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This series of articles is a thoughtful probe into a unique time in America, revealing complex truths about persistent questions we have about “race relations and class identity” embedded into the fabric of our shared history and existing reality. Giving clues into the possible source of the strategy behind the Populist, Economic Nationalist, White Nationalist and Bannonism movements currently dominating our politics.

Reference: Steve Bannon Interview on Charlie Rose:  September 11, 2017

Part 1- “I do not intend to weary the Senate, but I cannot allow this occasion to pass without saying that to me it is the most terrible moment of my legislative life. To me, Mr. President it brings more anxiety, more fear than any moment since I entered public life.” (-Read More: Click Here –>  “Slavery”– )

Part 2- “The degradation and miseries of the Reconstruction Period is being used as a plea to frighten poor whites, which Tillman says is the key reason why white men must come at the constitutional convention.” (-Read More: Click Here –>  “Trust Me”–  )

Part 3-  “The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.”  (-Read More: Click Here –> “Honor Better than Gold”–  )

Part 4-   “They couldn’t afford for the thousands of silver voters to stand together. So it became necessary to raise the scarecrow of the negro and appeal to the lowest and bases passions and prejudice of mankind in order to frighten the people and call their attention from the hypocrisy and case treachery of these Democratic bosses.” (Read More: Click Here –>  “Fear the Negro Campaign”– )

Part 5- – “The one thing that saved the Southerners from immediate bitterness and animosity was that they knew that it was not the Negroes but the Federal Government who held them in subjection.” (Read More: Click Here –> ” The Negro Problem”– )

Part 6-  “While a certain percentage of negroes after the war were house servants, their was also a percentage who had the knowledge and held positions of those who were educated and skilled.” (Read More: Click Here –>  “Data and Stats”-)

Part 7-   “It is here Mr. Kennedy’s reference to the Negro educator “Booker T Washington” makes his most definitive statement, “that if African’s were not discovered white slavery would have continued.” (Read More: Click Here –>  “The Redemptioners”--)

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Reference: posted by Channel 4 news on youtube, March 19, 2018

“Our system of government demands for its smooth functioning and permanency an intelligent and well-informed citizenry. Our citizens must have the knowledge, the desire and the will to elect the proper kind of men as public officials. Political charlatans are always ready to take advantage of uninformed voters. Our citizens must have wide information to understand the economic and political problems of the day. Wireless, radio and aviation have made time and space negligible factors in modern life. What happens in any part of the world is known almost instantaneously everywhere else and expects an immediate effect.”

The daily newspaper (today social media & television) has become a universal means of keeping people informed. The radio too, has become an important means of gaining access to the public. Since it is easy for men of wealth and power to use the newspaper and radio (today television & social media) as instruments of propaganda, the average citizen must be able to differentiate between truth and falsehood, he must not permit himself to be a victim of rumor propaganda and downright misrepresentation and falsehood. He must read his newspapers (watch TV and post) with intelligence and discrimination, to quote Henry Wallace, “In the democracy of tomorrow, people will have to be intelligently free from prejudice that neither the wealthy, interested in private control of government for personal ends, nor demagogues, interested in their jobs, will be able to create deception and illusion.”

(Excerpts from the Rosicrucian Digest, July 1941)

Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston was commissioned to photograph Tuskegee in 1902. This photograph shows a history class learning about Native Americans and Captain John Smith in Virginia.

“Deception , Schemes & Animosity” (2 of 7) part series – sharing a unique perspective on “race relations and class identity” from over a century ago. (Click hyperlink above to download full version)

Reference:

1. Tillman, Gov.  Benjamin   (October 31, 1894), “The Voice of  A Statesman” The Manning Times., page 1

Source From Library of Congress,  

“Deception , Schemes & Animosity” (4 of 7) part series – sharing a unique perspective on “race relations and class identity” from over a century ago. (Click hyperlink above to download full version)

Reference:

1. Butler, Marion  (November 3, 1898), “Their Real Purpose Revealed.”, “Let the Voter read and Answer for himself.”, “Open Letter From Senator Butler” . The Caucasian, page 1

Source From Library of Congress,

“Deception , Schemes & Animosity” (5 of 7) part series – sharing a unique perspective on “race relations and class identity” from over a century ago. (Click hyperlink above to download full version)

Reference:

1. Page, Thomas N.    (March, 1904), “The Negro- Part One”  ., McClure Magazine pdf page 138-144
2. Page, Thomas N.    (April, 1904), “The Negro-Part Two”  ., McClure Magazine pdf page 93- 100

Source From Library: 

| Continued to Part 6 “Data and Stats” |

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