"The Old South" in the days of the Read and Wauchope families (Part 2)
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Geographically,
"The Old South" is a sub-region of the American South, differentiated
from the Deep South by being limited to those Southern states represented among
the original thirteen British colonies, which became the first thirteen U.S.
states.
Culturally,
"The Old South" is used to describe the rural, agriculturally-based,
pre-Civil War or antebellum economy and society in the Southern United States.
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This page represents a Sub-section of the "The Old South" webpage and has been expanded to present the truth concerning "the fury over the monuments," as Dr. Robertson called it, with a view, that we hope, will educate and inform. Several of his lectures are presented that deal with the monument problems of 2017 and 2020. I sincerely hope that you, the reader, will take time to examine all the facts and data that are presented here. You may be uncomfortable with several viewpoints which are examined in detail, but it is hoped you will come to an informed conclusion. Some information concerning the Civil War is duplicated on this page, but most deals with the '2017' and '2020' issues.
And after the war ended, careful documentation indicates that none of those in the Read, Wauchope, or Hughes families, who served in the Confederacy, ever joined the KKK. They supported our American heritage of freedom, not the Marxism and anarchy which is being espoused by many uneducated individuals in the year 2020; movements they have not researched and fully understood. The special sections on this webpage '2017' and '2020,' will explore that further.
You will also be introduced to the false revisionist history of the "1619 Project" which is pure nonsense. It is an attempt to take rewritten history and insert it into our Junior and Senior High Schools. Indeed, some schools in our country have started using these materials without any critical examination of them.
As a former high school history teacher, I firmly stand against this ideology based on one woman's interpretation of history, which many subject-matter historians in this country have roundly dismissed as fake.
One other Marxist-laden history of our country, which has been around for some time supported by Howard Zinn, a member of the Communist Party, will be examined in depth. I also do not recommend his books.
My brother and I attended schools with teachers who emphasized our American Christian values and the freedom we enjoy in our country. Kids today, unfortunately, are not being taught the founding principles of our nation. Some of our schools are now teaching rubbish like the "1619 Project" which perpetuates lies about how and why our nation was founded.
I grew up in a Christian home. We prayed and read the Bible together as a family. My father and mother came from not well-off circumstances. My father lived on a farm and had to rise early to milk the family cow and then after the chores were over, walk some distance to school. My mother grew up during the depression of the 1930s. Her own mother had to pawn her wedding ring to get money to get the children's teeth fixed at the dentist office. Money was extremely tight. Both her parents and grandparents had worked as Missionaries in Indian Territory before Oklahoma was a state (the details of which can be found on "The Read Family Story" webpage).
This family heritage carried over to my brother and I, growing up in a small town. I can remember people, who had even less than we, would sometimes come to the back door of our house in South Norfolk, and mother would invite them in to supper with us. That was just who she was; and the color of one's skin meant no difference. Our family always treated everyone with dignity and respect. In my early college years during the turbulent 1960s, I did volunteer work with other students in the inner city area of Berkley, Norfolk, which was a very poor section of the city at that time.
During one Christmas Eve, my brother invited a graduate student from the college we were attending, home for dinner. He was from India and was studying engineering. My mother gave him a Bible; the first time he had ever seen one during the years he had been in our country. So I hope you understand that from my own background, I have a hard time understanding why folks in our country are not trying to have a rational conversation about the circumstances surrounding the 2017 and 2020 events that are detailed further down on this page.
Also, please keep in mind, that as you read this page, you will be presented with opposing views from 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century sources. They do not, repeat, do not necessarily represent my personal viewpoint. However, keep in mind that no one in my immediate family would ever support a "Democratic Socialist" or Socialist or Communist backed organization. Nor would anyone in our immediate family support or vote for any politician who supports that.
Yet, people can be gullible to any passing political philosophical persuasion, when they do not investigate the background of a situation thoroughly; when they 'take as gospel' everything said in a high school or college classroom, as did a great grandchild of one of my deceased Aunts, who is ignorant of American history; who has associated with other like-minded individuals, in joining a radical online movement founded by Marxists, and which, his mother has unfortunately praised on her Facebook, showing her own ignorance.
When I taught History in public and private schools some years ago, I did not teach that subject from a personally slanted modern day political viewpoint. The students on some occasions would state that, by my teaching any period of history as historical fact, from the primary source materials and documents, they could not figure out which political party I espoused. That is the intent here. I will not tell the reader of this page which party ideology I espouse, except as pertaining to the current 2020 election. I will simply present the facts of the Antebellum period and the Civil War and the accompanying 2017/2020 sections as they are.
You
will find good information on this page from unbiased news sources in
England and Australia. Much of what we now call the 'mainstream media' have censored what a viewer on TV may see. Late in the 2020 election, it has been accurately revealed that the 'tech giants' have censored news on Google, Twitter, and Facebook. You will find that I have had to come to the
conclusion, during this 2020 election year, that only one candidate truly
supports the Christian values our family cherished. We live in unusual
times, but we must remain true to what the Bible teaches as truth.
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"The 1619 Project" which was released in 2019,
is filled with
historical heresy and
false claims. It attempts to re-write our history.
All major historians in the United States have condemned this outlandish attempt at re-educating our children.
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The
American Mind: the dangerous falsehoods of the NYT’s ‘1619 Project’
Washington,
June 24, 2020
The
following op-ed appeared at the American Mind, a publication of the Claremont
Institute, on June 24, 2020.
-Congressman Jim Banks, Indiana
Have you turned on the news, seen
organized groups pulling down statues—not of Confederate soldiers, but of our
Founding Fathers or other presidents—and found yourself wondering what’s going
on? My wife Amanda and I have watched with disgust as memorials to our
country’s great heritage are attacked and vandalized. Our three girls are
watching too. They ask: Why is this happening? I’ve been wrestling on how to
give them an answer.
We could try to give these groups the
benefit of the doubt. Was it too dark and they didn’t see that they were
pulling down a statue of George Washington? Perhaps our education system has
failed and some don’t realize Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of
Independence and was a critical figure in our fight for Independence? Or that
Ulysses S. Grant actually fought to save the Union, the Confederacy surrendered
to him at the Appomattox Court House and was a great leader in the
Reconstruction efforts? Surely, they forgot that Abraham Lincoln was the
signer of the Emancipation Proclamation that ultimately led to the abolition of
slavery in America?
But that’s not what’s going on. I
don’t know how to tell my daughters the truth, because the truth makes Amanda
and I feel sad and angry.
You see, pulling down these statues
isn’t a mistake. The groups pulling down statues are taking their cues from
prominent figures in our nation’s elite. You can find their ideas in op-ed
pages of the New York Times, on the news and even our children’s textbooks.
What’s going on, then? Some call it a
revolution, but it’s a fundamental shift in the narrative about who we are,
what we are, and why we are a nation.
On one of the statues of George
Washington pulled down in Portland, the numbers 1619 were graffitied on his
side.
What is 1619? It’s a reference to the
year African slaves were brought to North America for the first time. It’s also
the name of a new school curriculum published by the New York Times that’s
being presented to our children in school.
The 1619 project teaches that America,
at its core, is an irredeemably racist nation. According to Nikole Hannah
Jones, the brainchild of the 1619 project, the Founding Fathers fought for
independence from Britain not to protect the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness like they said they were, but to uphold the institution of
slavery.
This is an absurd recasting of the
birth of our nation, and it’s completely false. They don’t want you to dwell on
the fact that George Washington freed his slaves toward the end of his life and
expressed to see a plan for abolition in his will. Or that Civil Rights icon
Martin Luther King fought for equitable treatment under the law using Thomas
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.
But members of the Pulitzer Prize
Board ignored those pesky details and historical inaccuracies. Earlier this
year, they announced they’re giving Nikole Hannah Jones, the founder of the
1619 project, our country’s most coveted recognition and highest honor—the
Pulitzer Prize. Not only did they accept these lies as truth, the Pulitzer
Prize Board celebrated them and signaled we should celebrate them too. If
they can get you to accept this rewriting of history, they can get you to say
anything.
And so, taking their cues from our
nation’s most prominent voices and cultural elites, lawless “protesters” are
ripping down statues of some of our country’s revered figures. They say,
and I’m paraphrasing, “Anyone who helped build America is a racist because
America is a racist nation”—that’s what they think. “You can’t have pride in a
country that is irredeemably racist. You shouldn’t honor the flag that
represents it. And when that flag is presented, you should kneel.”
This is bigger than a simple call for
police reform. This is a dramatic retelling of the American story. If we don’t
push back on it, we may find ourselves living in a nation we don’t recognize
when this is all done.
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"On August 19 of last year (2019) I listened in stunned silence as
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter for the New York Times, repeated an idea that I
had vigorously argued against with her fact-checker: that the patriots fought
the American Revolution in large part to preserve slavery in North America.
"Far from being fought to preserve slavery, the Revolutionary
War became a primary disrupter of slavery in the North American Colonies. Lord
Dunmore's Proclamation, a British military strategy designed to unsettle the
Southern Colonies by inviting enslaved people to flee to British lines,
propelled hundreds of enslaved people off plantations and turned some Southerners
to the patriot side. It also led most of the 13 Colonies to arm and employ free
and enslaved black people, with the promise of freedom to those who served in
their armies. While neither side fully kept its promises, thousands of enslaved
people were freed as a result of these policies….
"Despite my advice, the Times published the incorrect
statement about the American Revolution anyway, in Hannah-Jones' introductory
essay. In addition, the paper's characterizations of slavery in early America
reflected laws and practices more common in the antebellum era than in Colonial
times, and did not accurately illustrate the varied experiences of the first
generation of enslaved people that arrived in Virginia in 1619.
"Hannah-Jones has tended to be extremely dismissive of the
project's critics, who include The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf and the
American Institute for Economic Research's Phil Magness. Perhaps she will have
a more difficult time discounting criticism from a historian whose expertise
her project drew on.
"In any case, these ongoing issues with the project's
accuracy are a good argument against school districts' swift mandates that it
be taught in seventh-grade history classrooms."
-Leslie M. Harris is professor of history at
Northwestern University, and author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African
Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 and Slavery and the University: Histories
and Legacies
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A Divisive, Historically
Dubious Curriculum
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'1619 Project' Winning the
Pulitzer Shows Deep Corruption of Our Institutions
By Jarrett Stepman | May 18, 2020
The New York Times’ “1619
Project”—despite being riddled with historical inaccuracies—is now the winner
of a Pulitzer Prize, an outcome that is unfortunate but utterly unsurprising.
The award was given
specifically to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect of the 1619
Project.
But her lead essay in the
project has been lambasted by historians as inaccurate, in large part because
of her assertion that the American colonists fought the Revolution to protect
slavery.
That contention flowed from
the project’s stated goal of showing that the country’s true founding was in
1619, when the first slaves from Africa were brought to the United States,
rather than 1776, when the colonies declared their independence from England.
After months of pressure, The
New York Times finally issued a correction—which it called a “clarification”—to
the claim that slavery was the “one primary reason the colonists fought the
American Revolution.”
As my colleague, Jonathan
Butcher, a senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for
Education Policy, wrote, The Times hedged on this assertion to say that “some
of” the colonists fought in the American Revolution to preserve slavery.
The idea that the American
Revolution was motivated primarily by the desire to uphold slavery has been
rightly assailed by numerous respected historians of all stripes, from
conservative to liberal to even socialist.
The World Socialist Website,
of all things, called the project “a politically motivated falsification of
history.”
I’ve seldom, if ever, agreed
with a socialist on anything, but that is spot on.
As I detailed in my book “The
War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” there has been a
long-term and accelerating trend of distorting our history, to bury our
accomplishments, and embellish our country’s sins.
The 1619 Project is even
upfront with its stated intention to “reframe” America’s past. It does this not
simply by making a different argument or interpretation, but by distorting the
record, as so many historians have noted.
It’s important that when we
discuss the past, we do so with a commitment to truth and accuracy. That
shouldn’t be a left or right thing. Fake news is problematic, whether it has to
do with reporting on the president or what happened in 1776.
So why would the Pulitzer
Prize board, which supposedly gives awards for excellence in writing and journalism,
give an esteemed award to what is at the very least a deeply flawed piece of
work?
The truth, as those with
common sense already know, is that the Pulitzer Prize recipients are chosen
through a lens of politics. The 1619 Project might not be correct in fact, but
it’s “correct” in feeling. It’s correct by the measure of the identity politics
ideology that has become the de facto ideological lens of our country’s elite,
liberal institutions.
