Thread: Here are 5 little-known facts about black history that you will NOT learn about in any #BlackHistoryMonth presentation. For complete references and documentation see my book “The End of Racism.” Buckle up!
1. American slavery didn’t last for “400 years” as the #1619Project and so many others contend. From 1619-1776 America was under British rule. American slavery was 1776-1865, which is 89 years
2. Slaves didn’t build America. The plantations the slaves built were all destroyed in the Civil War. America was built, most of all, by its original European settlers who established its political, economic and moral foundations
3. While the slaves themselves were clearly worse off in America, their descendants are better off. (This fact is obviously relevant to the reparations issue.) Muhammad Ali captured this truth when he said about his roots in Africa, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat”
4. Between 1820 and 1860 there were 3500 black slave-owners in America who collectively owned more than 10,000 black slaves. This is a well-documented fact that is nevertheless omitted from all US textbooks
5. Virtually no Republicans owned slaves. Out of 4 million slaves in 1860, historians have found around 10 owned by Republicans. The overwhelming majority of slaves were owned by Democrats, revealing that slavery was not just a regional divide but also a partisan divide
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If you want to see how abusively @TuckerCarlson and his @FoxNews team deal with people, read this thread. It's an exchange between me and Tucker's executive producer @justinbwells
I'm releasing this exchange because it's the backstory to understand why Tucker recently had on Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote. She was instructed not to mention "2000 Mules" even though the movie was out and the whole discussion centered around the material in the movie
The story goes back to early February when I produced a teaser trailer for the upcoming film. Tucker invited Catherine to come on the show and she recommended they run the teaser trailer to go with her interview. Everything seemed all set until...
1. Trump is a patriot. This means he cares about American interests, about what's good for America. It seems incredible we must spell this out, but Obama was just the opposite. His goal was to take down America #RealHistoryatHome
2. Trump showed he knows how to turbo-charge our economy. He is a quintessential capitalist, and he knows how to make capitalism work. He'll do it a second time, and this time Obama won't be able to claim credit for it #RealHistoryatHome
3. Trump is exposing the Deep State. Look at the gangsterization of government under Obama and Hillary. These thugs assembled a whole army of thuggish operatives to carry out their nefarious deeds. Without Trump it would all be hidden, and still going on! #RealHistoryatHome
Okay, I'm not going to get into the transgender thing. But a good starting place to understand Michelle Obama is to read her Princeton thesis #RealHistoryatHome
To quote Christopher Hitchens, this is a thesis, written for an Ivy League university no less, that is in "no known language." The woman was virtually illiterate. Affirmative action at its worst! #RealHistoryatHome
Also revealing is Michelle Obama's topic: "Being Black at Princeton." Yes, they give degrees for that. Although it's obvious she never belonged at Princeton, she whines about how people of the better sort like her are always having to prove themselves #RealHistoryatHome
Obama is the first truly anti-American president we have had. Not because he's black! Because he viewed America as the apex of evil in the world. Electing him was like putting a mafia chief in charge of the U.S. Treasury #RealHistoryatHome
If you do that, is it any surprise that he'll try to rob the country blind? Obama did what he set out to do. Many Americans viewed this uncomprehendingly, because they could not bring themselves to believe he actually intended harm to his own country #RealHistoryatHome
But he did. Again, his motive was ideological. He hated America because of what America and the West did to the world his father grew up in, and believed in, and ultimately came to ruin in. Obama was shaped by the twisted dreams of his perverted father #RealHistoryatHome
(1) I want to highlight two things here: first, the spirit of invention and second, the moral ideal of equality given by our Creator #realhistoryathome
(2) Both are stupendous ideas. Of course America is responsible for the vast majority of inventions over the last several decades. In fact, there are so many it makes other countries look stupid #realhistoryathome
(3) But the point is that America does this because it has created a system for generating innovation and invention. America represents not merely this invention or that one, but rather the "invention of invention" #realhistoryathome