Truth and Payback
I will allow no one to lie about the founders of America. Those on the Left, Leftist Jews in particular, who have claimed that Anglo-Saxons are genocidal maniacs, or that Columbus is a murderer, will have their payback delivered in the truth. Ingratitude is a trait I despise.
I’ve posted parts of this topic earlier, but want to add more: (I was going to wait until the hullaballoo died down, but why not?
Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles, “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians”, from a 1917 study. Cecil Sharp was a folklorist from England.
"The mountaineer is freer in his manner, more alert and less inarticulate than his British prototype and bears no trace of the obsequiousness of manner, which, since the Enclosure Acts robbed him of his economic independence and made of him a hired laborer, has unhappily characterized the English villager. The difference is seen in the way the mountaineer, as I have already said, upon meeting a stranger, removes his hat, offers his hand, and enters into conversation, where the English laborer would touch his cap, or pull his forelock, and pass on."
Note: what in the world is a forelock? (Compare with the Frontier thesis, by Frederick Jackson Turner: historian of early twentieth century): "...that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom."
Sharp:
"A few of those we met were able to read and write, but the majority were illiterate. They are, however, good talkers, using an abundant vocabulary, racily and often picturesquely. Although uneducated, in the sense that term is usually understood, they possess that elemental wisdom, abundant knowledge, and intuitive understanding which those only who live in constant touch with nature and face-to-face with reality seem to be able to acquire. It is to be hoped that the schools which are beginning to be established in some districts, chiefly in the vicinity of the Missionary Settlements, will succeed in giving them what they lack, WITHOUT INFECTING THEIR IDEALS, or depriving them of the charm of manner and the many engaging qualities which so happily distinguish them."
Pay attention to this video, colorized version of a 1928 recording of Appalachian folk musicians, especially the very first minutes, when two more musicians arrive, and ‘extend their hands’:
Could it be it was the Appalachian folks, those who went westwards and carried the new-found feelings of real freedom, that founded America, not the Yoruba natives from Nigeria?
In not to long a time the Great Depression would hit. I suspect that it hardly fazed them. I was also surprised the fiddle player didn’t knock over the rifle just behind his feet when he was dancing. lol.
Thank you for posting!
Speaking about the Great Depression, I wrote something about The Whiny Kids Hypothesis a few days ago. My mom's folks were from Oklahoma, lived there during the depression trying to farm. (Originally, some of her forebears were from Mississippi, some from Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas, you get the picture. But our nuclear family, my parents, brother and I, lived in Denver and surrounds from mid-fifties onwards. Where I'm going with this is, whenever I would complain that something was too hard, or I needed something else, she would say "Well, why don't you do something about it, Carol?" or "Isn't there something you can do about it?"
And when I was fifteen, and we got out of school for the summer, when I walked in our door, I whined: "Mom, what am I gonna do this summer?" And she pointedly said: "Get a job, Carol!"
So I did. My first job, at 15, apart from babysitting, was in the library.
The point is, my mother, the Okie, from the mountains, made us into self-reliant AMERICANS, not whiny socialists.