Dr. Thomas Sowell has produced some excellent videos about the history of slavery and racism, available on YouTube. It is heartbreaking to watch, but it is important to learn about our history. It is also appropriate to learn from a brilliant Black scholar like Dr. Sowell.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has produced some excellent videos about the history of slavery and racism, available on YouTube. It is heartbreaking to watch, but it is important to learn about our history. It is also appropriate to learn from a brilliant Black scholar like Dr. Sowell.
Slavery means that laborers must labor but cannot enjoy the fruits of their labor. This is the same situation that Marxism provides. Marxism promises some idea of equality to the naïve, but it produces another form of slavery. As we saw in the USSR, the small group of Communist Party Members became the masters. Everyone else became slaves.
In a surfaced video, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors said that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists.” The ironic result is that the BLM movement is dedicated to bringing back a form of slavery in America. As the leaders, they probably figure they will the masters this time around.
The recent BLM “CHOP” anarchy in Seattle led to many shootings and the murders of two black teenagers. Since it is obvious that anarchy leads to violence, the blood of those two teenagers is on the hands of Mayor Jenny Durkan and Gov. Jay Inslee, who both willingly allowed the anarchy to continue.
The BLM leaders also have blood on their hands for hundreds of additional murders around the country, as police have been pushed back or pulled back. Besides destroying businesses in black neighborhoods, the main result of the BLM movement has been Black Lives Murdered.
Sowell makes is clear that Marxism is a problem, not a solution. A great way to lift Black neighborhoods is to expand charter schools. Sowell’s new book about charter schools cites vast amounts of new data that make an overwhelming case for the benefits of charter schools.
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Mark Beeksma is a resident of Koloa.
Good post, Mark. Thomas Sowell is a a brilliant man. He has also written volumes on the harm that government interference in the land-use, housing market has caused. https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/09/15/the-affordable-housing-fraud
Will be interesting to see the reaction of the hive to your piece!
RSW
Don’t watch anything to learn history. But with the exception of recorded lectures perhaps. Documentaries…no.
Learn to read!
12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup….essential reading on this topic.
The Oahu-based Myron B Thompson Academy and satellite campuses, is a Public charter school that needs to be showcased to show the new educational phenomena to the masses, that are all confused about the brilliance of NOT having to get to the bus stop by 0645 hours.
Charter school free computer access 24-7-365 (small insurance premium) is the ONLY school’s fee. The Freedon to spread your wings as my charter schooled child was at 14 able to travel the world, follow his dream competing, to be a professional world champion athlete, without being dismissed for missing five days using the campus schools practices and rules.
As long as my student son had an internet cafe in Indonesia, Tahiti, Portugal, Brazil, Peru, Australia, New Jersy and So-cal, he met every criteria and school deadline. His GPA went from <2.0 to straight 4.0, made eligible for the college class "running start program" at Hilo CC.
The least a parent must do, is Check it out! Traveling is one of the greatest adventures to do and is in itself a college degree. I know as a USAF brat that public schools are a waste of everybody's time, money, and those students who cause other students and themselves to be dummies all their lives, so boring are our Kauai campuses and the charter school platform is college prep oriented and captivating to any student or parent overview opportunity to assure your student has in fact, been captivated by the "New Educational Phenomena"! Make campuses into trade schools.
What a bunch of baloney Mr Beeksma. One sided and mostly false.
Thank you for your astute analysis, “Paulo”. You don’t refute a single point, preferring to indulge in the usual leftist tactic of attacking the messenger. I will be sure to not waste time reading any more of your ridiculous posts. And great points, Mr. Beeksma. Thomas Sowell is an American treasure.
Perhaps you should review most of your own posts.
I think I got logic fallacy bingo:
Strawman argument
False dilemma
Hasty generalization
Red herring fallacy
Tu quoque fallacy
Casual fallacy
Argumentum ad verecundiam
The Worldwide BLM movement has nothing to do with Marxism except on Fox and Friends where Big Bird leads off with two week old videos of violence and doesn’t mention rampaging out of control Covid-19 until 32 minutes later. Do you really think this is going to save that immoral, corrupt, narcissist from losing bigly? The movement, pure and simple, is about police reform and weeding out the types of cops that shoot unarmed POC in the back. BTW, that movement has become bipartisan and has manifested 90 something percent nonviolent (except on FOX).
