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History repeats itself!!
Jul 15, 2008 | 7:05 AM
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I was listening to a local radio show this morning that is probably quite popular among a few of my fellow bloggers and they were going over an incident that occurred on the campus of Purdue University in Indiana recently.  The situation played out as follows; a janitor for the university, of white decent, was doing the work Americans "just won't do" and decided to read a book on his break.  The book, I don't recall the title, was about a clash between the KKK and Notre Dame students back in the 50's in which the students prevailed.  The cover of the book happened to depict a man in a white robe and pointed hat burning a cross in front of the Notre Dame campus.  A student passed and saw this man reading the book and reported it to a staff member who then brought it up to a student relations commitee.  This man was brought before the committee and told that this book was the equivelent of bring pornography on campus, he was then handed a pay cut and told that this "hateful act" of book reading was offensive to students and staff and that he would have to stop reading that book on campus!!  All of this nonsense over a book that was retelling an actual historical event, where the KKK was defeated by progressive students who believed in racial equality!!!  Didn't Hitler demand the burning of all books that didn't fit his brainwashing agenda?  I have witnessed, over a few years, public schools removing certian books from their reading lists because they contain factually based history that might offend some students and parents, Huck Finn being one of these books.  What do you guys think about this mandatory suppression of history to avoid offending the public?   I'm pretty sure we need to educate ourselves extensivly on our history or we are doomed to repeat it, this is looking more and more like Nazi Germany, I'm getting really scared....are we really going to resort back to book burning??!! 
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marine_1 read my blog view my photos
Jul 15, 2008 | 9:50 PM

dude you are so right. my old private school would not even allow us to read or discuss the harry potter series on school grounds. i thought and still think that that is ridiculous. i mean my parents were just glad that i was reading anything. well that for the comment on my blog.
marine_1 read my blog view my photos
Jul 15, 2008 | 9:55 PM

dude let me guess he kept his head up. that is a true hero. is he still alive? if so tell him thank you. it is a shame what he went through but he did it for his country and for that i am truly glad. i am glad somebody else actually acknowledges that this world is screwed up.
hereandnow read my blog
Jul 16, 2008 | 6:44 AM

He just turned 60 and is still the biggest hard a$$ I know. He raised me to speak my mind and stand up for whats right against the sea of idiocrisy that is this sad world. He was stoic about the crirism he recieved, never got in a fight over it, said if people want to be stupid and vicious there's nothing you can do but let them, you can't fix stupid!!
marine_1 read my blog view my photos
Jul 22, 2008 | 6:39 PM

dude that is so true did you tell him thanks for me? that is exactly how my grandfather raised me. as a marine he wanted me to have the very best. he always loved it when i stood up to him and he loved it when i got in trouble in elementary school for punching this guy in the nose because he called all soldiers ego maniacal a$$holes. i broke his nose and my grandfather bought me a new game system. that is exactly why i stand up for my beliefs now. since he left i have stood my ground without the rewards.
e_beth72 read my blog
Aug 1, 2008 | 2:48 PM

Great blog I agree if we don't learn history it's doomed to repeat. Did you here about england taking any mention of holocuast out of their text books because they didn't want to offend any muslim students? Now that is just asking for history to repeat itself. By One segregating races such as muslim and not teaching the consequences of doing so.
hereandnow read my blog
Aug 1, 2008 | 3:06 PM

It's just what happens when people assume they have the right to not be offended. I still don't get this, I'm offended every day and I don't call for the firing if employees or compensation for my damages. Didn't mamma always say, sticks and stones....we live in a country full of whiny wussies!!
e_beth72 read my blog
Aug 1, 2008 | 5:38 PM

I totally agree every time someone called us a name growing up my mom would say "Well is it true" and we say "No" and she say "well then don't worry about it." Her favorite phrase was get over it. My parents also always emphasize history to us because of the very reason your blog is about history if not taught will repeat itself.
hereandnow read my blog
Aug 4, 2008 | 8:43 AM

Good to talk to a true 10 percenter...
Dread-Head read my blog view my photos
Aug 11, 2008 | 3:02 PM

In the mid/late 1980's rapper Ice-T had a small war going with then Senator Al Gore's wife Tipper who was head of the Parental Music Review Committee. The PMRC spoke out against against rap and heavy metal. Ice-T on the title track of an album entitled "Freedom of Speech: Just watch what you say." said:

"First you censor books, then you censor art. This is where the witch hunt starts."

There are many books, recordings and films that offend me; however, censoring books, music, and art is tantamount to policing thought and the cornerstone to ANY freedom is freedom of thought. Huck Fin is a great American novel and important social document. D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation is one of the most important films ever made and should remain in our libraries. Conversely while Hitler's Mein Kamph is sick and twisted it belongs in our archives so that we know what brought about the deaths of 11 million victims of circumstance.
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27 yr old, married mom of 2 little girls, 4yr old and 6 month old. Animal lover and activist. I despise the liberal movement and the socialist agenda young americans have turned it into. Just your typical girl clinging to her bible and guns, you know, because I'm of limited mental capacity...

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