Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org Aug 23, 2022
White liberals have succeeded in brainwashing Americans into ignorance. White liberals have been so successful that schools are dedicated to erasing history instead of teaching it. For example, South Orange New Jersey has ridded itself of association with Thomas Jefferson by renaming Jefferson Elementary school Delia Bolden Elementary School in honor of the first black woman from that area to graduate from high school. According to the school, both the students and faculty led the fight to disassociate from Thomas Jefferson. School board member Qawi Telesford said the reason is that Jefferson owned slaves.
Jefferson owned slaves because slaves comprised the agricultural labor force of his time. Slavery was an inherited institution. It was established in territory that later became the United States long before Jefferson was born and long before the United States existed or was even a thought in someone’s mind.
There was nothing Thomas Jefferson or anyone else could have done about it. Turn them loose, you say. Examine what you are saying. 18th century slave owners, such as Jefferson, were not responsible for slavery. It was the existing labor institution into which they were born. Economists will tell you that the price of a slave was the present value of his lifetime wages. Having paid these wages in the slave’s price, how were agricultural producers to pay it a second time by freeing slaves and then hiring them back as workers?
If the US then had the high revenues or money creating capability of today, the government could have compensated owners for the value of the slaves, thus providing a bucket of money for wages with which to reemploy the slaves. Without compensation, the plantations would be confiscated of a work force and without a work force would have to close down. The freed slaves would have no means of subsistence. It is likely that the cost of what is called incorrectly a “civil war” greatly exceeded the cost of compensating slave owners. But, of course, the war was not about slavery. It was about forcing the South to pay the tariff on which the development of Northern industry depended. As President Lincoln said, the South can have slavery forever if they consent to staying in the Union and paying the tariff.
As a result of the takeover of education by ideologues, the level of ignorance in the US is so high that people actually believe that slave owners enslaved the blacks. That is not the case. The blacks arrived in what later became the US already enslaved. They were enslaved by the black king of Dahomey, whose successful slave wars fed captured blacks into the slave trade.
White people did not enslave blacks. They purchased blacks already enslaved by other blacks. They purchased blacks, because that was the available labor force, not because white people were racist. There were just as many white slaves, if not more, held by Muslims at the time.
In American universities and public schools ignorant hatred has displaced objective learning. The only facts are the invented ones that support the false narratives. Truth has been kicked out of American education which today consists of little but anti-white rants.
And so Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence and who was born in the era of slavery has been cast aside in favor of the first black female graduate of a New Jersey high school. Why the first black female graduate? Why not the first white female graduate? Feminists would say the later is just as much a feat. Why not the first handicapped graduate? Why not the first . . .
During the slavery era not only did blacks in Africa own black slaves, but also free blacks in America owned black slaves. So did the Cherokee Indians who took their black slaves with them on the Trail of Tears when the federal government uprooted the Cherokees from their homelands in Georgia and forced them to march to relocation in what became Oklahoma.
It is a paradox that it is considered restitution to remove white names from schools, streets, and parks and to replace them with black names, but it is offensive to place Indian names on sports teams, rivers, counties.
The way things are going, Indian names are being erased along with the names of the white people who created the United States. Soon we will have a country whose history has been recreated after the fact.
Yes indeed Mr Roberts, and did not the ultimate slave master tell his slaves “Dust thou art and unto dust you shall return!”
The Jewish Israelis have spent a lot of time and money erasing Palestinian history, now it seems the elite Jewish extremists who control the American media are slowly doing the same thing in the United States with White history (the people who created the country Jews and people from all over the world enjoy).
From an article:
University of Virginia’s student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, released an August editorial demanding the institution disavow white supremacy by removing college founder Thomas Jefferson from campus buildings.
In an editorial titled, “To create ‘citizen leaders,’ U.Va. must do more,” the Cavalier editors argued that the university needs to “reject” the buildings and statues that “glorifies” white supremacy.”
Oh well, Thomas Jefferson, the third American president and the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
In the future, mentioning Thomas Jefferson and other White presidents who helped created America and probably Mickey Rooney, gets you cancel cultured.
Granted… your typical Yank is pretty damn dumb….
but give me one over a THICK Brit any day of the week!
You ‘forgot’ to mention which people group was the primary owner of the ships that carried the slaves to the new world and who owned a disproportional percentage of the slaves they transported. This, far more than any other, is the truth we have been brainwashed to ‘forget’, including by the author of this article.
