Douglas Mercer
August 20 2021
They say that James Loewen prided himself on pointing out the socialist beliefs of Helen Keller or the diversity of American Indian culture.
Of course that kind of picayune nonsense is certainly nothing to hang your hat on or herald the fame of a dead man's deeds. But in our debased times it's enough to inflate a reputation sky high.
James Loewen left this vale of tears on August 19 2021 without adding a single thing of value to the earth, but he left in his wake a lot of damage.
Good riddance to bad rubbish as is said on these occasions. Hopefully the door hit him on his way out.
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Take a quick look at a picture of James Loewen and you'll see right away he looks like one of those old salty curmudgeon Yankees that used to get on their high horse and thunder the doctrine of abolition and the evils of chattel slavery. In reality he was just a run of the mill anti-white goon who made a nice living off the backs of his people whom he betrayed. When he bought it the Jewish media went into raptures about what a great man he was and what noble work he did. In truth he hit his poor man's stride a good quarter of a century before our enemies hit the George Floyd jackpot, but he was toiling in those fetid pastures and rotten vineyards many a year before. When he was at his height (or depth) of fame his ideas were beginning to catch on but were hardly mainstream. Today they are the very ideas of our ruling class. That he had a hand in the trajectory of this tragedy will speak ill of him for eternity. That his focus was on the books that we use to teach our children will place him in the lowest circle of hell, having corrupted the youth. For the mind of the young are a battlefield and James Loewen was among always dishonorably among enemy lines.
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Loewen took the path of the "good liberal" in the pre hippie era, attending Carleton College and then spending the obligatory semester in Mississippi sticking his nose in the White man's way. Instead of caring about his own people he became fascinated by some Chinese who had made their way to that state and was given a PdD in sociology from Harvard based on this trivia (pig-tailed coolies in a White man's land).
"Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian and compared twelve American History textbooks then widely used throughout the United States. He published his finding in his book Lies My Teacher Told Me. He concluded that textbook authors propagated factually false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of history."
This was back in the 1990s so it was true then that until the day before yesterday all American history was an offshoot of European history so for it to be "Eurocentric" (how quint that word feels today) was entirely normal and factually true. Now I'm sure his issue is that the books didn't give enough space to Sojourner Truth and Wounded Knee and some rancid Jews in New York, but by rights those were just the people we rightfully ran over on our way to the stars. But to Loewen and his ilk these cancerous inferiors must take center stage and be the stars of the show. Settling the continent, electric light, flight, and landing on the moon to him are just things we used the dark skinned to achieve, pirate's booty and ill gotten gain. His view of history now prevails and perverts the country. But they are lies our leaders tell us.
"Loewen based his career on dispelling commonly held myths about racial progress in American history. His goal was to give the public historical tools that he hoped would help people achieve concrete change towards racial justice in the present."
"Loewen first taught in Mississippi at Tougaloo College, a historically black college founded by the American Missionary association after the American Civil War. He then taught about racism for twenty years at the University of Vermont before finishing up his career at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C."
So his trajectory was teaching negros at a college founded by short-sighted White people, teaching White kids that they are bad in the Vermont woods, and he ended up in the belly of the beast in Jerusalem-On-The-Potomac at a bleeding heart Catholic school.
He first cut his teeth on anti-White doctrine by producing a textbook which traduced the American South called Mississippi: Conflict And Change.
"The way Mississippi students learned about slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the civil rights movement in their home state began to slowly shift in 1980."
"Before 1980, students were often taught a whitewashed narrative of the state’s violent past, one that diminished Black people’s suffering and fostered prejudice. After 1980 came a version of Mississippi history in textbooks that looked a little more like the history itself: complicated, uncomfortable, sometimes ugly."
"What changed? Ninth graders finally began to get their hands on a textbook called Mississippi: Conflict and Change. The book, which ultimately won a nonfiction writing award and garnered positive reviews from major news outlets, almost wasn’t released to school districts at all. Its authors fought for years for its adoption, first against Mississippi’s textbook review committee and then in federal court."
Ah, conflict and change. You can tell right away that Loewen was always most concerned about the change part though the change would never be going fast enough until White people were eclipsed. Until all history writing excoriated them as a pariah people.
