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Why whitewash history?
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Talk of Tulsa, Juneteenth and Critical Race Theory made me realize my schooling was incomplete.
There are still chances to learn, like a new exhibit at the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum, “Something so Horrible: The Springfield Race Riot of 1908,” when a mob of 5,000 Whites over two days destroyed Black homes and businesses, and attacked Blacks; 16 died.
The 1921 Tulsa Massacre – a White mob of about 1,000 killed 300 Blacks and wounded hundreds, and destroyed the Black business district and countless homes, displacing thousands – reminds us that racism wasn’t just in the Deep South. I’d assumed that as a Illinois pupil in the 1950s and ’60s, hearing about 1964’s Civil Rights Act and 1965’s Voting Rights Act. We read about Reconstruction and its “carpetbaggers,” but not how Congress tried to reconcile post-war North-South friction by sacrificing ex-slaves to Jim Crow discrimination. We heard about Crispu
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders (releasing in November 2021)
OPINION The current clash between Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley and former-President Trump reminds me a bit of the Army’s confrontation back in 1954 with the late-Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The issue 66 years ago, was McCarthy’s claim that the Army was soft on communism. Trump’s argument is that Milley and other senior military officers have adopted “critical race theory,” and thus are “woke,” as Trump claimed during his Wellington, Ohio, rally last Saturday night.