To endorse "one gross historical injustice to Blacks" is a misfortune, but to endorse two just looks like carelessness.
But that is exactly what Hollywood star Morgan Freeman just did in a short propaganda film by the Committee to Investigate Russia (CIR), which describes America's history of slavery and Jim Crow as part of America's "shining example" to the world, LOL.
Having a name like "Freeman" doesn't make any of this better. In fact, quite the reverse.
Freeman made the blooper when his agent got him an exciting new part reading an autocue in close-up for a short film by the Neocon campaign group, in which he unthinkingly read the following line:
"For 241 years, our democracy has been a shining example to the world that we can all aspire to."
The line came as part of a CIR narrative accusing Russia of interfering in the US Presidential Election and declaring that America was literally "at war" with Russia.
Wow, just wow! But anyway this article is not about that.
Basically we couldn't care less if Putin had done a little of that, because in terms of interfering in other countries' elections, the boot is still firmly on the other foot, with America being the unquestioned world leader in dabbling in other countries' democratic processes, and then there's the whole issue of who really skewed last year's election.
Basically we couldn't care less if Putin had done a little of that, because in terms of interfering in other countries' elections, the boot is still firmly on the other foot, with America being the unquestioned world leader in dabbling in other countries' democratic processes, and then there's the whole issue of who really skewed last year's election.
No, the focus here is solely on Freeman's unwitting of endorsement of this:
...Wait a minute! What's wrong with that?
Anyway, I'm not here to criticise slavery or Jim Crow. Why? Because I don't need to.
My only point is I just think it's fascinating that someone like Morgan Freeman would come out and unthinkingly say that, as a patriotic Black American, he's basically OK with 241 years of US history that included 89 years of slavery and a century of Jim Crow.
Anyway, I'm not here to criticise slavery or Jim Crow. Why? Because I don't need to.
My only point is I just think it's fascinating that someone like Morgan Freeman would come out and unthinkingly say that, as a patriotic Black American, he's basically OK with 241 years of US history that included 89 years of slavery and a century of Jim Crow.
Remember, Blacks in the US only got full Civil Rights in the 1960s, and apparently it wasn't very good for them either:
Now, was it?
But that's a different point too.
But that's a different point too.
The main thing here is that we are expected to see the entirety of America's complex history as a totally positive thing for all concerned, including Blacks, when and only when a bunch of Neocon scumbags are trying to stir up shit with Russia or some other country they have an irrational hatred for, and they need Americans to get all blindly patriotic.
The rest of the time we are told that US history sucks. It's something shameful, and that we should just pull down most of the statues that represent those 241 "shining" years.
I think is arguable that the majority of Blacks - certainly the underclass - were better off under slavery than they are today.
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