This is an article written by academics to show how smart they are by setting up and knocking down strawmen.
From the article:
"The Statue of Liberty was originally created to commemorate freed enslaved people, not the arrival of immigrants."
Um, no. It was created at a time when the US was, essentially, the only democracy in a world run by hereditary monarchies. The US was the only country where liberty was the norm. Hence the original name of the statue "Liberty Enlightening the World". If it had anything to do with ending slavery, why is the date on the tablet she's holding July 4, 1776?
"An enslaved person called Onesimus changed the way Americans treated epidemics, pioneering a technique to prevent the spread of smallpox that he had learned from his native West Africa."
Variolation was practiced in Europe as far back as the 17th century. The Onesimus mentioned in the article was from Southern Libya, a descendant of Berbers, and was met by Cotton Mather in 1707.
"Bugs Bunny cartoons and other stories like Brer Rabbit featuring clever, talking animals were originally inspired by African folktales first told by enslaved people."
Really, all talking animal stories have to be inspired by African folk tales?
"Much of Southern culture is nothing more than blackness," Wilson says. "It is the blues and jazz of the 19th century and the rock and roll of the 20th. It is the chicken and grits, the way that people rock in church or the cadence of the pastor."
No one ate chicken and grits until black people did?
This reminds me of posters I saw in Junior High School back in the early 80s. They showed Cleopatra and Hannibal as black because they were from Africa. This is more of the same garbage; take a kernel of truth and wrap a lie around it that supports your agenda.
