Organization not only wants to sanitize history to pretend racism didn't happen, they oppose marriage equality or civil unions and have said homosexuality is incompatible with military service. Woodson appeared on white supremacist Tucker Carlson's program to denounce social services as bad for Black people because rich white guys are best judge. He hailed Trump election. Clearly the best expert on race relations.
Call him what you may, but he's continued to make multiple efforts on behalf of his Black brothers and sisters over the decades. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/02/25/the-missed-opportunity-of-robert-woodson https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/woodson-sr-robert-l-1937/
Right wing antigay Trump supporting white evangelicals "respond" to throughly researched award winning history with sanitized history. Make Trump happy although he will never read it. Avoid making white people uncomfortable. I heard about the Nazis before I started school. Was given Children of Vietnam, with pictures of what napalm does, at 11 and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich at 13. I guess my parents, who experienced great depression, fascism, McCarthy witch hunts wanted me to learn facts and not fairy tales.
Killing Fields was later, I was an adult. A Missouri school district forced the resignation of the only Black administrator, after she faced threats and protests from white parents. Her crime was making available the children's book Ron's Big Mission by late Challenger astronaut Ron McNair, talking about as a young boy wanting to get a book from the local library and being told he couldn't because Black children weren't allowed to check out books. Young Ron stood up to authorities and eventually was allowed to check out books. Some would call him an American hero, but the story might make white people uncomfortable. So the book and administrator had to go.
These people are ass holes of the highest degree. You could call them wannabe Nazis and we all know how bad they were, nearly taking over the world.
I was vehemently against the War in Vietnam, not because I thought the communists would be better for them but because of the stupid way we fought that war, making more enemies than friends. One time I was given this job of riding shotgun for the mail truck driver who picked up our mail in the airport in Saigon and brought it back to our unit in Cholon, a Chinese suburb. The driver looked for bicycles and small motorbikes to run off the road with our deuce and a half and into the ditch. He then went on to say how he slept with this Vietnamese girl in her home which she shared with her parents. All he had to do was bring food to them from the commissary. He told me how he had gotten her pregnant and wanted to go back to the states abandoning her and the child. I hated his guts. I heard other GIs calling them every demeaning name they could think of including mama sahn for Vietnamese bar girls and gook for all Vietnamese. Mama sahn correctly refers to a type of Japanese women and gook is Korean. Americans are mee gook, Chinese are joong gook, Koreans are hahn gook, English are yoong gook, Germans oddly enough are Dohg eel and you get the picture. Most people from other countries are correctly given Korean names that end in gook.
Bravo....we need more of this! My mother was a religious person and I struggle with religion but she had a way of serving some of her religion that made some since. She would say, "when we all stand before God, it wont be for how right we were for how we lived, but rather just how wrong everyone was in their views which suppressed the ability to come together with love and compassion.
30-second spots are generally incomplete. FWIW....(and I just realized) Kay C. James has resigned from per positions at the Heritage Foundation: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/544310-heritage-foundation-president-resigns From what I understand, she's now focusing her energies on running the Gloucester Institute: https://gloucesterinstitute.org/about-us/founder-board-chair/
Election integrity is Republican speak for keep Black people from voting and any election they lose is rigged. @ABM I have asked question after question which you have ignored. That is your right. You have gone off on multiple tangents and that is your right. Latest is promoting antigay right wing Trump supporting white evangelical group and their shiny clean version of history. That is your right as well but don't expect me to buy what you are selling.
I'm not voting for Trump (if he runs). Nor am I rah-rahing all the BLM, CRT, or other such efforts. I'm simply being me...supporting the causes that I feel are doing things in the trenches...and carrying on. I don't need to wave a big flag, march in a demonstration, nor bark in a megaphone, etc. in doing such. Boots on the ground (supporting Woodson Center, 1776 Unites, feeding the homeless in downtown Nashville, etc.) is where I'm at. I'm sure there is good and bad in all those other efforts. Personally, I'd rather be focused on the grass roots causes. You and I come from a completely different mindset, and that's OK, too. Nobody said everyone had to agree. This musical timeout from da man. R.I.P.
Rather than promote how right you are in your opinions and how wrong others are, try personal inventory, on just how you may be wrong in some of your thinking, and use it to mediate and conciliate unity, rather than divisiveness. Im speaking to all of us, including you!
