Source: The Council of Conservative Citizens http://www.cofcc.org/

New Williamsburg Teaches Racial Guilt and Hatred


By Sam Francis

In the New Order being engineered in this country, the line between education and outright brainwashing becomes thinner and thinner. Last week, the Washington Post ran a glowing account of how, at Colonial Williamsburg, one of the nation's most popular and influential tourist sites, the line has now been virtually erased. That's because the whole purpose of the site is now to indoctrinate visitors with the evil of the old order that used to be America.

Colonial Williamsburg is famous for its restored colonial buildings and programs traditionally designed to show visitors what life was really like in 18th century America on the eve of the American Revolution. Not only do visitors see how the skilled craftsmen of the era produced their food, clothing, and furniture, but also they come to appreciate the historical background from which the American nation and its institutions sprang.

Today, that kind of historical understanding is withering as the tourist site evolves into an excursion in racial hostility and guilt. In colonial Virginia, you see, they had slavery-- as in fact they did in most American colonies at the time-- and that little factoid offers an opportunity to turn what has been and should be historical education into cheap propaganda.

Today, the Post reports, professional actors stage skits containing what are supposed to be conversations among black slaves and depicting their attempts to escape slavery. The Post reports that "The reenactments are so realistic that some audience members have attacked the white actors in the slave patrol, who have had to fight to keep their decorative muskets. And when some early performances drove young children to tears, Williamsburg added 'debriefing' sessions afterward to calm them."

Then, there's the newest and what the Post calls "potentially most disturbing" reenactment, which "will focus on he brutality of endured by slaves, including the graphic sounds of whippings. Printed schedules will contain a prominent warning for parents." By now, you're probably getting the picture the new Williamsburg is constructing; that picture is far more about late 20th century America than 18th century Virginia.

The whole process is a big hit with the state's NAACP, which never misses a chance to attack Virginia's past as the legacy of bigotry and oppression. Someone who calls himself "King Salim Khalfani," the executive director of the state NAACP, thinks the new programs are terrific treatments of the history of slavery.

So do a lot of black visitors to Williamsburg, including a lady named Linda Redmond. "I used to think, 'Why go to Williamsburg? There's nothing there about us,'" she told the Post. That's an interesting remark when you think about it.