A month ago, I posted an article to Facebook that was nearly identical to the last one I posted here. By lunch I was canceled. No explanation. No appeal. No nothing. I am now banned from Facebook for life.
It isn’t all bad because I’ll save money. Promoting my books on Facebook didn’t increase sales. I will save the time I spent reading useless things but I will miss reading what friends, acquaintances, and schoolmates are up to these days.
Why exactly did they ban me? I can only guess. At the end of the article, I included a quote from a former Carlisle Indian School student who wrote in positive terms about his experience at the school. It is against wokester ideology to mention the good Carlisle did. That is not allowed. Earlier postings about the Native American Guardians Association’s (NAGA) attempts to have the Washington NFL team revert to calling themselves Redskins surely didn’t endear me to the activists and guilty white liberals who demanded the team to drop that name in the first place.
In respond to a 1912 letter requesting information about his life after leaving the school, George responded in part:
The likely offending passage follows.
“ I feel as that my learning while at Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the foundation of my success in life so far. Does it pay to educate the Indians? Certainly it does. Today there are white people that don’t live far from me that can’t write their own names. Does it pay to educate white children?”
Tom Benjey's Weblog 
November 26, 2023 at 2:17 pm |
Hi Tom, sorry to hear about being banned from facebook, for no reason at all, and not being able to dispute it. I will back you up by saying that of the thousands of student files I’ve read, I’d say that well over 90% of the students were appreciative of their time at “Dear Old Carlisle”, and you would be hard pressed to find negative comments in those same records. That being said, there were “runners” for sure, which I understand, Carlisle wasn’t for everyone. These ignorant, on the subject of the Carlisle Indian School, virtue signalers, who just parrott the same old “all Indian schools were evil” narrative, don’t have a clue, and do the Carlisle students a serious misjustice by not learning the good it did. People need to realize that a census done in the late 1890’s, early 1900’s accounted for maybe 225,000 Indigenous folks left, Capt. Pratt was on a mission, not to let their extinction happen.
December 30, 2023 at 4:24 pm |
Thank you for posting this, Bill.
Tom
December 30, 2023 at 7:49 pm |
You’re welcome Tom, and hey, I’m not sure if you’ve ever seen the website for the feature film I’m developing called “CARLISLE”, it’s http://www.jimthorpemovie.com
December 31, 2023 at 12:18 pm |
Ray,
I was surprised to read that Gus Welch was facing expulsion. The letters and documents I read suggested that he was on good terns with the administration even though he always owed people money and had a hard time paying it back because he was an orphan.
Tom Benjey
717-258-9733
December 31, 2023 at 2:12 pm |
Hi Tom, Pop Warner and Supt. Friedman had Gus in the office and gave him an ultimatum to either drop all the complaints he was addressing from the students as well as the petitions which were being put together after the way Pop tossed Jim under the bus once the baseball scandal hit. They actually said to Gus, “Are you going to play ball?” Meaning, be a team player, for the administration, or risk it all?