Another great review of my book Rating America’s Presidents, this one by Mark Anthony. Mark is a former Silicon Valley Executive with Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). He is now the host of the nationally syndicated radio called The Patriot and The Preacher Show. Find out more at patriotandpreachershow.com.
“Robert Spencer gives us the 1776 Project to counter the 1619 Project,” by Mark Anthony, BizPacReview, September 8, 2020:
In response to a statement that California had implemented the 1619 Project in public schools, President Trump tweeted Sunday: “Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” That is welcome news, as the 1619 Project is an elaborate and much-lauded (Pulitzer Prize-winning, in fact) exercise in historical; according to political science professor Peter C. Myers, it is “animated by the same conviction that animates BLM and the rioters: America is and always has been a racist tyranny, and there can be no black liberation absent its radical transformation, by any means necessary.” The general acceptance of this propaganda today makes it vitally important to tell the real story of our country, and now Robert Spencer, the historian who wrote The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, has offered the 1776 Project in the form of a book entitled Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster.
This book is a brisk and engaging introduction not just to the Presidents of the United States, but through Spencer’s evaluation of their various administrations, to the history of the United States itself, not told this time by those who hate it, but by an unabashed and unapologetic patriot. One overarching impression one gets from Rating America’s Presidents is not that the United States of America has been inherently racist from over a century and a half before its founding, as the 1619 Project would have us believe, but that its trajectory has been in exactly the opposite direction: admittedly imperfectly, but nevertheless steadily toward racial justice and a truly color-blind society.
Spencer discloses a great deal about this that is surprising. It was no shock to discover that the Democrats, the party of slavery and Jim Crow, in 1868 ran New York Governor Horatio Seymour for President with the slogan, “Our Motto: This is a White Man’s Country; Let White Men Rule.” It was surprising, however (and would come as a salutary shock to those who believe the 1619 Project), that the man who defeated Seymour, Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant, rejected the racism of Seymour and the Democrats at a time when today’s potted U.S. history would have us believe that everyone was racist. “I have no prejudice against sect or race,” President Grant stated, “but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
‘Robert Spencer gives us the 1776 Project to counter the 1619 Project’
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Excellent review!
Sabri S. says
BS….what is there to counter exactly? It never ceases to amaze me how bigots, islamophobes and their kind try to downplay and outright erase the good contributions of blacks in America. This is ongoing historical and systemic injustice. I have even seen slavery movies where Americans try to portray the transatlantic slave trade as something “not that bad”. In the movie “The Help”, black women were portrayed as being OK with the daily racism they endured as hired domestic help.
As a child, I saw American movies doing the same thing with Native American Indians in the old western movies. Dances with wolves was the only one that portrayed native indians as human, as they were fighting white genocide. Mind you that 2/3rds of the United States is on Native American Land, and the other 1/3rd was owned by Mexico. When is this white supremacist bullshit and racism going to end, so your country can move forward for EVERYONE?? America industries, particularly in the southern states became powerful from the free labor of black americans. Get over it and deal with it. Later, it did the same things with refugees and immigrants, of which my parents were a part of this later group. Now, arabs and africans are villains for no reason. See a pattern here? Intelligent and righteous people do.
Grey says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG8Q6F7FY14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2FSPdgEguk&ab_channel=TheDailyConversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiu9LrYrvg&ab_channel=EqualTimes
And the last slave market in Saudi Arabia was shut down in 1960, but of course you still can buy your slave, if you know where to go to and got the money.
wpm says
Native Americans were fighting and killing and enslaving each other for at least a thousand years before the arrival of white settlers.In “Mexico” natives they were committing whole sale butchery against whole villages to please their pagan gods.What “free” labor did whites get from blacks in northern states?Slavery ended in America over 150 years ago,Jim Crow laws were over turned by federal laws over 50 years ago.”Now Arabs and Africans are villains for no reason.”You mean Jihadist ,who are of every race white,black,and brown are portrait as villains for good reasons.Would you like us to live under Sharia law which is the Islamic kind of Jim Crow laws for the non-Muslim to be a subjugated under the thumb of the Muslims?What movie was ever made that glorify the Transatlantic slave trade?Slave trading has a long history in Islam pre-dating the founding of America by a thousand years .Islamic scholars today still refuse to renounce slavery of non-Muslims .Newly arrived legal Immigrants and refugees enjoy more rights and freedoms they could only dream of in their old native lands.They have come here freely ,the blacks with the highest standard of living of blacks on the planet live in North America.We have elected a black man President twice,we have many black and brown people in government elected offices on local and federal offices.Get over it the line to come into America is populated with every ethic mix,religious mix, and is very long.The line to leave is short ,you are free to post your opinions on this website ,free to express “your feelings” because you are I assume leaving in America or some other free western free country.In much of the Islamic world you would not have the freedom to post,of express an opinion that differs from the government or the religious leaders without the fear of death or being thrown into prison .
Michael Copeland says
“Slavery is one of the virtues of Islam” – Kuwaiti cleric
“Slavery is a part of Islam” – Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
FYI says
@wpm
native Americans OWNED black African slaves.
{Google ‘5 native American communities who owned enslaved Africans’}
sabri s ‘forgets’ to tell us that muhammed was an Arab version of a WHITE SUPREMACIST:he was the owner,buyer and seller of black African slaves{sahih muslim 3901} And in islam,satan is a black man and the worst insult anyone could say about muhammed was that ‘the prophet was black’
{see on You Tube acts17 apologetics muhammed:the white prophet with black slaves}
African chieftains sold their OWN people into slavery,some African Americans OWNED black slaves,native Americans did too and indeed warred with each other long before Europeans arrived{mind you I do sympathise with the plight of people who are colonized but you see History is not simple or politically correct..unless you are a academic and then it is all the fault of whitey}
“Dancing with wolves”?
