President Obama’s recent faux-pas, referring to the British Embassy in Iran as the “English” Embassy, is indicative of ignorance – not necessarily a lack of intelligence. He simply isn’t grounded in the principles of Western Civilization, and never really learned the truth about our country’s founding and subsequent history. Somehow, unlike most 3rd graders, he doesn’t know there are 50 United States – not 57. Or realize that navy corpsmen aren’t “corpsemen.” (Funny how he never misspeaks when the topic is Islam, or the “Holy Koran.”)
Perhaps Mr. Obama could start with a basic American history lesson – the facts behind our first settlement – Jamestown. Here’s a helpful video, discussing the latest findings of the ongoing archaeological dig at the original site…
The video is from CBN News ~
Archaeologists at Jamestown say they’ve discovered the original 1608 church building that was built at James Fort – a place that serves as powerful evidence of America’s Christian heritage.
It is the church where the legendary Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan, was married. She is best known for saving the life of Captain John Smith, who helped establish Jamestown in 1607.
President Obama probably watched the Disney film “Pocahontas” which would have only reinforced his twisted worldview. The movie portrayed the Europeans as evil, greedy, exploiters, bent on wiping out the innocent, peace-loving Indians. Other than the names of the main characters, the producers got most of the story wrong, as Charlotte Cushman explains in the American Thinker:
First of all, the English settlers came to America in search of freedom, not because they wanted to kill Indians and steal their gold. Freedom was so important to the settlers that they endured many hardships and suffering such as fire, drought, Indian attacks, disease, starvation and death which wiped out half the colony. (The movie doesn’t even acknowledge this.)
The Indians, on the other hand, were, for the most part, uncivilized and roamed the countryside warring with each other and other tribes. They tortured and murdered prisoners with ceremonial dancing and feasts, scalped strangers, and annually sacrificed 2-3 children chosen by witch doctors. They were doing this before white men ever appeared on the shore.
Read the whole article: “The Unknown Story of Pocahontas.” The real story is a lot more interesting than Disney’s propaganda – and no talking animals!
In thanksgiving for their safe journey to the New World,
the first “structure” the Jamestown settlers erected was a cross.
(Good thing the ACLU wasn’t around!)
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Jamestown is a great place to visit – along with nearby Yorktown and of course, Williamsburg. It’s wonderful to see where America began – over 400 years ago – and to walk in the footsteps of some of the founding fathers.
But I suggest you bone up on your facts before you go. That way you can help educate the Jamestown guides. Most of them seem to have fallen for the phony Disney version of the Pocahontas story.