This is hardly the first or
only wild miss by Pulitzer. After all, Walter Duranty, The New York Times’
onetime Moscow bureau chief who lied about the Soviet Union’s starvation of
Ukraine in the 1930s, never had his award rescinded, and the Times still
occasionally touts Duranty as a past winner of the prize.
It seems that if you want
accolades without regard to truth or accuracy, your best bet is to be on the
political left and write for The New York Times.
The 1619 Project didn’t have
to be excellent. It just had to be politically correct and written by the right
people at America’s liberal publication of record. None of the criticism or
flaws even mattered.
The Nobel Prize is hardly any
different. Remember when then-President Barack Obama, after just nine months in
office, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009? Can anyone actually recall
what he did to deserve it, other than being a liberal president and not George
W. Bush?
If one wants to look for an
indication of why trust in America’s leading institutions—from Congress to the
media—is in a state of collapse, this is a prime example.
Our meritocracy, to many
Americans, is not very meritocratic. Our cultural elites are not so elite, but
rather, committed to self-aggrandizement. Being “woke” is more important than
being right. And the cultural elites are not content to simply hold those views
and leave the rest of us alone. Instead, they work relentlessly to ensure that
entire generations are all taught to think this same way, hence their war on
school choice and homeschooling.
Despite the 1619 Project’s
being so clearly flawed, and how obviously political the Pulitzer Prize board
was, the award nevertheless provides an “official” stamp of approval that makes
it a more effective tool to use in schools around the country. My wife, Inez
Stepman, explained why in The Federalist:
"Unfortunately,
endorsement of the 1619 Project goes beyond the establishment media and
attendant self-congratulatory organizations. In large part due to the Pulitzer
Center’s blessing, Common Core-compliant curricular materials based on the
inaccurate history in the project are used in more than 3,500 schools across
all 50 states. Thousands of American students are learning false historical
information that gives them an unduly negative view of this country."
That’s bad enough, but now
frustrated parents will be told that it’s all good, because after all, it won a
Pulitzer Prize.
The left wields enormous
power over our most powerful cultural institutions, a power wholly unjustified
by its record. If there’s a characteristic that Americans from the time of the
founding to today have maintained through the centuries, it’s our utter
intolerance of a false aristocracy.
That’s why it’s essential
that Americans now have a choice and the tools to work around those
institutions and commit to giving themselves and their children those tools and
the education necessary, such as those provided by the Woodson Center’s
excellent “1776” project, to withstand the tide of mis-education.
Jarrett Stepman is a
contributor for The Daily Signal.
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The 1619 Project
isn’t just a series of articles placing slavery fraudulently at the center of the American
story. It is also a curriculum that is sweeping the land.
It teaches
socialism—which forces man to work for others without remuneration, and
expropriates private property—that is akin to slavery.
Teachers and Administrators will have
to unite and act, now that the Pulitzer Board has allowed its coveted prize to
be used in selling this project.
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An Interview with James McPherson about the "1619 Project" and is author of dozens of books and articles, including
the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, widely
regarded as the authoritative account of the Civil War.
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An interview
with historian
Gordon Wood on the New York Times’
1619 Project
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“When the Declaration says that all
men are created equal, that is no myth”
By Tom
Mackaman
28 November 2019
Gordon
Wood is professor emeritus at Brown University and author of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book The Radicalism of the American
Revolution, as well as Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early
Republic, 1789–1815, and dozens of other books and articles on the colonial
period, the American Revolution and the early republic.
Historian Gordan Wood speaks with
WSWS about American Revolution and the NYT 1619 Project
Q.
Let me begin by asking you your initial reaction to the 1619 Project. When did
you learn about it?
A. Well, I was surprised when I opened my Sunday New York
Times in August and found the magazine containing the project. I had no
warning about this. I read the first essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones, which
alleges that the Revolution occurred primarily because of the Americans’ desire
to save their slaves. She claims the British were on the warpath against the
slave trade and slavery and that rebellion was the only hope for American
slavery. This made the American Revolution out to be like the Civil War, where
the South seceded to save and protect slavery, and that the Americans 70 years
earlier revolted to protect their institution of slavery. I just couldn’t
believe this.
I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of
this thing, especially since it’s going to become the basis for high school
education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet
it is so wrong in so many ways.
Q. I want to return to the question of slavery and the
American Revolution, but first I wanted to follow up, because you said you were
not approached. Yet you are certainly one of the foremost authorities on the
American Revolution, which the 1619 Project trains much of its fire on.
A. Yes, no one ever approached me. None of the leading
scholars of the whole period from the Revolution to the Civil War, as far I
know, have been consulted. I read the Jim McPherson interview and he was just
as surprised as I was.
Q. Can you discuss the relationship between the American
Revolution and the institution of slavery?
A. One of the things that I have emphasized in my writing is
how many southerners and northerners in 1776 thought slavery was on its last
legs and that it would naturally die away. You can find quotation after
quotation from people seriously thinking that slavery was going to wither away
in several decades. Now we know they couldn’t have been more wrong. But they
lived with illusions and were so wrong about so many things. We may be living
with illusions too. One of the big lessons of history is to realize how the
past doesn’t know its future. We know how the story turned out, and we somehow
assume they should know what we know, but they don’t, of course. They don’t
know their future any more than we know our future, and so many of them thought
that slavery would die away, and at first there was considerable evidence that
that was indeed the case.
Map of Free and Slave states:
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At the time of the Revolution, the Virginians had more
slaves than they knew what to do with, so they were eager to end the
international slave trade. But the Georgians and the South Carolinians weren’t
ready to do that yet. That was one of the compromises that came out of the
Constitutional Convention. The Deep South was given 20 years to import more
slaves, but most Americans were confident that the despicable transatlantic
slave trade was definitely going to end in 1808.
Q. Under the Jefferson administration?
A. Yes, it was set in the Constitution at 20 years, but
everyone knew this would be ended because nearly everyone knew that this was a
barbaric thing, importing people and so on. Many thought that ending the slave
trade would set slavery itself on the road to extinction. Of course, they were
wrong.
I think the important point to make about slavery is that it
had existed for thousands of years without substantial criticism, and it
existed all over the New World. It also existed elsewhere in the world. Western
Europe had already more or less done away with slavery. Perhaps there was
nothing elsewhere comparable to the plantation slavery that existed in the New
World, but slavery was widely prevalent in Africa and Asia. There is still
slavery today in the world.
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And it existed in all of these places without substantial
criticism. Then suddenly in the middle of the 18th century you begin to get
some isolated Quakers coming out against it. But it’s the American Revolution
that makes it a problem for the world. And the first real anti-slave movement
takes place in North America. So this is what’s missed by these essays in the
1619 Project.
Q. The claim made by Nikole Hannah-Jones in the 1619 Project
that the Revolution was really about founding a slavocracy seems to be coming
from arguments made elsewhere that it was really Great Britain that was the progressive
contestant in the conflict, and that the American Revolution was, in fact, a
counterrevolution, basically a conspiracy to defend slavery.
A. It’s been argued by some historians, people other than
Hannah-Jones, that some planters in colonial Virginia were worried about what
the British might do about slavery. Certainly, Dunmore’s proclamation in 1775,
which promised the slaves freedom if they joined the Crown’s cause, provoked
many hesitant Virginia planters to become patriots. There may have been individuals
who were worried about their slaves in 1776, but to see the whole revolution in
those terms is to miss the complexity.
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In 1776, Britain, despite the Somerset decision, was
certainly not the great champion of antislavery that the Project 1619 suggests.
Indeed, it is the northern states in 1776 that are the world’s leaders in the
antislavery cause. The first anti-slavery meeting in the history of the world
takes place in Philadelphia in 1775. That coincidence I think is important. I
would have liked to have asked Hannah-Jones, how would she explain the fact
that in 1791 in Virginia at the College of William and Mary, the Board of
Visitors, the board of trustees, who were big slaveholding planters, awarded an
honorary degree to Granville Sharp, who was the leading British abolitionist of
the day. That’s the kind of question that should provoke historical curiosity.
You ask yourself what were these slaveholding planters thinking? It’s the kind
of question, the kind of seeming anomaly, that should provoke a historian into
research.
The idea that the Revolution occurred as a means of
protecting slavery—I just don’t think there is much evidence for it, and in
fact the contrary is more true to what happened. The Revolution unleashed
antislavery sentiments that led to the first abolition movements in the history
of the world.
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John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Q. In fact, those who claim that the American Revolution was
a counterrevolution to protect slavery focus on the timing of the Somerset
ruling of 1772, which held that slavery wasn’t supported by English common law,
and Dunmore’s promise to free slaves who escape their masters.
A. To go from these few facts to create such an enormous
argument is a problem. The Somerset decision was limited to England, where
there were very few slaves, and it didn’t apply to the Caribbean. The British
don’t get around to freeing the slaves in the West Indies until 1833, and if
the Revolution hadn’t occurred, might never have done so then, because all of
the southern colonies would have been opposed. So supposing the Americans
hadn’t broken away, there would have been a larger number of slaveholders in
the greater British world who might have been able to prolong slavery longer
than 1833. The West Indies planters were too weak in the end to resist
abolition. They did try to, but if they had had all those planters in the South
still being part of the British Empire with them, that would have made it more
difficult for the British Parliament to move toward abolition.
Q. Hannah-Jones refers to America’s founding documents as
its founding myths…
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Thomas Jefferson painted by Mather Brown
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A. Of course, there are great ironies in our history, but
the men and the documents transcend their time. That Jefferson, a slaveholding
aristocrat, has been—until recently—our spokesman for democracy, declaring that
all men are created equal, is probably the greatest irony in American history.
But the document he wrote and his confidence in the capacities of ordinary
people are real, and not myths.
Jefferson was a very complicated figure. He took a stand
against slavery as a young man in Virginia. He spoke out against it. He
couldn’t get his colleagues to go along, but he was certainly courageous in
voicing his opposition to slavery. Despite his outspokenness on slavery and
other enlightened matters, his colleagues respected him enough to keep
elevating him to positions in the state. His colleagues could have, as we say
today, “cancelled” him if they didn’t have some sympathy for what he was
saying.
Q. And after the Revolution?
A. American leaders think slavery is dying, but they couldn’t
have been more wrong. Slavery grows stronger after the Revolution, but it’s
concentrated in the South. North of the Mason-Dixon line, in every northern
state by 1804, slavery is legally put on the road to extinction. Now, there’s
certain “grandfathering in,” and so you do have slaves in New Jersey as late as
the eve of the Civil War. But in the northern states, the massive movement
against slavery was unprecedented in the history of the world. So to somehow
turn this around and make the Revolution a means of preserving slavery is
strange and contrary to the evidence.
As a result of the Revolution, slavery is confined to the
South, and that puts the southern planters on the defensive. For the first time
they have to defend the institution. If you go into the colonial records and
look at the writings and diary of someone like William Byrd, who’s a very
distinguished and learned person—he’s a member of the Royal Society—you’ll find
no expressions of guilt whatsoever about slavery. He took his slaveholding for
granted. But after the Revolution that’s no longer true. Southerners began to
feel this anti-slave pressure now. They react to it by trying to give a
positive defense of slavery. They had no need to defend slavery earlier because
it was taken for granted as a natural part of a hierarchical society.
We should understand that slavery in the colonial period
seemed to be simply the most base status in a whole hierarchy of dependencies
and degrees of unfreedom. Indentured servitude was prevalent everywhere. Half
the population that came to the colonies in the 18th century came as bonded
servants. Servitude, of course, was not slavery, but it was a form of
dependency and unfreedom that tended to obscure the uniqueness of racial
slavery. Servants were bound over to masters for five or seven years. They
couldn’t marry. They couldn’t own property. They belonged to their masters, who
could sell them. Servitude was not life-time and was not racially-based, but it
was a form of dependency and unfreedom. The Revolution attacked bonded
servitude and by 1800 it scarcely existed anywhere in the US.
Indentured Servants deported from England:
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The elimination of servitude suddenly made slavery more
conspicuous than it had been in a world of degrees of unfreedom. The
antislavery movements arose out of these circumstances. As far as most
northerners were concerned, this most base and despicable form of unfreedom
must be eliminated along with all the other forms of unfreedom. These
dependencies were simply incompatible with the meaning of the Revolution.
