When I struggle to understand where we are politically and historically as Americans, I sit down and write. I need the permanence of seeing my thoughts in print. Few people share my opinions because few people share my experiences, as is the case with anyone's opinions and conclusions.
When I first joined the real world, taking my discharge from the U.S. Air Force in 1969, it was difficult to be true to my beliefs about respect for the individual without drawing the ire and disgust of many of my new co-workers. What I put up with was nothing like what the black men and women trying to break the color barrier in Miami in the late 1960’s and the early 1970’s endured. As a social and political liberal white man during the early years of the Civil Rights movement in the south, and yes, Miami was definitely in the south, I was looked at suspiciously by both whites and blacks. I will never know the struggle or frustrations of Mel, Leonard, Bill C. and the others as they proved their worth and their hard earned value against ingrained prejudices that were often camouflaged from view. It has taken me years to reconcile what America says versus what America does, and I have not yet fully succeeded. The ingrained prejudices are alive and well, even to this day.
I dedicate my position to Sy Tyson, who always said he could tolerate anything but intolerance. Sy asked me the question that is the first line of the blog I posted several years ago about Critical Race Theory and the attempt to suppress the discussion of it. When he asked me the question, I did not know the answer.
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Critical
Race Theory
Ask a Jew why old Jewish men preferred
to buy Cadillacs.
They wouldn't buy Lincoln Continentals
because those are Ford products.
Henry Ford was a devout
Aryan, much like his colleagues Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and
most of the other multimillionaire industrialists of his era. Henry
Ford was also very vocal in his prejudices against Jews and Blacks.
He even bragged he liked Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, in which he
is the only American mentioned. Ford proudly accepted the Grand Cross
of the German Eagle award – the highest award the Nazi's could
bestow on a foreigner – on July 30th, 1938, his 75th birthday, for
his anti-Semitic writings in Detroit newspapers.
Henry
Ford was more vocal than most industrialists of his era, but he
certainly wasn't alone. Even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh, the
first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, were notorious
racists. He wrote western prowess in aviation was "one of those
priceless possessions which permit the White race to live at all in a
pressing sea of Yellow, Black, and Brown."
In the November, 1939
issue of Readers Digest, Lindbergh wrote "We, the heirs of
European culture, are on the verge of a disastrous war, a war within
our own family of nations, a war which will reduce the strength and
destroy the treasures of the White race. Our civilization depends on
peace among Western nations, and therefore on united strength. We can
have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve
that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood,
only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies
and dilution by foreign races." Adolf Hitler also awarded the
Order of the German Eagle, but with a star, to Lindbergh.
The
Aryan belief, the main political ideology in this country only
recently discussed in public debate, was established by our county's
founders. Even Thomas Jefferson, who had no great love of religion,
-- "Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and
mythologies"-- embraced it, as his suggestion for the Great Seal
of the United States was no less than Hengist and Horsa, the two
Germanic, Aryan Saxon brothers who, after invading England in 455 and
becoming the first kings of Kent, ideologically founded the
Anglo-Saxon race. The white supremacy ideology was embraced from
Jedidah Morse to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In 1907, Joseph P.
Widney, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, wrote in
his widely read two-volume set, The Race Life of the Aryan Peoples;
"Despotism is the one type of government which seems to be
normal to the mind of the Negroid, the Mongol, and the Semite; and
to-day is to them as three thousand years ago."
The writings of French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau in the 19th century and later of England’s Houston Stewart Chamberlain, fed the mid twentieth century needs of Adolf Hitler and his disciples as they perverted an entire country’s religious beliefs. They convinced the Christian Germans to annihilate over six million Jews, systematically without remorse while believing they were within bounds of one of their own covenants: “Thy Shall not Kill.”
The three laws of the Aryan dogma basically are: The white race founded all great civilizations; when the white race maintains its whiteness, civilization is maintained; when the white race loses its whiteness, civilization is lost. The Jews were simply not considered white.
Fairly straight forward, or rather, simple. It was the de facto rule of American policies until Democrat Harry Truman integrated the American military in 1948. The Aryan sympathizers lost social face in America following the discovery of the atrocities of Nazi Germany during the Second World War and especially during the Civil Rights years of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, but always simmered just below the medias' attention, until Barack Obama was elected president. Then it began to slowly boil once again, erupting in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the mentorship of President Trump.
It is again in full swing, bolstered and propagated by the interests of many diverse powers, including foreign powers which have successfully seeded and propagated the insidious disintegration of our Democratic government.
If you think the descendant families of the wealthy, international industrialists of the past have changed, you haven't paid attention to the billions of dollars spent to defeat President Obama’s social programs, or the effort taken during his tenure to prevent ANY legislation proposed by a black President from being signed into the law of the land. Medical reform, as a simple and sought-after, popular cause, was a four year battle, and regardless of its value, is the prime target for repeal by Conservatives today.
The Aryans supremacists are smarter today, they simply mask their hatred and prejudices behind the Bible and their interpretation of the Constitution. Educating the masses about the history of racism and the Critical Race Theory, especially with the fear of future generations of Latino and Black becoming the voting majority in America, is not to their advantage. Knowledge is not to their advantage.
Democracy is not to their advantage.
Think! And vote!
Henry Ford - https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1938/
The Great Seal - https://www.tjheritage.org/design-the-great-seal#:~:text=Jefferson%20on%20First%20Committee%20to,Seal%20of%20the%20United%20States.
Mitch McConnell - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-obama-laughs_n_5df32430e4b0deb78b517322