The muslim troll sabri s is..
“Dancing with facts”
James Lincoln says
Always consider the source of the person posting when assessing credibility.
Lest we forget this chestnut:
Jul 3, 2020 at 7:09 am
Sabri S. says.
“Farrakhan is a great leader who speaks and lives the truth. May Allah continue to have and give him many blessings.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/after-uproar-fox-soul-channel-cancels-live-streaming-of-antisemite-louis-farrakhans-july-4-speech
E T says
Louis Eugene Walcott, son of immigrant parents, aka Louis Farrakhan also stated:
“ Adolf Hitler was a great man”
“White people are subhumans created by an ancient African scientist.”
Usually when a Muslim commits a murder there is no name mentioned, after all we must not fuel any resistance to global migration. I call them no namers, methinks Sabri S. falls into that category.
FYI says
@wpm
Further..”Mexico” and beyond..
This doesn’t fit the Leftist historical narrative but the Aztecs were involved in genocidal wars against the Texlacans,Huaxtecs and later the Maya:all this was BEFORE the Spanish arrived.
The Aztecs used a Tzompantli,a skull rack on which were displayed the skulls of their enemies and sacrificed captive prisoners to their gods.
The Incas warred against the Mapuche ,the Chimu and Shuar to build their Incan Empire:they made the skulls of their enemies into drinking cups and their skins were used for drums.
That was the reality of the pre-Columbian world:slavery,brutal wars of conquest and imperialism
wpm says
+1
all true ,Islam is still stuck in the in the ancient world where slavery is an accepted and encouraged.”White men” did not invent slavery it was practiced in every society a thousand years ago .
E T says
Did your parents stay in the horrible, racist, Islamophobic Untied States or did they leave and leave you to fend for yourself? Why did they leave their old country, was it too nice for them? Keep whipping hate up, plant the seed the US is a horrible place to live, it needs Shari’ah law, or get the hell out and go back to …….
It is push back time and people are growing tired of invaders ripping on the country they chose to come to. Check your area airport, there are planes leaving daily to anywhere in the world or at least connecting with other airlines. Leave, go back to the sunny side.
gravenimage says
Sabri S.
BS….what is there to counter exactly? It never ceases to amaze me how bigots, islamophobes and their kind try to downplay and outright erase the good contributions of blacks in America.
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Well, this is truly odd. African Americans have indeed contributed a great deal to American culture, but the idea that this New York Times project dedicated in large part to smearing free trade and saying that Jazz–America’s most synchronistic music–was “stolen” is indicative of the contributions of Blacks is really bizarre.
More:
This is ongoing historical and systemic injustice. I have even seen slavery movies where Americans try to portray the transatlantic slave trade as something “not that bad”. In the movie “The Help”, black women were portrayed as being OK with the daily racism they endured as hired domestic help.
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Now this is even more bizarre. In fact, the film The Help is actually all about racism and the civil rights movement. The film cites Medgar Evers.
Oprah has a reading guide for the book, and lauds the book here:
http://www.oprah.com/book/books-that-defined-a-generation-the-help?editors_pick_id=57175
Sabri S. either knows nothing about this book and movie, or else hopes that we don’t.
More:
Now, arabs and africans are villains for no reason. See a pattern here? Intelligent and righteous people do.
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I presume that Sabri S. is talking about Anti-Jihadists being opposed to Muslims robbing, raping, and slaughtering people. Of course, there is nothing racial about this, and in fact Blacks and other non-Whites are often the victims of Muslims savagery. But then, Sabri S. and his coreligionists don’t want you to know this.
Then, Sabri S. has refused to say anything critical about Muslims continuing to enslave other people–mostly Black Africans–to this day. This is very telling.
Glyndwr says
Going to order this from my virtue-signalling Council Library in Old Windsor UK. Can’t wait to curl up with it. Mr Spencer is required reading. I’ll buy it if needs be. The truth must come out.
mortimer says
Democrats are the party of slavery and the KKK. They want all colored people to stay on their plantation and let the Dems think for them.
The Dems are the party of group-think. That’s why they instinctually aligned with Islam which is another group-think party.
E T says
Ibn Khaldun 1332-1406 the pre-eminent and social thinker wrote “The negro nations are as a rule submissive to slavery, because they have attributes that are similar to dumb animals.
The most inhuman and diabolical institution of the black African slave trade, was implemented by the Mohammedans Arabs. the Islamic slave trade took place across the Sahara Desert from the coast of the Red Sea and from East Africa across the Indian Ocean. There were no six major slave routes.
The death toll of 1400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could be more than 112 million.
Staggering numbers of African victims sold into the Slave market of the trans Saharan and East Africa slave trade could be higher than 140.
Most male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated and children born to black slave women were killed and eight million more died before reaching the slave markets.
Slaves are the “booty” or reward for wars of aggression against any unbelievers.
The Arab word for black slaves is abeed.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on. E T.
JamesC. says
This is the error message I got when I tried to post a link to that article to my FBook feed:
“Your message couldn’t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive.”
I will try to post the link when I am no longer in FBook gaol.
gravenimage says
Sorry to hear that, James. Very common, though.