[Vision2020] Historians in the News

[keely emerinemix]

Well, I'd love to hear from Genovese himself on this one.  I'm sure he would 
also agree with me that  "fundamentalist" is not an accurate description of 
Wilson's theology.  Wilson's theology generally embraces the historically 
agreed-upon fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith, but adds to them 
some doctrinal perspectives that historical and contemporary 
"fundamentalists" would find repugnant.

The term "fundamentalist" means much more than assent or opposition to 
specific doctrines, however.  From both a historical and a religious 
perspective, it also encompasses a worldview that disdains modernism, higher 
education, and culture while exhibiting a fairly rigid legalism (don't 
drink, don't smoke, don't dance, etc.).  I could argue that Wilson dislikes 
modernism in some forms, seems to find nothing of value in either higher 
secular education or even evangelical seminaries other than his own, and 
spends a lot of time mocking contemporary culture, but your daddy's 
fundamentalists would be aghast at his enthusiasm for the finer things of 
gastronomy, art, literature and bacchanalia.

That said, William Ramsey is one of my heroes for his work in exposing the 
academic dreck that is "Southern Slavery As It Was" and "Black and Tan," and 
for calling a paleo- or neo-Confederate spade a spade.  Thanks, Dr. Ramsey.

Now, let's hope Dr. Genovese will enlighten us and then face honest critique 
from whatever side he angers with his views.  Any hope that Wilson himself 
would repudiate his earlier work seems to be as unlikely as, well, a slave 
in the American South feeling affirmed and secure in his participation in 
the quintessential American example of Biblical Christianity Wilson insists 
was the case.

keely




From: "News of Christ Cult" <news-of-christ-cult at lycos.com>
To: <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Historians in the News
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:52:33 -0500 (EST)

    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/31873.html

Historians in the NewsEugene Genovese:  An Idaho pastor accused of racism 
claims Genovese backs his view of slavery
Source: Email to HNN by William L. Ramsey, assistant professor of history at 
the University of Idaho  (11-15-06)Fundamentalist
Pastor Douglas Wilson of Moscow, Idaho, may have fallen short in his
first attempt to overturn the last fifty years of academic scholarship
on slavery, which he has described variously as “abolitionist
propaganda” and “civil rights propaganda,” but he intends to win the
war. A supportive comment from !
  Eugene Genovese on the back cover of
Wilson’s new self-published book on slavery, Black and Tan, appears to
be the center- piece of the new battle plan.



The “blurb” has been doing yeomen’s duty in fundamentalist and
neo-Confederate circles for the past year, but it saw its first service
in mainstream public dialogue recently when Pastor Wilson published a
guest editorial in the November 5 issue of the Moscow-Pullman Daily
News. Angered that historians from the University of Idaho, myself
included, remained critical of his happy portrait of southern slavery,
Wilson pointed out that his work has now received a positive “academic
response.” Eugene Genovese, he claimed, “one of America’s first-rate
historians,” had concluded that Wilson “has a strong grasp of the
essentials of slavery.”



Concerned that the nationwide curriculum might now be obsolete, I
visited the Daily News offices and req!
  uested a follow-up investigation.
Does Genovese also endorse, for i
nstance, the original pro-slavery
pamphlet, Southern Slavery, As It Was, which I myself dismembered in a
review that can be found here?
Or has Genovese merely endorsed the watered down version that he edited
in order to get the Confederate partisans up to speed, which I
dismembered here? The
confusion is genuine, since Wilson’s pledge that he has discontinued
publication of Southern Slavery, As It Was, is only correct with
respect to his own garage. The pamphlet continues to be published
verbatim in its entirety by Bluebonnet Press in the textbook, The War
Between the States, which is currently being marketed on the front page
of Wilson’s website to unsuspecting home-schooled children.



Will the Daily News follow up the story? Will their tell-all interview
with Eugene Genovese sink our national historiography? Will he refuse!

to answer his phone?







Juanita Flores

Advocate for the Truth from Jesus




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