tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305534854340445347.post7559545088118603908..comments2023-11-02T04:06:52.896-07:00Comments on The view from here: Post America AmericaCharlemagnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00895315810475432344noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305534854340445347.post-91806042466182826312008-03-21T08:29:00.000-07:002008-03-21T08:29:00.000-07:00I challenge some of your initial assumptions, Char...I challenge some of your initial assumptions, Charlemagne. It is not at all certain that a country called the United States will survive. It is not at all certain that, if a country by that name does survive, it will control all or most of the territory that it does now. Our form of government has changed radically, at least four times, in 1865-1877, 1913, 1933, and 1965. The character of the nation, or of its founding generation anyway, has obviously not survived. Surviving in the anarcho-tyranny that our country has become will leave few people time or energy to worry about history.mikejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01819651219822075922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305534854340445347.post-14516787289578130882007-11-20T19:26:00.000-08:002007-11-20T19:26:00.000-08:00Insightful post. The part about the framing of US ...Insightful post. The part about the framing of US history, esp. as taught to youth, really hits home what racial change will mean.<BR/><BR/>I dread to imagine an American history class in the year 2200 or so. "The grand voyages of discovery by the early European explorers"--Racist conquerors, slavers,genocidal maniacs who invaded peace-loving saints and slaughtered them. "The defeat of Britain to found the nation"--One of the many peculiar fratricidal wars among the war-crazed hateful white people, relatively unimportant to American history. May get one small paragraph in the textbook. "The struggle of the civil war in terms of states rights"--Once called 'The Civil War' by white racists, The Great Slave-Liberation War, led by General John Brown, was one of the most glorious events of the past 500 years. Relatively minor participants such as R.E.Lee and U.S.Grant will not be mentioned. "WWI or WWII"-More peculiar fratricidal wars by Europeans with some involvement by European colonists from America. The details of the Wars are largely omitted, except the Holocaust--which is given three chapters in the text-- but it <I>is</I> stressed that the result of the wars was one of the greatest events in all history, as it broke the will of European people across the globe to continue their racist ways and set the stage for God's chosen darker races to ascend to Power and stop the racist white rule of terror and genocide forever.<BR/><BR/>"Rather US history is viewed from the perspective of slavery, racial oppression, and the struggles of the civil rights era."-Each of these is naturally given a chapter. M.L.King Jr is given two pages, Malcolm X one page. George Washington two sentences. George Washington Carver, three sentences.Protestanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14713631976294138810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305534854340445347.post-48385931786854161662007-06-11T14:53:00.000-07:002007-06-11T14:53:00.000-07:00Thank you for the catch.Thank you for the catch.Charlemagnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895315810475432344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305534854340445347.post-9134746872600188102007-06-10T16:43:00.000-07:002007-06-10T16:43:00.000-07:00I would be amiss if I were not to correct the blog...I would be amiss if I were not to correct the blog's author in stating that Santayana; that is, George Santayana, the Spanish-born philosopher, was not in fact Antonio de Santana, the alluded to Mexican general commanding the Mexican army at the Battle of the Alamo.JSwordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06105947544708105475noreply@blogger.com