The sordid history of reconstruction can be summed up this way: a vengeful and traitorous Northern White ruling class led by race mixing Thaddeus Stevens sought to put to end forever the last remnants of White pride in the South. Like the French who poured niggers into the Rhineland they disgracefully used the black man against their White brothers. Reconstruction itself was like a Nuremberg before its time, a denazificiation avante la lettre. For twelve brutal years they reigned but thankfully there was enough resistance to put an end to the their baleful rule. The next time there may not be.
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Thus quoth Abraham Lincoln in 1858 when he still needed White votes:
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; I will add to this that I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men."
You can't get any more emphatic than that can you?
As he stood on the balcony of the White house in April 1865, when he needed no more White votes he put down the boot of the bait and switch, he sang a new tune:
“If universal amnesty is granted to the insurgents I cannot see how I can avoid exacting in return universal suffrage, or at least suffrage on the basis of intelligence and military service.”
A man in the crowd was quick on the uptake to put that in plain English:
“That means nigger citizenship. Now, by God! I’ll put him through."
And of course John Wilkes Booth made good on that boast.
Nigger citizenship and then Nigger amendments. Only the racial capital that Americans had accrued from 200 plus years on the continent let them survive a hundred more years; but then the dams all broke.
Of course Loewen has it all backwards.
"Loewen told NPR's Gene Demby that he decided to write his first high school text about race and history when he asked a class of students at Tougaloo College, a historically Black university near Jackson, Miss., what they knew about Reconstruction."
"And what happened to me was an 'aha' experience, although you might better consider it an 'oh no' experience," Loewen told NPR. Sixteen out of my 17 students said, 'Well, Reconstruction was the period right after the Civil War when Blacks took over the government of the Southern states, but they were too soon out of slavery, and so they screwed up and white folks had to take control again.' "
Sound like a squared away bunch of students right there. So Loewen will have none of it. He wants to brainwash them into subservience. He set out to promulgate lies our textbook writes told.
"Loewen said there were at least three direct lies in that sentence: Black Americans in the South had, in fact, tried to run for office and write progressive state constitutions following the Civil War, but they were violently shut out of power by white supremacists in both organized groups like the KKK as well as the Democratic party."
It was Madison Grant who said that after many years we had learned the painful lesson that a Negro in White man's clothing does not a White man make. And a negro with congressional trappings does not a White lawmaker make. But Loewen thinks that had it not been for the dastardly KKK negroes would have been benevolent and enlightened rulers just like Pericles and been waxing eloquent with their "thuses" and their "therefores" and putting Cicero to shame.
These are the lies our intellectuals teach us. That negroes were writing "progressive constitutions." Just like in Haiti I'm sure, a country where the recent earthquake killed hundreds of people and did thousands of dollars in property damage.
“Even some of the most recent textbooks on Mississippi history, while they're improvements on what was available in the 1970s, are still not fully diving into the history of slavery in the state, the level of violence that accompanied it, and the aftermath of it,”
"But Conflict and Change served as a bellwether, she said, showing other Mississippi scholars that they, too, could challenge the status quo. The story behind the textbook’s eventual adoption was turned into its own 2017 book called Civil Rights, Culture War by Ole Miss historian Charles Eagles."
"Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past."
Easy choice.
“Mississippi women, workers, and blacks and other minorities learned little about their own histories from their Mississippi history textbooks,” Eagles wrote in his first chapter, describing the era before “Conflict and Change” was released. This “state-sanctioned amnesia,” he wrote, “played a vital role in the perpetuation of white supremacy and racial discrimination.”
That is White people were writing books for their own kind. Never a thing wrong with that. It's how you bring the past into the present so we can move confidently into the future. It's what healthy people do. But a country which condemns its past has no future. A country that condemns its past has been wrested from its rightful owners.
"Just as Mississippi’s leaders refused to integrate schools for 16 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, they also refused to sign off on a textbook that offered a more comprehensive perspective of the state’s history around slavery and race."
When white leaders in Mississippi got wind of the communist content of Loewen's proposed textbook they knew better than to ever let it see the light of day or ever sully the mind of any White child in their state schools. They said no thank you but we respect ourselves in these parts. Why, what you're peddling is nothing less than negro citizenship.
Of course an American Court said they had to submit.
"In 1960, the Mississippi Legislature gave Gov. Ross Barnett, a segregationist, full control over picking what textbooks schools were allowed to use. Barnett chose a state history book written by John Bettersworth an author who included pro-white, anti-integrationist narratives”
But then a revolution happened, a cultural revolution, a race revolution. Noting has been the same since. It meant nigger ascendancy. A new and rancid day was dawning.