PA, Wrong as usual! A simple web search turns out hundreds of facts backing up Beesma. For brevity sake, here is just one (it’s from the NY Post):
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation, according to a report.
Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview, Breitbart News reported.
“The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” she said, referring to BLM co-founder Alicia Garza.
BLM is a near terrorist organization. Period.
Get a grip Pete…see below for an excerpt from a NY Post article by Yaron Steinbuch
“Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation, according to a report.
Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview, Breitbart News reported.
“The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” she said, referring to BLM co-founder Alicia Garza.
“We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk,” Cullors added in the interview with Jared Ball of The Real News Network…”
Straight from the horses mouth.
RG DeSoto
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BLM is, in fact, a Marxist organization. It also aims to dismantle the nuclear family.
I know this because when the organization was first formed, I went to the website to set up a monthly donation.
I read their “about” page. At the time (2015,) it stated plainly that they were the new incarnation of the Black Liberation Army.
I went to the wiki page for the Black liberation Army and found out that from 1970 to 1981, the BLA carried out a series of bombings, murders of police officers, and robberies. One of their members is still wanted for murder, and has been hiding in Cuba for decades.
So, in light of their links to the BLA, and because they made very clear they do NOT support the nuclear family and fathers in the home, I chose not to donate. I believed what Barack Obama had said—that fathers in the home were important, and needed in the black community.
So, no. My views were not informed by “Fox and Friends” or any other media source.
My views came from reading their website.
Most who support BLM have not read their website. They pledge support for the organization without having the slightest idea what they are supporting.
BLM is not a non-profit, for example. It’s a corporation.
Money they collect goes directly to the Democratic Party, via Act Blue.
Others are entitled to their opinions—maybe you support Marxism. Maybe you support the type of militant groups in the 70s that bombed buildings. Maybe you think single parenthood is great, and is the way of the future. If so—good for you.
But I do not support those things. Not because I’m a brainwashed right-wing drone, but because I know how to use Google.
BLM are not what people think they are.
One of these days, we will all find that out.
Cite the sources, please.
Please Google and go to “YouTube and search: “Black Lives Matter Co-founder admits Black Lives Matter is an organization of “trained Marxists”.
Not getting into an argument with anyone here. Just presenting two separate links where you can hear Black Lives Matter Co-founder, Patrisse Cullors say that Black Lives Matter are “trained Marxists”.
https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1274336621702373377?s=20
https://backtojerusalem.com/we-are-trained-marxists-says-blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors/?fbclid=IwAR0qeL0XODy-RIMxyH4vM87t0l6rXdq8dKsG2Pevx36CZWRKZrxRt4heXVI
There is a relatively small Association named Black Lives Matter formed a few years ago and there is a Worldwide Movement that galvanized a short time ago also named Black Lives Matter,
Do those of you in the trump Cult really believe that this small Association you are trying so hard to demean actually coordinated huge protests in 30 US Cities, dozens more in Europe, Africa and Asia and Australia all on the same day? DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT?
You are witnessing independent activism that has united the World under the issue of long overdue police reform!
So dribble out your little letters and comments that prove you are woefully unaware and please clean up after yourself.
Please go to YouTube and search “BLM co-founder admits they are ‘trained Marxists’” so you can hear it for yourself. You will find several videos where they openly admit this.
Nice try; but, you will not demean a movement with criticism of a small association that uses the same name.
The BLM Assoc. you are calling out did not coordinate huge protests in 30 US Cities and more in Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia all on the same day! The one is ever so much bigger than the other.
Oh my…. Maybe you figured this out by now. But the small little group that you’re talking about is funded by George Soros …..
The BLM Movement founders have connections to large “radical Left organizations.”[72] The connection to the Left has provided the BLM Movement with two “big bets” needed to have an Organizations associated with liberal billionaire George Soros are said to have provided at least $133 million to various BLM movement groups since 2015.[73]
In 2015, the fundraising club Democracy Alliance, led by liberal donors like George Soros and Taco Bell heir Rob McKay, recommended “its donors step up check writing to a handful of endorsed groups that have supported the Black Lives Matter movement.” [74] BLM Movement groups which received support from the Democracy Alliance were the Black Youth Project
https://www.influencewatch.org/movement/black-lives-matter/