{"id":208731,"date":"2020-06-13T07:04:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T07:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208731"},"modified":"2020-06-16T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:11:10","slug":"education-is-offensive-and-racist-and-so-is-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208731","title":{"rendered":"Education Is Offensive and Racist and So Is America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org June 12, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Years of teaching blacks to have grievances against white people for things that happened centuries ago have come to fruition. Rioting and looting are not enough, the violent thugs and ignorant woke creatures are pulling down historic monuments in public parks and defacing public buildings while police and public authorities stand down.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Richmond, Virginia, a statue eight feet tall of Christopher Columbus in a public park has just been pulled down and rolled into a lake by a group of thugs.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 \u201cColumbus represents genocide.\u201d\u00a0 What the barbarians mean is that by discovering America, Columbus exposed the inhabitants to invasion from abroad, which is what the US has been undergoing since 1965.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who hasn\u2019t suffered invasions?\u00a0 Why of all the countless invasions in history is European entry into the new world so upsetting.\u00a0 Columbus wasn\u2019t looking to invade any country.\u00a0 He was testing a theory and hoping to find a shorter route to the spice trade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any number of Confederate memorials are being pulled down.\u00a0 Not even Robert E. Lee will be spared.\u00a0 Are public authorities\u00a0 so stupid that they do not understand that their acquiescence to lawlessness and destruction of property lets the genie out of the bottle? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new word for racist is white.\u00a0 By definition a white person is a racist.\u00a0 The two words are synonyms.\u00a0 Every stature of every white person is a statue of a racist and can be pulled down. The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has amended the defense bill to require the US military to rename bases named after anyone who served under the Confederate flag. They don\u2019t understand that as white is a synonym for racist, all whites, including Union officers, are racists. All US military bases will have to be named after blacks or it will be racist.\u00a0 Grant and Lee were both white and served together fighting for American empire in the war against people of color in Mexico. The only difference between Grant and Lee is that in addition to fighting for American empire against Mexico, Grant also fought for American empire against the South.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

History is also being pulled down.\u00a0 Future historians will be perplexed to find no signs of the racism on which the NY Times says America was founded. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ignorance is everywhere. RT describes Columbus as \u201canother notorious figure in the history of slavery.\u201d\u00a0 What!? The year 1492 was long before the black Kindgom of Dahomey created the black slave trade and long before there were any colonies needing a labor force.\u00a0 But facts no longer matter.\u00a0 Truth is whatever is emotionally satisfying.<\/span><\/p>\n

America is said to be a superpower, but its inhabitants collapse in excruciating pain over a mere word. The pain felt by mental and emotional weaklings is so severe that it has caused universities to overthrow academic freedom.\u00a0 At UCLA, once a university and now a propaganda ministry, a faculty member is under investigation for reading Martin Luther King\u2019s \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail\u201d to the class he teaches.\u00a0 The letter (April 16, 1963) was King\u2019s reply to black pastors who expressed their concern to him about his arrival as an outsider to their community to stir up confrontation when they were working to negotiate the achievement of the same goals peaceably. King\u2019s answer was that confrontation sharpens the issue and will aid their negotiations. Creating a crisis, King told the pastors, fosters tension and forces a community to deal with the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

What did the professor do wrong by reading King\u2019s own explanation of his strategy?\u00a0 The professor is in trouble because King in his letter used the word \u201cnigger\u201d and in reading King\u2019s letter to the class, the professor read the word \u201cnigger.\u201d\u00a0 OhMyGod, a white man said \u201cnigger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, the hurt, the offense!\u00a0 University administrators have denounced the professor. To keep the controversy going students are urged to come forward with complaints. A town hall will be held to outline future next steps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Think about this for a minute. According to reports \u201cnumerous students plead (sic ) with Professor Ajax Peris to not use the n word.\u201d\u00a0 But it was King, not Peris, who used the n word. What is the message here?\u00a0 Does it mean that a white person cannot read out loud Martin Luther King\u2019s letter?\u00a0 If the professor wanted students to be aware of the letter, would he have to bring in a black guest lecturer to read the letter?\u00a0 Would the professor still be accused of insensitivity if he gave\u00a0 Martin Luther King\u2019s letter to the students as a reading assignment?\u00a0 Does it mean that King himself committed an offense by using the n word?<\/span><\/p>\n

The professor also showed the class a documentary about lynching. The documentary had graphic descriptions that distressed and angered the students.\u00a0 Do we have here the plight of what sounds like a leftwing professor trying to rile up blacks against whites and finding that he cannot succeed because the necessary words and images cause them paroxysms of pain?<\/span><\/p>\n

