Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures

Get free access to Nebula with your CuriosityStream subscription! Visit https://curiositystream.com/secondthought and save 41% on your annual plan. That s less than 12 bucks for a whole year of CuriosityStream and Nebula. This week s video is about the imperialist practice of whitewashing and revising the histories of radical figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Paine. Why do American history books leave out so much of King s activism? Come find out! Further Reading: MLK: https://inthesetimes.com/article/martin-luther-king-jr-day-socialism-capitalism https://www.jstor.org/stable/40015109?seq=1 https://progressivesoutherntheologians.com/news/2019/4/7/mlk-and-marxism Thomas Paine: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/thomas-paine-american-revolution-common-sense/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paine/ https://www.sjsu.edu/people/ruma.chopra/courses/H174_MW_F12/s1/Wk7_A.pdf http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1786-1800/thomas-paine-the-rights-of-man/text.php Albert Einstein: https://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/storage/35099/Einstein%20on%20Why%20Socialism.pdf?access=28753d2d6538353acbfa1b728a8ba5fd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Albert_Einstein#Socialism Rosa Parks: https://jacobinmag.com/2013/03/the-forgotten-rosa-parks/ https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/50846/Rosa+Parks+A+radical+civil+rights+activist+who+fought+tirelessly https://www.socialistalternative.org/2016/11/16/60th-anniversary-montgomery-bus-boycott-struggle-sparked-civil-rights-movement/ George Orwell: https://thewire.in/books/remembering-george-orwell-the-socialist https://news.stanford.edu/2016/02/16/orwell-alex-woloch-021516/ https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/george-orwell-birthday-politics-socialism John Steinbeck: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1116&context=graddis https://www.jstor.org/stable/3235404?seq=1 Helen Keller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller#:~:text=Keller%20was%20a%20member%20of,causes%20that%20opposed%20military%20intervention. https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller https://www.workers.org/2016/03/24250/ Pablo Picasso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#Political_views http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr204/picasso.htm Nelson Mandela: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/mandela-and-south-african-communist-party https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/12/the-two-mandelas Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Follow Second Thought on Social Media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com