History defiled

 Listen, what Micah Beckwith knows about American history you could pour in a shot glass and still have room for the shot. Not to state the obvious or anyth-

I'm sorry?

Yeah, OK, so I forgot my standard disclaimer when the Blob escapes the Sportsball pasture. Fine, here's the Cliff Notes version, then: Hall pass. Library. Goest thou with God.

Satisfied?

Good. Now, where was I?

Right, Micah Beckwith, our knotheaded Lute Guv and erstwhile white nationalist preachin' man.  In his quest to pave over American history, he called the founders' Three-Fifths Compromise a smooth move the other day, which landed him on the national news and exposed him to most thinking humans as just another Indiana hayseed out to bring back the good old days of the Klan 1920s.

That is perhaps unfair. But not by a lot.

The Lute Guv's crusade to eradicate the woke/DEI/Critical Race Theory virus he claims is indoctrinating our vulnerable youth misses the obvious irony, which is that he's the one doing the indoctrinating. What he calls revisionist history is actually corrective history; revisionism (not to say deliberate distortion) is what he's up to, along with his brethren in the current Regime.

One example, among many others: The removal of several items from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African-American History and Culture, part of the Regime's order to the Smithsonian to erase what it calls "improper, divisive or anti-American" ideology from its museums.

"Improper, divisive or anti-American" apparently meaning "anything that mentions slavery too much (or at all!), or the struggle for civil rights (a chapter in American history that happened a long time ago and is therefore irrelevant these days!), or  race except in approved kumbaya terms."

In an NBA News piece by Catalina Perez de Arminan, this particular Sovietization of American history included the return of a couple of items donated by civil rights activist Rev. Amos Brown. One was an African-American history written by Rev. George Washington Williams in 1880. The other was a bible carried by Rev. Brown in demonstrations alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson. 

Apparently the latter in particular would be too remindful of the civil rights era that was, remember, a long time ago and best forgotten. (Plus it unavoidably cast certain white folk in an exceedingly poor light. Thus it's improper, divisive ... you know the drill).

In rebuttal, I surrender the wheel to the editorial board of my former employer, The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, which took Beckwith to task this morning far more eloquently than I ever could. I will not quote the entire piece; the final two sentences nails the current defiling of our history by Beckwith et al quite adequately:

What Beckwith fears is accountability. And until this country stops lying about what was done in its name, it remains chained to the rot it refuses to name.

Bingo.