Chris Hedges: Restoring Lies to US History
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/05/chris-hedges-restoring-lies-to-us-history/
Lust for conquest and wealth — behind the enslavement of Africans and the Native American genocide — is sidelined to tell the story of the valiant struggle by European pioneers to build the greatest nation on earth. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost…
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Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember Nat Turner, who led one of the only effective, sustained slave revolt in U.S. history (in 1831). They killed over 50 people, mostly whites, but the authorities put down the rebellion after a few days. Turner survived in hiding for several months. The militia and racist mobs, in turn, slaughtered up to 120 free and enslaved black people, and the state executed another 56, and severely punished dozens of non-slaves in the frenzy that followed the uprising. Turner’s revolt set off a new wave of oppressive legislation by whites, prohibiting the education, movement and assembly of enslaved and free blacks, alike. After his conviction, he was beheaded and flayed, to deter future rebels. His skin was used to make souvenir purses and his skeleton was used as a medical specimen. In the 1960s, there was funk-soul band Nat Turner Rebellion. Tupac Shakur had a cross tattoo on his back, "EXODUS 1831", in reference to the year Turner led the rebellion

August 21, 1831 - Nat Turner, a 30-year-old man legally owned by a child, and six other slaves began a violent insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia. They began by killing the child’s stepfather, Joseph Travis, and his family. Within the next 24 hours, Turner and, ultimately, about 40 followers killed the families who owned adjacent slaveholding properties, nearly 60 whites, while freeing and inciting other slaves to join them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzjDhIXI2PA

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#NormanFinkelstein explains why he refuses to condemn #Palestinians who joined 7 Oct attacks

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COMMENT: I do trust that #Mastodon people have critical thinking and listening skills. I trust that no one in their right mind, incl Finkelstein, thinks it's good to attack people at a #musicfestival.
He is addressing HOW violent oppression, humiliation and land theft can affect someone and how a person (not all of a people), can get to that state of wanting revenge and then do stuff like 7 Oct. If this person weren't violently and brutally oppressed, this person wouldn't engage in horrible activities like 7 October.