"By 1970, a state textbook review committee appointed by top leaders had begun choosing what schools could buy with state money. But that didn’t immediately improve which types of history books were being adopted. Mississippi textbook authors continued writing ‘whites only’ history well into the 1970s and some into the 1980s.”
"Students read — and were misled — about corrupt Negro-controlled Reconstruction governments, and troublemaking civil rights activists.” said Davis’ paper, which studied the evolution of race in Mississippi history textbooks from 1900 to 1995.
That's straight up true, nothing was more corrupt than reconstruction with their carpetbaggers and their scalawags. The negros didn't help matters either. You can put them in a suit and tie alright, but then again you can put a monkey on roller skates. Neither the one nor the other proves a living thing. And Rosa Parks was a troublemaker, a communist plant.
"Many of those old textbooks, discussed slavery in that old white paternalistic way, that it was good, and (the slaves) were happy.”
"Then came Conflict and Change. It was written in the early 1970s by sociologist James Loewen of Tougaloo College and historian Charles Sallis of Millsaps College, along with several other contributors including their students."
"Unlike its predecessors, Eagles noted in his account, the new textbook boldly explored lynchings, white supremacy and Jim Crow segregation."
"The longest chapter in Conflict and Change is about the civil rights movement. A section on slavery candidly states that white Southerners tried to free themselves from the guilt of enslaving their fellow men by telling themselves that their slaves were not really people at all.”
Well if people they were, and it's an open question, they weren't people who had any rights a White man must ever respect.
"Historians may not tell what actually happened, Sallis and Loewen warned their young readers in the first chapter, an apparent jab at the Mississippi history authors that came before them."
Ah, the young readers. The impressionable minds. \ It marked a true break in Southern History. The time when the White elders were no longer permitted to pass down their heritage to the future. And when the future can't hear the past the present will be full of blood, chaos, and crime. Storm warning will soon appear in the night.
"In 1974, Sallis and Loewen submitted their book to the Textbook Purchasing Board for approval. Also submitted at the last minute was the newest book by Bettersworth, called Your Mississippi.”
Easy choice, white man.
"Bettersworth’s previous textbooks portrayed Black people only as complacent darkies or as a problem to whites. The latest iteration Bettersworth submitted, the Times reported, had updated a few of its more ridiculous descriptions of Black people’s lives. But, as Davis wrote, the book remained woefully behind the times.”
Oh the times! We must get with the times! The arc of history bends and all of that. But the times are only what we make them. And our enemies had time on their side, and now it was out of joint.
"The board could have allowed both books, letting schools pick their favorite. But the panel rejected Conflict and Change, 5 to 2, its two Black members voting in the minority."
“It was very obviously a racist decision,” Loewen remarked at the time.
Your damn skippy it was. It was racial self defense. And what were those two negros doing making decisions about what innocent White children would learn?
"The professors sued, saying Bettersworth’s latest book was inadequate, that it continued to overlook Black people’s accomplishments and that it labeled the Ku Klux Klan as only a secret social and fraternal club, among other complaints. After several years of litigation their book finally won adoption by Mississippi in 1980."
In the end they caved. The times overtook them you see. And what the times wants going forward always is less and less White power.
"Before the decision, one of the defendants, textbook committee member John Turnipseed, testified how he was concerned about a picture of a lynching that had been included in Conflict and Change. It showed white people posing near a burned black body."
I'm sure he didn't do nothing.
"He worried class discussions about lynching would be uncomfortable and make teaching difficult for a white woman teacher, especially in front of a class of mostly Black students, according to a description of his statements included in Davis’ report."
“Didn’t lynchings happen in Mississippi?” U.S. District Court Judge Orma Smith asked.
“Yes, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now?” Turnipseed replied.
“It’s a history book isn’t it?” the judge shot back.
Then let's show the pictures of the corpses of all those White women raped and murdered at the hand of negros through the ages. Let's put in pictures of all those emergency rooms dripping blood with black crime. These are history books are they not? And Turnipseed's answer is a classic examples of William Pierce's observation that we need to defend ourselves on the correct grounds. For instance Pierce says that many Whites used to say they were against White-black marriages because "the child won't be accepted by either race." When they should have said that miscegenation is an unnatural abomination. Similarly Turnipseed says he doesn't want pictures of burnt black bodies because it might make everyone "uncomfortable." When he should have said we don't want nigger citizenship and we don't want nigger curriculum. Got it?
