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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   Debra Fisher   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . I knew a guy who had the most excellent Australian accent ever. He was the   Crocodile Dundee   of SCSU in the mid 1990s, where I went to complete my degree after two years of college in the early 1980s. He was boisterous, funny, and always animated.   Do you have a picture in your head as to what Nick looked like?   Tannish skin, slim, great smile, handsome, and half Chinese and half Thai. . Strangely his parents were not given a friendly welcome when they arrived Down Under with too many of   their kind  overrunning the continent.   Why does “their kind” sound so familiar? Could it be that Aussies seem to have a problem with too many immigrants at their doorstep?…   Or near their shores, I guess. It is as if white Australians are an arrogant, selfish, horde as well as a forgetful lot about their history. They   kinda   were the first interlopers, and ...