Category Archives: History

Rush: Put U.S. Slavery Into Global Context

Rush Limbaugh tread on dangerous ground today: “White guilt is not doing anything for anybody,” Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show this afternoon, urging his audience to understand that “white guilt” is unfounded because Caucasians have historically done more … Continue reading

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The Frankfurt School at War

In The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, Kevin MacDonald spends a significant portion of the book analyzing The Frankfurt School, the radical, postmodernist ideology factory, comprised of jewish emigres from … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: A False Foundation

“Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long. I … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: Governor

“I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education. Not long ago, when passing through the streets … Continue reading

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Myths of Slavery: Pt 3,291

Henry Louis Gates Jr., of ‘Stupid Cambridge Cop’ / Beer Summit fame is an angry, angry man. A bigger ‘racial’ chip on a shoulder you’ll never find. In “Free Blacks Lived in the North, Right?“, he discovers yet another piece … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: Teachers & Preachers

“Naturally, most of our people who received some little education became teachers or preachers. While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: Washington D.C. (II)

“I took great interest in studying the life of our people there closely at that time. I found that while among them there was a large element of substantial, worthy citizens, there was also a superficiality about the life of … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: Washington D.C.

“During the time I was a student at Washington the city was crowded with coloured people, many of whom had recently come from the South. A large proportion of these people had been drawn to Washington because they felt that … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: Mother & Child

“During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother.” — Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901), Ch. 5: The Reconstruction … Continue reading

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Buckley/Vidal – Steel Cage Match

With tonight’s episode presuming martyrdom status for the ’68 Democratic Convention protesters, the increasingly funny, histrionic-laden, & hagiography-addled Mad Men, a show which jumped the shark 2 seasons ago, reminded me of the classic steel cage match between William F. … Continue reading

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