maybe you should watch his show and you will learn that from 1777 til around 1812 these founding fathers did what they could to do away with slavery and many laws were passed to free blacks in every state that was part of the union. why do you want glen to shut up, do you not want blacks to know that they too had great rolls in early america and were not just slaves? why would you want to deny black youth the chance to learn these things? And another thing, yea we do have alot to be proud of since them , but they started it all. where might we be if they hadnt done what they did?
Point # 1: I certainly do not need to watch a TV show to learn anything from anyone. Be it Glenn Beck, William O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow. I can learn or inform myself on my own.
And so can you.
Point # 2: And write this down: The plight of a slave was not, is not and will never be the same as the light of a free white man. This is the bridge, the common "freedom-loving" ground Glenn seems to loooove to, or sort of insinuates, look back to. But make no mistake: Blacks were brought here by force. Whites came here to conquer. Indians died because they were conquered.
Three different things. There's no common ground here. Just because all of it took place in one geographical location, or that two or three people from each group were in favor of getting along and living together in harmony is inconsequential. Reality has shown us otherwise. One group's extermination was another's preservation and yet another's descent into subservantship.
Blacks were trying to freed themselves from the white man. Same as Indians. The white man wasn't trying to do anything. A small elite of American white men were trying to liberate their businesses (aka less taxes) from the hands of the British Empire. But make no mistake, the origins are not the same.
It's like a German writer writing or insinuating some sort of harmony between German Jews and German non-Jews in pre-WWII Germany. I mean, you can write about it, no one's going to deny you the right, but the "30,000-foot fact" is that after 6 millions Jews being exterminated by the German army... it's kinds pointless to show that there was some sort of harmonious coexistence there. And this is so because it's kinda extremely difficult to bridge the gap from "harmony" to "extermination" and not find something inherently wrong on the side of the killers, hence writing such a book is pointless, because after the extermination camps, the fate of the Jews and the Germans took opposing routes.
And with this I'm not saying that there were great lucid black intellectuals during Founding Fathers time, there may have been, and I commend Glenn for putting the spotlight on early black intellectualism. But I know deep down in my heart every black studies professor is just shaking his/her head witnessing such an unabashedly political use of such great personalities.
And American TV hit a new low with it.
The view from a black man is always refreshing:
Chris Rock.
