{"id":58513,"date":"2016-04-22T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58513"},"modified":"2016-04-21T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T19:37:30","slug":"i-love-the-smell-of-napalmed-narratives-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58513","title":{"rendered":"I Love The Smell Of Napalmed Narratives In The Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

You could practically sense the institutional left’s glee at the thought of conservatives’ reaction to Harriet Tubman being selected for the face of the new $20 bill. \u00a0Indeed, reading some of their pieces, I got the impression that the “reactions” were written not only well in advance<\/a>, but written at some centralized content mill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Then, Thursday happened – and the vast majority of conservatives applauded the choice<\/a>; a gun-toting Republican freedom fighter who not only led slaves on the Underground Railroad but led Union troops back the other way, replacing the slave-owning, genocide-mongering founder of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

The standard-bearer of orthodox conservatism, the National Review<\/em>, points out the facts that most Democrats don’t know:<\/p>\n

In fact, Harriett Tubman was a gun-toting, Jesus-loving spy who blazed the way for women to play a significant role in military and political affairs.<\/p>\n

Indeed, her work on the Underground Railroad was mostly a prelude to her real achievements. Born into slavery as Araminta Ross, Tubman knew the slave system\u2019s inhumanity firsthand: She experienced the savage beatings and family destruction that were par for the course. She eventually escaped and, like most who fled, freed herself largely by her own wits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Which is something the Democrats are doing their best to school out of black people.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, though?<\/p>\n

Tubman was one of the most valuable field-intelligence assets the Union Army had. She had hundreds of intelligence contacts and could establish new ones \u2014 particularly among African Americans \u2014 when nobody else could.<\/p>\n

During one of her scouting missions along the Combahee River, she became the first woman and one of the first African Americans to command a significant number of U.S. troops in combat<\/strong>. The raid she organized and helped to command freed far more enslaved people than her decades of work on the Underground Railroad. She also was a strong advocate of allowing African Americans into the Union Army. She knew Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the almost entirely African-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment \u2014 the unit at the center of the 1989 film Glory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So go for it, Democrats. \u00a0Tell us something we\u00a0don’t\u00a0<\/em>know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You could practically sense the institutional left’s glee at the thought of conservatives’ reaction to Harriet Tubman being selected for the face of the new $20 bill. \u00a0Indeed, reading some of their pieces, I got the impression that the “reactions” were written not only well in advance, but written at some centralized content mill. Then, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58516,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58513\/revisions\/58516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}