it's like in baseball, they teach the kids that Jackie Robinson was the first black player on an otherwise white team in 1947. Nonsense! There were mixed race professional baseball teams in the 1880s, until the Democratic Party pressured the team owners to separate teams by race.
Random info I heard on the Hodge Twins podcast today....Did you all know Rosa Parks owned a car at the time of the bus photo op? I did not know this, but it changes the whole narrative. She was just another prop for the Democrats.
Did you know that the first black members of the US House of Representatives were all Republicans?
The first African Americans to serve in the Congress were Republicans elected during the Reconstruction Era. After the 13th and 14th Amendments granted freedom and citizenship to enslaved people, freedmen gained political representation in the Southern United States for the first time.[4][5][6] In response to the growing numbers of black statesmen and politicians, white Democrats turned to violence and intimidation to regain their political power.[7]
There was a black teenage girl arrested in the same town Rosa was arrested in for not giving up her seat on the bus a week before Rosa. But she was not a polished NAACP employee, so they staged the event with Rosa the following week and used their media contacts to make it a national story. When Rosa Parks died, they had her lie in state in the Capitol because of a successful manufactured media stunt.
"During World War I, the U.S. government placed Wells under surveillance, labeling her a dangerous "race agitator".[11] She defied this threat by continuing civil rights work during this period with such figures as Marcus Garvey, Monroe Trotter, and Madam C. J. Walker.[11] In 1917, Wells wrote a series of investigative reports for the Chicago Defender on the East St. Louis Race Riots.[125] After almost thirty years away, Wells made her first trip back to the South in 1921 to investigate and publish a report on the Elaine massacre in Arkansas (published 1922).[125]
In the 1920s, she participated in the struggle for African-American workers' rights, urging Black women's organizations to support the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, as it tried to gain legitimacy.[11] However, she lost the presidency of the National Association of Colored Women in 1924 to the more diplomatic Mary Bethune.[126] To challenge what she viewed as problems for African Americans in Chicago, Wells started a political organization named Third Ward Women's Political Club in 1927. In 1928, she tried to become a delegate to the Republican National Convention but lost to Oscar De Priest. Her feelings toward the Republican Party became more mixed due to what she viewed as the Hoover administration's poor stance on civil rights and attempts to promote a "Lily-White" policy in Southern Republican organizations. In 1930, Wells unsuccessfully sought elective office, running as an Independent for a seat in the Illinois Senate, against the Republican Party candidate, Adelbert Roberts.[125][11]"
it's like in baseball, they teach the kids that Jackie Robinson was the first black player on an otherwise white team in 1947. Nonsense! There were mixed race professional baseball teams in the 1880s, until the Democratic Party pressured the team owners to separate teams by race.
They lied to us in school all the time then. What else did they not tell us?
Rosa Parks was a communist activist, and her bus stunt was organized with help of the NAACP
Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first, I think.
I'd thank Ken Burns' excellent documentary Baseball for that info, but that series also believed all of Al Stump's lies about Ty Cobb, too.
To be fair, we all believed that about Cobb back then. The truth didn't come out until around 2018.
Latin players were in the MLB before Jackie.
Random info I heard on the Hodge Twins podcast today....Did you all know Rosa Parks owned a car at the time of the bus photo op? I did not know this, but it changes the whole narrative. She was just another prop for the Democrats.
What? She owns a car? Now that is news to me.
A prop, Just like Margaret Sanger.
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett
What a woman! Fascinating article, so many thanks 👍
Yes. Really interesting.
Wow great article . She must have Grand children still alive. Would love to find out ! Btw : it figures , that’s fked up !
Our history need to teach the real stuff. We been lied to for many years.
The truth about EVERYTHING...
Yep…’America’ has been a huge marketing scheme…
You are correct most likely.
Did you know that the first black members of the US House of Representatives were all Republicans?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_the_United_States_Congress
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/african-americans-house-of-reps/
There was a black teenage girl arrested in the same town Rosa was arrested in for not giving up her seat on the bus a week before Rosa. But she was not a polished NAACP employee, so they staged the event with Rosa the following week and used their media contacts to make it a national story. When Rosa Parks died, they had her lie in state in the Capitol because of a successful manufactured media stunt.
This is a kind of misleading pic:
"During World War I, the U.S. government placed Wells under surveillance, labeling her a dangerous "race agitator".[11] She defied this threat by continuing civil rights work during this period with such figures as Marcus Garvey, Monroe Trotter, and Madam C. J. Walker.[11] In 1917, Wells wrote a series of investigative reports for the Chicago Defender on the East St. Louis Race Riots.[125] After almost thirty years away, Wells made her first trip back to the South in 1921 to investigate and publish a report on the Elaine massacre in Arkansas (published 1922).[125]
In the 1920s, she participated in the struggle for African-American workers' rights, urging Black women's organizations to support the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, as it tried to gain legitimacy.[11] However, she lost the presidency of the National Association of Colored Women in 1924 to the more diplomatic Mary Bethune.[126] To challenge what she viewed as problems for African Americans in Chicago, Wells started a political organization named Third Ward Women's Political Club in 1927. In 1928, she tried to become a delegate to the Republican National Convention but lost to Oscar De Priest. Her feelings toward the Republican Party became more mixed due to what she viewed as the Hoover administration's poor stance on civil rights and attempts to promote a "Lily-White" policy in Southern Republican organizations. In 1930, Wells unsuccessfully sought elective office, running as an Independent for a seat in the Illinois Senate, against the Republican Party candidate, Adelbert Roberts.[125][11]"