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Three Things the Left Lied About—January 10, 2026 | IFA

Lies aren’t just meant to deceive. They are also designed to confuse and divide. This week’s lies certainly fit that description. As intercessors, however, we are called to pray against these deceptions, while also sharing truth.

Have you taken your place on the wall?

The first lie told by the Left this week revolves around the city of San Francisco and their plan to pay reparations to the city’s black residents, “to the tune of $5 million per person.” Fox News recently reported that the mayor of San Francisco signed an ordinance that creates a Reparations Fund, which “establishes a legal framework for the fund,” that “can be financed with private donations, foundations, and other non-city sources.”

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told Fox News that “no taxpayer money would be paid into the potential pot, given the city’s $1 billion budget deficit.”

Restitution or More Discrimination?

The ordinance reads, “the Reparations Plan outlines a variety of methods to provide restitution, compensation and rehabilitation to individuals who are Black and/or descendants of a chattel enslaved person and have experienced a proven harm in San Francisco.”

Reparations bills have been attempted before. In 2023, the former Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, rejected the proposal. Antonio Quinio, an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, insists that the program is unconstitutional because of its racial preferences. He specified that “the ordinance has a very explicit racially discriminatory purpose.”

The five-million-dollar payment isn’t all that’s wrapped up in this bill. The ordinance “includes debt forgiveness, 250 years of tax abatement, and income subsidies.”

Some demands from the San Francisco African-American Reparations Committee include “prioritizing Black industries, creating Black campuses, Black business hubs, manufacturing, cannabis, media, AI, and biotech, providing cash payments to Blacks to alleviate stress and anxiety caused by financial insecurity, and creating Black banks.”

Townhall explains that the Reparations Plan alleges “genetic trauma” and “current policy of white supremacy” in San Francisco. In response, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took to social media and called the plan a “woke mind virus in its most aggressive form.”

Plan Will Create More Division

The Left wants people to believe that solving the problem of what they term “systemic racism” can be rectified by creating MORE systemic racism. Their ideas stem from Marxism, where the goal is to enslave people under the guise of “freedom from oppression.” The Reparations Bill, if funded, will not lift people out of poverty or “trauma,” but instead cause more division among racial classes.

Pro-Maduro Protesters Have Ties to China

The next lie told by the Left this week involves the pro-Maduro protesters who demonstrated in Times Square, as well as outside the Brooklyn federal lock-up where the notorious leader is being held. These protesters were organized by the People’s Forum, a group that has ties to communist China.

The People’s Forum released a statement which said, “This war is not about drug trafficking, it is not about democracy–it is about stealing Venezuela’s oil and dominating Latin America.”

Don’t Ignore the Connection

A little bit of digging reveals that this same communist-affiliated group has been behind many anti-Israel demonstrations around the United States. Moreover, the People’s Forum organized large-scale protests in New York City just one day after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks that killed at least 1,200 Israelis. Disturbingly, some protesters displayed images of swastikas.

Flyers passed out by some protesters in Manhattan read, “The United States was founded on the genocide of indigenous peoples and the forcible displacement, enslavement, and exploitation of African people from its beginning. This settler state has relied on kidnapping, imprisonment, and terror to maintain control.”

The People’s Forum “works closely with the Communism-aligned Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), with a number of the same people serving on the boards of both groups.” Additionally, much of the group’s financing comes from American tech millionaire Neville Roy Singham, an “extreme leftist” based in Shanghai. The protestors are demanding the release of Maduro, as well as the ending of sanctions against Venezuela.

Leftist groups like the People’s Forum claim they are for the people, but truthfully, they are tools for communism. Their goal is to stir up division and hate, while claiming to defend the innocent and marginalized. Nicolas Maduro is certainly not innocent or marginalized. He is a cold-blooded criminal who is supported by a long list of communist leaders, groups, and influencers.

Governor Hochul Honors Islam

The third lie told by the Left this week comes from New York’s Governor, Kathy Hochul. Just one day after Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office on the Quran, the governor ordered 16 state landmarks to be lit up in green for Islam. Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) in New York City was illuminated as well. One World Trade Center now stands on the site of World Trade Center Six, which was heavily damaged during the collapse of the North Tower on 9/11.

