society is racism which wants to stick around for an eternity. This is an underlying anchor that holds things together in favor of white supremacy and brainwashes even some people of color. These lies weave a web that prescribes the outcomes of a racist psychological stability to which Robinson has fallen prey.
All white supremacist thinking and actions are linked and connected to American history. Confederate statues tell a false and racialized history. The story these despicable symbols carry is one of trying to keep the walking-dead ideology of white supremacy alive—trying to keep racism alive even after slave owners lost a war that killed hundreds of thousands. It is no surprise that right after the Supreme Court case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, southern bigots and racist lunatics sought to keep their evilness alive by erecting statues and flying rebel flags at a time when they were trying to enforce Jim Crow laws. Lies generated by the former slave owners and their brainwashed ancestors were aimed at supporting white supremacist hatreds. Of course, they changed the subject by claiming the Civil War was about “Northern Aggression” and all sorts of propaganda.
When one goes to the state capitol in Austin, one of the first things stabbing you in the face is the confederate monuments of racists and traitors. In Austin, at 3710 Cedar Street and 1600 W. Sixth, the Texas Confederate Women’s and Men’s Home Historical Markers can be found. The Texas Section of Offspring of the Alliance landmark is situated at the State Legislative hall. “The Children of the Confederacy” are honored there. Additionally, the Terry’s Texas Officers, Hood’s Texas Unit, and Confederate Troopers Landmark are likewise situated at the Legislative center. Those who fought for the slave owner Confederacy are honored by these memorials.
The “Confederate Dead” monument in front of the Capitol along Eleventh Street in Austin is another disgrace to humanity. This monument, according to the Texas State Preservation Board, was erected in 1903 by surviving Confederate soldiers to honor the bigoted lives of Confederate soldiers who had been killed in action. It also displays in the hideous fashion of hatred, Jefferson Davis, a supreme racist lunatic. It is now a cancerous sore on the dignity of humankind. This racist statue features infantry, cavalry, artillery, and navy figures with Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the middle. The battles fought during the Civil War and the traitor states that left the Union are also disgracefully listed on the monument.
