Debunking Charles Lindbergh, And His Friend Henry Ford

More research from my big project, presented in Haiku syllabication, 5-7-5.

They were best of friends

Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford

treacherous colleagues

Ford flew with Lindbergh

in Nineteen twenty-seven

his first airplane ride

2.

Racism prejudice

Charles Lindbergh a root figure

speaking blunt racism

　

People of color

a threat by definition

white paranoia

　

Wrote that the airplane

was God's gift to the white race

to preserve itself

　

To protect itself

from alleged encroaching hoards

red yellow black brown

　

Saw hope in airplanes

believed in technocracy

rule by big techno

　

3

Lindbergh and Ford both

were anti-Semite bigots

but Ford was blatant

　

Ford was the leader

crafting and mass producing

anti-Semitism

Henry Ford campaigned

against the Jews and produced

mass propaganda

　

Ford's own newspaper

the "Dearborn Independent"

was his vehicle

　

Both men scapegoated

all problems onto the Jews

real problems or not

　

Thus the Jews were blamed

in this bigoted thinking

for both jazz and war

　

Lindbergh blamed the Jews

the same way Henry Ford did

but was more discreet

　

His wife Anne helped him

disguise false causality

omitting rancor

　

4

Ford and Lindbergh both

did not want to fight a war

against the Nazis

　

Ford and Lindbergh both

sympathized with the Nazis

shared values with them

　

As World War II neared

America First opposed

U.S. involvement

　

America First

pacifists and pro-Nazis

mingled together

　

Confused wordings grew

in this organization

America First

　

Lindbergh joined this group

enjoying the confusion

to his benefit

　

This is where he met

Harry Elmer Barnes made friends

brought him to Dearborn

Lindbergh introduced

Barnes to Ford who hired him

to write denial

Harry Elmer Barnes

whited out the Nazi crimes

writing at Dearborn

　

At Dearborn Barnes wrote

denial of Nazi crimes

Nineteen forty-four

5

　

Colonel Charles Lindbergh

later general Lindbergh

was no pacifist

　

Nor was Henry Ford

though he had previously

self-applied this label

　

They self promoted

while they villainized the Jews

they self aggrandized

　

Myths in history

persist if not rooted out

let us tackle this

　

6

Nineteen eighty-one

at McDonalds restaurant

paper placemat lies

　

McDonalds untrue

placemat called them pacifists

Nineteen eighty-one

　

Great Americans

and pacifists they were called

falsification

　

No not pacifists

they objected to a war

against Germany

They believed in war

sought its modernization

profited from war

　

Their true sympathies

were with the German Nazis

values shared with them

　

Question their greatness

they were spreaders of poison

dubious heroes