Islamic violence destroyed the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, claiming the lives of approximately 3,000 Americans, but that didn’t keep the governor from honoring “Islamic contributions.”

Governor Hochul shared, “New York remains committed to being a beacon of hope, tolerance, and inclusivity that celebrates the diversity of its Muslim American population and protects them from Islamophobia, hate, bias, and harm.” She designated the month of January as Muslim American Heritage Month in the state of New York.

Leftist governors like Hochul continue to lift up Islam while ignoring the grave threat it poses to Western society. The truth is that Islam and socialism have united to weaken American freedoms. It’s important that intercessors pray that this alliance is exposed and defeated. America is not a nation built on the principles of Islam, but rather Christian ideals which inspired our Constitution and way of life.

Lord Jesus, the lies we encounter are continuous and unrelenting. Help us use discernment as we filter through the newsfeeds, and give us the courage to take action against the constant threats to our freedoms.

These are just a few of the lies being propagated by the Left. How are you praying?

Angela Rodriguez is an author, blogger, and former teacher who studies the signs of the times, as well as the historical and biblical connections between Israel and the United States. You can visit her blogs at 67owls.com and 100trumpets.com. She is also the author of Psalm 91: Under the Wings of Jesus and Hallelujah’s Great Ride. Photo Credit: Danny Butlin-Policarpo on Unsplash.

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The Slave Trade and Conspiracy Theories | CultureWatch

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More deliberate lies and deceit from the Candi Cult:

You can always tell it is a new day: there is yet another nutjob conspiracy theory being pushed by the Jew-hating psychopath Candace Owens. The latest one is that the Jews were the ones mainly behind the slave trade! And of course, tomorrow we will learn from her that all cases of teen acne are the result of an evil Jewish plot. It is such a good thing we have her around to tell us what is really happening in the world.

Her neurotic, demonic and irrational obsession with the Jews knows no bounds, and her addiction to ugly antisemitism must be called out – daily. As to her latest stupidity – blaming the slave trade on Jews – one can easily enough dismiss this nonsense.

But of course she and her legion of cult followers never let facts, evidence and reason get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, and some good old Jew-hatred. So let me draw upon two experts here. The first one wrote on this very matter in a column penned over 30 years ago.

In his 1999 collection of essays, Barbarians Inside the Gates, Black American economist and commentator Thomas Sowell has a piece called “Singling Out Jews”. The second half of his essay goes like this:

On a subject where such ideological distortion has been the rule rather than the exception, it was perhaps inevitable that someone would take it a step further and single out Jews as responsible for the enslavement and trading of Africans. But when it came to enslaving human beings and trading them like cattle, blacks did it, whites did it, Jews did it, Gentiles did it. There was slavery in China and Russia and in the island paradise of Bali.

If this presents an ugly picture of the human race, so be it. But to talk about Jews trading slaves is like saying that white people have toenails. It is true enough in itself, but grossly misleading if it suggests that non-whites do not have toenails.

During the long era of slavery, going back thousands of years and extending around the world, merchant peoples in general traded slaves along with other merchandise. Venetians, Greeks and Jews did so in Europe, the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, The Arabs in Africa and the Middle East, as well as various African tribes, among many other peoples in many other places.

None of those who are trying to whip up Americans of African ancestry against Jews points out that the Arabs were among the principal enslavers and traders of Africans, while Jews were much more likely to be trading Slavs in Medieval Europe and around the Mediterranean. No doubt diligent research can turn up cases of Jews holding or trading black slaves in the Western Hemisphere, but blacks themselves did the same thing in the Caribbean and in New Orleans and Charleston, among other places. Nobody’s hands are completely clean.

Even if the discussion of slavery is arbitrarily restricted to the enslavement of black people, Jews come far down the list of those involved. They cannot compare with the number of Africans who held fellow-Africans in bondage in Africa, not even counting those who sold their black brothers to the white man.

Most Jews were in no position to trade slaves, and had all that they could do to survive the persecutions to which they were themselves subjected. But leading scholars—both Jews and Gentiles—affirm that Jews were not exempt from taking part in this global trade.