After the Revolution, Virginia had no vested interest in the
international slave trade. Quite the contrary. Virginians began to grow wheat
in place of tobacco. Washington does this, and he comes to see himself as more
a farmer than a planter. He and other farmers begin renting out their slaves to
people in Norfolk and Richmond, where they are paid wages. And many people
thought that this might be the first step toward the eventual elimination of
slavery. These anti-slave sentiments don’t last long in Virginia, but for a
moment it seemed that Virginia, which dominated the country as no other state ever
has, might abolish slavery as the northern states were doing. In fact, there
were lots of manumissions and other anti-slave moves in Virginia in the 1780s.
But the black rebellion in Saint-Domingue—the Haitian
Revolution—scares the bejesus out of the southerners. Many of the white
Frenchmen fled to North America—to Louisiana, to Charleston, and they brought
their fears of slave uprisings with them. Then, with Gabriel’s Rebellion in
Virginia in 1800, most of the optimism that Virginians had in 1776—1790 is
gone.
Of course, I think the ultimate turning point for both
sections is the Missouri crisis of 1819–1820. Up to that point, both sections
lived with illusions. The Missouri crisis causes the scales to fall away from
the eyes of both northerners and southerners. Northerners come to realize that
the South really intended to perpetuate slavery and extend it into the West.
And southerners come to realize that the North is so opposed to slavery that it
will attempt to block them from extending it into the West. From that moment on
I think the Civil War became inevitable.
Q. There’s the famous quote from Jefferson that the Missouri
crisis awakened him like a fire bell in the night and that in it he perceived
the death of the union...
A. Right. He’s absolutely panicked by what’s happening, and
these last years of his life leading up to 1826 are really quite sad because
he’s saying these things. Reading his writings between 1819 and his death in
1826 makes you wince because he so often sounds like a southern fire-eater of
the 1850s. Whereas his friend Madison has a much more balanced view of things,
Jefferson becomes a furious and frightened defender of the South. He sees a
catastrophe in the works, and he can’t do anything about it.
John Adams, painted by Gilbert Stuart:
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His friend Adams was, of course, opposed to slavery from the
beginning, and this is something that Hannah-Jones should have been aware of.
John Adams is the leading advocate in the Continental Congress for
independence. He’s never been a slaveowner. He hates slavery and he has no
vested interest in it. By 1819–1820, however, he more or less takes the view
that the Virginians have a serious problem with slavery and they are going to
have to work it out for themselves. He’s not going to preach to them. That’s
essentially what he says to Jefferson.
By the early nineteenth century, Jefferson had what Annette
Gordon-Reed calls “New England envy.” His granddaughter marries a New Englander
and moves there, and she tells him how everything’s flourishing in Connecticut.
The farms are all neat, clean and green, and there are no slaves. He envies the
town meetings of New England, those little ward republics. And he just yearns
for something like that for Virginia.
Q. How it is that the American Revolution raises the dignity
of labor? Because it seems to me that this concept certainly becomes a burning
issue by the time of the Civil War.
A. It’s a good question. Central to the middle class
revolution was an unprecedented celebration of work, especially manual labor,
including the working for money. For centuries going back to the ancient
Greeks, work with one’s hands had been held in contempt. Aristotle had said
that those who worked with their hands and especially those who worked for
money lacked the capacity for virtue. This remained the common view until the
American Revolution changed everything.
The northern celebration of work made the slaveholding South
seem even more anomalous than it was. Assuming that work was despicable and
mean was what justified slavery. Scorn for work and slavery were two sides of
the same coin. Now the middle-class northerners—clerks, petty merchants,
farmers, etc.—began attacking the leisured gentry as parasites living off the
work of others. That was the gist of the writings of William Manning, the
obscure Massachusetts farmer, writing in the 1790s. This celebration of work,
of course, forced the slaveholding planters to be even more defensive and they
began celebrating leisure as the source of high culture in contrast with the
money-grubbing North.
Slavery required a culture that held labor in contempt. The
North, with its celebration of labor, especially working for money, became even
more different from the lazy, slaveholding South. By the 1850s, the two
sections, though both American, possessed two different cultures.
Q. In my discussion with Professor James Oakes, he made the point about the emergence of the Democratic Party in the 1820s,
that in the North it can’t do what the southern slave owners really want it to
do, which is to say slaves are property, but what they do instead is to begin
to promote racism.
A. That’s right. When you have a republican society, it’s
based on equality of all citizens; and now many whites found that difficult to
accept. And they had to justify the segregation and the inferior status of the
freed blacks by saying blacks were an inferior race. As I said earlier, in the
Colonial period whites didn’t have to mount any racist arguments to justify the
lowly status of blacks. In a hierarchical society with many degrees of
unfreedom, you don’t bother with trying to explain or justify slavery or the
unequal treatment of anyone. Someone like William Byrd never tries to justify
slavery. He never argues that blacks are inferior. He doesn’t need to do that
because he takes his whole world of inequality and hierarchy for granted.
Racism develops in the decades following the Revolution because in a free
republican society, whites needed a new justification for keeping blacks in an
inferior and segregated place. And it became even more complicated when freed
blacks with the suffrage tended to vote for the doomed parties of the
Federalists and the Whigs.
Purchase of Christian captives from the Barbary States:
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Q. The 1619 Project claims basically that nothing has ever
gotten any better. That it’s as bad now as it was during slavery, and instead
what you’re describing is a very changed world...
A. Imagine the inequalities that existed before the
Revolution. Not just in wealth—I mean, we have that now—but in the way in which
people were treated. Consider the huge number of people who were servants of
some kind. I just think that people need to know just how bad the Ancién Regime
was. In France, we always had this Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities
view of the society, with a nobleman riding through the village and running over
children and so on. But similar kinds of brutalities and cruelties existed in
the English-speaking world in the way common people were treated. In England,
there must have been 200 capital crimes on the books. Consequently, juries
became somewhat reluctant to convict to hanging a person for stealing a
handkerchief. So the convict was sent as a bonded servant to the colonies,
50,000 of them. And then when the American Revolution occurs, Australia becomes
the replacement.
I don’t think people realize just what a cruel and brutal
world existed in the Ancién Regime, in the premodern societies of the West, not
just for slaves, but for lots of people who were considered the mean or lowly
sort. And they don’t appreciate what a radical message is involved in declaring
that all men are created equal and what that message means for our obsession
with education, and the implications of that for our society.
Q. You spoke of the “consensus school” on American history
before, from the 1950s, that saw the Revolution, I think, as essentially a
conservative event. And one of the things that they stressed was that there was
no aristocracy, no native aristocracy, in America, but you find, if I recall
your argument in The Radicalism of the American Revolution, that though
aristocracy was not strong, it was something that was still a powerful factor.
A. There’s no European-type aristocracy, the kind of rich,
hereditary aristocracy of the sort that existed in England—great landholders
living off the rents of their tenants. But we had an aristocracy of sorts. The
southern slaveholding planters certainly came closest to the English model, but
even in the more egalitarian North there was an aristocracy of sorts. Men of
wealth and distinction that we would label elites sought to make the title of
gentlemen equal some kind of aristocracy. “Gentleman” was a legal distinction,
and such gentlemen were treated differently in the society because of that
distinction. With the Revolution, all this came under assault.
It’s interesting to look at the debates that occur in the
New York ratifying convention in 1788. The leading Anti-Federalist, Melancton
Smith, a very smart guy but a middling sort and with no college graduate
degree, gives the highly educated Alexander Hamilton and Robert Livingston a
run for their money. He calls Hamilton and Livingston aristocrats and charges
that the proposed Constitution was designed to give more power to the likes of
them. Hamilton, who certainly felt superior to Smith, denied he was an
aristocrat. There were no aristocrats in America, he said; they existed only in
Europe. That kind of concession was multiplied ten thousand-fold in the
following decades in the North, and this denial of obvious social superiority
in the face of middling criticism is denied even today. You see politicians
wanting to play down their distinctiveness, their elite status. “I can have a
beer with Joe Six-pack,” they say, denying their social superiority. That was
already present in the late 1780s. That’s what I mean by radicalism. It’s a
middle-class revolution, and it is essentially confined to the North.
President Martin Van Buren, photo by Matthew Brady:
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Q. You were speaking earlier of the despair of Madison,
Adams and Jefferson late in life. And it just occurred to me that they lived to
see Martin Van Buren.
A. That’s right. Van Buren is probably the first real
politician in America elected to the presidency. Unlike his predecessors, he
never did anything great; he never made a great speech, he never wrote a great
document, he never won a great battle. He simply was the most politically
astute operator that the United States had ever seen. He organized a party in
New York that was the basis of his success.
Van Buren regarded the founding fathers as passé. He told
his fellow Americans, look, we don’t need to pay too much attention to those
guys. They were aristocrats, he said. We’re Democrats—meaning both small “d”
and also capital “D.” Those aristocrats don’t have much to say to us.
Did you know that the “founding fathers” in the antebellum
period are not Jefferson and Madison and Washington and Hamilton? In the
antebellum period when most Americans referred to the “founders,” they meant
John Smith, William Penn, William Bradford, John Winthrop and so on, the
founders of the seventeenth century. There’s a good book on this subject by
Wesley Frank Craven [ The Legend of the Founding Fathers (1956)].
It’s Lincoln who rescues the eighteenth-century founders for
us. From the Civil War on, the “founders” become the ones we celebrate today,
the revolutionary leaders. Lincoln makes Jefferson the great hero of America.
“All honor to Jefferson,” he says. Only because of the Declaration of
Independence. Jefferson didn’t have anything to do with the Constitution, and
so Lincoln makes the Declaration the most important document in American
history, which I think is true.
Q. For our readership, perhaps you could discuss something
of the world-historical significance of the Revolution. Of course, we are under
no illusion that it represented a socialist transformation. Yet it was a
powerful revolution in its time.
A. It was very important that the American colonial crisis,
the imperial crisis, occurred right at the height of what we call the
Enlightenment, where Western Europe was full of new ideas and was confident
that culture—what people believed and thought—was man-made and thus could be
changed. The Old World, the Ancién Regime, could be transformed and made anew.
It was an age of revolution, and it’s not surprising that the French Revolution
and other revolutions occur in in the wake of the American Revolution.
The notion of equality was really crucial. When the
Declaration says that all men are created equal, that is no myth. It is the
most powerful statement ever made in our history, and it lies behind almost
everything we Americans believe in and attempt to do. What that statement meant
is that we are all born equal and the all the differences that we see among us
as adults are due solely to our differing educations, differing upbringings and
differing environments. The Declaration is an Enlightenment document because it
repudiated the Ancién Regime assumption that all men are created unequal and
that nothing much could be done about it. That’s what it meant to be a subject
in the old society. You were born a patrician or a plebeian and that was your
fate.
Q. One of the ironies of this Project 1619 is that they are
saying the same things about the Declaration of Independence as the fire-eating
proponents of slavery said—that it’s a fraud. Meanwhile, abolitionists like
Frederick Douglass upheld it and said we’re going to make this “all men are
created equal” real.
A. That points up the problem with the whole project. It’s
too bad that it’s going out into the schools with the authority of the New
York Times behind it. That’s sad because it will color the views of all
these youngsters who will receive the message of the 1619 Project.
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Slavery..........in the beginning...............
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Stereotyping
the Old South
As we approach the 150th anniversary of
the American Civil War, the war over that conflict's meaning is less civil
today than ever. Jack Hunter explains:
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Where did African Slavery originate in North America?
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The Colony of Virginia founded in 1607
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Native American Indian ownership of Black slaves is
discussed in the documentary
"Black Slaves, Red Masters."
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Indians owned Black Slaves
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From the late eighteenth century
through the end of the War Between the States, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold,
and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after
the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory.
The tribes
formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and
marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the War Between the States
and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing
conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of
former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without
citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this
groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern
slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native
American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved.
Krauthamer's examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian
women's gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again
after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives
of black people and Indians both before and after removal.
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"The role of black Indians,
largely omitted from or distorted in conventional history books, is traced by William
Katz with careful and committed research. . . . he integrates their general
history with brief individual biographies, including leaders, army scouts and
soldiers, frontiersmen and explorers, (and) dangerous outlaws".--Booklist.
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Slavery existed in North America long before the first
Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian
era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed,
adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's path-breaking book takes a
familiar setting for bondage, the American South, and places Native Americans
at the center of her engrossing story.
