History Channel?

pwillie

...off and on today, I have watched the History Channel,and it was a good thing...I now know that the first casualty of the Rebels( Colonies vs England) was a black man....and how another black man was
given a medal for being on Omaha Beach!I know a black woman won the war for Texas!....Black folks were brought over as slaves in 1682...by the Massachusetts Colonists...George Washington was able to win the war when he crossed the Delaware, and his black servant gave him the courage to go into battle...Now, I know some don't believe this , but it was on television, and television teaches history !Some of this report was narrated by Al Sharpton and Colin Powell...

NOAH

[:0][:0][:0][:0]IT MUST BE TRUE THEN!!!![:0][:0][:0][:0]

DID YOU KNOW A MEXICAN SAID I REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!! I WAS THERE[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][;)]

iceracerx

And now it's on the internet, so it's a double dose of 'gotta be true'.

Wrangler

Please tell me how a black woman won the war for Texas. I hope you are not getting your information from that revisionist mini-series that was just on a couple of weeks ago. That was some fact sprinkled with BS!

fideau

I do appreciate that George Washington Carver invented the peanut butter sandwich for me.[:D]

wiplash

quote:Originally posted by fideau
I do appreciate that George Washington Carver invented the peanut butter sandwich for me.[:D]


Ummm, No he didn't!

pwillie

quote:Originally posted by wiplash
quote:Originally posted by fideau
I do appreciate that George Washington Carver invented the peanut butter sandwich for me.[:D]


Ummm, No he didn't!
Uncle Remus ? (peanut butter sandwich)[:o)]

320090T

Aunt Jemima invented pancakes, look at the box.

pwillie

quote:Originally posted by 320090T
Aunt Jemima invented pancakes, look at the box.
When I was growing up,we had an "Aunt Mahalia"....does that count?....Uncle Ben "converted rice"....

Sam06

It's really pitiful when you look at it.

jonk

Crispus Attucks, the black guy killed at the Boston Massacre (TWO years before the start of the war IIRC) may have been involved in the skirmish, or may have just been some poor slob who got caught in the crossfire. Latter day revisionists would have you believe he was leading the colonist revolt and personally ripped out the throats of a thousand Redcoats with his bare hands and teeth.

I don't detract from the heroism of anyone, blacks included; and certainly there have been many black soldiers who have served with distinction in the history of the nation. But don't re-write history to give prominence where none is due, for that cheapens the accomplishments of men of any color who truly DID do heroic things.

select-fire

Sick of them turning the history on themselves. I changed the station when Sharpton came on.