The singling out of Jews and the implication that they had some special role in the enslavement of Africans is an outrage rightly being condemned, though not by enough people. Unfortunately, it is only a further extension of the pervasive selective history and selective moral indignation that has long marked the discussion of slavery and other issues, even in “respectable” circles.

Image of Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (Hoover Institution Press Publication (Paperback)) — Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (Hoover Institution Press Publication (Paperback)) by Sowell, Thomas (Author)

And much more recently, the Messianic Jewish commentator Ron Cantor posted an online piece about the idiocy of what Candace is claiming. Titled, “Candace Owens’s latest lie: ‘Jewish people were in control of the slave trade’,” it is worth sharing portions of it here. He says in part:

Claims that Jewish people were responsible for, or disproportionately behind, the Atlantic slave trade are not only historically false but also recycle long-standing antisemitic conspiracy theories. When Candace Owens repeats or amplifies these ideas, she is not engaging in serious historical critique, as she is not a historian or even a student of history. She primarily repeats unproven claims on a myriad of subjects for likes and clicks.

Now, she is reviving a narrative that has been thoroughly debunked by mainstream historians across ideological and religious lines. Even a novice student of the 17th and 18th centuries would know how dumb her assertions are. The Atlantic slave trade was a vast, multinational enterprise spanning centuries and involving European empires, African kingdoms, shipping companies, plantation owners, insurers, and financiers. The dominant actors were the Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and Dutch, operating through state-sanctioned trading companies and imperial systems.

To suggest that Jews “ran” or were “behind” this system ignores the basic structure of early modern power: Jews, as a small and frequently persecuted minority in Europe, were largely excluded from political authority, colonial governance, and chartered monopolies that controlled the trade.

And he goes on to say this:

Yes, a small number of Jewish individuals participated in slaveholding or slave trading, just as members of virtually every ethnic and religious group did in societies where slavery was legal. But participation is not the same as control, and participation of Jews was minimal.

Serious scholarship consistently shows that Jewish involvement was marginal relative to the scale of the trade. Jews owned only a tiny fraction of slave ships, plantations, and trading firms. In many colonies, laws explicitly restricted Jewish economic activity and barred Jews from the very institutions that organized large-scale slaving operations.

The idea that Jews were central to the slave trade gained traction not from academic research but from polemical sources (meaning, written to prove a point, not for accuracy)—most notably the highly racist propaganda “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” published by the Jew-hating Nation of Islam. Historians have debunked the book. It is not peer-reviewed (meaning scholars have not affirmed it).

And he concludes:

What makes Owens’s claims especially troubling is that they mirror classic antisemitic tropes: the notion of secret control, disproportionate influence, and hidden culpability for society’s greatest evils. These narratives have historically been used to exploit, expel, persecute, and MURDER JEWS. Repackaging them as “just asking questions” or “telling uncomfortable truths” does not make them any less dangerous or false.

Owens, who claims to be a follower of Jesus (wait until she finds out He’s Jewish!), is influencing hundreds of thousands of Christians. Paul warned the Christians of his day not to buy into such theories, saying that God has not rejected Israel (Rom. 11:1, 11). We sound the alarm because we care for you. Paul warned that misunderstanding God’s plan for Israel could lead to pride and deception (Rom. 11:25). While God wants his church to pray for Israel and contend for her salvation.

Debunking this claim does not minimize the horrors of slavery or deflect responsibility from those who truly profited from it. Slavery is grotesque. The moral weight of slavery rests squarely on the imperial powers, colonial elites, and economic systems that normalized and enforced it. In fact, the vast majority of slave owners in America identified as Christian. I did not listen to her entire podcast, but did she mention that? (That is not an indictment of Christianity, but of those hypocritical slave owners who claimed to love Jesus while abusing His creation.)

In the end, Owens’s narrative fails both historically and morally. It collapses under basic scrutiny of the evidence and relies on innuendo rather than scholarship. It is classic scapegoating. It fails the common-sense test for anyone who knows anything about Jewish history. We dishonor the history of slavery when we use it to attack people who had very little to do with it.

Pray for Candace Owen’s soul. I just did.

