Now is a perfect time for the Left
to intensify their revision of history; the Worst Elements are giddy with their
unstoppable onslaughts. Pot and
homosexual marriage are well on schedule to become nationally legal with the
artificial help of the Media, presidential decrees, and Federal Judges. I’ve written about it before, but something
new seems to be in the air.
After years of withering on the
vine, favorable stories about the 1960s black revolutionaries seem to be
intensifying. I noticed in reviewing
many school books on the history of the U.S. that their names and roles
were/are temporarily left out of the chapters on the Civil Rights
Movement. Perhaps the Politically Correct
view that movement as only a legal and legislative quest, but I don’t because I
lived through it and remember its most telling inconvenient truth. The stratagem of Provocation
(Violence)-Crisis-Reward, unfortunately, did more for the movement than non-violent
protest. Apparently, the truth about the
60s black militants is too inconvenient for academia, so the players are being
reincarnated.
The Left loves its heroes and does
not like to forget them, at least now in a more measured way. So those heroes are coming back in a sanitized way. They are currently black
princes and Robin Hoods who have been misunderstood. H. Rap Brown, “I’ll burn the White House
down!” Eldridge Cleaver, Huey “Off the Pig!” Newton, “By
any means necessary” Malcolm X, and currently, “We’re going to tear this
country down!” Stokely Carmichael – all on the FBI’s old Rabble Rouser Index. I expect them to reemerge shortly in the school
books.
If you watch left leaning CNN or the
socialist mother ship, MSNBC, you noticed that Stokely Carmichael has captivated another author who
is granted national media coverage to hail Carmichael’s checkered legacy. He’s
now benign – a crusader - and someone you’d want to invite to dinner. I remember another Stokely: proponent of Black
Nationalism who was influenced by Young Socialists and Young Communists; an
adherent of socialist revolution and violence (SNCC); a 1968 Washington, D.C.
riot instigator; and one, like Jane Fonda, traveled to Hanoi in 1967 to offer
his support to the Communists during the Vietnam War. Read, study, and don’t forget.
