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  THE LIE THAT FED A NATION — AND STARVED THE TRUTH   THE WELFARE QUEEN MYTH — BUILT IN THE 1970s The modern lie took shape during  Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign , when he began telling stories of a mythical “welfare queen” in Chicago—Black, fraudulent, lavish. The problem?  THE LIE THAT FED A NATION — AND STARVED THE TRUTH By SDC News One “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pockets. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” —  Lyndon B. Johnson , 1960s (recounted by Bill Moyers) APACHE JUNCTION, AZ [IFS] -- That sentence is not a metaphor. It is a  manual . And America has followed it faithfully for more than four centuries. 1619–1865: THE ORIGINAL ECONOMIC SCAM In  August 1619 , the first enslaved Africans were sold in English-controlled Virginia. For the next  246 years , Black labor was unpaid, uncompensated, and fo...

  When Law and Order Failed: Wilmington 1898 and the American Pattern We Were Never Taught By SDC News One IFS News Staff Writers WILMINGTON, N.C. [IFS] -— On November 10, 1898, in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, armed white mobs overthrew a democratically elected, multiracial local government. It remains the only successful coup d’état in United States history. For decades, it was misnamed a “race riot,” buried in textbooks, and softened by euphemisms. The truth is harsher—and more instructive. That morning, following weeks of coordinated propaganda and intimidation, white supremacists led by prominent businessmen, politicians, and newspaper editors marched through Wilmington. They burned the offices of The Daily Record , the city’s Black-owned newspaper, then hunted Black citizens through the streets. At least 60 people were killed—some estimates are higher. Black leaders were forced onto trains at gunpoint and exiled. By nightfall, the city’s elected officials h...

Diego   María  de la  Concepción   Juan   Nepomuceno   Estanislao  de la  Rivera  y  Barrientos   Acosta  y  Rodríguez ,   known   as   Diego   Rivera   (December   8,   1886   –   November   24,   1957)   was   a   prominent   Mexican   painter   and   the   husband   of   Frida Kahlo .   His   large   wall   works   in   fresco   helped   establish   the   Mexican   Mural   Movement   in   Mexican   art.   Between   1922   and   1953,   Rivera   painted   murals   among   others   in   Mexico City ,   Chapingo ,   Cuernavaca ,   San   Francisco,   Detroit,   and   New   York   City.   In   1931,   a   retrospective ...

 "The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.  At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep." — Willa Cather, My Antonia https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Willa+Cather Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/;[1] December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World...

  When Did the US Start Issuing Green Cards? The coveted document earned its nickname from the green paper used to print the first cards in the 1940s. Read More Who Invented Candy Canes? The iconic holiday candy dates back to 17th century Europe. According to one theory, it was created to appease fidgety choirboys. Read More This Teen Girl Was Known as the Female Paul Revere Sybil Ludington’s stormy midnight ride to rouse troops, if it happened, was three times as long—and markedly more dangerous. Read More Video: Remembering Charles Norman Shay World War II veteran Charles Norman Shay, who died Wednesday at age 101, was a combat medic with the 1st Infantry. Hear his account of being part of one of the first units to go ashore on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Watch Video THE ATLANTIC No One Gave a Speech Like Patrick Henry A&E CRIME + INVESTIGATION Investigating the Handsome Devil Theory THE CONVERSATION AI Analysis Challenges Ideas on Which  Homo  Species Was the First Tool-...