Showing posts with label Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Not Quite Everything My Teacher Never Told Me

A new friend dropped off some books today. I raced through my "have to be done every day" chores, then started right in reading one called: Lies My Teacher Told Me, Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Lowen.

On the cover there's a can of white paint, a dripping brush and a lable that says "white wash." I thought sure it would fill in some of the missing parts of history that I only just learned when I started my ACL studies in 1999. Since that time I've looked at hundreds of history text books, and after a while I could spot the communitarian introductions within a few pages. (One book, called "The Dilemma of Democracy" almost didn't even need to be opened.) So I'm familiar with all the current rewrites of our history by the Fabians. But I was still hoping this wasn't them. I didn't like seeing Howard Zinn's praise on the cover, it was a flag, but I decided maybe it wasn't another one of those kinds of history books that tell America's story as if we've always been a Marxist struggle for democracy.

So, I got as far as page 19 when he's telling "all" about Helen Keller and President Woodrow Wilson. Now the first part about Wilson being a racist was really interesting, and I didn't know his attitudes helped rejuevinate the KKK. But then he blames Wilson's racist beliefs in his Southern upbringing, and forgets to mention the racist Zionists Wilson surrounded himself with.

Loewen never mentions that Wilson appointed the first Zionist to the US Supreme Court, or how that affected the state of our union today. He never even mentions that Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, or what that is, or the fact that it's not a branch of the US Govt. He never mentions the Balfour Declaration and how that affected the Palestinian people of today. These were the things I didn't know anything about when I started studying Etzioni, and I'm one of the retards Loewen talks about who aced US history but never learned anything. I stopped reading his book and went to see if there's an idex at the back of his text, there is, and he didn't include Zionism, the Fed, or the Balfour Declaration. What a let down.

How can you write a tell-all book about US history and completely leave out the role of the Zionists? Their influential presence in the US over the last 100 years is hardly something we're taught in public schools. Wilson's Zionist appointees worked out the kinks in the Administrative Proceedures Act of 1946, which was written to regulate the Fed and today is the authority used for all the municipal and county level communitarian administrative courts. I found that all rather amazing as an American when I learned about that "hidden" piece of US banking history.

Here's what we wrote about Wilson in Part II of the ACL manifesto:
Woodrow Wilson was elected on a no-war platform, and in 1917 he petitioned the U.S. Congress to enter World War One. Here's where the dialectic gets really tricky. Information from around this time is contradictory, and reference to actual historical documents is labeled conspiracy theory, or worse. We have verified the Balfour declaration to Rothschild (Balfour 1917) and a first draft for a League of Nations (Balfour 1922), which has evolved into the modern day United Nations (Rothschild 2003). President Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter World War I (Wilson 1918) is connected to Colonel Mandel House, Zionism (Balfour-Palestine Mandate 1922), and Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis and Wendell Holmes (Lariens 19--).
Not that I'll ever have time to go back to this topic area, but I'd sure like to see how many of these "exposes" include a century of Zionist presence in every level of US govt. I don't think I ever looked for the specific inclusion of Zionism before, nor for it's ommission.

Found this interesting history magazine while I was out poking around. Some pretty funny titles!
http://www.historyhouse.com/columns/