"Conflict and Change won the Lillian Smith Book award for best southern nonfiction in 1976. got positive reviews from outlets including the New York Times, Newsweek, the Harvard Education Review, The Nation and the American Historical Association's newsletter."
Showered with all sorts of accolades and rewards he was. Up in the pecking order. Massive laudatory eulogies in all the right places.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Of course where Loewen won his ruling class spurs was with his mega anti-white book: Lies My Teacher Told Me. That's where he got his fame (such as it is ). The treachery of a dead man's deeds.
In the mid 1990s this book was a bestseller and everyone was falling all over themselves to praise it. It was a crucial link in the slow erosion of White identity.
"He based his findings on his research while on fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, where he spent two years looking through textbooks. He gave his chapters such headlines as “The Truth About the First Thanksgiving,” “Gone With the Wind: The Invisibility of American Racism in American Textbooks.”
Here he is with his claim to fame and he's going to tell you we should have used kid gloves with those scalping merciless savages. And that from 19619 to the present has been one horror show after another on these shores, a charnel house for dark of skin. When really they never had it so good, they have it much too good really. They certainly never would have had it this good anywhere else. Of course had Loewen had his way way back when we would still be living in log cabins at the edge of the wilderness while every so often our White children would be spirited away to endure certain doom and torture at the hands of conscienceless Red men.
"Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong was published in 1995 and became a favorite of students and former students as it challenged what Loewen considered a white, Eurocentric view of the past and the stale prose and bland presentations of classroom books."
Along with Howard Zinn's A People's History Of The United States this was the big book that took White America down a peg or two. It was also around that time Presidential stool sniffer Arthur Schlesinger wrote a slim volume called The Disuniting Of America: Reflections On A Multicultural Society in which the big Jew wondered if bringing in an avalanche of foreigners augured well for American social cohesion. He thought it might not.
Some of the book's Chapter Titles were:
History The Weapon
The Battle Of The Schools
The Decomposition Of America
Where were you in 1965 Arthur? Sniffing Senatorial stool?
Loewen's big book also came just after the 1992 celebration of Columbus' voyage. Of course it wasn't much of a celebration, as all the tarantulas in the media and in the schools were busily telling us how evil what he did was; Chis Columbus came in for much grief. This was when those Dead White males were being rooted out of the curriculum root and branch. It was not yet the halcyon days where they could topple every statue in sight but they were on the brink, poised.
"Back in 1992, then-Mayor of Berkeley Loni Hancock told Time Magazine that Columbus Day celebrations have been Eurocentric and have ignored the brutal realities of the colonization of native Americans."
Columbus Day became Indigenous People's Day in the People's Republic of Berkeley.
What was controversial then is assumed as matter of course by the mainstream now.
"In Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen criticizes modern American high school history textbooks for containing incorrect information about people and events such as Christopher Columbus, the lies and inaccuracies in the history books regarding the dealings between the Europeans and the Native Americans and their often deceptive and inaccurate teachings told about America's commerce in slavery."
American history is now their history, not ours. White history is verboten.
"The source of the problem, he decides, is the history textbook itself: textbooks give a dull, culturally biased account of the past, often alienating readers (particularly Native American, African American, Latino, and female readers)."
Of course he is right that the textbooks lie to the extent that they didn't offer an unqualified endorsement of the past; it's greatness; it's greatness because it was White; but of course he merely replaces those with worse lies.
"The book has racked up many awards and sold around 2 million copies since it was first published in 1995. In a new edition out this summer, James Loewen — now professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont — is championing the cause of critical thinking in the age of fake news."
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Loewen's anti-White jihad did not stop there, however---he's made an entire lucrative career out of it.
He wrote a book called Sundown Towns and sundown towns in case you don't know are when back in the good old days White communities would forbid blacks to be in the town after nightfall, sort of no darkies after dark. Because if they are not smiling how would you know they are there? No one wants to stumble across a nigger in the woodpile at three o'clock in the morning.
No darkies after dark. Make a lot of sense.
Sundown towns.
"The Supreme Court case Of Brown v. Board ruled the segregation of schools unconstitutional in 1954. Loewen argues that the case caused some municipalities in the South to become sundown towns: Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky saw drastic drops in African-American populations living in those states following the decision."
