America – Imagine a
world without Her
Indictments against America:
- Theft
of Land- additional crimes
- Genocide. Victim, Native Americans
- Theft
of Mexican Territory. Victim,
Mexico
- Theft
of Labor – Further Crime, Segregation and Racism. Victim- African Americans
- Theft
of Resources. Victim, the World
- Theft
of the American Dream. Victim, the
American People
1.
Howard Zinn – People’s
History of the United States,
the New Story of American Shame
Declaration of Independence
– a cry against injustice, liberty is the solution. We ARE a nation of immigrants and settlers.
Ward Churchill – Anti-American. Said he’d drop bomb on America.
Barack Obama, says he’s going to remake America.
Detroit
was once the richest city in the world.
Look at it now.
Is the story of American Shame true or not?
- Howard
Zinn: A true historian? No.
- Professor
Ron Radosh is a leading scholar of
American Radicalism.
- Says
Howard is not a historian, but rather he was trying to inspire young
people to revolt against America.
- Zinn
claims that America
is the single most oppressive Nation in the world.
- Wants
us to join him in creating a new social revolutionary movement.
Is there a more reliable source to the history of America?
- Alexis
de Tocqueville- a French aristocrat who traveled through America in 1831 wrote the classic book,
“Democracy in America”.
- He
found Americans to be enterprising, adventurous, and above all,
innovators.
- No
American bows before another. It’s
the only place in the world where they call the waiter, “Sir”, as he were
a knight.
- Saw
the importance of Christianity in inner life, also in political life.
- Religion
must be regarded as the first of their Political Institutions.
- When a
citizen undertakes an endeavor, he does it himself or in collaboration
with others, not by soliciting its government.
- Alexis
stood on the border of Ohio and Kentucky. Ohio,
industrious. Kentucky, Idle, yet, the soil was just
as fertile in both.
- Saw
that slavery doesn’t work.
Why? No incentive for the
slaves and causes laziness in the slave owners because they let others do
all their work for them.
- He
knew this was not a thing unique to America.
2.
Most countries are founded on conquest. Conquest is how wealth was acquired, not
through entrepreneurship, invention, or business.
- Historically,
every culture has despised entrepreneurs and merchants.
- India has
a Caste system: priests, warriors, merchants and landowners, servants and
subordinates.
- Islamic
historian Ibn Khaldun says looting is morally preferable to
entrepreneurship or trade.
Why? Looting is more manly.
- In America,
wealth wealth is created through innovation, entrepreneurship, and trade.
Manhattan
in 1626 was sold by Native Americans to the Dutch for 700 bucks.
- It is
the creation of the people who built it, not the original inhabitants who
sold it.
Did Americans steal the land from the Native Americans?
- Columbus never landed in North
America.
- Actions
of the Spanish was 150 years before North America.
- Zinn
Blames America for the
sins of the Spanish, Portuguese, Great Britain,
and France.
- What
about broken treaties since 1776?
Sioux in Black Hills were offered
$1 Billion, but refused it, they want the land.
- But
is it their land?
- In
the late 1700s, the Sioux took the land from the Cheyenne, who had earlier pushed out the
Kiowa and the Arapahoe.
- What
about Genocide? From 1492 to 1692, in the two centuries after Columbus,
the Native American population declined by 80% due to diseases- measles,
typhus, smallpox, cholera and malaria as there were no immunities.
- Just
a century and a half earlier, 1/3 of the Europe was wiped out by bubonic
and pneumonic plagues, from Asia. Did Zinn shame the Asians as committing
genocide? No. I didn’t think so.
- If
the Native Americans wanted to, they could return to that way of
life. Instead, they have chosen
tribal self-government, building resorts and casinos, and other
entrepreneurial business.
3.
Theft of Mexican Territory? Did we steal ½ of Mexico in the Mexican War?
·
Ted Cruz- there were Texians in that area. General Santa Ana
was a dictator in Mexico. He began stripping rights from the
Texians. They began to revolt to protect
their freedom and independence. They
fought a revolution and they won.
·
A border war ensued, the American Government got
involved and we took all of mexico,
the whole country, including Mexico
City. Then we
retired its debt and gave ½ of the country back to them.
·
The people on the American side of the border
were made American Citizens.
·
The word Mexican is an adjective, the word
American is a noun. Temo Muniz is a law
student active in Hispanic politics.
He’s an American with Mexican heritage.
He loves the American Dream.
Would he move down from Texas to Mexico? No.
Why? Because the cartels would
destroy his dream. If somehow Mexico re-obtained that land, he’d move to Minnesota.
·
Border Patrol was asked how many folks are
sneaking from America down
to Mexico. None.
·
What if America
had kept all of Mexico? What would it be like now?
4.
Theft of Labor:
Lincoln
headed up what the Democrats called the Black Republican Party.
- Declaration
of Independence
means “men were created equal… in certain inalienable rights, among which
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Lincoln knew that the Founding Fathers could not have
outlawed slavery and still had a Union. No southern state would have joined such
a union and slavery would have lasted much longer.
- Fredrick
Douglas once called Lincoln
the White Man’s President. There
was a movement by many blacks and at one time Lincoln
to consider relocating blacks to Africa, but meeting Lincoln
restored his faith in America
- Douglas
didn’t want to leave nor destroy America. He wanted to participate in America.