In our oh-so-sensitive-times, no one is concerned about giving offense to Southerners.\u00a0 White Republican senators are leading the charge to rename military bases. Not to be outdone, black members of the House want to remove what they call Confederate statues from the vicinity of the Capitol as part of the protest against police violence in Minneapolis. They are having a fit over Jefferson Davis, who for 3 or 4 years of his life was president of the Confederate States of America. Much more of Davis\u2019 life was spent serving the United States of America as a military officer, a US Senator and as US Secretary of War (they were more honest in those days; today they call it \u201cdefense\u201d).\u00a0 Davis was a West Point graduate. As an officer in the US Army he fought for the US empire in the Mexican-American war. It was Davis who led the sucessful charge on the La Teneria fort in the Battle of Monterrey.\u00a0 He was married to the daughter of US President Zachary Taylor. He argued against secession.\u00a0 These are the reasons that there is a statue of him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Davis, like Robert E. Lee, and so many others from Southern states spent their life in service to the United States. They rallied to the Confederacy only because Lincoln invaded their states.\u00a0 People are so ignorant today, especially those who go around shouting \u201cracist,\u201d that they are unaware that in those days people regarded their home state as their country.\u00a0 The US Constitution gave governing power to the states, reserving to the states all powers not ennumerated to the federal government.\u00a0 All of this was changed by Lincoln\u2019s war which consolidated power in Washington and eventually turned largely independent states into vassals of Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert E. Lee, a West Point Graduate, spent his life in the US military fighting wars for the US empire. He served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. He was so highly regarded that he was offered a Union command in Lincoln\u2019s war. Lee\u2019s response was that as a Virginian, he could not lead an army to invade his country.\u00a0 If the US was going to invade Virginia, he would have to resign his commission in the US Army.<\/span><\/p>\n

An ignorant person once wrote in CounterPunch that Lee had 200 slaves.\u00a0 Lee had no plantation. He spent his life fighting against Indians and Mexicans for the American empire. It did not occur to the peabrain at CounterPunch what a person fighting Indians on the frontier and Mexicans in Mexico would do with 200 slaves.\u00a0 But as I have often observed, it you are out to demonize someone\u2014Trump, Putin, or Lee\u2014you say whatever does the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee had to take a leave from the US army for 2 years in order to settle his father-in-law\u2019s estate, which had land holdings and slaves on one side of the ledger and massive debts on the other. The aim was to emancipate the slaves. Knowing that, some slaves pushed it before it could be done. They were punished, and ever since it has been used to blacken Lee who had fiduciary duties.<\/span><\/p>\n

The current line is that Confederate memorials \u201cpay tribute to white supremacy and slavery,\u201d as the most ignorant Barbara Lee (D, CA) put it.\u00a0 So, according to a person regarded by people in California of sufficient intelligence and integrity to represent them in Washington, a Southerner who resists the invasion of his country is a white supremacist.<\/span><\/p>\n

As has been proven so many times, the so-called \u201cCivil War\u201d was fought over economics, not slavery. Lincoln himself intended to send the blacks back to Africa, judging them unfit to live among white people.\u00a0 Lincoln said over and over that the war was fought to preserve the Union. He gave assurances to the South that they could have slaves as long as they stayed in the Union and paid the tariff. Historians have researched the letters and diaries of participants on both sides of the war and found that soldiers were not fighting for or against slavery. The North was fighting for the Union, and the South was fighting because the South was invaded.\u00a0 There is a famous book in which the contents of the wartime letters and diaries are recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the real documented history has been replaced with a false made-up history that serves the sole purpose of creating dissention and hatred in a vulnerable and fragile multicultural society. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I recently wrote using Richard Weaver\u2019s title, ideas have consequences. The stand downs of police and public authorities while criminals loot and destroy are consequences of the false history that has been created for the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States is a Tower of Babel from which white people should flee. The state of collapse is advanced. With mayors and governors refusing to protect property from black looters, President Trump threatened to call out the US military.\u00a0 His own Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and his own Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, quickly informed the US military that their duty was to the Constitution, not to the President. The two made a show of this to undercut President Trump and to present him as a tyrant for trying to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect private property and the lives of citizens.\u00a0 Apparently, both Esper and Milley are too dumbshit to understand that it is a constitutional duty to protect property.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is not Establishment, but his government is. Trump is a President surrounded by his enemies. Trump attempted to be a president of the people, but the Establishment will not permit it.\u00a0 Trump will be the last president who attempts to represent the American people.\u00a0 All future presidents will have learned the lesson in advance. An American president serves the ruling elite and no one else.\u00a0 The elite have worked long and hard to acquire a divided population that cannot unite against them.\u00a0 They have succeeded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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