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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 ...

The first thing many, maybe most whites will do is deny we have any riotous involvement. How could we Whites be the cause when we are hardly ever seen rioting? Yet there have been infinitesimally few riots where whites were not the central cause . While Ku Klux Klan- type white supremacy was often an instigator, it is the larger white supremacist cohort (see image text below) , which includes most white Americans throughout our history, that has created the greater context, the massive matrix of unlit matches you could say, especially today. Even when riots "instigated" by blacks are included in our rioting history, white structured society would be the true culprit of our significant riotous past, our very recent past as well . The evidence to support this claim is infinite, and begins below. The definition of the term riot can be narrowed down to limit the political formations of violence to exonerate state violence, or violence by preferred citizens. Instead I define ...