Indian warriors captured a wide range of enemies, including Africans,
Europeans, and other Indians. Yet until the late eighteenth century, age and
gender more than race affected the fate of captives. As economic and political
crises mounted, however, Indians began to racialize slavery and target African
Americans. Native people struggling to secure a separate space for themselves
in America developed a shared language of race with white settlers. Although
the Indians' captivity practices remained fluid long after their neighbors
hardened racial lines, the Second Seminole War ultimately tore apart the
inclusive communities that Native people had created through centuries of
captivity.
Snyder's rich and sweeping history of Indian slavery connects figures like
Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe with little-known captives
like Antonia Bonnelli, a white teenager from Spanish Florida, and David George,
a black runaway from Virginia. Placing the experiences of these individuals
within a complex system of captivity and Indians' relations with other peoples,
Snyder demonstrates the profound role of Native American history in the
American past.
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In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal
argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were
more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the
two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from
Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor
resistance but incorporation. Rather than being colonized, Indians drew
European empires into local patterns of land and resource allocation,
sustenance, goods exchange, gender relations, diplomacy, and warfare. Placing
Indians at the center of the story, DuVal shows both their diversity and our
contemporary tendency to exaggerate the influence of Europeans in places far
from their centers of power. Europeans were often more dependent on Indians
than Indians were on them.
Now the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas,
and Colorado, this native ground was originally populated by indigenous
peoples, became part of the French and Spanish empires, and in 1803 was bought
by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. Drawing on archaeology and oral
history, as well as documents in English, French, and Spanish, DuVal chronicles
the successive migrations of Indians and Europeans to the area from precolonial
times through the 1820s. These myriad native groups—Mississippians, Quapaws,
Osages, Chickasaws, Caddos, and Cherokees—and the waves of Europeans all
competed with one another for control of the region.
Only in the nineteenth century did outsiders
initiate a future in which one people would claim exclusive ownership of the
mid-continent. After the War of 1812, these settlers came in numbers large
enough to overwhelm the region's inhabitants and reject the early patterns of
cross-cultural interdependence. As citizens of the United States, they
persuaded the federal government to muster its resources on behalf of their
dreams of landholding and citizenship.
With keen insight and broad vision, Kathleen
DuVal retells the story of Indian and European contact in a more complex and,
ultimately, more satisfactory way.
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Late in April 1861, President Lincoln
ordered Federal troops to evacuate forts in Indian Territory. That left the
Five Civilized Tribes—Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and
Seminoles—essentially under Confederate jurisdiction and control. The
American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863–1866, spans the
closing years of the War Between the States, when Southern fortunes were waning, and the
immediate postwar period.
Annie Heloise Abel shows the extreme
vulnerability of the Indians caught between two warring sides. "The
failure of the United States government to afford to the southern Indians the
protection solemnly guaranteed by treaty stipulations had been the great cause
of their entering into an alliance with The Confederacy, "she writes. Her
classic book, originally published in 1925 as the third volume of The
Slaveholding Indians, makes clear how the Indians became the victims of
uprootedness and privation, pillaging, government mismanagement, and, finally,
a deceptive treaty for reconstruction.
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5 Native American Communities who Owned Enslaved Africans
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Indian
Slavery/Slaveries in early
Eastern North America
Kristofer Ray, Dartmouth College,
“Constructing a Discourse of Indian Slavery, Freedom, and Sovereignty in
Anglo-Virginia, 1600–1830”
Margaret Newell, Ohio State University, “‘As
good if not better then Moorish Slaves’: Region and Ethnicity in slavery—the
case of New England”
Hayley Negrin, New York University,
“Interconnected Regimes: The Indian Slave Trade in Carolina and Plantation
Slavery in Virginia after the Westo War of 1679”
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In America’s Long History of Slavery, New England
Shares the Guilt
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Here
is a picture of Puritan New England far different from the “city upon a hill”
that John Winthrop hoped he and the other first settlers would leave for
posterity. It opens with the kidnapping of a Patuxet Indian. It closes with one
of the wealthiest men in Massachusetts justifying the enslavement and sale of
Africans. In between, Wendy Warren, an assistant professor of history at Princeton,
scatters massacres, a rape, beheadings, brandings, whippings and numerous
instances of forced exile. The behavior of New England settlers differed less
from that of their contemporaries who established plantation colonies in the
Chesapeake and the Caribbean than might be assumed.
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Warren’s
theme in “New England Bound” — the place of slavery in the making of colonial
New England — echoes preoccupations of the moment in the writing of American
history, as the pervasive influence of slavery on the nation, its institutions
and its cultures attains wider recognition. In time, perhaps, this perspective
will no longer surprise, and even now, few familiar with colonial American
history will be astonished by Warren’s account. She builds on and generously
acknowledges more than two generations of research into the social history of
New England and the economic history of the Atlantic world. But not only has
she mastered that scholarship, she has also brought it together in an original
way, and deepened the story with fresh research.
The
economic ties between early New England and the Caribbean deserve to be better
known. Prominent merchant families like the Winthrops and the Hutchinsons made
their fortunes by linking New England farmers and fishermen to West Indian
markets, by sending food to the sugar colonies, where, in the 17th century, the
real wealth lay. Enslaved Africans came to New England through these same
merchant networks, as one of several imports from the English Caribbean. These
forced migrants never became more than 10 percent of the population. Still,
many New England households soon kept a captive African or two.
Slave
ownership reached down the social scale and into New England’s hinterland.
African captives helped replace the Native-American communities displaced by
English colonists. As enslaved Africans came in, New England merchants sent
Indian captives out, banishing them to Barbados or somewhere else beyond the
seas.
This
economic dependence on West Indian slavery and the routine exploitation of
Indian and African captives drew little comment from English colonists at the
time. Warren finds some “wincing in the face of .?.?. cruelty,” but
acknowledges that doubts about slavery ran no more deeply in New England at the
turn of the 18th century than in any of the other European colonies in the
Americas. The emergence of the antislavery North lay more than a century off.
What
is most fascinating here is the detailed rendering of what individual enslaved
men and women experienced in New England households. “New England Bound”
conveys the disorientation, the deprivation, the vulnerability, the occasional
hunger and the profound isolation that defined the life of most African exiles
in Puritan New England, where there was no plantation community. Though the
surviving record allows limited access to their thoughts, Warren effectively
evokes their feelings. Ripped from kin on the far side of the Atlantic,
“dreaming of other people and other places,” but unable to go home, the lost
tried and sometimes succeeded in making meaningful connections with others
suffering a similar fate. For this was the ordinary pain and sorrow of slave
life in New England: Belonging to someone often meant having no one to belong
to.
(Review written by Christopher
L. Brown is a professor of history, director of the Society of Fellows and vice
provost for faculty affairs at Columbia University.)
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Colonial America Depended on the
Enslavement of Indigenous People
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Slavery in New England....a PowerPoint program:
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Forging New Communities: Indian Slavery and Servitude in Colonial New England, 1676-1776
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Colonists shipped Native Americans abroad as Slaves
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Indian Slavery in New England
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Dr. Margaret
Newell:
New England Indians, Colonists, & the Origins of American Slavery (A discussion on Ben Franklin's World podcast)
Did you know that one of the earliest practices of slavery
by English colonists originated in New England?
In fact, Massachusetts issued the very first slave code in
English America in 1641. Why did New Englanders turn to slavery and become the
first in English America to codify its practice?
Margaret Ellen Newell, a professor of history at The Ohio
State University and the author of Brethren By Nature: New England Indians,
Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, joins us to investigate these
questions and issues.
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Dr. Margaret Ellen Newell
presents a lecture on "Brethren by
Nature:
New England Indians, Colonists,
and the Origins of American Slavery."
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Dr. Margaret Ellen Newell presents another lecture: The Influence of the Colonists’ Relations with American Indians
Native Americans shaped the colonial project in
many ways. Indians made European colonization possible by supplying food,
trade, technology, labor, and other resources –sometimes voluntarily, and
sometimes involuntarily– that powered the North American economy. Indians
incorporated Europeans into trade and military alliance networks that became
essential to imperial power in North America. Indian affairs and wars dominated
the affairs of colonial states and, later, of the U.S. government, for
centuries. Indigenous actions influenced milestone events like the American
Revolution, the Mexican-American War and the U.S. Civil War. Intercultural
exchange was part of this story, and we will discuss mutual influences and
cultural clashes.
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Dr. Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia, in an excerpt from a lecture, "The
Real Lost Cause," discusses why too many read history from the end instead
of at the beginning; why the majority of people in the North were racist; why
the Civil War could have ended with a victorious Union Army, and............ with slavery intact:
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Problematic 'Political Correctness'
Political correctness and historical objectivity cannot coexist in the same textbook on the War Between the States. Unfortunately, as Sam Mitcham recently stated in a new book on the battle at Vicksburg, political correctness and intellectual dishonesty are all too often synonymous.
I have found, all to often, that the 'politically correct' party line is: the war was all about slavery; that selfless, valiant, morally pristine Northern army (which was supposedly full of holy and righteous indignation) launched a holy crusade against the evil Southern slaveholders, and defeated them because of their superior military skills, selfless valor, and overwhelmingly great mental prowess. That would be funny if so many people didn't believe it.
Many today have no idea that ONLY 6-7% of the Confederate Army was made up of slaveholders.
Even those who do not read, but watch television and have seen the movie "Gettysburg" should ask themselves, "Why would anybody go through that hell so somebody else could keep their slaves?" The inescapable conclusion is they would not. So, why did the Southerner fight?
There were several major causes of the war, with slavery as one; but it was not the only one. Money was a big one; perhaps the most significant, as will be detailed later on this page, reference the tariff issue.
There was no income tax in the Antebellum South or North; the major source of income for the government was the tariff.
Consider: .......that the Southern plantation owner and yeoman farmer produced more than 75% of the world's cotton .......the South, which contained 30% of the nation's population, was paying more than 85% of its taxes .......at the same time, approximately 3/4 of that money was being spent on internal improvements in the North.
That is why, when asked why he didn't just let the South go, Lincoln cried, "Let the South go? Let the South go? From where then would we get our revenues?"
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Then, many self-ordained 'politically correct' individuals never mention the fact that the American slaves were originally enslaved by black Africans, not by white men on horseback who scooped up African warriors, as depicted in one movie.
They sold them to Northern or Arab (Muslim) flesh peddlers. The slave fleets headquartered in Boston, Mass, and Providence, R.I., not in Charleston, New Orleans, and Savannah.
Yankee flesh peddlers then transported them across the ocean and sold them to Southerners and various other Americans...or at least what was left of them.
Of the 24 to 25 million slaves transported to the Western Hemisphere, only 20 million arrived alive.
4-5 million died in what was called the "Middle Passage." (So much for Northern compassion).
6% of the survivors ended up in the colonies of the United States.
Slave fleets continued to operate throughout the Civil War. They did not stop until 1885, when Brazil became the last country to outlaw the slave trade.
It is unfortunate that history is so vulnerable to those who want to dictate the present and control the future by changing the past. And many 'politically correct' historians swell up in righteous indignation if you even bring up these inconvenient facts.
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What was "Triangle Trade?"
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What countries were involved in the triangle trade?
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How do scholars get information about slave trading voyages?
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The Cuban Slave Trade Connection:
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade:
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Rhode Island.....Slave Trading Hub:
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Slavery in Massachusetts:
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February 26, 1638: First Slaves Arrive in Massachusetts
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Forgotten History: How The New England Colonists
Embraced The Slave Trade
American
slavery predates the founding of the United States. Wendy Warren, author of New England Bound, says the early colonists imported
African slaves and enslaved and exported Native Americans.
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Interview with Wendy Warren on NPRs "Fresh Air" June 21, 2016:
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SLAVERY: Dirty Secrets Exposed
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More information not found in the fradulent "1619 Project":
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Anthony Johnson: First Slave Owner in America (in Northampton County, Virginia).....and he was Black.
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In 1640, five
years after being freed from slavery himself, Anthony Johnson (born in Angola,
Africa), acquired a black slave named John Casar (sometimes spelled Casor or Gesorroro).
In 1648, Johnson, who had come to the Eastern Shore in the 1620s, purchased
four head of livestock from four different planters. Two years later he was
given a patent for an isolated 250-acre tract of land on the north side of
Nandua, where he settled with his wife Mary (who had arrived from Africa in
1622) and proceeded to build a livestock business. A patent was a legal claim
to land given by the government in exchange for bringing dependents (called
"headrights") into the colony. In 1654, he acquired a second slave,
Mary Gersheene. Over the next few years, the Johnson's sons, John and Richard,
accumulated 650 acres adjacent to their parents' land.
