Would that the Roman people had but one neck! – Gaius Caligula
I’m not going to analyze this propaganda too deeply, parse out which of the statements make sense and which don’t, or discuss the long and tortured history of the construct of “whiteness” and how it has changed over the past 400 years. I’m not even going to comment (beyond this sentence) on the fact that this was lifted from a 30-year-old book by a white woman. All I’m going to do is remind you that the National Museum of African American History & Culture is part of the Smithsonian; it is owned and run by the US government, and therefore heavily invested in promoting that government’s interests (because he who pays the piper calls the tune). And then I’m going to ask you why a government might want the most oppressed minority under its rule to associate individualism, independence, autonomy, and rational thought with their oppressors.
Simple manipulation and duping. Oh, and I know some facts that don’t get mentioned:
1. The Democrats supported slavery and were racist throughout most of their history. After all, it was a Democrat who founded the KKK.
2. The one man, one woman nuclear family is a rare family form in history, and not without reason. Most families throughout history were either extended families or one man and several women.
3. The Republican party was actually a combination of the Free Soil, Know Nothing, War, Whig, and to a lesser extent, the liberty parties.
Inclusion of “respect for authority” in that list doesn’t help the thesis.
I think there’s a Greek word for calling attention to something by saying you won’t mention it.
We have reached the point where white nationalists and “Woke” activists agree.