This is just the latest case of a lying, embittered and demonised nutjob who really needs to keep her mouth shut, repent and get right with God. Like Cantor, I pray for her – daily. She desperately needs deliverance and new life in Christ.

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On This Day in 1865: Democrats Pass Nation’s First ‘Black Codes’ to Impose Near Slavery on African Americans | The Gateway Pundit

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On This Day in 1865: Democrats Pass Nation’s First ‘Black Codes’ to Impose Near Slavery on African Americans

Group portrait of a family sitting on the steps of a wooden house, featuring adults and children in historical clothing. — Family of slaves at the Gaines house – wikimedia commons

The more things change – the more they stay the same.

On November 22, 1865, Mississippi Democrats passed black codes to impose near slavery on African Americans in the state.

Democrats didn’t want those blacks to see any success in life. Today Democrats do that by “representing” blacks in political office but doing nothing to improve their lives in the hood.

Grand Old Partisan reported:

According to these Democrat laws, African-Americans could not:

• vote

• serve on juries

• testify against white people

• own guns

• travel without permission

• assemble for political purposes

• own farmland

• be outdoors at night

• change jobs without permission

Democrats decreed that all African-Americans had to:

•sign annual labor contracts with white masters

• be deferential to all white people

• be apprenticed (in practice, enslaved) to white masters until adulthood

• work only in agriculture and a few other occupations

Fortunately, after winning a two-thirds majority in Congress, Republicans swept away these black codes.

Democrats have always worked to keep the black man down.

When the Civil War ended, and after Republican President Abraham Lincoln liberated the slaves, Democrats initiated black codes and later Jim Crow laws to punish blacks. Democrats discriminated against blacks. In fact, the KKK was founded as the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.

The Ku Klux Klan assassinated many Republicans, including Republican Representative James M. Hinds (December 5, 1833—October 22, 1868) of Little Rock. Hinds represented Arkansas in the United States Congress from June 24, 1868, through October 22, 1868, before his violent death.

Republican Representative James Hinds was murdered by KKK Democrats in the closing weeks of the 1868 election. Hinds supported voting rights for former slaves

Here is a brief history of the end of slavery and emancipation in the United States.
Via Michael Zak at Grand Old Partisan and later reposted at Free Republic:

September 22, 1862: Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect

The Democratic Party continues to Support Slavery.

February 9, 1864: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

June 15, 1864: Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War

June 28, 1864: Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts

October 29, 1864: African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”

January 31, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition

Republican Party Support: 100% Democratic Party Support: 23%

March 3, 1865: Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves

April 8, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate

Republican support 100% Democrat support 37%

June 19, 1865: On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation

November 22, 1865: Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination

1866: The Republican Party passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights of newly freed slaves

December 6, 1865: Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified

*1865: The KKK launches as the “Terrorist Arm” of the Democratic Party

February 5, 1866: U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves

April 9, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law

April 19, 1866: Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery

May 10, 1866: U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no

June 8, 1866: U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no

July 16, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights

July 28, 1866: Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen

July 30, 1866: Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150

January 8, 1867: Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.

July 19, 1867: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans

March 30, 1868: Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”

May 20, 1868: Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors

1868 (July 9): 14th Amendment passes and recognizes newly freed slaves as U.S. Citizens

Republican Party Support: 94% Democratic Party Support: 0%

September 3, 1868: 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress

September 12, 1868: Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress

September 28, 1868: Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor

October 7, 1868: Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”

October 22, 1868: While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan

November 3, 1868: Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation

December 10, 1869: Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office

February 3, 1870: The US House ratifies the 15th Amendment granting voting rights to all Americans regardless of race

Republican support: 97% Democrat support: 3%

February 25, 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first Black seated in the US Senate, becoming the First Black in Congress and the first Black Senator.

May 19, 1870: African American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies

May 31, 1870: President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights

June 22, 1870: Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South

September 6, 1870: Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell

December 12, 1870: Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey becomes the first Black duly elected by the people and the first Black in the US House of Representatives

In 1870 and 1871, along with Revels (R-Miss) and Rainey (R-SC), other Blacks were elected to Congress from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia – all Republicans.

A Black Democrat Senator didn’t show up on Capitol Hill until 1993. The first Black Congressman was not elected until 1935.

