Off The Editor’s Desk – 11-25-2020
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Are we racially divided?
If you spend any time watching the national news on television there is hardly a day that goes by that there is not some news item that relates to a racial incident.
We watched as Minneapolis burned, and the riots in Kenosha, Washington D.C. and many other cities in this great nation.
The Minneapolis thing was the results of the death of a black man at the hands of local police. Many of the other cities were also related to police matters.
But we cannot burn down our civilization in an attempt to draw attention to racial unrest.
Being from a small town in Wisconsin, I do not see that racial division and if it is around me, I am missing it completely. I have not heard anyone locally inform me of any racial events that have occurred that I should have been aware of.
But now comes a news article that reported that a letter was sent to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris after their presumptive win of the presidential election. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said “the support of the group movement is going to cost them.”
Townhall reported that part of the Cullors’ letter, told Biden and Harris the following: “Without the resounding support of Black people, we would be saddled with a very different electoral outcome,” she wrote on behalf of the BLM Global Network. “In Short, black people won this election. Alongside Black-led organizations around the nation, Black Lives Matter invested heavily in this election. “Vote and Organize” became our motto, and our electoral justice efforts reached more than 60 million voters. We want something for our vote.”
Her letter ended, with a reminder of the criminal justice records Biden and Harris, with a jab at Biden over his support of the 1994 crime bill and at Kamala’s record as a tough prosecutor.
We all know that there are forces within these fifty states that want to sterilize history, taking down statutes, removing any resemblance of what happened to make this a great country, good or bad. Educate our children on not what happened, but remove all traces of any evil or things that might offend someone or some group.
Do you know what the 1619 project is? It is a project that aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequence of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the United States National narrative.
Apparently in 1619, four hundred years ago, the first enslaved Africa people were brought to this country.
“The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first Africans used as slaves arrived on Virginia soil as its foundation date.
“Award winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones provides an expansive essay on why black Americans, as much as those men cast in alabaster at the nation’s capital, are this nation’s true founding fathers. Her essay chronicles a history of policies enacted to profit from and disenfranchise black Americans, and the fight not only to claim black liberation, but also to make liberation possible for all Americans.
The above information was obtained from a lesson plan about the 1619 project from the Pulitzer Center Lesson builder. So, if you think whoever is pushing to change our history, are a bunch of nuts, they are not and apparently have a lesson plan with the 1619 narrative.
Yes, there is a lesson plan to teach that history to our kids so by the time they go out into the world, what they believe as our history is nothing more than fiction.
Ok, let us make 1619 instead of 1776 as the date of our nations birth, but, all of this is centered on the contribution that Black Americans have made to this country.
But, then, how about us old white guys, and it looks like we are getting moved farther out to pasture and all the great things that were accomplished by our ancestors will be lost to history. I had nothing to do with enslaving anyone, nor did my grand or great-grand parents, but it looks like I will be the one paying the price.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton