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The commie thing is so old. Good lord anyone who doesn't subscribe to white supremacy thing is a commie. MLK was called a commie...
Nobody believes that anymore..
Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 3:38 pm
By: Big Bob
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Your "reality", Bolshevik Bob is what the rest of us would call socialism or Marxism.
I went through your book list and most of the authors are people I have never heard of, but three of them stand out as being of the extreme left. First there is Huey Newton, former leader of the terrorist Black Panthers, who idolized North Korea and had a personal history of violence with deadly weapons, including shooting one police officer to death. Then there is W.E.B. duBois who at various times was a member of the US Socialist Party and US Communist Party, and ran for US Senate on the ticket of the communist-affiliated Workers Party of New York. duBois also made multiple trips to the Soviet Union, including under Stalin and returned praising communism. When duBois died, he was living in Ghana as a supporter of its pro-communist dictator Kwame Nkrumah. Last but not least is the biggest promoter of today's far left "woke" ideology, Kendi. There is not anything by Thomas Sowell or anyone like him on your list, Bobbie. It is an extremely unbalanced list ideologically, but then what does one expect from you?
Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 11:08 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Actually VZ, that's just an excuse to make yourself feel comfortable. Treating people with dignity, respect and fairness doesnt make anyone a commie. Just a decent person.
Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 9:31 am
By: Big Bob
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Unfortunately reality, and your reality are divergent. The power of UTC is that it injected our shared humanity into the debate. It made it difficult for decent people to look away.
Read one book the list I posted. It costs you nothing and might allow you to reconnect with what it means to be human.
Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 9:26 am
By: Big Bob
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Yeah, in the case of the cancel culture War on History far left, Chariman Mao's Little Red Book seems to be your Bible. You are trying to incite your own Cultural Revolution here in the western countries and it is just as evil as Mao's original.
Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 7:34 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Although 1984 is a great book, it's not the only book.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 8:56 pm
By: Big Bob
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If Lincoln wanted to see "who made the big war" in 1862, he should have looked in a mirror. After Lincoln's election, there were special committees set up in both the House and Senate to try to negotiate a compromise between North and South before things got out of hand. A third committee was set up for the same purpose by a group of states, both north and south. There were lots of politicians on both sides who wanted to find a formula to preserve the union. In the Senate, the northern faction of the committee was headed by Senator Seward of New York, a Republican who was later Lincoln's Secretary of State and the southern faction by Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. Both were willing to negotiate and wanted to find a formula to save the union. Seward felt he needed the blessing of his party's president elect, Lincoln, but Lincoln refused to engage. Seward even dispatched a New York newspaper editor named Weed, who was a personal friend of Lincoln, to Illinois to plead with Lincoln to engage with the committee, but Lincoln still refused. With Lincoln refusing to participate in any way, the northern Republican elements of these committees felt they did not have the authorizations to go forward, and the effort collapsed. All due to Lincoln. The War Between the States was, indeed, Lincoln's war.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Steed
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CV - Of course you're right. The left has to cancel our history in order to impose their ideology. They concentrate on our young people, because more mature people are more grounded and harder to fool. Yes. It's what totalitarians do.
The leftist troll has demonstrated something else. While many of us are broadly well read, it is they, who claim to be diverse and inclusive, that are really very closed. They are not open to a reading list that makes them consider anything other than their ideological narrative. The DEI programs use phony, hypocritical methods to confuse and mislead people. We need to embrace our history and traditions and not contribute to tearing down our civilization like these totalitarians want so badly.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 9:49 pm
By: Van Zant
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The left is trying to cancel our history because they are following the playbook of Chairman Mao's disastrous Cultural Revolution. Its what totalitarians do.
In his novel "1984", George Orwell wrote of the actions to stamp out history from that novel's tyrant "Big Brother": "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." Those on the far left who follow the path of Chairman Mao and of "Big Brother" are totalitarians and their agenda needs to be totally rejected.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 6:51 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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A link to more good reading
sites.prh.com
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 3:15 pm
By: Big Bob
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President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
Just aiming to share a perspective. Anywho...hope young people keep reading these books. I'll post more..........