February 28, 1871: Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters

March 22, 1871: Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina

April 20, 1871: Republican Congress enacts the (anti) Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans

This is just a partial list.

It is funny how the legacy media and our history books never mention these historical facts!

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How the Left Is Trying to Rewrite History | IFA

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For years, America has been defined by historic landmarks—periods of history that united the people of this land. Now, however, the left is working overtime not just to tear down those landmarks, but to install twisted, divisive landmarks of their own.

Who is praying on the wall?

From the Daily Wire:

Every nation lives by its landmarks. These are not merely dates on a calendar, but signposts dividing history into “before” and “after.” They anchor collective memory and shape how a people understand themselves.

For Americans, the great landmarks have long been clear: 1492, the discovery of the New World; 1776, independence; 1861, the Civil War; 1929, the Great Depression; 1964, the Civil Rights Act. To speak of “before” and “after” these events is to tell the story of a nation striving toward freedom, law, and self-government.

In recent years, however, new landmarks have been imposed by ideological fiat. The most striking is the New York Times’s 1619 Project, which declared that America began not in 1776 but in the year enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia. With that shift, the axis of history moved: “before and after independence” became “before and after slavery.” Liberty and law were redefined as hypocrisy and oppression. More dividing lines quickly followed: before and after Jim Crow, before and after George Floyd, and so on.

The Daily Wire cites the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as as an example of this sort of historical shift. When the CCP took power, it imposed a single landmark, dividing Chinese history into two broad periods: “before liberation” and “after liberation.” It imposed another landmark after Mao’s disastrous rule of the party, once again dividing its history into “before Reform and Opening-Up” and “after.”

According to the Daily Wire, the CCP demonized everything that came “before” while glorifying everything that came “after.” This extended to people as Chinese people were divided into broad “good” and “bad” classes, such as oppressors and the oppressed. The Daily Wire notes that hatred against the “bad” classes “was not just tolerated but demanded.”

Perhaps most shocking is how the same divisive approach to culture has manifested in America at the hands of the left. The left has set slavery and “white oppression” at its chief landmark, dividing our history accordingly. What is worse is that, according to the left, we are still living in the times of white oppression, and the only was out is to entirely dismantle our society, which they argue is built on “racism, bigotry, and justice.”

The Daily Wire notes that “nations cannot thrive on grievance.” We cannot rewrite our history into a story of oppressors and oppressed. We have to unite around our shared history, however imperfect it may be. And, most important, we must completely reject the left’s attempts to erase our history.

As America approaches its 250th birthday, let’s pray for an end to these attempts to hijack, erase, and rewrite history!

What did you think of this article? Share your thoughts and prayers for America below.

(Excerpt from the Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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MIC DROP: Former Democrat Jillian Michaels Schools CNN Panel After Dropping Facts They Didn’t Want to Hear on Slavery and the Left’s ‘White People Are Bad’ Narrative | The Gateway Pundit

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MIC DROP: Former Democrat Jillian Michaels Schools CNN Panel After Dropping Facts They Didn’t Want to Hear on Slavery and the Left’s ‘White People Are Bad’ Narrative

It was an absolute trainwreck for CNN’s race-baiting panel when former Democrat and fitness icon Jillian Michaels refused to play along with the Left’s one-note script on slavery, history, and the Smithsonian’s woke exhibits.

For context, the Trump administration is conducting an extensive review of the Smithsonian Institution ahead of next year’s 250th anniversary of America’s founding.

It will direct certain national museums and related exhibits to showcase “the unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story.”

Appearing alongside Democrat strategist Julie Roginsky, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Scott Jennings, and CNN host Abby Phillip during a segment discussing the Smithsonian’s content review, Michaels dismantled the idea that every historical and cultural issue can be reduced to “white people bad.”

The fireworks started when Roginsky accused conservatives of trying to “whitewash” American history to appease the “MAGA base.”

Michaels immediately challenged her, pointing out that reviewing biased exhibits isn’t erasing history, it’s removing the political propaganda baked into taxpayer-funded museums.

When Roginsky tossed out slavery as an example, Michaels hit back hard, which didn’t sit well with Torres, who predictably declared America’s history a “system of white supremacy.”