- For
the 1st time in history, a Great War was fought to end slavery.
- 300,000
Northern soldiers died.
The Civil Rights Movement was not a break with the American
founding. The principles were already
set down in the Declaration of Independence.
·
The principles were already set down in the
Declaration of Independence.
·
“The topic of race more than any other generates
taboos. Taboos are the enemy of history
and truth.”
·
White Indentured Servants- Starting in 1618,
children captured from the streets of London
were sold into colonial America.
·
Over the next 150 years, 150,000 Irishmen women
and children were declared soldiers of war and sold as Indentured Servants in Virginia and New England.
·
Indentured Servitude usually lasted 7 years, but
some were extended or died there. They
worked side by side with Black slaves, and at one time, outnumbered them.
William Ellision owned 1000 acres and 60 slaves. He was perhaps once a slave himself. He practiced slave breeding, a practice very
frowned upon even at that time.
- Henry
Louis Gates and other scholars estimate that, in a period before the Civil
War, there were approximately 3,500 free African-Americans who owned more
than 10,000 Black slaves.
- In South Carolina,
about the same percentage of black as whites owned slaves.
- Slavery
existed all over the world.
Egyptians, Chinese, Africans, American Indians all had slaves, long
before Columbus
came into the scene.
- Tragically,
slavery continues today.
- That
French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville, made mention as to why slavery
just doesn’t work. For one thing,
there’s no incentive in it for the Black slave. Why should they want to produce for
another under such horrid conditions?
For another, it doesn’t come even close to benefiting the slave
owner either. It makes them lazy,
among other things. It just doesn’t
work.
What is uniquely Western is the Abolition of slavery. What’s uniquely American is the fighting of a
Great War to end it.
Madame Walker and her daughter Lelia- aka Sarah Breedlove…
- Sold
hair care products door to door.
- She
became the first self-made female millionaire in America.
- Why
isn’t she in the history books? Why
isn’t Michael Moore and Elizabeth Warren talking about her?
- Why
doesn’t Matt Damon talking about her?
Heah Chowd? How bout’ dim
apples?
- Martin
Luther King once said, “Every man must write with his own hand the charter
of his Emancipation Proclamation.
We are all in this country a minority of one and how we succeed or
fail depends on our efforts.”
5.
Theft of Resources
Did America
get rich by stealing from other countries?
Since the Vietnam War, we were charged with America the Imperialist.
- Jeremiah
Wright, Barack Obama’s spiritual advisor, “Not God bless America, God damn America.”
- Bill
Ayers – founder of the Weather Underground- He bombed the Pentagon. He’s now a college professor.
- John
Fer: pilot in the Air Force- Plane was shot down, he was captured and
interrogated. He went to Vietnam to “try and help South Vietnam stand on their
own two feet.” POW for 6 years, he
came home to a different America.
- In Iraq,
we spent a lot of money, then turned over the oil fields to Iraquis. They attempted to burn it all down
anyway, iirc.
- In Afghanistan,
after 9-11, even while bombing terrorist targets, we were delivering food
rations to Afghan civilians.
- American
rebuilt Japan and Germany.
- We
are NOT the bad guys of the world.
Colin Powell – “The only land that America asks
for abroad is land to bury our dead.”
6.
Theft of the American Dream
Capitalism- Does it rip off the consumer?
- Burger
Joints. How much does that burger
cost you? How much does it cost you
to make it? At home? How about your labor and time put into
it?
- Steve
Jobs- the I-phone. His products
changed the world.
- “Capitalism
works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the
consumer.
- Matt
Damon puts in 6 weeks of work to earn several million dollars. “How does he make the money? The consumers who buy tickets to his
movies. In other words, you.”
Elizabeth Warren:
- “You
moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.”
- “You
hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.”
- Entrepreneurs
and business owners do use public services. But so does everybody else.
- Let’s
say a business owner makes 4x as much as the employees. They pay up to 4x as much taxes... or
double or whatever. Or none like
Trump haha! Does she get to drive
4x as fast on the highway? Will the
fire dept. arrive 4x as fast?
What about the Rest of the World?
- The
world is embracing the Free Market.
- Jagdish
Bhagwati- professor of economics at Columbia University-
researcher of Global Capitalism… In less than 15 years, 200 million people
in India
have pulled out of poverty. In China,
400-500 Million people have done the same, more because they started
earlier.
“Capitalism is the most important moral case.”
- “The
people opposing it are the ones who really undermine the fortunes of the
poor.” Democrats.
Charity – Aurthur Brooks… Income redistribution?
- The
folks of the religious conservative side give away the most, about 4x as
much as people who are on the secular left.
- Star
Parker- believed the poor were poor because the wealthy were wealthy. She was on welfare, heard the gospel,
had some close friends stick their fingers in her face and said, “Your
lifestyle is unacceptable to God.”
She went back to college, got a degree, started a business, runs an
organization today, now helps herself and many, many others. Oh, and I’d bet she feels pretty good
about things today as well. Now
that’s your Republican.
- America’s
wealth is not stolen. It’s created.
U2’s Bono: Thinks it’s not a “Right/Left issue, but a
Right/Wrong issue.” He said, “America is an
Idea, isn’t it? Ireland is a
great country, but it’s not an idea.”
Saul Alinsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s
dreamiest mentor… wants the Haves to feel guilty and the Have-Nots to feel
resentful.
