July 1, 2007 -- The acclaimed historical biographer, Ken Burns, is coming to Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer hall on July 9, 2007.  This was announced on Oregon’s KOPB (socialist public broadcasting) in June.  Mr. Burns is perhaps most famous for his history of the American Congress during the Civil War, and the Reconstruction period which followed.

What the acclaimed historical biographer didn’t tell us during the first one, is which political party supported slavery and which political party wanted to end it.  Another thing the acclaimed historical biographer failed to mention had to do with the second item: Reconstruction.  In this latter case, he failed to describe the cataclysmic doings in Congress when the first Reconstruction was replaced with the second Reconstruction.  The reason why he did that is of course locked in his head.  Our guess is that since he doesn't seem to be of extremely low intelligence, the truth must have presented a political problem for him.  

You see, the first Reconstruction in the name of making things fairer in the South, actually came up with rules which didn't.  For blacks, it was the return of the ante-bellum South. So, the folks who had fought to end slavery wouldn't put up with that, and took over -- creating the Second Reconstruction, which was the more interesting one, by far. 

We keep a piece about all this on the front page.  We wrote it at the time he, Ken Burns, did the "historical documents" to which we have been referring, here

Mr. Burns is appently coming to Portland to promote his latest acclaimed historical documentary.  Something about WWII from the looks of the visuals which appeared on the TV.  For those of you who have never read our critique of Mr. Burns’ work, click on this: 
 

We promise that you will be startled by what you read.

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