Apparently it worked.
"It is impossible to precisely count the number of sundown towns at any given time, because most towns have not kept records of the ordinances or signs that marked the town's sundown status. Loewen further notes that hundreds of cities across America have been sundown towns at some point in their history."
"Loewen writes that sundown status meant more than just that African Americans were unable to live in these towns. Any black people who entered or were found in sundown towns after sunset were subject to harassment, threats, and violence, including lynching."
So just stay out---problem solved.
"Continuing his interest in racism in the United States, Loewen wrote Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism which was released in 2005. The book documents the histories of sundown towns which are towns where African Americans, Jews, and other minorities were forced (or strongly encouraged) to leave prior to sundown in order to avoid racist violence threatened and perpetrated by the towns' majority white populations."
"Some sundown towns kept out Chinese Americans, Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, even Mormons."
If racism is to mean anything if must be catholic in its rigor, unflinching in its execution.
"Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. It also gained excellent reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. The book inspired a nationwide online initiative to monitor and list sunset towns across the USA."
"In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"―almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren't welcome―that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South."
Wherever Whites go blacks will follow; the White world and its wealth are like catnip to them; at this point all we want (because it's the best we can hope for) is separation; but as this book illustrates telling them to stay out rarely works. The funny thing is White people have no problem whatsoever staying out of black communities. Indeed we avoid them like the plague. We see a street named Martin Luther King Boulevard and we head for the hills.
"In a new preface to Sundown Towns, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement."
What else?
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"In 2010, Loewen and Edward H. Sebesta co-authored the book The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause."
As with Conflict and Change the South is the focus of his efforts; he wants to rid if of whatever romance or legacy that it still has. To show not only the evil of that society but to transpose that evil on to us today; hence confederates and neo-confederates. When in truth of course there is nothing resembling the confident White society today that would ever proclaim against negro citizenship.
"Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans—including most history teachers—think the Confederate States seceded for “states' rights. ” This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy."
He also focuses on memorial and statues, the markers of our history and wants them to be cleansed as well in a purge of Whiteness. He wants every plaque to be like the so-called "stumbling stones" they have in Germany, a testimony to what was and still needs to be got rid of. Something that vacationers can see and remind them of how bad their forebears were and they themselves are. Guilt must be institutionalized.
"Lies Across America is from the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated―and more timely than ever―version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials."
This liar seems to be riding the idea of "lies" into the sunset.
Loewen's last published book, Up a Creek, With a Paddle: Tales of Canoeing and Life, is a memoir in which he returned to his life’s work and addressed the origins of racism and inequality, the theory of history, and the ties between the two.
This dude can't even write a book about canoeing without mentioning racism. But soon the gods will be willing and the creek will rise.
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In his all out assault on White America James Loewen went to the heart of the matter---history textbooks. How history is taught in our schools is a fail-safe barometer of the health of the nation. Back in the 1930s High School history textbooks began to reflect a changing nation. No longer was settler ideology paramount but rather pluralism, the melting pot, and the emerging buzz words of the American Creed took its place. Plato said that when the music changes the gates of the city crash; when the textbooks change the nation implodes and the native people perish
"This type of engagement was typical of Loewen, who often left his university office to tour the country, meet with educators and develop materials for the K-12 school system, and otherwise did his best to ensure that his academic work had tangible benefits for racial justice movements."
He was liked the Pied Piper of White Genocide, or a reverse Johnny Appleseed: traveling the country and infecting the all too willing minds of "educators" and giving them the word that the "White man's day is done." And giving them the ammunition they want to make sure it's so.
"Perhaps the most important reason why textbooks are so bad is that ordinary people are content to believe in a biased, ethnocentric view of history. Another important bias in textbooks is their tendency to glorify the history of America’s colonization—a history full of betrayal, theft, and genocide. In the process, history textbooks present a view of history that focuses on the role of white Europeans."
"This problem is not unique to Texas or the South. While textbook publishers might not produce books that contain overt racist rhetoric, it’s no secret that history is often told through the Eurocentric lens of the white male victor, and these books continue to include language that is offensive to people of color."
"When discussing the history of New England, textbooks seem to be offering a creation myth rather than a clear, factual account of the past. In all, history textbooks implicitly portray white Europeans as heroic figures, while marginalizing the legitimate contributions of non-Europeans."
