Death to the “Founding Fathers”

When the American Great White Men Replaced The American Great Ideals

Hey Abe, where the heck at all the portraits and busts of the Founding Fathers? Who they heck is that on the wall, Mark Twain or Fredrick Douglass? How do you work with just ideals and no hero worshipping to guide you? [photo courtesy by Wiki]

The hero workshop of white men isn’t old. Not half as old as our country. The phrase “Founding Fathers” wasn’t even used until the 1910s, believed to be used in 1916 by Harding. That is the time it came from, the Great White Period, perhaps the most racist, supremacist time in American history. It is a phrase we need to eradicate now.

Honestly, after researching only a bit about it, I’ve already drawn the solid conclusion that it is a racist phrase of white male worship. And I’m a white male American. It was concocted — perhaps semi-consciously — to replace the ideals we stood for as a nation with white men. It is a false god. Getting rid of it might mean ripping down more statues.

When you think even a second about it, provided you’re open-minded to new ideas, which means you’re not a white supremacist, it isn’t a surprise that it cropped up in the most victorious white male part of American history, the early 20th century. And no, I didn’t forget about slavery, which was a time of great evil, but that was a time when White American wasn’t unit but morally divided between inalienable right, aka civil rights. It is that unity that is terrifying of the Great White Period (1899–1928), a period when no black Americans ran for federal government, reversing the practices of…