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 3:06 pm
By: Big Bob
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LOL - Broken up? More like concerned. So. Some masked man I do not know accuses me of being arrogant and non-repentant (for something unspecified) as well as being stupid. Even so, he is interested in my thoughts on two landmark books: 1) a popular 19th century fictional novel 2) the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington. Sorry dude, I did those book reports a long time ago for a legitimate educator. Perhaps the more relevant question is why does the left support canceling history and tradition in our society? Bonus question: What's the Marxist view of Thomas Sowell?
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 2:55 pm
By: Van Zant
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Not only is Harriet Beecher Stowe a white woman, but her book is a novel, a work of fiction that was written with a political agenda.
If you want to read an anti-slavery factual perspective from an eyewitness (which Stowe was not), a far better source is the chapter on slavery in Charles Dickens book on his travels in the US. Although a renowned novelist himself, that book of Dickens is non-faction based on his personal observations, and he highly critizes both slavery and slave owners. It is also interesting that during the War Between the States, Dickens never bought the north's narrative about fighting to abolish slavery, which claim he described as "specious humbug designed to conceal the north's desire for economic control of the wouthern states."
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 12:44 pm
By: John Steed
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As usual, you miss the point.
Inserting yourself in a conversation without following the context is what you do best. HBS is not a black author but wrote a very good book on the subject at hand.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 12:15 pm
By: Big Bob
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The village idiot would be the one who claimed a white woman was a black author, Bobbie, namely you.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 9:59 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Sure VZ, clearly you are broken up. i myself am not perfect and am willing to admit it. You? So far no sign of it. if you find those two books difficult to read, I can suggest others. if you have read them already I would be interested in your thoughts.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 9:25 am
By: Big Bob
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The discussion and previous post was was a discussion with JS and VZ, not the village idiot.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 9:15 am
By: Big Bob
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So, is BBB reneging on the racist comment recommending people read books with non-white authors? His position on that seems muddled. It's disappointing to know people actually contemplate like that on matters of race. It is no wonder we are experiencing cultural plundering and purging from the left in the 21st century.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 9:13 am
By: Van Zant
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Little Bobbie confuses ideology with race, but I guess that is common with a woke racist. Bizarrely, one of the two "black" authors he cites was actually a white woman.
Even more strange, those suggestions come from his assertion that Biritish and American viewpoints on the Revolutionary War are substantially different. Did either of those books have anything to do with that or even mention the Revoluitionary War? Bobbie is just off on one of his racial tangents again.
Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 6:55 am
By: Conservative Voter
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My bad, the assumption that only white guys agree with you is incorrect. Mostly that's the case, but there are always outliers. I was thinking books written by people you don't currently agree with.
Commented: Sunday, May 5th, 2024 @ 9:22 pm
By: Big Bob
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How about:
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Toms Cabin Booker T Washington: - Up from Slavery. Not a bad place to start.
Commented: Sunday, May 5th, 2024 @ 9:37 pm
By: Big Bob
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Considering the racist notion of reading books not written by "white guys:" Deciding between Sowell and Kendi, of course I chose Sowell. Sowell has written around 60 books. I supposed I've read a good number of them. Even the ones I've already read are worth reading again. Kendi pads his total up to about 15, but you have to consider the last 14 are take-offs of the first one. I count that as one and it is not worth reading again. Good books, like good scholarship, comes from strong intellect, not race.
Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 9:38 pm
By: Van Zant
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There Bobbie goes again, reverting to racial comments. His original point was claiming the there were significantly different perspectives on the American Revolution between Brits and Americans. So I pointed out that the perspective in British history museums I had visited in the UK had a very similar perspective on the American Revolution as US sources. Then he said, Oh No, it was only books that counted. So I pointed out that the perspective of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 in a history book written by one of the most prominient British leaders of all time, Sir Winston Churchill was also very similar to that of American sources. So NOW, Bobbie wants an opinion by an AFRICAN SLAVE??????!!!!!! What does that have to do with ANYTHING on the perspectives of American and British sources about the American Revolution?????
I would point out to Bobbie, that when slavery was abolished in the British isles under Prime Minister Earl Grey, the British packed all of their former slaves off to Sierra Leone in Africa, so it would be difficult to find an opinion from a former British slave or their descendants on the subject. I have read books by two former US slaves, Frederick Douglass and another less famous whose name I have forgotten, and I do not recall any comments on the American Revolution by either of them. Bobbie keeps graphing at straws, but his argument is bogus.
Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 5:25 pm
By: John Steed
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