The
accumulation of several hundred acres of land, a herd of cattle, and a few
slaves constituted a singular economic achievement for a free black family in
mid-seventeenth-century Virginia. Historians have pointed to Anthony Johnson as
proof that in the early and mid-1600's at least, Virginia's free blacks
sometimes operated on an equal footing with whites. It is true that during the
17th-century free black men occasionally purchased not only black
slaves, but indentured white servants, and they sometimes married white women.
They established profitable farms and livestock businesses, and successfully
sued whites in court.
But more recent
investigations into the lives of free blacks on the Eastern Shore suggest that
while colonial blacks had relatively more opportunity and freedom than their
descendants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they too suffered at
the hands of the white majority.
The Johnsons,
for example, were harassed by two of their white neighbors, George and Robert
Parker, who connived to lure John Casar away from the Johnson household in
early 1655. Johnson successfully petitioned the court for Casar's return,
ironically setting an early legal precedent for slavery in Virginia. A white
planter attempted to defraud the Johnsons out of their land in 1653, and in
1658 another planter, Matthew Pippen, succeeded in taking land away from Richard
Johnson.
Perhaps seeking
an atmosphere more congenial for free blacks, the Johnson family moved north to
Somerset County, Maryland in 1665, where Anthony Johnson leased 300 acres and
founded a tobacco farm that he called Tories Vineyards. But their Virginia
troubles were not over. In 1667, Edmund Scarburgh, the Shore's most prominent
planter and politician, cheated Johnson out of more than 1,300 pounds of
tobacco. And in the greatest injustice of all, in 1670 a jury of white men
decided that "because he was a Negroe and by consequence an alien,"
the Virginia land originally held by Johnson should revert to the Crown.
Anthony Johnson
died on his estate in Somerset before the 1670 decision was handed down. Mary
Johnson died there 10 years later. Only one son, Richard Johnson, born about
1632, remained on the Eastern Shore, on 50 acres given to him by his father. In
the next generation this property was inherited by Anthony's grandson, John
Johnson Jr., who named the farm “Angola” as a tribute to his grandfather's
birth country. John Johnson was unable to pay the taxes on the property and
subsequently lost ownership. He died in 1721.
The Johnson
family's economic success is a tribute to their hard work and resourcefulness,
but the attempts by their white neighbors to ruin them are indicative of the
severe obstacles to success placed in the path of blacks even during colonial
times. (Source: Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities, “Site of 17th Century Estate of Anthony and Mary
Johnson,” African American Historic Sites Database.)
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The First Official Slave and Slave Owner in (North) America...from "Stolen History, Part 2":
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William Ellison: Largest African American Slave Owner and Breeder in South Carolina..... and he was Black
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William Ellison's plantation:
The Borough Plantation
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By 1860, William “April” Ellison was
South Carolina's largest Negro slave owner; and in the entire state, only five
percent of the people owned as much real estate as did William Ellison. His
wealth was 15 times greater than that of the state's average for whites.
Ellison also owned more slaves than did 99% of the South's slaveholders.
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"Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South" is the complete documented history of William Ellison, Jr., a black man who was among the top 10% of all slaveholders and landowners in Sumpter county, S.C. In the entire state of South Carolina, only 5% of the population owned as much real estate as Ellison. Only 3% of the state's slaveholders owned as many slaves. Thus, compared to the mean wealth of white men in the entire South, Ellison's was 15 times greater. 99% of the South's slaveholders owned fewer slaves than he did.
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William Holmes Ellison, Jr. "April"
a Black (mulatto) Slave Owner in South Carolina
In 1800, the South Carolina legislature had set out in detail
the procedures for manumission. To end the practice of freeing unruly slaves of
"bad or depraved" character and those who "from age or
infirmity" were incapacitated, the state required that an owner testify
under oath to the good character of the slave he sought to free. Also required
was evidence of the slave's "ability to gain a livelihood in an honest
way." On June 8, 1816, William Ellison of Fairfield County appeared before
a magistrate (with five local freeholders as supporting witnesses) to gain permission
to free his slave, April, who was at the time 26 years of age. April was
William Ellison, Jr. of Sumter County.
At birth, William Ellison, Jr. was given the name of "April." It was
a popular practice among slaves of the period to name a child after the day or
month of his or her birth. It is known that between the years 1800 and 1802
April was owned by a white slave-owner named William Ellison, son of Robert
Ellison of Fairfield County in South Carolina. It is not documented as to who
his owner was before that time. It can only be assumed that William Ellison, a
planter of Fairfield district was either the father or the brother of William
Ellison, Jr., freedman of Sumter County. April had his name changed to William
Ellison by the courts, obviously in honor of William Ellison of Fairfield.
At the age of 10, William "April" Ellison was apprenticed and he was
trained as a cotton gin builder and repairer. He spent six years training as a
blacksmith and carpenter and he also learned how to read, write, cipher and to
do basic bookkeeping. Since there are no records showing the purchase of April
(later William Ellison of Sumter) by William Ellison of Fairfield, it is
unknown as to how long April was owned by William Ellison. It is known that
William Ellison of Fairfield inherited a large estate from his father Robert,
and that the slaves of the estate, named in the will were left to his siblings.
It is possible that Robert Ellison gave several slaves to his son before his
death, so they would not have needed to have been mentioned in his will.
William owned several slaves according to the census records. Both Robert and
William were of an age to have been able to be the father of April.
April was trained as a machinist and he became a well known cotton gin maker.
Upon receiving his freedom he decided to pursue his expertise in Sumter County,
South Carolina where found an eager market for his trade. He is well known for
perfecting the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney.
William Holmes "April"
Ellison was born in 1790, in Fairfield, SC, which was 40 miles NW of the High
Hills, to William Holmes Ellison and Mary Harrison. He married a woman named
Matilda and together they had the following children: Aliza Ann, Marie, Henry,
William Holmes III, and Reuben Ellison. He had an illegitimate child named
Maria Ellison that he sold. "April" was a slave owner and one time
slave himself. It was told that he was hard on his slaves and interestingly
none of his slaves were Mulattoes, they were all black. When he was 26 he
became a free man and 3 years later at the Sumter District courthouse he had
his name changed to William. William was the name of his former master (William
Holmes Ellison I). He changed his name from April because it was tied to
slavery.
He was known for being a Cotton Gin Maker. In 1822, he built his
Cotton gin shop on an acre of land that he purchased for $375 from General
Thomas Sumter. This shop would be operated by William and even his grandsons
for many decades. The shop was located at the NW corner of a busy intersection
of the roads of Charleston-Camden and Sumterville-Columbia, SC. Now at the Holy
Cross Episcopal Church were he attend services, William rose in respectability.
His family became so respected that they were the only colored family allowed
to worship on the main floor. William Ellison was permitted to place a Bench
under the Organ Loft for the use of himself and family. William Ellison died on
December 5, 1861 in Statesburg, SC, and was buried with his wife, Matilda. His
tombstone was placed in the first row of the family's graveyard.
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Additional Bio Info provided by Art Wells:
In 1800 the South Carolina legislature had set out in detail the procedures for
manumission. To end the practice of freeing unruly slaves of "bad or
depraved" character and those who "from age or infirmity" were
incapacitated, the state required that an owner testify under oath to the good
character of the slave he sought to free. Also required was evidence of the
slave's "ability to gain a livelihood in an honest way." On June 8,
1816, William Ellison of Fairfield County appeared before a magistrate (with
five local freeholders as supporting witnesses) to gain permission to free his
slave, April, who was at the time 26 years of age. April was William Ellison,
Jr. of Sumter County.
At birth, William Ellison, Jr. was given the name of "April." It was
a popular practice among slaves of the period to name a child after the day or
month of his or her birth. It is known that between the years 1800 and 1802
April was owned by a white slave-owner named William Ellison, son of Robert
Ellison of Fairfield County in South Carolina. It is not documented as to who
his owner was before that time. It can only be assumed that William Ellison, a
planter of Fairfield district was either the father or the brother of William
Ellison, Jr., freedman of Sumter County. April had his name changed to William
Ellison by the courts, obviously in honor of William Ellison of Fairfield.
At the age of 10, William "April" Ellison was apprenticed and he was
trained as a cotton gin builder and repairer. He spent six years training as a
blacksmith and carpenter and he also learned how to read, write, cipher and to
do basic bookkeeping. Since there are no records showing the purchase of April
(later William Ellison of Sumter) by William Ellison of Fairfield, it is
unknown as to how long April was owned by William Ellison. It is known that
William Ellison of Fairfield inherited a large estate from his father Robert,
and that the slaves of the estate, named in the will were left to his siblings.
It is possible that Robert Ellison gave several slaves to his son before his
death, so they would not have needed to have been mentioned in his will.
William owned several slaves according to the census records. Both Robert and
William were of an age to have been able to be the father of April.
April was trained as a machinist and he became a well known cotton gin maker.
Upon receiving his freedom he decided to pursue his expertise in Sumter County,
South Carolina where found an eager market for his trade. He is well known for
perfecting the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney.
In 1816, April, now known as William Ellison, Jr. arrived in Stateburg where he
initially hired slave workers from their local owners. By 1820 he had purchased
two adult males to work in his shop. On June 20, 1820, April appeared in the
Sumter District courthouse in Sumterville. Described in court papers submitted
by his attorney as a “freed yellow man of about 29 years of age,” he requested
a name change because it “would yet greatly advance his interest as a
tradesman.” A new name would also “save him and his children from degradation
and contempt which the minds of some do and will attach to the name April.”
Because “of the kindness” of his former master and as a “Mark of gratitude and
respect for him” April asked that his name be changed to William Ellison. His
request was granted.
The Ellison family joined the Episcopalian Church of the Holy Cross in
Stateburg and on August 6, 1824, William Ellis was the first black to install a
family bench on the first floor of the church, among those of the other wealthy
families of Stateburg. The poor whites and the other black church members, free
and slave, sat in the balcony of the church.
Gradually, Ellison built up a small empire, purchasing slaves in increasing
numbers as the years passed. He became one of South Carolina's major cotton gin
manufacturers and sold his machines as far away as Mississippi. He regularly
advertised his cotton gins in newspapers across the state. His ads may be found
in historic copies of the Black River Watchman, the Sumter Southern Whig, and
the Camden Gazzette.
By 1830, he owned four slaves who assisted him in his business. He then began
to acquire land and even more slaves. In 1838 Ellison purchased 54.5 acres
adjoining his original acreage from former South Carolina Governor Stephen
Decater Miller. Ellison and his family moved into a large home on the property.
(The house had been known as Miller House but became known as Ellison House.)
As his business grew, so did his wealth and by 1840, Ellison owned 12 slaves.
His sons, who lived in homes on the property, owned an additional nine slaves.
By the early 1840s, he was one of the most prosperous men in the area. By the
year 1850, he was the owner of 386 acres of land and 37 slaves. The workers on
Ellison's plantation produced 35 bales of cotton that year.
In 1852, Ellison purchased Keith Hill and Hickory Hill Plantations which
increased his land holdings to over 1,000 acres. By 1860 William Ellison was
South Carolina's largest Negro slave owner and in the entire state, only five
percent of the people owned as much real estate as did William Ellison. His
wealth was 15 times greater than that of the state's average for whites.
Ellison also owned more slaves than did 99% of the South's slaveholders.
When War Between the States broke out in 1861, William Ellison, Jr. was one of
the staunchest supporters of the Confederacy. His grandson joined a Confederate
Artillery Unit, and William turned his plantation over from cotton cash crop
production to farming foodstuff for the Confederacy.
William Ellison, Jr. died on 5 December 1861, at the age of 71 and per his
wishes, his family continued to actively support the Confederacy throughout the
war. Aside from producing corn, fodder, bacon, corn shucks, and cotton for the
Confederate Army, they contributed vast amounts of money, paid $5000 in taxes,
and invested a good portion of their fortune into Confederate Bonds which were
worthless at the end of the war.
William Ellison, Jr. had died with an estate appraised at $43,500, consisting
of 70 slaves. His will stated that his estate should pass into the joint hands
of his daughter and his two surviving sons. He bequeathed $500 to a slave
daughter he had sold. At his death he was one in the top 10% of the wealthiest
people in all of South Carolina, was in the top 5% of land ownership, and he
was the third largest slave owner in the entire state.
