"They should go further and make a statement about the shameful omission in teaching history at all levels in this country---about how the presence of slavery built the country's wealth and infrastructure and how history is not taught. "
Umm, in all my years of schooling (Including gaining a B.A. in History with an unofficial focus on American history) and my experience as a substitute teacher, I've never seen history classes omitting the role slavery played in America's growth.
"All these places need to come clean and then offer massive scholarships to Black students to atone for their deeply collusiveness and apathetic behavior."
1. As I've noted in earlier post, when someone capitalizes one race but does not do so for other races, that tends to be a good indication that the person in question is either (If it's their own race they're capitalizing) a hardcore racist trying to subtly make their own race look superior, or (If it's someone else's race they're capitalizing) a gutless, sniveling racial sycophant kissing up to the race in question to make themselves look good.
2. What this DUmmy is proposing, handing out "Massive" scholarships purely on the basis of skin color, sounds like it would be a quite blatant case of institutionalized racism.
3. This "Reparations"- based approach has always gotten to me. Yeah, horrible atrocities in the past have happened, and no, they shouldn't be forgotten or overlooked. However, throwing some free benefits at people who happen to look kind of like those who were oppressed/ mistreated hundreds of years ago won't change any of that.
Geez! If the Ds ever got serious about reconciling their history with their current ideologies,publicly, chaos and insanity would result. Off the top of my head:
* Jefferson was a slave owner;
* Jackson was a slave owner; Jackson signed the law that forced the Cherokee to move to OK, and his former VP, Van Buren, enforced it;
* Polk was the President of Manifest Destiny; he divided the Oregon Territory with Britain; he oversaw the annexation and statehood of Texas; he oversaw the Mexican American War;
* The KKK was formed by leading Ds in the South;
* Jim Crow Laws were the creature of D governments;
* Wilson's Administration purged blacks from the Federal Civil Service;
* FDR declined to deal with the problems of Jim Crow Laws and lynchings, because he needed the "Democratic Solid South" to be elected and reelected;
* JFK dealt with MLK and the Civil Rights Movement very gingerly at best, also being very dependent on the votes of southern states;
* LBJ was smarter and more cynical than JFK; he knew which way the wind was blowing and growing; he knew that, however the Civil Rights Act got passed, he and the D Party would get credit for it; in the event, the Civil Rights Act got passed due to R support, but his instinct was correct;
* The Vietnam War was the creature - from the American side - of JFK and LBJ.
A couple others I'd add:
1. On the subject of JFK, it took the hideous murder of Emmett Till to get Kennedy to start seeing Civil Rights as a moral issue rather than just a political one.
2. Two prominent Senate Democrats, KKK leader Robert "Senator Sheets" Byrd (Aka Hillary Clinton's mentor) and Al Gore Sr. (Aka the father of the ex- VP and current climate- change con man), filibustered the Senate to try and keep the 1964 Civil Rights Act from passing.
3. Speaking of Byrd, while he eventually left the Klan, this was merely in order to prevent any further political embarrassment from coming due to his involvement with the Klan. He still held to the racist views he always had (i.e. in 2001, he was quoted as saying there were a lot of "White Ni$$$rs" in America).
