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Howard Zinn,   The 5 Immortals , & the   6th   Player , Offer Insight into Our Ideals. Photo by   Matthias Cooper   on   Unsplash . Essay Originally Published on Medium . I have been looking into the background of historian and political scientist,   Howard Zinn , learning that many say he was not always historically   honest , or thorough in his citations and sources. That his interpretations were   slanted towards socialism , and consistently shaming the United States for its faults and failures. In one instance he supposedly explains how   during WWII many Black Americans were against going to war , using only a few secondary sources like personal letters, and such, as evidence. From my non-exhaustive Google searches, I can find no references to that claim of an anti-war sentiment by a large portion of Black Americans. However, at the same time there is a historical tangent in a   somewhat   similar direction, about our ...

  Photo by   Mark Paton   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . Felons are the menace… But whites lock up Black Americans at almost four times the rate of whites because whites are   merely  colorblind to disparate impact and tone deaf to injustice. . I was cautious at one time… But recently, I threw my caution towel in to the wind. . What do we really know? And when will we ever care to really know it? . You should wear a mask to save others and yourself… Unless you’re all messed up like Texas. . Minnesota felons cannot vote because they are disproportionately Black Americans and American Indian. Voting is best done by those able to disproportionately lock up the most people they want disenfranchised. . COVID-19 has killed so many people… Not even Republicans can fathom it. . I broke the heart of the banking system. So now it wants to be home alone. . Experts are needed… Unless it is something like climate change or COVID-19, then pundits and politi...

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo / Unsplash , Kettle Black . Look closely at the context when a conservative uses the epithet mob rule to denigrate democracy, or democratic actions. There is an underlying problem with this designation, and it relates to the situations where a mob is actually harmful, and where the mob rule epithet is used against positive social, political, and economic changes we demand. . In a previous essay , I noted how an angry mob , or mob mentality is what everyone is thinking of when mob rule is brought out to besmirch something that is close to pure democratic rule. Ironically, this association is never used when conservative violence-oriented belief systems are being instituted. Think about it. When there is an emotional legislative topic, such as war, abortion, guns, crime, or state killing as in the death penalty, the angry mob and mob mentality are trotted out in full force to defend their positions. Exactly where high emotional language is their stock an...