Supreme Leader
I don't care if you are white, red, black, yellow, green, or any other color on the color wheel. I don't care if you are gay, straight, trans, bi, multi, or identify as a goat. I don't care if your ancestors were American slaves, enslaved by American Indians, enslaved by the nazis, enslaved by Africans, enslaved by Egyptians, enslaved by Russians, or enslaved by north Koreans. I don't care if you are a democrat, republican, libertarian, socialist, Marxist or Santa Claus. I don't care if you are BLM, Maga or part of the American kennel club. I don't care if you want masks and vaccines and I don't care if you think the world is melting. I don't care about any group that feels victimized.
I just don't care about anything the media and politicians use to divide Americans we simply have too many great things to be thankful for as Americans.
America is the only country on the planet that offers free speech. America is the most generous country on the planet. America is always focused on improvement. America always corrects its wrongs. That’s what I do care about.
...this year I call on all our readers to look at American history.
Many people living in America do not know American history. Many Americans have never seen what life is really like outside of America. Many Americans have no idea of the freedoms they have. So this year I call on all our readers to look at American history. Think about what life would be without free speech and consider what true freedom means—the ability to move around freely, the ability to have children, the ability to be a part of the government, the right to protest… American freedoms are only found in America.
In 2022, look at what makes us the same. Look at what makes us generous. Look at what makes us free. And look at history to understand where we came from and all the people who gave their lives to bring us where we are today.
Without a knowledge of history, we will only repeat the past.
Here is a list of audiobooks for you to listen to this year. All of these are free audiobooks on Youtube currently. These are the books I read in grade school—all unabridged, first-hand experiences written by people who lived through it. They gave me an understanding for what people actually thought in our history. Without a knowledge of history, we will only repeat the past.
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier - Joseph Plumb Martin
THE PRIVATE SOLDIER UNDER WASHINGTON - Charles Knowles Bolton
By Ox Team to California A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 - Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Story of a Common Soldier in the Civil War -Lender Stillwell
“Co. Aytch”, Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or a Sideshow of the Big Show - Sam Watkins
Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead - by John L. Ransom
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - by Harriett Jacobs
12 YEARS A SLAVE - by Solomon Northup
My Bondage and My Freedom - by Frederick Douglass
Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - by William R. Lighton
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians - by Fanny KELLY
Geronimo's Story of His Life - by Geronimo
The Story of My Life - by Helen Keller
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific - by Robert Leckie
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
A Tiger Among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley - by Bennie Adkins
Enjoy your freedom. Enjoy each other. Enjoy our big fat melting pot and focus on what makes us the same this year. Happy New Year and Get Out There!
T. Smugala
The editor