Lonzie Cox, Jr. – 11/9/12

This page was last updated on November 11, 2012.

Blacks have long served nation; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; November 9, 2012.

Most of Mr. Cox’s at least 82 letters since 2004 are tinged with race, and all take leftist positions. The most recent previous Cox letter I critiqued was “Don’t suppress voters.” You can find more Cox letters in the archives (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004).

When it comes to race issues, Mr. Cox is pretty tolerant if you share his leftist ideology. For example, Mr. Cox had no problem with the late-Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), a former KKK officer, but referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an “Uncle Tom.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Veterans Day commemorates the armistice, or ceasefire, that ended World War I.

“After a high school class long ago, a history teacher pulled me aside and announced to me that ‘Your people were the only people who didn’t fight for their own freedom.’ Confused and unprepared, I held resentment against him until I learned enough to realize that he was educated in an era when the military contributions of African Americans was ignored by American society and strictly not taught in schools.

“Later, during my own service and afterward, I uncovered facts showing that black soldiers fought in the French and Indian War and on both sides of the Revolutionary War. Goal: Freedom.

“Black men also fought in the Battle of New Orleans (1812) and the Civil War. Goal: Freedom.

“After the Civil War ended, the 9th and 10th Infantry regiments (Buffalo Soldiers) manned western forts and even arrived in Cuba in time to save Theodore Roosevelt’s life on San Juan Hill in 1898.

“African-American troops serving in WWI believed fighting America’s enemies in Europe should entitle them to fair and equal treatment on their return home, especially after their heroic assault on the Argonne Forest. Since Jim Crow law prevailed, equal treatment was denied and 1919 became the ‘Red Summer’ of racial violence.”

[RWC] Before you hang your hat on any of Mr. Cox’s “uncovered facts,” I recommend you check them with credible sources.

Following are some facts Mr. Cox failed to uncover.

Those who enacted and enforced Jim Crow laws were the ideological ancestors and/or contemporaries of Mr. Cox, i.e., Democrats.

An ideological ancestor of Mr. Cox and a hero of “progressives,” then-President Woodrow Wilson (D) said, “the American Negro returning from abroad would be our greatest medium in conveying bolshevism to America.” In other words, Mr. Wilson thought – or at least wanted Americans to think – blacks returning from The Great War (WWI) would be predisposed to attempt to spread communism in the U.S.

Mr. Wilson allowed his cabinet members to segregate their offices and he defended the practice. Consider the following comment by Mr. Wilson: “Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen. If your organization goes out and tells the colored people of the country that it is a humiliation, they will so regard it, but if you do not tell them so, and regard it rather as a benefit, they will regard it the same. The only harm that will come will be if you cause them to think it is a humiliation.”