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The history of America appears to start with a great revolt against British colonialism, called the ‘American Revolution.’ Yet, the story of the American Revolution and it’s supposed founding fathers differ fundamentally from that which is referenced everywhere other than American textbooks.
The first shot of the ‘American revolution’ has been described as being heard “around the world,” in a conflict which students are taught has changed the course of world history. The revolution, though, is barely mentioned in world history, while some countries do not describe the ‘great revolution’ as anything more than a proxy war between France and Britain.
The revolution which America has so proudly claimed has turned out to be neither an economic nor a territorial defeat. While many sources express that the war had been fought with patriotic farmers who had defended their land with shovels, proof extracted from France begs to differ.
The war fought by the Americans was funded militarily by France. The officers of the supposed American revolution were formed largely of veterans of the French and Indian, anti-colonialism campaigns.
George Washington
George Washington, the proclaimed military father of America, is also one of the majorly disputed topics in American history. George Washington had played a very small role in the ‘victory’ of America. In fact, rather than leading the war, George had waited to be rescued by France.
Being explained as “altruistic men who set out to establish the land of the free,” which the military leaders of the great revolution were far from, it has been documented in the few sources about the war, that such people had been more interested in self-interest than sacrificing their lives for their land and people.
The prosperous leaders were businessmen like Benjamin Franklin and Robert Morris, or landowners like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington who were all heavily involved in slave trades, with little incentive to push for the abolition of slavery. During the conflict, it has been documented that slaves had protested the supposed leaders, rather than supporting them as it has otherwise been claimed.
The slave trade
The storybooks of the great American history then sold the slavery of the Africans as a misunderstanding, explaining that the Americans watched in total confusion as the Africans rowed to the shores of Virginia in 1619.
The slave trade extended far beyond America. Begining in 1400 and ending in the late 1900s, approximately 12 million Africans were stolen from their homes and shipped like cargo to Europe and America. Over 20% of the people abducted never saw land again after falling sick or committing suicide due to inhuman conditions on these ships, while women and girls endured torture and abuse on the decks above.
Branded and shaved Africans arrived in America in 1619 and were enslaved till 1865, in a process which started with a deal for rum between African Kings and the white men.
The whites, who preached a universal religion, would soon come to the realization that slavery had been abolished in their holy book. To resume enslaving fellow Christians, the justification was needed. So it was claimed that Africans were biologically inferior and destined to become enslaved.
Between 1619 and 1865, Virginia passed more than 130 slave statutes to regulate the ownership of Black people.
- A 1662 law made all children of enslaved mothers slaves, regardless of the father’s race or status, so that rape by white slave-masters couldn’t create a free child.
- A 1667 law codified that slaves who converted to Christianity were still slaves.
- A 1669 law allowed slaves to be killed for resisting authority, later it was made a crime for slaves to grow or possess their own food, gather in groups, or learn to read.
- In 1740, a fifth of the New York population was constituted of slaves. Enslaved Africans accounted for 13% of the American population by 1860, while in Mississippi alone slaves made up 55% of the total population.
To date, approximately 250 revolts have been sparked by the enslaved against the whites, with the most famous being the Nat Turner revolt in 1831 which saw 51 whites were killed.
Maintaining the institution of slavery had become a root cause of the civil war. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States and ideological leader, had written in 1862 that if he could “free the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it.”
The Tulsa Massacre
The ‘Tulsa riots,’ American historians say, is the biggest violent demonstration in the country’s history. But was the Tulsa riots really a riot, or a massacre fuelled by resentment?
On June 1, 1921, chaos erupted in the Greenwood district of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, a segregated area at the time which was widely known as the “Black Wall Street.” Anger ensued among the city’s white residents after rumours began to spread of an encounter a young black man, Dick Rowland, had with a white woman, Sarah Page, just two days prior.
On May 30, 1921, a 19-year-old black shoeshine man named Dick Rowland entered the Drexel building downtown to use the segregated restroom. While approaching the elevator, which apparently hadn’t stopped evenly with the floor, Rowland tripped and fell on the operator, a 17-year-old white girl named Sarah Page. The girl screamed, drawing the attention of onlookers who yelled “rape.”
Rowland was subsequently arrested the same day, and the town’s newspaper called for his lynching. This then led to an armed standoff at the courthouse between a white mob, that came to kill Rowland, and an outnumbered group of black residents, who arrived to help protect him but were eventually forced to retreat.
Chaos continued over the next 12 hours or so, according to reports, and flames engulfed many parts of the black-occupied areas of Greenwood. White rioters ransacked the town as they went on a shooting and looting rampage attacking its black residents.
A witness of the event, Buck Colbert Franklin, explained, “I could see planes circling in mid-air. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top.”
Why were government helicopters bombing the blooming Black Wall Street?
Greenwood had flourished and became a symbol of black wealth, pride, and unity. At its height, the business centre boasted of various grocery stores, drug stores, churches, funeral homes, restaurants, banks, hotels, and the likes. The community was completely self-sufficient and became the home of many black multimillionaire entrepreneurs. With this growth and success came envy from white Tulsans. Many of the businesses in Greenwood (which they referred to as “Little Africa”) were more prosperous than those in the white community.
J.F.K. Killed by a communist
How is Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot JFK, the 35th president of the USA who was assassinated, identified in the majority of American textbooks? A former marine. A deranged marine. In “48 liberal lies about American history,” Larry Schweikart shared that of the top 20 district textbooks in America, only one correctly identifies the killer of JFK as a communist.
Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist member of the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee and, after his arrest, tried to reach Communist Party USA attorney John Abt to act as his counsel. “Before Mr Abt could accept or reject the bid, Mr Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby,” The New York Times noted.
Oswald’s Russian connections are sometimes noted in the anniversary-coverage, but treated as inconclusive, or even as evidence that the Soviets could not possibly have killed Kennedy because their connection to Oswald was too well-known and too many fingers would point to Moscow as the culprit.
“Oswald was a supporter of Soviet-backed Cuba,” CNN reports. But it then quotes an amateur researcher named Dave Perry as saying, “We know Oswald was in the Russian embassy in Mexico City. We even know who he talked to. But we don’t know what was said. Then a few weeks later, he shoots Kennedy.”
In fact, as noted by former FBI agent Herman Bly in his book, Communism, the Cold War, and the FBI Connection, Oswald met with a Soviet KGB espionage agent connected with KGB Department Thirteen, which was in charge of assassinations. Bly had gone to the U.S. Embassy in 1965, on assignment for the CIA, and reviewed its files on Soviet personnel in Mexico City.
Yet this was not the first occasion on which America refused to blame Russia.
Rosenbergs
Rosenbergs, who were executed after leaking information about atomic bombs to U.S.S.R, was later declared ‘wrongfully executed’ despite substantial proof.
Rosenberg, a former member of the communist party, and his wife were convicted in a controversial trial on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage edged and sentenced to death in April 1951. The controversy over there guild has continued to the present day, yet, their guilt is established beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Confessed by their longtime collaborator, it was admitted that Julia Rosenberg had passed atomic bomb secrets to the soviets. Just recently one of the children of the Rosenbergs agreed that his dad was a spy. Yet, the execution was mirrored as a mistake because “they were no major spies and the information they revealed was not important.”
As if passing the single biggest secret of the late 1940s of the most deadly weapon in history being passed to ones biggest enemy is not important.
The government’s case against the Rosenbergs rest on the testimony of the supposed accomplices which were secretly coached by the FBI.
The information which was delivered to the U.S.S.R was a replication of an atomic bomb, but it was not the “actual design and diagram of the atomic bomb.”
When the U.S.S.R. fell the KGB records were released and there were the Rosenbergs public front and centre as paid agents. None other than Nikita Khrushchev said the Rosenbergs provided very significant help in advancing the Soviet atomic bomb.
Witch Trials
Shaping America’s features of winning fake glories with sanitary hands was another massacre carried out by accident. Additionally, in 1689, a recent smallpox epidemic sparked fears of attacks from neighbouring Native American tribes and a longstanding rivalry with the more affluent community of Salem Town. Amid simmering tensions, the Salem witch trials would be fueled by residents’ suspicions of and resentment toward their neighbours, as well as their fear of non-whites.
In January 1692, a 9 and 11-year-old began having fits, including violent contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After a local doctor diagnosed bewitchment, other young girls in the community began to exhibit similar symptoms.
Many innocent people had been mercilessly killed, mostly slaves, in the hunting. In late February, arrest warrants were issued for those whom the girls accused of bewitching them. It had later been held that the evidence to continue witch trials were insufficient. A day of fasting was declared for the tragedies that had been inflicted, and all was resolved.