Michaels refused to back down, noting that the Smithsonian’s narrative is often historically sloppy—like exhibits framing Cuban migration as “white people bad” instead of the reality of fleeing communist tyrant Fidel Castro.

Julie Roginsky:
He’s effectively now got some random person deciding what is appropriate for the Smithsonian to teach in terms of American history—things that don’t offend parts of the MAGA base. We’re now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture to make sure it comports with dear leader and what the MAGA organization wants.

Jillian Michaels:
Can we address some of those things that are in there?.. Have you looked at some of the things that are being reviewed?

Julie Roginsky:
Yeah, slavery was a bad thing that we should talk about.

Jillian Michaels:
He’s not whitewashing slavery.

Julie Roginsky:
He’s not?

Jillian Michaels:
No, he’s not. You cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty much what every single exhibit does… Do you realize that only less than 2% of white Americans owned slaves?

Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY):
But it was a system of white supremacy.

Jillian Michaels:
Do you realize that slavery is thousands of years old? Do you know who was the first race to try to end slavery?

Phillip tried to turn it into a racial blame game, accusing Michaels of “litigating who benefited from slavery.” Michaels fired back, accusing the panel of trying to straw-man her.

Abby Phillip:
I’m really surprised. I’m surprised that you’re trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery and who was not.

Jillian Michaels:
I’m not. What I’m trying to tell you is that—

Abby Phillips:
In the context of American history, what are you saying is incorrect by saying that it was white people oppressing black people?

Jillian Michaels:
What I am saying is you cannot—every single thing is like, “Oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad.” That’s just not the truth. For example, every single exhibit—I have a list of every single one—people migrated from Cuba because “white people bad,” not because of Castro.

When Phillip tried to shut the conversation down, saying there wasn’t time to “litigate all of this,” Michaels hit back.

Abby Phillips:
Jillian, you have a lot of stuff in front of you. What exactly are you talking about?

Jillian Michaels:
Okay, I’ll give you an example. There’s one called Change Your Game. This has been an installation there. “Is gender testing fair in sports?” Then it goes on to talk about how it’s complex to do gender testing in sports. It’s not complex. It’s basic science. That’s untrue. It’s XX chromosome, XY chromosome. That’s sports. Is it fair to have biological men competing against biological women in sports? No. But why is this in the Smithsonian? It’s been completely captured.

Abby Phillips:
First of all, we don’t have time to litigate all of this.

Jillian Michaels:
Of course we don’t, because then you’re going to lose the argument. Everything is racialized, just like you’re trying to do to me now.

Abby Phillips:
Excuse me.

By the time they moved on to a different topic, Michaels had exposed the Left’s media strategy in real time, turning every issue into race, pushing revisionist history, and shutting down any conversation that didn’t fit the narrative.

Abby Phillip:
Just to be clear, you brought up race. This was a conversation about the arts, and you brought up race.

Jillian Michaels:
It isn’t, though.

Abby Phillip:
You brought up slavery, and you brought up the question of whether—

Jillian Michaels:
I actually didn’t. You did.

Abby Phillip:
You brought up the question of whether or not slavery in the United States is about race. The answer is yes. Slavery in the United States is about race.

Jillian Michaels:
No, don’t straw man my argument because that’s not what I said.

Abby Phillip:
What are you talking about?

Jillian Michaels
[Julie Roginsky] brought up slavery. What I was talking about is that this isn’t really about that. When you make every single exhibit about white imperialism, when it isn’t relevant at all, that is a problem. When you’re talking about Cubans leaving Cuba and you make it about “white people bad,” that’s not accurate. That’s my point.

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🚨 THIS IS THE EXACT MOMENT CNN FOREVER BANS JILLIAN MICHAELS

She’ll never be allowed on their airwaves again after saying what they didn’t want you to hear. pic.twitter.com/HIJIlIWycB
— HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) August 14, 2025

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Europe’s Forgotten Enslavement: The Brutal Islamic Slave Raids That Captured Millions | The Gateway Pundit

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Europe’s Forgotten Enslavement: The Brutal Islamic Slave Raids That Captured Millions

While America grapples with its own dark past of slavery, a massive chapter of history gets buried by academics who fixate on Western guilt.