In 1816, April, now known as William Ellison, Jr. (not to be confused with one of his own sons, whom he would name William Ellison, Jr.) arrived in Stateburg where he
initially hired slave workers from their local owners. By 1820, he had purchased
two adult males to work in his shop. On June 20, 1820, "April" appeared in the
Sumter District courthouse in Sumterville. Described in court papers submitted
by his attorney as a “freed yellow man of about 29 years of age,” he requested
a name change because it “would yet greatly advance his interest as a
tradesman.” A new name would also “save him and his children from degradation and
contempt which the minds of some do and will attach to the name April.” Because
“of the kindness” of his former master and as a “Mark of gratitude and respect
for him” April asked that his name be changed to William Ellison. His request
was granted.
The Ellison family joined the Episcopalian Church of the Holy Cross in
Stateburg and on August 6, 1824, William Ellis was the first black allowed to
install a family bench on the first floor of the church, albeit in the back of the church, among those of the
other wealthy families of Stateburg. The poor whites and the other black
church members, free and slave, sat in the balcony of the church.
Gradually, Ellison built up a small empire, purchasing slaves in increasing
numbers as the years passed. He became one of South Carolina's major cotton gin
manufacturers and sold his machines as far away as Mississippi. He regularly
advertised his cotton gins in newspapers across the state. His ads may be found
in historic copies of the Black River Watchman, the Sumter Southern Whig, and
the Camden Gazette.
By 1830, he owned four slaves who assisted him in his business. He
then began to acquire land and even more slaves. In 1838, Ellison purchased 54.5
acres adjoining his original acreage from former South Carolina Governor
Stephen Decater Miller. Ellison and his family moved into a large home on the
property. (The house had been known as Miller House but became known as Ellison
House.) As his business grew, so did his wealth and by 1840, Ellison
owned 12 slaves.
His sons, who lived in homes on the property, owned an
additional nine slaves. By the early 1840s, he was one of the most prosperous
men in the area. By the year 1850, he was the owner of 386 acres of land and 37
slaves. The workers on Ellison's plantation produced 35 bales of cotton that
year.
In 1852, Ellison purchased Keith Hill and Hickory Hill Plantations which
increased his land holdings to over 1,000 acres. By 1860 William Ellison was
South Carolina's largest Negro slaveowner and in the entire state, only five
percent of the people owned as much real estate as did William Ellison. His
wealth was 15 times greater than that of the state's average for whites.
Ellison also owned more slaves than did 99% of the South's slaveholders.
And how did he treat his slaves? The records found in "Black Masters," tell us "He had a reputation as a harsh master. His slaves were said to be the district's worst fed and worst clothed. Hungry for more land and slaves, Ellison and his family lived frugally, and he probably was even more tightfisted in providing food, clothing, and housing for his slaves. Harsh treatment could have stemmed from Ellison's need to prove to whites that, despite his history and color, he was not soft on slaves. A reputation for harshness was less dangerous than a reputation for indulgence."
Did he pay for "slave catchers" to find his runaway slaves? Yes, the record is clear on that point.
He was also a slave "breeder" who sold off black slave girls to help raise the large sums he needed to buy more adult slaves and more land. To him, slaves were a source of labor, and the laborers he needed most were adult men who could work in his gin shop and cotton fields. Rather than accumulate slaves he could not exploit, it is seen that he sold twenty or more girls, retaining only a few who could eventually have more children, and in some cases, work in his home as domestics. If Ellison sold twenty slave girls for an average price of $400, he obtained an additional $8,000 cash, a sum large enough to have made a major contribution to the land and slave purchases that made him a planter. Thus, Ellison's economic empire was in large part constructed by slave labor and paid for by the sale of slave girls. And from the local records available, local tradition is silent about Ellison's slave sales, but outspoken about his reputation as a harsh master. In summary, his slaves were said to be the district's worst fed and worst clothed.
When War Between the States broke out in 1861, William Ellison, Jr. was one of
the staunchest supporters of the Confederacy. His grandson joined a Confederate
Artillery Unit, and William turned his plantation over from cotton cash crop
production to farming foodstuff for the Confederacy.
William Ellison died on 5 December 1861, at the age of 71 and per
his wishes, his family continued to actively support the Confederacy throughout
the war. Aside from producing corn, fodder, bacon, corn shucks, and cotton for
the Confederate Army, they contributed vast amounts of money, paid $5000 in
taxes, and invested a good portion of their fortune into Confederate Bonds
which were worthless at the end of the war.
William Ellison, Jr. had died with an estate under-appraised at $43,500,
consisting of 70 slaves. His will stated that his estate should pass into the
joint hands of his daughter and his two surviving sons. He bequeathed $500 to a
slave daughter he had sold. At his death he was one in the top 10% of the
wealthiest people in all of South Carolina, was in the top 5% of land
ownership, and he was the third largest slave owner in the entire state.
Slave records show that Ellison owned by year and number:
1820: 2, 1830: 4, 1840: 30, 1850: 36, and 1860: 63.
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Skilled
artisans who made and repaired cotton gins and other agricultural equipment
were a common feature in many communities of antebellum South Carolina.
While some enslaved craftsmen and mechanics did this type of work, this was
also a business for white laborers and even free persons of color. The
1860 census, however, listed only 21 fulltime gin makers in the state.
The above newspaper advertisements shed light on the business of making and
repairing cotton gins during the mid-nineteenth century. The ad,
“Improved Cotton Gins,” comes from William Ellison of Stateburg, a successful
cotton gin maker, as well as planter, slaveholder, and free person of
color.
Ellison’s remarkable story began in 1790, as a child born into slavery in
Fairfield District. At the time of his birth, the South Carolina
backcountry was still very much a frontier society. His father was likely
a white man (either Robert or William Ellison), who was among those early
cotton farmers that helped transform the backcountry into a plantation
society. Around 1802, he became an apprentice to a nearby gin maker in
Winnsboro, helping construct cotton gins for planters in the region. In
1816, at the age of 26, he purchased his freedom, and he legally changed his
name from April to William in 1820. Changing his name was an important
step, since “April” was considered a slave name. William Ellison, as a
free person of color and entrepreneur, set up his own successful gin shop in
Stateburg.
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1856 Newspaper Article on
William Ellison, Black Slave Owner:
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William
Ellison to Henry Ellison, 26 March 1857.
Document Description:
Freedman William Ellison’s
cotton gin shop in Stateburg proved to be a lucrative enterprise for him and
his family. In this letter dated March 26, 1857, Ellison wrote to his son
Henry, who was clearly involved in handling the accounts of the ginning
business. By the time of this letter, William Ellison and his family were
a part of an elite group of free African Americans based largely in
Charleston. Ellison maintained his wealth and financial security by
purchasing land and slaves. By 1860, Ellison owned over 900 acres of
land, as well as 63 slaves. According to the census of 1860, Ellison was
one of 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina. His home in Stateburg,
which had previously belonged to former governor, Stephen Miller, still stands
today.
The above letter comes from the
Ellison Family Papers, which consist of letters, notices, receipts, and
accounts for William Ellison. These papers are unique, since they are
perhaps the only sustained collection of papers between members of a family of
free African Americans during the mid-nineteenth century (ranging in time from
1848 to 1864). Selected Ellison Family Papers have been published in
Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, ed., No Chariot Let Down:
Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War.
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
Citation:
William Ellison to Henry
Ellison, 26 March 1857. Ellison Family Papers, 1845-1870. Manuscripts
Division, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia,
South Carolina.
Transcription:
Stateburg, March 26th 1857
Dear Henry,
Your letter of 23rd instant was
duly received and I perceived by it that you had not received mine of the
22d. John went over the river yesterday. He saw Mr. Ledinham.
He said that he had not sold but half of his crop of cotton and had not the
money but when he got the money and was working on this side of the river that
he would send his son with it and rake up his account. He also saw Mr.
Van Buren and he was ready to pay but before he did so he wished his overseer
to certify to it but John could not find him and as it became late he had to
leave for home but left the account with Mrs. Mitchel, his wife. You will
find enclosed Mrs. Mathew Singleton’s account. She will be found at No. 4
Akins range. Mr. Turner said that it was his fault that the account was
not paid before. He thinks that she will get another gin. There is
one of the saws in the new gin that is worn half in two. He says that he
will send the gin over to be repair[ed] and also another old gin providing Mrs.
Singleton don’t get a new gin. As you did not get my letter in due time
and for fear that you may not [have] as yet received it, I will mention a few
items of importance that I
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wish attended to at one if you
have not done so. Leave three hundred dollars in Messrs. Adams and Frost
hands subject to my order. And also the money that I have borrowed from
William. Mr. Benbow wrote to me and I sent you a copy in the letter that
I wrote you. Mr. E. Murray’s account and order was presented to him last
Friday and he was to send his note when he sent to the post office but he
failed to do so. I want you to get me a half doz. weeding hoes. No.
2 get two hand saws from Mr. Adger for the shop. I want you to get me 8
bags of guano. The above articles and instruction was states in the other
letter. I mention the same incase you should not have received my other
letter. We are all well as usual. Give my respect to all my
friends.
Your father,
William Ellison
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The slave-holding, black, Ellison family, fully supported the Confederacy.
In addition to buying Confederate War Bonds and growing crops to help feed the Confederate Army, at least one of the Ellison sons (William Holmes Ellison, III) joined the Confederate army, seen in the next photo.
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William Holmes Ellison, III
in Confederate uniform
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Birth: Jul. 19, 1819
Death: Jul. 24, 1904
Parents:
William Holmes Ellison (1790 - 1861)
Matilda Ellison (1764 - 1850)
Spouses:
Mary Thomson Mishaw Ellison (1829 - 1853)
Gabriella Miller Ellison (1832 - 1920)*
Children:
William John Ellison (1845 - 1894)*
Robert Mishaw Ellison (1851 - 1854)*
Henry McKinzie Ellison (1852 - 1853)*
Siblings:
Aliza Ann Ellison Buckner Johnson (1811 -
1820)*
William Holmes Ellison (1819 - 1904)
Reuben Ellison (1821 - ____)*
Inscription:
At Rest
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His two wives:
Mary Thomson Mishaw
Ellison
Birth: Sep. 4, 1829
Death: Jun. 2, 1853
Consort of William Ellison
Jr. Daughter of John Mishaw.
Family links:
Spouse:
William Holmes Ellison (1819 - 1904)*
Children:
William John Ellison (1845 - 1894)*
Robert Mishaw Ellison (1851 - 1854)*
Henry McKinzie Ellison (1852 - 1853)*
Inscription:
Mary Thomson Ellison, Consort
of William Ellison Jr. and Daughter of the late John Mishaw, formerly of
Charleston who departed this life in 2nf of June 1853 age 24 years, 9 months,
& 28 days in the prime of life and vigor of youth she was visited with a
painful & lingering disease & as a Christian she bore with patience
thru faith in her redeemer until her spirit was called away unto him that gave
it.
Burial:
Ellison Cemetery
Sumter
Sumter County
South Carolina, USA
Gabriella Miller Ellison
Birth: Nov. 18, 1832
Death: Dec. 24, 1920
Gabriella Miller is the
daughter of Ruben Miller and Louise Barrett. She 1st married Charley Johnson
with whom she had one daughter, Charlotte Johnson. After Charley's death, she
married William Ellison III.
Family links:
Spouse:
William Holmes Ellison (1819 - 1904)
Burial:
Ellison Cemetery
Sumter
Sumter County
South Carolina, USA
Gabriella Miller Ellison's death certificate:
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William Holmes Ellison, III
tombstone in the "segregated"
Ellison cemetery
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This and other primary document
evidence, refutes those historians like Gary Gallagher, who fervently
believe that no Black man ever served in the Confederate Army. Other historians have examined the original documentation and have agreed with my assessment. More
information about Black Confederates is found further down on this web
page.
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John Wilson Buckner, of the Ellison family line, also served with the CSA,
in the company of Captains P.P. Galliard and A.H. Boykin, local white men who
knew that Buckner was a Man of Color. Although it was illegal at the time for a
Man of Color to formally join the Confederate forces, the Ellison family's
prestige nullified the law in the minds of Buckner's comrades. Buckner was
wounded in action on July 12, 1863. He did not die then. He applied for and received a pension from the Federal Government, as did all Confederate soldiers who applied. At his funeral it was
held in Stateburg in August, of 1895 he was praised by his former Confederate
officers as being a "faithful soldier."