As you can see this malodorous cretin succeeded all too well in his life's work; his ideas now rule the roost, though there is still time to unravel it and place him squarely in the rubbish bin of history. But for now his version of history dominates because it dominates the field of education. By taking hold of how history is taught he and his co-worker in crime have got a foothold on how the generations will think. For the most part after all people will believe what you tell them. If you read it in a fully authorized book then it must be true. When in fact of course this subversive mush isn't worth the paper it is printed on.
"The Albemarle County school division and Montpelier received a $299,500 grant from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation last summer to support the curriculum redesign."
"Charlottesville has partnered with the Jefferson School of African American Heritage Center in its own effort to improve school curriculum."
"This is the first phase of a multi-year plan to update the division’s entire history curriculum."
"The division’s new anti-racism policy calls for creating an anti-racist curriculum, and teachers say this project is a key first step in that process."
Down in the bunker White man---here come the jackals to wrest your history, heritage and heroes from you. Redesign, update, disassemble and reassemble. Review, rewrite, change, and craft anew. You can be sure that whatever was solid in our history they are going to dismantle it, tear it apart and take it apart. When they are done with it, and they nearly are, there won't be anything left of it. Did we settle a continent? Well, it was stolen. Were we the vanguard of White World Supremacy? Well, exactly.
"Officials leading the effort said the first step to crafting an anti-racist history curriculum was to prepare teachers."
"In March, teachers toured local Confederate statues with Jalane Schmitt, a local activist and University of Virginia professor."
Sort of a listening tour to point out the evil that White men do.
"A state task force also is reviewing how African American history is taught."
“There’s a lot of energy out there right now and we have a way to harness that right now and to do something productive and operationalize what we mean by anti-racist curriculum,”
“We have to put the sources before our country, before our students, before our educators that allows them to see the dignity and the scholarship of African Americans and other marginalized groups.”
"Padrón said the purpose of creating an inquiry with an anti-racist focus is so students can start to see real narratives."
“This is the history that has already been there. We’re just choosing at this time to foreground other perspectives, marginalized perspectives, the perspectives of people who built this country and the world. And it’s always been on the backs of oppressed people. It is actually history. All of our history.”
When the say all of our history they don't mean our history, the real history. We are not included in this "us." Which is just as well of course. The kind of country they are teaching about deserves neither our consent nor assent. It is an alien history full of lies our leaders tell us.
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"Eagan High School has adopted nine anti-racism goals in order to address an education system created to support whiteness, according to an email recently sent to parents."
“As a predominantly white school, with a predominantly white faculty and staff, in a system created to support whiteness, we need to address the needs and concerns and respond to our students of color and their families,” states a webpage on “anti-racism at Eagan High School.”
“EHS will work with the District 196 curriculum leaders and our departments at Eagan HS in the process of auditing our curriculum for racist content and methods in every department.”
"The list of goals also promises to improve systems, structures, communications, and cultural expectations around access and enrollment in our honors and advanced classes for BIPOC and other underrepresented students.”
“It means that we, as a school, must interrogate our culture, curriculum, and policies to identify and dismantle racist policies.”
Interrogate and put in the dock. The White man in America's future will be forever on trial. The verdict will be: guilty. The sentence will be oblivion.
"The Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English believes it’s always a good time to teach about antiracism; however we also recognize that now is a time when most students and most adults are particularly ready to lean in and continue their understandings of antiracist teaching and learning."
That's it you see: they have decolonized the curriculum. They have removed Whiteness from it, they have torn down White America and built a new one in their own image, not ours. They'll teach that our heroes and our forefathers were bad men not worthy of our respect, homage, and praise. The fame of these dead men's deeds will be forever forgotten. Our great achievement will be damned, will be seen as illegitimate. Clearing out the Indians was a crime; any move to limit immigration was rank discrimination. From what all that is right in our history they will see nothing but lust and greed and murder; all the peoples that we conquered will rise from the graves in their books and point the accusing finger.
"Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning condemnation of memory, indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts. There are and have been many routes to damnatio memoriae, including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history. The term can be applied to all instances of official scrubbing."
It is nothing short of an ideological genocide. And James Loewen (may he roast in hell) was at the crossroads of all this, his legacy was to destroy ours.
He knew that the minds of the young are like malleable wax, and he wanted to imprint on all the young White minds how evil their people's history is, how evil they are.
The minds of the young are a battlefield.
Let's piss on his grave--and let's win it.
