The Criminal Cover up of Real History
Racist governors across the country, especially in Florida, are fighting hard to prevent students from learning about the real history of this country. They don’t want people to know that the history we have been taught is white supremacist history. They set lies in history classes as well as in most other classes taught in schools from elementary school to universities. Black inventors and the inventions of women were removed from the academic books, or outright lies, half-truths, distortions, and erasures were implemented to misle people for hundreds of years. Christopher Columbus did not “discover” America, the Battle of the Alamo was about slavery, over a dozen presidents were slave owners, and the list goes on and on.
During this time of lies in high places, we need to understand that “Race” covered up class inequality and became the motivating factor for poor whites to support the cause of the southern planters and slave owners. It was not a case of them acting against their own self-interest because white supremacy became so tied to the mentality of poor whites, who could not afford to purchase slaves, white supremacy was their self-interest. If slavery were ended, they would no longer feel superior and would see Black people as their equals. We must reveal the hidden history, for many an untold history, about America’s ugly racial past.
Let us know the tools to refute the modern-day racist yahoos that use fake arguments to deny the fact that America was founded upon a white supremacist legendized myth. People who want to deny the fact that the Civil War and the Alamo was about racism and slavery have an old outdated argument that goes something like this: “You people are looking at the past with modern eyes.” Wrong! We are looking at the past from the very words of the slave owners or pro-slavery men. White supremacists themselves said the words that glued them to their hatred. Sam Houston once called Mexicans “Snot” or “Phlegm” (mucus). The author of the famous words of the American Revolution, “All men are created equal,” Thomas Jefferson, believed that black people were “much inferior” to white people in reason, comprehension, and imagination. His words, not mine!
Jefferson stood to become wealthy in buying and selling human beings. Yet, only his political contributions to “freedom” are taught without much mention of his great failings. In the first few decades following the American Revolution, racism became more widespread. In order to justify laws that protected slavery and white supremacy, erroneous scientific reasoning was promoted through writings by Thomas Jefferson and others. Read Jefferson’s bigoted language yourself in his Notes on the State of Virginia (Written in 1853), on pages 149-152, and 155). Hence, the twisted logic of inequality based on “race” explains how Jefferson was able to pen the Declaration of Independence and own hundreds of slaves over his lifetime. Despite his high-sounding pronouncements his words were spoken with hypocrisy.
To prove the Civil War was about slavery all one has to do is read the hundreds of letters written by Confederate soldiers and politicians during the war that were written to proclaim white supremacy. They don’t want us to teach Black history because their world of racism and white supremacy is falling apart with the truth. The truth is out of the bottle and they want to put it back in—too late, even if we have to teach Black history and truth in private, or on street corners in front of schools, the struggle will continue.
