{"id":2015,"date":"2013-02-05T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2013-02-05T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:03:43","slug":"christian-pseudo-historican-david-barton-want-to-celebrate-the-black-history-month-with-a-partisan-diatribe-complete-with-trivialization-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/02\/05\/christian-pseudo-historican-david-barton-want-to-celebrate-the-black-history-month-with-a-partisan-diatribe-complete-with-trivialization-of-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian pseudo-historican David Barton wants to celebrate the Black History Month with a partisan diatribe, complete with trivialization of slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Has Barton ever heard of Strom Thurmond?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Revisionist “historian” David Barton is asking you<\/a> on his website to celebrate the Black History month by buying his DVD on the subject.<\/p>\n

Though the program is billed as an attempt to recognize \u201cthe forgotten heroes and untold stories from our rich African American political history,\u201d it is, in reality, a 90-minute effort to portray the Democratic Party as responsible for every problem that has ever plagued the African American community in America and imply that the Republican Party is the antidote. Barton\u2019s website proudly claims that he \u201cis currently breaking ground in the African-American community with his presentations\u201d based on this DVD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is curious about this propaganda video is that as much as it attacks the Democrats (rightly) for standing for slavery and subsequently for\u00a0segregation, it fails to mention a few critical historical facts, including the Civil Rights Act, and the Republican “Southern Strategy”. The Civil Rights Act, signed by Lyndon Johnson, left the segregationist Democrats, or so called “Dixiecrats”, upset with their own party, some of whom, not least Strom Thurmond<\/a> ultimately became Republicans. Of note, Thurmond always maintained that he was not a racist, but he was opposed to excessive federal authority (sounds familiar?), even though we got from him gems like this:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then we got the\u00a0Republican Southern Startegy<\/a>: how to attract racist votes without sounding racist themselves.<\/p>\n

You start out in 1954 by saying, \u201cNigger, nigger, nigger.\u201d By 1968 you can\u2019t say \u201cnigger\u201d\u2014that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states\u2019 rights, and all that stuff, and you\u2019re getting so abstract. Now, you\u2019re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you\u2019re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.\u2026 \u201cWe want to cut this,\u201d is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than \u201cNigger, nigger.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n