Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Black slave owners in the southern states of America before the Civil War" video.
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Most of these myths were created during and after the sixties, but luckily, history buffs born then, or before, know the truth - especially a yank like myself that was born in a southern state just across the Mason-Dixon line. Even then, the most northern of the southern states weren't as bad as some would lead you to believe, especially in the Appalachians where there was mining. Integration had already occurred there for the most part.
What I found out was, that a lot of the myth was conjured by a group of radicals that claimed to join the right wing from the left, in New York, called the New York Intellectuals. They were the first to be indoctrinated in critical theory during the thirties, and were very close to the Rockefeller Republicans. The left wing, of course, helped them. New York was the source, which spread to several other states, and especially, California. Think Trotsky, and his followers.
These "intellectuals" helped promote violence in the civil rights movement in several states, after the "great migration" of the black community north and west for manufacturing jobs. There, they found free secondary education in a few states, where they were indoctrinated, and this was where several radical movements were born. By then, California had become a hotbed for promoting it.
These same intellectuals had ties with comrades in Eurasia, Africa, and in the Caribbean.
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@boygeorge3544 "Systemic racism," "it was only white men," much of Afrocentrism's history, and I could go on, were the myths created by the "intellectuals." Same with what Simon mentioned about lyn ch mobs back then.
When the civil rights movement started under Ike, it was only the states farthest south that were not integrated. The farther north you went, the more integration there was.
By the mid-sixties, the only time you noticed certain water fountain or bathroom signs in the northernmost southern states, were on old derelict buildings that were falling in, and they were few and far between. These states were already integrated, and everyone worked together.
The government, during that same time, had Hollywood to produce several TV shows, which cast the south as being full of white rubes, and they were the Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. Another was Green Acres. None of that represented reality. They did it to push FDR's New Deal and social welfare.
The "intellectuals" used that community to push Communism, and Trotskyism, by the use of organizers. They brought violence into what started as a peaceful protest, which they were already winning, and that was a good thing, but the violence was not. One of the leaders of that violence, Williams, ended up fleeing to Cuba after being booted from the NAACP, where he ran a propaganda radio station for Castro. That violence spawned the other violence.
The "great migration" caused many in their community to change political affiliation from the right to the left, which was exactly what the intellectuals were after. That was after the migrants joined several large labor unions, especially automotive.
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@joefreebs4247 That was them, within the Georgetown Set, also known as Wisner's Gang.
The "intellectuals" were in the OSS, and Wisner was directing the media. When McCarthy, from the Senate, and the HCUA from the House, targeted them, they started a smear campaign against McCarthy and RFK.
Those within the OSS became some of the first officers in another alphabet agency as well.
Hoover tried to warn about them, but they began a smear campaign on him too, threatening to reveal he and Clyde's relationship. Some of the other dirty laundry, I believe, was fabrication.
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@joefreebs4247 Exaggerated is correct. The deep south states and Chicago were the worst of it with segregation, which I can remember, and Illinois was a northern left wing state. That agitation didn't spread out to the rest of the US until later, with the Watts riots, etc, and it was the radical revolutionary movements behind those, which started after Williams, when he spoke on the courthouse steps in North Carolina and threatened violence. He was mad over a court case's outcome.
Come to find out, he was schizophrenic, and the tale he told about a kl an shooting in another town, which was during a march, was made up. The papers interviewed the police and the locals. There was a march, which was watched by the police, but there was no shooting.
His own people turned on him over the wanted violence, as the right wing led civil rights movement was trying to be peaceful, even though they had been attacked in Alabama, and in one or two other states in the deep south. MLK was the one running the movement.
After that, the NAACP booted Williams out.
The FBI charged Williams with kidnapping, which is why he fled to Cuba, but they later dropped the charges. He influenced Newton, who started the BP, and that started the radical movements. The BLA and several other "revolutionary movements," with Williams being nominated as the head of one even though he was still in Cuba, formed from that. With them came the riots, and that was after forced integration had came to the deep south.
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