Back in the 80's I argued that the threat of AIDS and heterosexuals was false. While it was true gays had bathhouses and discos, heteros had swinger clubs (look up PLATO'S RETREAT) and also had promiscuous drug filled sex during the same time, but the only heteros coming down with the disease at the time were people who had been given tainted blood and those who share needles.
You can only imagine how that went over. Meanwhile books like AND THE BAND PLAYED ON, hundreds of plays in the 80's and 90's (thankfully they all seem to have vanished) whipped up the hysteria. By 2000, 6 million Americans would be dead from the disease we were told. That would mean every single person would have family members who were straight who had died from the disease. How many straight family members did you lose?
Let me guess. Since 1990, the number of straight family members you've lost is zero.
WASHINGTON -- Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized American politicians of the last century, new information -- including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy conversations -- are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his accusations.
"With Joe McCarthy it was the losers who've written the history which condemns him," said Dan Flynn, director of Accuracy in Academia's recent national conference on McCarthy, broadcast by C-SPAN.
Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in Moscow and now the famous Venona Intercepts -- FBI recordings of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 -- the record is showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct. Whether it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S. foreign policy, communist victories in the 1940s were fed by an incredibly vast spy and influence network.
Hold on folks, there's more:
Asked whether McCarthy had understood all the forces arrayed against him, Herman said no, that McCarthy hadn't realized he'd be fighting against much of the Washington establishment. President Truman was fearful that exposures would reflect on key Democrat officials, he said, and big media and the academic world were very leftist, a heritage of the Depression and World War II. High government officials also feared investigations of their past appointments and associations with people who turned out to be communists or sympathizers.
That was the reason McCarthy was so demonized, he said.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17401
So how many films, plays, books are being done on either the smear campaign or the truth about McCarthy- there are two books with the new information.
That's it.
Meanwhile every time you hear, read or use the word McCarthyism, you are helping to create a false pattern.
Get it yet?
Can you handle the truth? I am the rare bird who enjoys being proven wrong and changing my beliefs. Don't most people prefer to live in the safety of their own delusions?
Especially if they are shared by "everyone"?
Now, let's look at the first time the North used racism in the South, and why that had to be covered up.
The omission from mainstream history of both the Black Seminoles and the slave rebellion that they led is a curious phenomenon. The oversight is all the more interesting since the rebellion was not some obscure event that took place in a rural backwater, but rather a series of large-scale, disruptive escapes that occurred in conjunction with the largest Indian war in U.S. history and that resulted in a massive, well-documented destruction of personal property. http://www.johnhorse.com/highlights/essays/largest.htm
This rebellion took place over 1835-38 and it involved plantation slaves in a classic uprising. The rebellion reached its peak in the first months of 1836, when hundreds of Florida slaves fled their plantations to join the Seminoles. White owners said that their slaves had been "captured" by Indians, but this was merely a gloss on circumstances that horrified the slaveholders. Indians did not capture the slaves. The slaves escaped.[11]
Planning for the mass defections had been underway for over a year. According to Kenneth Wiggins Porter, Black Seminole leaders made frequent visits to Florida's plantations throughout 1835, cementing ties to the field hands. When war erupted, hundreds of blacks fled to the Seminoles in an action that General Thomas Sydney Jesup described as a pre-arranged conspiracy:
"I have ascertained beyond any doubt, not only that a connection exists between a portion of the slave population and the Seminoles, but that there was, before the war commenced, an understanding that a considerable force should join on the first blow being struck."
Field slaves fought prominently in several early engagements. Many defectors painted their faces to signal their new allegiance. Urban and house slaves did their part as well, joining with free blacks from St. Augustine to help the Seminoles obtain critical supplies like powder and lead.[12]
In the general uprising, blacks and Indians specifically targeted the sugar plantations along the St. John's River, west of St. Augustine. At the time these were some of the most developed plantations in all U.S. territory. Their destruction was swift and devastating. By February of 1836, less than two months into the war, the Seminole allies had destroyed 21 plantations. Where slavery and sugar mills once flourished, soldiers found smoking ruins and an industry laid waste.[13] http://www.johnhorse.com/highlights/essays/largest.htm
In 1819 after Spain sold Florida to the America's 200,000 trained troops marched in to fight the 4000 ex slaves and Indians who were living together. The troops were crushed! Troops were wary to go after them, and the Seminoles continued intermarrying with and welcoming slaves on the run.
In the Battle of Lake Okeechobee 400 Indians and slaves battled over 1000 troops led by future President Zachary Taylor until Taylor retreated. You won't find that battle in history books, because the victors of the Civil War lost that one.
It was racism that drove the troops from the North to Florida:
The two races, the negro and the Indian, are rapidly approximating: they are identical in interests and feelings. Should the Indians remain in this territory the Negroes among them will form a rallying point for runaway negroes from the adjacent states", U.S. Major General Sydney Jesup
The Underground Railroad has long been exposed as a partial myth few actually used, but this was a real threat that drew thousands of runaway slaves to Florida.
So it was decided to use racism on the population of whites that had written off runaway slaves as "captured by Indians" so as to avoid confrontation. It was the first time we know of that the North injected racism into an area it had not existed before.
So here are the roots, reconstruction was the result.