1st Artillery
1. Man of Color --- appears
on a report of operations and casualties Fort Sumter, August 23, 1863.
Report date: Ft. Sumter,
Aug. 24, 1863.
Remarks: Severely wounded
head (Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service
Records)
2. John Wilson Buckner --
Co. I. Enlisted March 27, 1863 at Franklin S. C. for 3 years. Roll of May and
June 1863-- present, July and August 1863--present wounded in action at Battery
Wagner, July 14, 1863. Roll of Sept and Oct 1863 --present, Nov. and Dec. 1863
--present. Jan. to Oct 19, 1864 -- present Deserted Oct. 19, 1864.
It is believed that John
Wilson Buckner served with other South Carolina Confederate units, Capt. P.O.
Gaillard's company and later became a scout in Capt. Boykin's company, both
South Carolina regiments; however we have not been able to prove service in
these units at this time.
This information was put on his findagrave site:
John
Wilson Buckner was born in Sumter County. Buckner joined the 1st South Carolina
Artillery on March 27. 1863. He served in the company of Captains P.P. Galliard
and Alexander Hamilton Boykin, local men who knew that Buckner was a Negro.
Although it was illegal at the time for a Negro to formally join the
Confederate forces, the Ellison family's prestige nullified the law in the
minds of Buckner's comrades. Buckner was wounded at Fort Wagner on July 12,
1863, in the battle against the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. After recovering,
he was a regular in Capt. P.O. Gaillard’s company and later became a scout in
Capt. Boykin’s company, both South Carolina regiments. When John Wilson Bucker
died in August, 1895, at his funeral, he was praised by his officers as being a
faithful soldier.
1953 case of Hood v Sumter SC School District...Woodrow Hood
(a descendant of Scotts and Oxendines who migrated down to Sumter from Robeson
around 1805) sued to allow children of the Dalzell 'Turk' school to attend
Sumter white schools. Two included as plaintiffs in this case were Henry Lowery
and Ruth Lowery. While the Indian descent of their Scott and Oxendine ancestors
were conceeded, it was the postion of the Sumter School Board that the
plaintiffs were also descendants of the BUCKNER'S and Benehaleys who were
believed to be part black. Woodrow Hood, the filier of the complaint, responded
by testifying regarding the geneaology of the 'Turk' community, however his
visceral response to the 'black descent' line of questioning was to adamantly
claim that every single line of his ancestry was white, excepting one small
line of Benenhaley's who were claiming to be part-Arab.No Proff. (John Buckner,
the first Buckner to intermarry among the Scott/Oxendine/Benehaley's was
described by an elderly Sumter resident in the late 1880's as "nearly
full-blooded Indian") Regarding the Lowery family he states "I am
informed that Lum Lowery, whose first name was possibly Columbus, and who was a
white man who was not a member of our group, and whose geographical origin is
unknown to me, came to our community many years ago, and married one Alice
Benenhaley, and they settled in our community."
Family links:
Parents:
Willis Wilson
Buckner (1809 - 1831)
Aliza Ann Ellison
Buckner Johnson (1811 - 1820)
Spouses:
Jane Johnson Buckner
(1830 - 1860)
Sarah Oxendine
Buckner (1835 - 1919)
Children:
Henrietta Ann
Buckner (1858 - 1918)*
Infant Boy Buckner
(1860 - 1860)*
John William Buckner
(1863 - 1881)*
Henry Ellison
Buckner (1865 - 1963)*
Sam Buckner (1870 -
1925)*
Charles Wilson
Buckner (1873 - 1920)*
Daniel Buckner (1875
- 1949)*
Information on his two wives:
Jane
"Janie" Johnson Buckner
Janie Johnson was daughter of James Drayton Johnson and
Delia and a sister to Charley and James Marsh Johnson. She married her Step nephew
John Wilson Buckner and had two
children. Henrietta Ann "Harriett" and unamed infant son. Janie died
suddenly and unexpectedly, James Johnson
was sure that she would receive God's condescending Love & Mercy and that
her soul would be saved. He said her death was God's will. And we dare not to
murmur. The family were members of the Holy Cross Church. Buckner's lived at
Drayton Hall With the Johnson's.
Family links:
Spouse:
John Wilson Buckner
(1831 - 1895)*
Children:
Henrietta Ann
Buckner (1858 - 1918)*
Infant Boy Buckner
(1860 - 1860)*
Sarah Oxendine
Buckner
Birth: Feb., 1835
Stateburg
Sumter County
South Carolina, USA
Death: Jun.
16, 1919
Stateburg
Sumter County
South Carolina, USA
Sarah Oxendine is the daughter of Aaron Oxendine and Jane
Scott.Wife of John Wilson Buckner. According to the book Black Slave Masters
and Fire in the Charott Below. Also On one of the kids death record they had
her name as being Sarah Benenhaley.
Family links:
Spouse:
John Wilson Buckner
(1831 - 1895)*
Children:
John William Buckner
(1863 - 1881)*
Henry Ellison
Buckner (1865 - 1963)*
Sam Buckner (1870 - 1925)*
Charles Wilson
Buckner (1873 - 1920)*
Daniel Buckner (1875
- 1949)*
"William Holmes Ellison
" April" sons invested heavily in Confederate war bonds, and his
grandson John Wilson Buckner was allowed to enlist in the South Carolina
Artillery because of "personal associations and a sterling family
reputation...." [pp. 305-307]
Source: Michael P. Johnson
and James L. Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (New
York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984)
(CSR, CWS&S)
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The elder Ellison insisted that his children "toe the line" when it came to obeying and following his example. One son, Reuben (brother of William Holmes Ellison, III) broke with that when he fathered black slave children born to Hannah Godwine, his young black domestic slave woman. Hannah's eldest child, Dianna, was born in 1853, the year Reuben's mulatto wife, Harriett Ann died. At two-year intervals thereafter, Hannah gave birth to Susan, Marcus, John, and Virginia....all black like their mother according to the 1860 Census. When these slave children were baptized, Hannah was listed as the mother, but no father was indicated. Reuben's illegitimate children continued to live the local black community in later years.
But the elder William Ellison continued to smolder with resentment at his son's behavior. When Reuben died in the spring of 1861, he received a funeral at the church, but no headstone or marker of any kind in the family cemetery. The old man had never scrimped on gravestones before, but the absence of a stone in this case reflects William Ellison's final judgment on Reuben's paternity of black slave children. He also took no steps whatever to acknowledge kinship or even regard for Hannah's children. When he buried Reuben he hoped quietly to put to rest the distressing truth about slave Ellisons.
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One of Reuben's slave children turned up in Oregon in later years, as evidenced by the death certificate seen below. Notice that Hannah is listed as the mother (with no last name) and Reuben is listed as the father with his last name "Ellison" listed!
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Another of Ruben's children by his slave mistress, John, later
took the last name of Harrison, which was his father Ruben's middle name; and
styled himself as John McKinsey Harrison. His story follows, taken from
"History of the American Negro" by A.B. Caldwell, 1919.
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John M. Harrison's death certificate. Notice that his father's name, Ruben Ellison, is missing, while Ruben's mistress/wife Hannah, is on the certificate:
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Father's name is missing:
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After the elder Ellison died in December 1861, the remaining children continued to carry on their plantation and gin business. They had considered becoming exiles and moving to another country like Haiti, but decided to stay put. They made money from converting from cotton to growing food like sweet potatoes, corn, and peas; and selling it to the Confederate government. Thus, they stayed in the "good graces" with their Rebel white slave owner neighbors.
As the war progressed, Sherman, after marching from Atlanta, pushed into South Carolina. He sent General Edward F. Potter to march north from Charleston and destroy railroads, military stores, and homes of Confederate sympathizers, in the Sumpter district. They passed through Stateburg where the Ellisons lived, and it was only by luck, that they were not also burned out. Had Potter's troops known about the wartime activities of Ellison's, they might have paused long enough to light a fire.
After the war and during Reconstruction, the Ellisons were simply Southern Negroes. The Republican party offered the Ellisons little but trouble. As large landowners, they had no desire to share with anyone, white or black. These mulatto Ellisons were not about to hasten the destruction of their status by joining hands with ex-slaves in Republican politics. Thus they joined the local Democratic Club, surrounded by old white friends. Indeed, from 1890 to 1910, Ellison family members are found on their rolls.
As the family continued to farm their land, they had become masters without slaves and had to hire freemen. Their plantation system broke down. They preserved peaceful relations with local white people but in 1870, the family itself began to disintegrate with Ellison's daughter's death. Surviving family members sued each other in court for what they thought was their share of the old man's inheritance. Finally, on July 24, 1904, the last of William Ellison's children, 85 year-old William Ellison, Jr., died. The will directed that after all surviving spouses died, the estate would be sold and divided among any surviving grandchildren. Provision was made to maintain the family cemetery.
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The segregated Ellison Family Cemetery (William Ellison, a mulatto, decreed that no whites could be buried there.)
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Information about William Ellison's children, grandchildren, spouses.
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Some Primary Sources:
Improved Cotton Gins, Sumter Banner, 13 December 1848.
Newspapers on Microfilm, Published Materials Division. South Caroliniana
Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
William Ellison to Henry Ellison, 26 March 1857. Ellison
Family Papers, 1845-1870. Manuscripts Division, South Caroliniana Library,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
Bill from Ellison to Waites, Thomas Waites Papers, 1733-
1838. Manuscripts Division, South Caroliniana Library, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
1850 U.S. Census- Slave Schedule. Available from the South
Carolina Department of Archives and History, Microfilm collection. Columbia,
South Carolina. Accessed 17 February 2009.
Secondary Sources
Ellison Family Graveyard.
Available from the Internet, Palmetto State Roots Web Sites, Accessed 20
January 2009.
“Student Activity Packet, Activity #2: Fixing a Gin: Math
and History at Your Desk”. The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and
Innovation. Available from the Internet,
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Accessed
24 July 2008.
Johnson, Michael P.
and James L. Roark. Black masters: a free family of color in the old
South. New York: Norton, 1984.
Koger, Larry. Black Slaveowners : Free Black Slave Masters
in South Carolina, 1790- 1860. Jefferson: McFarland, 1985.
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"Dixie's Censored Subject: Black Slave Owners" by Robert M. Groom
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Harvard University History Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discusses what he calls the "dirty secret" of black slave owners
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Slavery in the Northern States prior to and during the War Between the States
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It is unfortunate that many
are ignorant of our American history. A
careful examination of the historical facts of our nation prior to and during
the War Between the States might have tempered this year's dust up in Charlottesville and
New Orleans, which was filled with racist rhetoric.
The 1850 Census clearly
reveals that 98.8% of people living in the North before the War Between the States were
White. And if you add in the border/slave-holding
states that stayed with the Union during that war, the percentage is still
96.5% White.
Many will find to their
dismay and shatter their sensibilities, is that these Northerners were
"racist." Any desire for
Northern whites in the 1850s to end slavery did not equate with a belief in
racial equality. The Blacks might be
freed, eventually, but they would not be welcome to remain.
From my college courses in
Colonial and Revolutionary America, which covered Indentured Servants and early forms of slavery in what was called the "Upper South," I discovered the North's profit from,
indeed, dependence on, slavery, has mostly been a shameful and well-kept
secret. The "devil is definitely in
the details" of this story about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses,
rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies, and Africa. The reality is that Northern empires were
built on tainted profits, run in some cases, by abolitionists, and thousand-acre
plantations (yes, plantations in the North) that existed in towns such as
Salem, Connecticut.
And what happened in the North after federal law banned the importation of African slaves took effect on January 1, 1808? By 1860, the importation of slaves was alive and well. New York was the hub of an international illegal slave trade that, like the latter-day traffic in drugs, was too lucrative and too corrupt to stop. Ships were still being built and sold in New York to carry slaves, while customs agents, uncaring or bribed, looked the other way, as these slave ships sailed from New York harbor under thin disguises. Fake owners, fake and forged documents, use of the American flag with it's guarantee of immunity from seizure by foreign nations, completed the modus operandi.
It was a virtual shell game: from voyage to voyage, ship might switch from legitimate merchant vessel to slave ship and back again. While crossing the Atlantic, slavers would carry duplicate sets of ownership papers, duplicate captains and crews, one American and one foreign.
