The people in power have to rob working people of their history in order to stifle the struggles for progress in the present.
Schools deprive young people of any real discussion about the struggle to include the Bill of Rights as part of the United States Constitution and the people who were left out of protection.
Did anyone ever learn about the racist Doctrine of Discovery or the
racist United States Supreme Court decision of Johnson versus M'Intosh
which still stands today--- almost 200 years later.
Few
students learn of the most successful third party alternative in this
country--- the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party when this party of united
Socialists and Communists dominated Minnesota politics for almost two
decades electing two Socialist governors--- Floyd Olson and Elmer
Benson, and a union organizer Communist--- John Bernard--- to the U.S.
Congress with a majority in the State House and a near majority in the
State Senate.
Students don't learn about the Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Party and they don't learn about the massive government
repression that killed it.
History books which have to be approved by a bunch of anti-working class racists in Texas are a bad joke.
I am sure the struggles of working people must have had similar
successes at the ballot box in other states but I never learned about
these successes in school so I can't tell you... did Wisconsinites ever
have any successes in electing real representatives of the people
outside the Democratic or Republican parties? What about in New York---
do people remember the Communist Councilman from Harlem, Benjamin Davis;
or are they fixated on Anthony Wiener's sexting escapades?
Lots of kids tell me they are learning all about "terrorism" in their
classes today; when I ask them if they know what the largest terrorist
organization in the world is they don't know that it is the KKK.
I recently tried to find out about the Full Employment Act of 1945
which was pushed by the left-led CIO unions and authored by liberal
Texas Democrat Wright Patman... not one single member of Minnesota's
Congressional delegation would provide me with it... I never learned
about it in school; it passed the U.S. Senate by a wide margin but when
Wall Street went on the attack it was defeated in the House. It would
have made the President and Congress responsible for attaining and
maintaining full employment--- but, who cares about legislating full
employment when you can run for office and get elected by mouthing the
words "jobs, jobs, jobs" without being held accountable for actually
providing the jobs once elected, eh?
The "Full Employment Act
of 1945;" one of labor's most important legislative battles and it is
just about impossible to locate the text of the legislation and the
transcript of the hearings which is a history book itself. It took me
hours upon hours of searching for this information because the people in
power and the politicians have gone to such lengths to conceal it.
If anyone doesn't believe that history is being concealed from the
people just check out the Full Employment Act of 1945 and the transcript
of the hearings.
With all the talk about "jobs, jobs, jobs" at
election time the Full Employment Act of 1945 must be at least somewhat
relevant? Go ahead... try to find the text and transcript.
Finding out about real history in this country has become an unpleasant but necessary task.
It must be nice for politicians always being able to respond to a
reporter's question of, "What are the three main issue in this
election?" and being able to respond with "Jobs, jobs, jobs," knowing
there is nothing to hold them accountable for creating those jobs.
Go ahead... try to find the text and transcript of the hearings on the Full Employment Act of 1945 anyplace except on my blog:
http://fullemploymentnow.blogspot.com/