The Fake History of the 20th Century
Revolver News,
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Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
8/31/2022 6:37:08 AM
It’s one of the most famous moments in sports history, or 20th Century American history, period. Jackie Robinson, the first player to break the pro baseball color barrier, took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on the road against the Cincinnati Reds. A hostile racist crowd poured abuse down onto him. But then, Robinson’s teammate Harold “Pee Wee” Reese shamed and quieted the crowd by walking over to Robinson and putting his arm around him in a gesture of support. It’s a moment immortalized in film, in children’s books, and even in bronze. But as the Wall Street Journal revealed in a recent article, the whole episode never happened:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 8/31/2022 7:27:41 AM (No. 1264006)
For sheer magnitude, that is, in the number of American minds, nothing rivals the TREASURED MYTH of the alleged racist, Nazi-style eugenicist and abortion-monger Margaret Sanger, as she was none of these things but in fact one of the best friends Blacks ever had, bitterly and publicly opposed to the Nazis and, most significantly, loathed and despised abortion, the evidence for all of which is EVERYWHERE in her own writing. Even such keen analytical minds as Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and, oh how I hate to say it, the esteemed Victor Davis Hanson fell victim to the Margaret Sanger Myth. I fully anticipate being “killed” as the messenger but history is history.
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F15 Gork 8/31/2022 7:35:18 AM (No. 1264015)
Can’t say one way or the other what the truth is about Tulsa in 1921 but it left and unmarked line across the city right down Pine Street on the North side of town. No blacks ever went South of that line as far as I know. I grew up in Tulsa and attended grade school through college there. I didn’t encounter a black kid until my freshman year in college....and he was from Ethiopia. So something pretty bad happened there back in ‘21, whatever it was.
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Laotzu 8/31/2022 8:33:38 AM (No. 1264081)
The entire popular culture of the Left is mythical. Once they gained the unquestioning support of the majority of media, circa 1992, they figured out it's easier to create propaganda than to win an argument.
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montwoodcliff 8/31/2022 8:59:03 AM (No. 1264107)
This confirms what I came to recognize early on in the Trump saga—don’t believe anything coming out of the mouths of liberals. For instance, I recognized right away that the Trump hooker story was baloney because it was so truly off the wall. It boggled my mind that anybody believed it, but there were many who did want to believe it, including Republicans. That’s what really galled me. So meet these outrageous stories with skepticism, like Tawana Brawley and Al Sharpton, George Floyd, et al, right up to Mar-a-Lago.
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MDConservative 8/31/2022 10:10:53 AM (No. 1264191)
FTA: "In fact, America’s entire 20th-century history, as it is taught in schools and portrayed on screen, is essentially 'fake.' It is a sequence of myths atop myths, created to make Americans hate their ancestors and their history."
Nonsense. The history we so love is largely myth. Like Washington and the cherry tree. Try telling a Texan that David Crockett was captured and executed rather than swinging Old Betsy to the bloody end at the Alamo. (Those lying Mexican officers who recorded this alternate ending in their diaries and memoirs were all lying propagandists.) So, who really shot Kennedy? As Henry Ford said, "History is bunk." The question is whose myths become "truth" until the next bit of scholarship says otherwise.
MLB has lived off the Jackie Robinson myth since he stepped on a diamond. His Dodger teammates all told the tale in the accepted manner. Pee Wee Reese was the southern gentleman who saved the day from the ugly racists. And from there Jackie Robinson became the greatest second baseman of all time. What other story would you like told? That white people frankly didn't care, that MLB was the "racist" keeping skilled black players out? Oh, sure, that would be good for business.
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Aubreyesque 8/31/2022 3:49:57 PM (No. 1264576)
#1 - I think your statement requires documentation. I should think the people you listed as "having fallen victim" would have verified that information, especially Victor David Hanson. Ive yet to see or hear of anything that refutes the assertion that Sanger was a eugenicist. Methinks youre doing some gaslighting of your own...
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Aubreyesque 8/31/2022 3:57:56 PM (No. 1264585)
#5 - Nope. Youre wrong. This Texan knows how to verify. Sorry for the second post, but I cannot let that go unchallenged
https [colon] [forward slash][forward slash] www dot historynet dot com [forward slash] davys-death-at-the-alamo-is-now-a-case-closed-or-not [forward slash] ?f
FTA = "De la Peña’s “diary” resurfaced in 1975, this time published by a university press in the United States. The format, time and place proved a perfect fit for languorous historians who needed only to thumb the pages of this book to know conclusively how Crockett died—taken alive and executed by the swords of Mexican officers. This in spite of the fact there is no provenance of this “diary” before its 1955 appearance, not one page of the manuscript is in de la Peña’s authenticated handwriting, and a number of passages are almost identical to other accounts only made public after de la Peña’s death in 1840."
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JackBurton 9/1/2022 12:18:34 PM (No. 1265522)
It goes on today. George Floyd swallows lethal amounts of meth and fentanyl but it's the cop that killed him?
Some things get corrected. We now know Michael Brown wasn't a 'hands up, don't shoot' kinda guy. Travon Martin was no one's sweetie. Thankfully the Covington kids and Rittenhouse are in the clear.
But, geez, it's a constant battle.
Great article. I knew about the wilding five and Mat Shepard but not Robinson, Till or the rest.
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This is fascinating. The article goes through several other "historical" events, constantly invoked by the left to prove American racism or hatred of homosexuals, but which have been distorted or invented. Emmett Till, the Central Park Five, Matthew Shepard's murder, and others are dissected and fact-checked. We need more of this.