Selling Slavery as myth

 

Truth is not an accumulation of facts.

People believe what other people tell them or a trusted news service or even their mother in law on the telephone.
Journalism is all about myth making and so is rewriting history.

The fact is that white people were also enslaved doesn't matter when it comes to the mist of black suffrage.
Whites were also sold in the meat market in Philadelphia, kids separated from their parents, husbands and wives separated from each other, just like the meat market in the Old South.
Massive Graves in Montreal testify to the dangerous and deadly mid passage that the Irish took on coffin ships often shoving dead infants through portholes in order to keep the disease that killed them from spreading in the awful below deck overcrowded chambers they were forced to live in for the months of passage from Europe to America,

A white man in the 18th and 19th century was just as likely to be whipped, branded, hung or burned in the north as the slave was in the South.

But we are being sold a myth of white guilt through things like CRT and 1619 project because it fits a particular political agenda.

Myth making is how you manipulate people, get grown athletes to kneel, and spoiled white kids to riot.

There is no doubt that African Americans suffered greatly to the process of slavery, but they are not sole possession of that experience and to sell that is to sell a lie.
People buy myths they don't buy facts.

CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, the Washington Post and other major news purveyors would go broke if people actually looked into and took into account facts rather than how media spins them into believing a myth. If facts governed belief, people would be burning down the offices of The Atlantic or the New Yorker rather than federal buildings in places like Portland.

The old film, “The man who shot Liberty Valance” reflects todays media: when confronted with fact verses myth, print the myth.

This is the reason why so many people ignore the fact that Jacobs has been charged with rape – getting admiration from prosecutors such as Kamala Harris or the George Floyd who died of a drug overdose has been made into a national hero.

We are supposed to believe that the ten or so deaths of black people at the hands of the police over the last decade indicate institutional racism when the facts show that twice as many white people are shot by cops and that 99.99 percent of the 60 million contacts with the police and public each year are either justified or peaceful, including the 5 million annual interchanges between cops and black people.

A t-shirt slogan saying black lives matters is easier to digest then all of the crime statistic or even the facts on a police report might show.
We do not have a system in colleges that teaches about the Irish famine and how people were herded ships meant for carrying lumber died in droves in the passage to America – as testified by the mass graves outside Montreal.

There is no required curriculum for teaching about the Europeans who stood naked in Philadelphia while customers looked over their bodies to see if they were healthy enough to serve as servants, children sold without their parents, husbands without their wives.

While we have the feminist movement to thank for recalling the burning of witches in Salem, we never learn about how many white people were whipped or worse, branded and mutilated, punishments as common in the north as in the south.

While people were whipped for things as silly as cursing in public or getting drunk.

The death penalty was imposed in the north just as it was in the south on white men just as frequently as the south imposed it on black men – steal a horse, a cow or mule and you got hung. Rob a rich man you died as well.

Federal employees are not required to learn about the German immigrants fleeing on overcrowded, disease-ridden ships, exploited in Europe and again in America, sold off like cattle. Employees are required to learn how to feel guilty only about the wrongs inflicted on blacks, even though many of those being forced into white guilt don’t even have ancestry that goes back that far.

Black lives do matter but it ignores the fact that the passage to America was wrought with pain for all those who came across as immigrants and that it simply ignores the white passage because it does not fit with the mythology that is being spread and the concept of reparations.
CRT is determined to brand in people's minds this concept that white people are guilty of black people's oppression when it is not a matter of color but a matter of class and that an Irish person an Italian person a German all were equal victims if not as institutionalized as it was in the south.
If 1619 project taught the truth, then people would know that slavery was already a black-on-black institution long before any black man saw a white man – and that after the slave trade was abolished, Africa’s economy collapsed because it completely relied on the sale of blacks to the international slave trade – blacks selling black enemies, black friends, black ex-lovers, even black family members.

Both CRT and 1619 project are selling myths, pretending to give us accumulated facts, much as the journalism we get from elite news media feeds of pieces of information that build on a perception, but do nothing to present real facts. Media is delivering a message that we are expected to accept as fact – when in most cases, nothing could be further than the truth.

This is why when news reports talk about a police shooting a innocent victim, it is always a black person they report on, even though two times as many whites get shot in police confrontation.
We also ignore the fact that in the past most of these confrontations between blacks and cops have to do with a criminal complaint. These aren't innocent blacks cops are targeting, but part of an escalating confrontation. Sometimes, the suspects taunt the cops looking for a reaction, and poor training causes the cops to overreact. Sometimes, a bad cop does bad things. But this is the hardly institutionalized racism radicals and media are selling to us.

Media has managed to paint sinners into saints and so do the slogans protests use. These aren’t honest statements of fact, but continued barrage of propaganda determined to create a myth we all need to believe.

The fact that 1619 Project is being taught in schools is problematic, just as much as requiring federal employees to be subjected to misinformation that leads them to feel white guilt.

We evoke the word racism in order to stifle real debate or to require an examination of facts as opposed to Myth. So, we have sports stars prompted into kneeling who ought to be celebrating their own ability to succeed in a system that gave them opportunities. You have radicals disparaging successful blacks as Uncle Toms because they managed to work hard and get their just rewards.

Facts don't matter. It is the perception of the community, the myth, that is being sold and the bill of goods that people are buying in this election by a very questionable media and by a previous administration who has a political agenda in promoting the myth.