Rewrite! 1
As a Southern Boy, from when I first became aware, I have watched as racists rewrite history so as to blame the victimized for being victims. Hell, from my first lessons in Virginia history in elementary school in the 1950’s, where the arrival of the first African slaves at Jamestown in 1619 was taught as part of “the Red Letter Year,” I was subjected to such rewritten racist propaganda–it was only later that I started to winnow out the lies (a process which, by the by, continues).
Consequently, I can say from first-hand experience that this is nothing new.
January 19, 2017 at 9:06 am
We learned long ago from the Sandra Fluke affair that Rush Limbaugh had flunked his sex education class. This week we learned that Dinesh D’Souza and Paul LePage flunked American history. Perhaps they all got their diplomas from the Kestrel Heights charter school in Durham, NC.