(((white liberals)))……
although it must be said… if a test it be (it is) the common imbecile must be blamed for his own ‘choices’…(many if not most being a ‘choice’ of personal ‘utility’/selfishness)..
or rather… a lack of discernment.. because one cannot ‘teach’ imbecility one can only encourage that which is already rooted…
I’ve heard that the colony of Virginia in the late 16th century passed a law forbidding freed blacks from owning white slaves. Such a law would only have been passed if such a practice existed. In the 1830s the British Parliament appropriated about 30 million pounds, an enormous sum for the time, to compensate mostly jewish slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere who had lost their slave property when Britain banned slavery. Virtually all the slave ships which transferred the African slaves to the New World were owned by jews. In the ante-bellum south there were several freed blacks who owned slaves. Since the end of colonialism slavery has again become endemic is much of Africa.
It is interesting to note that one could still buy a White slave inside of the Ottoman Empire well after the last black slave had been freed in the US. The vast majority of Whites alive today never had an ancestor who owned slaves, yet it is they who are constantly made to feel guilt for something they had nothing to do with.
Naturally, the powers that be don’t want White people to be aware of any of this.
Monsanto and Wolf dynasty are two that spring to mind who really nuanced the slave-trade.Taboo is an excellent UK drama starring Tom Hardy which gives certain genuflections to this arrangement.
Half the population of the USA is stupid & the other half is insane (generally speaking). There’s only a small minority of intelligent/sane white Americans left…Basically the prodigious majority of white Americans either believe in Rabbi Jesus or are druggies, monkey lovers & Commies..Either way no threat to ZOG. I would surmise this demographic description can be applied to all these ‘western nations’ (England/EU/OZ-NZ/Russia/Canada/S.Africa)..It seems the white masses of Ukraine possess healthier ethnocentric instincts, compared to the whites of the USA/UK/EU, as they formed white fascist paramilitary units to wage war against ZOG & Antifa Russia…
“Dori”…..use commonsense and give Roberts a wide birth…..
He is a fake…..he doesnt look like a jew but does routinely associate with them….
He never gives an account of how his donations are spent….or how much.
In cases like this you them give a big miss.
Jews are behind it all…slavery and the discussion thereof!
Interesting article, but why not a word about who set up and ran the African Slave Trade?
Hint: That would be the same people who now lead the push to eliminate Jefferson and the other American founders and heroes. It’s just a very short word, that begins with ‘J’ and ends with ‘ews.’
Americans ! abolish jew supremacy +
all your troubles are gone
“White liberals have succeeded in brainwashing Americans into ignorance. White liberals have been so successful that schools are dedicated to erasing history instead of teaching it.”
Jews have succeeded in brainwashing Americans into ignorance. Jews have been so successful that schools are dedicated to erasing history instead of teaching it.
There ya go, Mr. Roberts, I fixed it for you.
Nico certainly is not wrong in his comment above describing the demographics in the circling-the-drain Jewnited States…
UM….. Paul seems to have forgotten to mention who owned the majority of slave ships (fill in blank Paul), Paul seems to have forgotten who got paid a lifetime’s worth of labour to sell the slave (fill in the blank Paul)
Sid Sewerberg: The goyim like to proclaim that us dysgenic deformed mutants are the ‘elite’ of humanity.
Ira Fecalstein: Hey, hundreds of years of Christianity will do that to a people…they come to exalt & worship their enslavers/exterminators..
laughter all around
Jews control Academia, to include education K1 thru K12, the American Federation of Teachers, the colleges and universities — publishing. The truth is not taught in our history because the jews control the teaching of history. Jews control who writes it and they own the publishers who produce it and the bookshops that distribute it. Jews even control the publishing of school text books.
Well, a large step in avoiding being brainwashed is to turn OFF your Jew TV. I have not watched JEW TV in over 10 years……and, no I did not take the hoax Jew vaccine death jab. Yet, I know fools who believe that every thing on JEW TV is true.
A lot of our books at school were published by Heinemann and I never knew it was a Jewish name or who and what the Jews were. They had us singing a musical with all the names of the Twelve Tribes in it. The British history taught was a king’s head getting chopped off and my account had his head being used as a football
Americans Are Brainwashed into Ignorance
And Fox News is living proof of that. They brainwashed millions of Americans into buying into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And, they are brainwashing them again.