Justin Marozzi’s eye-opening book, Captives and Companions, shines a light on the Islamic world’s slave trade, spanning over a millennium with unmatched scale and savagery. This isn’t ancient news, but it is a wake-up call for historians.

Marozzi estimates that from the 7th century to the 20th, up to 17 million Africans and Europeans were enslaved in Muslim lands, dwarfing the transatlantic trade’s 11-15 million.

Brutal raids targeted black Africans for labor and white Europeans for markets in North Africa and the Middle East. The sheer numbers reveal a system that caused more deaths and misery than often admitted.

In the opulent courts of Abbasid Baghdad, slave concubines like the poet ʿInān rose to fame, dazzling with wit and beauty while navigating deadly risks.

These women, often captured from distant lands, became cultural icons but remained property, their lives hanging on a ruler’s whim. Yet, their stories mix triumph with tragedy, showing resilience amid cruelty.

Raiders from Barbary coasts struck fear across Europe, hitting places like Devon, Cornwall, and even Iceland in 1627, where pirates abducted over 400 people into lifelong bondage.

Witnesses recounted horrors: families torn apart, villages burned, and captives sold far from home. This white slavery terrorized coasts for centuries, a truth sidelined in today’s narratives.

Castration created eunuchs for harems, with Victorian-era Sudan alone seeing 35,000 boys die yearly from botched operations to supply 3,500 survivors.

Female slaves faced routine violation, arriving in Egypt or Arabia rarely as virgins after brutal journeys. Such practices highlight a level of barbarism that demands honest reckoning.

Today, descent-based slavery traps over 200,000 in Mali, where people inherit bondage through ancestry, facing violence for resisting.

UN experts urge criminalization, but cultural norms and weak laws let it persist. Victims like one defiant man in Bamako declare inner freedom despite poverty.

In Morocco, King Hassan II kept dozens of young concubines until his 1999 death, echoing royal traditions.

Saudi Arabia holds 740,000 in modern slavery, fueled by migrant exploitation under kafala systems. These nations cling to a “tradition” of foreign enslavement dating back ages.

Marozzi’s fearless history exposes this ongoing nightmare we pretend ended long ago. He also illuminates a forgotten chapter of world history that many historians have conveniently overlooked, enabling them to attribute all conceivable evils to the Western world.

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Happy Juneteenth!

Today is the day the United States celebrates Juneteenth, a little-known date that was recently dug up to divert attention from the real civil rights achievements by brave Republicans who fought to free the slaves.

Here is more background.

When the Civil War ended, and after Republican President Abraham Lincoln liberated the slaves, Democrats initiated Jim Crow laws to punish blacks. Democrats discriminated against blacks. In fact, the KKK was founded as the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded as the activist wing of the Democratic Party.

On September 28, 1868, a mob of Democratsmassacred nearly 300 African-American Republicans in Opelousas, Louisiana. The savagery began when racist Democrats attacked a newspaper editor, a white Republican and schoolteacher for ex-slaves. Several African-Americans rushed to the assistance of their friend, and in response, Democrats went on a “Negro hunt,” killing every African-American (all of whom were Republicans) in the area they could find. (Via Grand Old Partisan)

Democrats in hoods slaughtered hundreds of Republicans and blacks across the country.
They beat and threatened and murdered Republicans for standing with the black man.

On April 20, 1871 the Republicans passed the anti-Ku Klux Klan Act outlawing Democratic terrorist groups.

The last KKK official to serve in Washington, DC was former Senator Robert Byrd, a KKK kleagle. Byrd was a top Democrat and friend of Joe Biden.

In fact, throughout the Civil Rights era of the 19th and 20th centuries, Democrats fought against freedom and rights for the black man.

The only blip of positive news during the 19th Century for Democrats was the long-forgotten Juneteenth celebration. After the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, was murdered by a Democrat, his successor, Andrew Johnson, sent US troops to Galveston to free the slaves there in Texas.

This is the only bright spot for Democrats today in the entire history of civil rights in the 19th and most of the 20th centuries.

Hence, they bamboozled Americans and made it a national holiday.
They had to.