{"id":1263,"date":"2016-06-05T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2016-06-05T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T17:05:56","slug":"hoodwinkedcivil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"HOODWINKED\/”CIVIL WAR”"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHOODWINKED<\/strong>
\nAt 79 years of age and the recipient of a B.A. from Baylor and an M.A. from Trinity, I believe I can testify as an expert witness against the institution called \u201cPublic Education\u201d.<\/p>\n

I have been incensed for numerous years at not only WHAT I was taught, but at what I was NOT taught\u2026especially in the subject of American History.<\/p>\n

If you think you are safe because you attended \u201cback in the day\u201d, think again!<\/p>\n

Face it; we were lied to, whether intentionally or not, by our teachers. It\u2019s a bitter pill to swallow. I once was a public school teacher, thank goodness not in American history where I might have been an unknowing purveyor of lies, distortions\u2014revisionism.
\nThen you think about the unlucky young ones today when the entire system has sunk deeper & deeper into a collectivist cesspool\u2014taking unsuspecting, innocent kids (& often parents) with it and lament.<\/p>\n

A perfect example is the brouhaha encompassing the subject of the \u201cCivil War\u201d in recent times. Thanks to honest truth-seekers writing well-documented articles & books on the facts rather than the phantasmagoric tales told by the \u201cvictorious\u201d Northern revisionist history writers, we are finally (after 150+ year Lincoln cover-up) able to understand what really happened and why. (See resource list below for some recommendations.)<\/p>\n

The fact that the truth is finally making its way into public view is probably the true reason behind the resurgence & repetitive showings of the old TV series \u201cRoots\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to numerous sources, Alex Haley\u2019s \u201cRoots\u201d is pure fiction. (Here is one http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/reviews\/opinion\/item\/6335-alex-haleys-fraudulent-roots ) <\/p>\n

Excerpts:
\n\u201cIn fact, to describe Roots merely as \u201cfiction\u201d is to treat Haley with more charity than he deserves. In at least three critical respects, Haley was downright dishonest.
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\nHaley and the History of Slavery <\/strong>
\nBlack commentator Stanley Crouch doesn\u2019t mince words when it comes to Alex Haley. Haley, Crouch insists, was a \u201cruthless hustler\u201d and \u201cone of the biggest damn liars this country has ever seen.\u201d Crouch likens Haley to Tawana Brawley, the young black woman who infamously lied about being raped and humiliated by a white police officer. Like the lie concocted by Brawley and abetted by the likes of Al Sharpton, Haley\u2019s story is also a \u201choax\u201d that beautifully illustrates \u201chow history and tragic fact can be pillaged by an individual willing to exploit whatever the na\u00efve might consider sacred.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to(Thomas) Sowell, Roots did more harm than good in fueling \u201cthe gross misconception that slavery was about white people enslaving black people.\u201d In reality, \u201cthe tragedy of slavery was of a far greater magnitude than that.\u201d Slavery knew no racial boundaries. \u201cPeople of every race and color were both slaves and enslavers, for thousands of years, all around the world.\u201d Sowell likens slavery to cancer in that it transcends time and place. He concludes: \u201cIf reparations were to be paid for slavery, everybody on this planet would owe everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haley and Plagiarism<\/strong>
\n\u201cIn the late 1960s, Harry Courlander \u2014 a white man \u2014 composed The African, a fictional work about a young African boy who is captured, made to endure the horrors of the mid-Atlantic passage, and eventually sold into slavery in America. In 1978 he sued Haley for plagiarism. Upon expressing regret that at least 81 passages were lifted virtually verbatim from Courlander\u2019s novel and recast in Roots, and upon the Judge\u2019s unambiguous finding that Haley was guilty of plagiarism, Haley agreed to an out of court settlement whereby he would pay Courlander $650,000 (roughly $2 million in today\u2019s currency). \u201c
\n
\nHaley and his Roots<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHaley\u2019s claims to the contrary aside, professional genealogists Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills have demonstrated beyond a doubt that there is no formal documentation to corroborate \u201cthe oral tradition\u201d regarding Haley’s family history. Moreover, the very documentation to which Haley refers \u2014 \u201cplantation records, wills, census records\u201d \u2014 repudiates this tradition. The Mills are to the point: \u201cIn truth, those same plantation records, wills, and censuses cited by Mr. Haley not only fail to document his story, but they contradict each and every pre-Civil War statement of Afro-American lineage in Roots.\u201d <\/p>\n

This merely demonstrates the tip of the lying iceberg behemoth of American history revisionism and the immense damage it has done to all Americans. Many Whites have taken on unnecessary, unearned guilt and many Blacks have been convinced that they are eternal \u201cvictims\u201d of White oppression and use that as an excuse for bigotry, hatred, & sometimes criminal behavior. Ironically, mostly White politicians & bureaucrats have harmed more blacks (& other races) through the effects of the welfare state most likely than the institute of slavery in this country. <\/p>\n

Conclusion: Virtually everything we have been told & taught regarding this particular period of time in our history, as well as the Founding & subsequent other periods of time have been skewed, twisted, revised and downright lied about. As a society, we have been hoodwinked, probably irreparably, into our own demise. The enlightened Founding Principles are lying at the bottom of the revisionist garbage heap, perhaps never to be rediscovered again.<\/p>\n

~Barbara McCutchen<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Real Lincoln\u201d by Thomas DiLorenzo; \u201cThe South Was Right\u201d by S.A. Steele; \u201cEverything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong\u201d by Lochlainn Seabrook; \u201cThe Un-Civil War\u201d by Leonard Scruggs<\/p>\n

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