So often Northerners liked
to believe slavery in America was strictly a Southern sin, to which Yankees
rarely yielded.
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"The Northern
slaveholder traded in men and women whom he never saw, and of whose
separations, tears, and miseries he determined never to hear."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
("The Education of
Freedmen," The North American Review, June 1879.) And author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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What school children are
taught is the South's story is set on a plantation in Mississippi, South
Carolina, or some other Southern state, where, with stories embellished and
magnified 10-fold, of overseers brandishing whips over slaves picking
cotton.
By contrast, the North's
story is thought to be heroic, filled with abolitionists running that
Underground Railroad Train. The few
slaves who may have lived in the North, it has been believed, were treated like
members of the family. And, of course,
the Northerners were the good guys in the War Between the States. They freed the slaves. That's not all mythology, but it is a
convenient and whitewashed shorthand.
That's where most readers of
history go wrong: trying to read the story backward; explaining to our current
generation how their country grew to be the way it is. In such a story, slavery is a single chapter
in a history book; a background event limited to one region of the country and
overwhelmed by the more recent events of Western Expansion, etc.
People who read the military
history of the War Between the States, often have what we historians call the
"Appomattox Syndrome." They
start at the end, thinking, "OK, now we know the South surrendered in
April 1865, so those folks simply had to live with the outcome they knew was
coming." No. The South had a very good chance to have won
their independence on two occasions: one in 1862 and late 1864; and Gettysburg,
contrary to what you may have been taught, was NOT the turning point of the
war.
A history told forward;
you always read in the evidence forward, not backward; which pushes slavery into the foreground,
inserting it into nearly every chapter.
The truth is that slavery was a national phenomenon.
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Slavery has long been
identified in the national consciousness as a Southern institution. The time to bury that myth is overdue.
Slavery is a story about all
of America: the nation’s wealth, from
the very beginning, depended upon the exploitation of black people on three
continents. Together, over the lives of
enslaved men and women, Northerners and Southerners shook hands and made a
country. Keep in mind: the Constitution protected slavery.
Before the War Between the States, the
North grew rich with slavery:
1.
In the 18th
Century after the Revolutionary War, thousands of black people were enslaved in
the North. In fact, they made up nearly
1/5 of the population of New York City.
2.
Two major slave
revolts occurred in New York City.
3.
The North sold
food and other supplies to sugar plantations in the Caribbean. Thousands of acres of Connecticut, New York,
and Rhode Island had plantations that used slave labor.
4.
Rhode Island was
America’s leader in the transatlantic trade: almost 1,000 voyages to Africa,
carrying at least 100,000 captives back across the Atlantic.
5.
New York City was
the seaport hub of a lucrative illegal slave trade. Manhattan shipyards built ships to carry to
carry captive Africans with these ships outfitted with crates of shackles and
huge water tanks needed for their human cargo.
During the peak years between 1859 and 1860, at least 2 slave ships,
each built to hold between 600-1,000 slaves, left lower Manhattan every month!
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How the Slave Trade took Root in
New England
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Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York City
With the Southern secession movement underway, Mayor Wood proposed that New York City should also secede from the United States.
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Why would New York City even consider leaving the Union? The financial underpinning of the city was the Cotton trade. Cotton was the root of the entire State of New York's wealth. It wasn't just a crop, it was the national currency and responsible for America's growth in the decades before the War Between the States. And, slave labor was what raised it.
Hundreds of merchants made their fortunes off the cotton industry before the War Between the States, including: Lehman Brothers, Junius Morgan, father of J.Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Charles L. Tiffany, Archibald Gracie, to name a few.
The cultural context in the North is key to understanding, especially the economic climate....the wealth that the cotton trade created; New York was interlocked with the South.
Secession was not an original thought with Fernando Wood: all manner of politicians, watching the Union unravel over the slavery issue, wanted to partner with their Southern planter friends. Much of the cotton in 1860, was brought to the 472 cotton mills in New England.
For 50 years before the War Between the States, cotton was the backbone of the American economy. It was king, and the North ruled the kingdom. From seed to cloth, it was the Northern merchants, shippers, and financial institutions, many based in New York, who controlled nearly every aspect of cotton production and trade. It was the large banks, most located in Manhattan, or in London, who extended credit to the plantation owners, between planting and selling their crop. Slaves were usually bought on credit.
The Middleman was important to king cotton economy. The cotton "factor," were Northerners who linked the plantation owner with the Northern manufacturer. These mostly New Englanders, were brokers or agents and bought a planter's supplies, advised him, and took charge of his finances. He had to present himself to the planter as indispensable in return for his commission on the sale of cotton.
Northern influence was felt in every part of the cotton trade/industry. Most of the ships that carried the cotton from plantation to market were built and operated by men of the North. The provided the insurance to protect the cotton crop; and even produced coarse clothing for slaves called "negro cloth."
Consider the cotton season that ended on August 31, 1860: America had produced 5 million bales of cotton, which translates to 2.3 billion pounds. Of that amount, 1/2 or more than 1 billion pounds was exported to Great Britain's 2,650 cotton factories.
It has been estimated that the North took 40 cents of every dollar a planter earned from cotton. No wonder that many were worried about the pending storm of session talk.
By 1860, mills in Massachusetts and Rhode Island manufactured almost 50% of all the textiles produced in America. In that year, New England mills produced 75% of the nation's total: 850 million yards of cloth.
And the number of slaves involved in cotton production had growth to meet demand: the first US Census in 1790, (3 years before Eli Whitney's invention of the Cotton Gin) recorded just under 700,000 slaves. But 1861, there were almost 4 million slaves, with 2 1/4 million involved directly or indirectly, in growing cotton. The 10 major cotton states were producing 66% of the world's cotton; and raw cotton accounted for more than 1/2 of all US exports.
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The Cause of the War Between the States: a discussion with Judge Napolitano
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Recent and Recommended:
The book "Complicity" may be an eye-opener for finger-pointing Northerners who like to believe slavery was strictly a Southern sin, to which Yankees rarely yielded.
It details the North's profit from....indeed, dependence on....slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret. This book reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa.
It discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits...run, in some cases, by Abolitionists...and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut.
This book includes eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line. It is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America's past.
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The PDF file below is a Teachers' Guide and has a synopsis of the "Complicity" book which gives excellent insight into the research written by the three reporters.
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You can find the authors' complete presentation on C-SPAN from their web-link https://www.c-span.org/video/?190396-1/complicity-north-profited-slavery-america). You can copy and paste it into your search bar. But be forewarned: one thing I noticed during the Q&A at the end: all the questions from the New Yorker's in the audience (it was filmed at the New York Historical Society, NYC) expressed skepticism about the validity of their evidence. One audience member tried to blame the problem on the British; another wanted to know how their body of research could be connected to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and suggested that all Blacks in New Orleans should receive some type of compensation, say, free college tuition. Suffice to say, the authors seemed unprepared for the vitriolic response from the audience, as if they should be ashamed to be letting the proverbial skeleton out of the family closet.
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Complicity: How the North
Profited from Slavery in America On National Public Radio:
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Slavery in the North during the War Between the States? Yes, and in the following program, you will see many who still live in the Northern states,
who are in denial:
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from The Medford Historical Society:
Slaves
in New England
The First African
Immigrants
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A central fact obscured by
post-Civil War mythologies is that the northern U.S. states were deeply
implicated in slavery and the slave trade right up to the war.
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Contrary to
popular belief:
- Slavery was a northern institution
- The North held slaves for over
two centuries
- The North abolished slavery only
just before the Civil War
- The North dominated the slave
trade
- The North built its economy
around slavery
- The North industrialized with
slave-picked cotton and the profits from slavery
- Slavery was a national institution
- Slavery was practiced by all
thirteen colonies
- Slavery was enshrined in the U.S.
Constitution and practiced by all thirteen original states
- The slave trade was permitted by
the federal government until 1808
- Federal laws protected slavery
and assisted slave owners in retrieving runaway slaves
- The Union was deeply divided over
slavery until the end of the Civil War
- Slavery benefited middle-class families
- Slavery dominated the northern
and southern economies during the colonial era and up to the Civil War
- Ordinary people built ships,
produced trade goods, and invested in shares of slave voyages
- Workers in all regions benefited
economically from slavery and slavery-related businesses
- Consumers bought and benefited
from lower prices on goods like coffee, sugar, tobacco, and cotton
- Slavery benefited immigrant families
- Immigrants who arrived after the
Civil War still benefited from slavery and its aftermath
- Immigrants flocked to the “land
of opportunity” made possible by the unpaid labor of enslaved people
- Immigrants found routes to
prosperity which were closed to the families of former slaves
- Federal programs in the 20th
century provided white families with aid for education, home ownership,
and small businesses
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Following
the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that
it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from
slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope
Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions
changed as well. Melish explores the origins of racial thinking and practices
to show how ill-prepared the region was to accept a population of free people
of color in its midst. Because emancipation was gradual, whites transferred
prejudices shaped by slavery to their relations with free people of color, and
their attitudes were buttressed by abolitionist rhetoric which seemed to
promise riddance of slaves as much as slavery.
Melish tells
how whites came to blame the impoverished condition of people of color on their
innate inferiority, how racialization became an important component of New
England ante-bellum nationalism, and how former slaves actively participated in
this discourse by emphasizing their African identity. Placing race at the
center of New England history, she contends that slavery was important not only
as a labor system but also as an institutionalized set of relations. The
collective amnesia about local slavery's existence became a significant
component of New England regional identity.
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In the long and rich historiography of
North American slavery, relatively few scholars have explored the subject of
slavery in New England or the impact of slavery and emancipation in the region
on the racial attitudes of New Englanders. Joanne Pope Melish's book Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in
New England, 1780-1860 seeks, in her words, to put "slavery
and the painful process of gradual emancipation back into the history of New
England (p. 200)." Melish views as a blind spot the assumption by previous
scholars that slavery in New England was peripheral to the economic, social, or
political development of the region. She argues that New England slavery had a
far more powerful impact on the thinking of New Englanders than they wanted to
believe, and their longstanding view of the region as "free and
white" has been a kind of historical amnesia, an effort to erase slavery
and black people from the history of the region. That erasure of black people,
she argues, resulted directly from white anxiety and confusion about how to
view free blacks
in their midst and what to do with or about them.
Melish maintains that white New
Englanders' views of black people emerged directly from their experiences with
blacks living in bondage and from their association of blackness with slavery.
She writes that the unsettling process of gradual emancipation in the region
after the American Revolution stirred white fears that disorderly blacks would
threaten the new republic. Whereas blacks assumed that they would become free
and independent citizens, whites assumed that blacks still needed to be
controlled. She also argues that white people experienced anxiety about racial
identity, freedom, and servitude, wondering if freedom would turn black people
white and if white people could become slaves.
Beginning in the late eighteenth
century, Melish writes, New England whites gradually resolved these questions
by coming to regard blacks as inherently inferior and in need of control. She
argues that a clear ideology of race thus first emerged in late eighteenth and
early nineteenth-century New England, in response to gradual emancipation. New
Englanders, she argues, gradually came to view "racial"
characteristics as immutable, inherited, and located in the body, and to view
the black and white "races" as hierarchical and largely opposite in
nature. Such a view permitted white New Englanders to seek to expell or erase
black people, both literally and figuratively, from their region.
Melish's book makes an important
contribution to the literature on slavery and abolition and fills a significant
gap in our understanding of how slavery in New England affected both that
region and the nation. Through her use of various local sources including town
records, court records, slaveholders' diaries, and the letters, narratives, and
freedom petitions of slaves, Melish brings the reader into the world of
Revolutionary-era New England masters and slaves. She illuminates their daily
interactions and offers insightful interpretations of how masters and slaves
each understood the meaning of slavery and emancipation. She makes a compelling
case that slavery was indeed significant in the New England economy and
society. Using, among other evidence, racist broadsides from the region, she
also illustrates clearly the willingness of many white New Englanders to
denigrate, harass, and seek to erase black people in the decades after
the
Revolution.
While Melish is right that most white
New Englanders probably did wish black people would go away in the years of the
early republic, she may overstate the extent to which New England whites were
in agreement on this. She correctly observes that many white New Englanders
supported the movement to colonize blacks outside the United States,
particularly in Africa. But New England also produced a movement for immediate
abolition that was explicitly opposed to colonization and demanded the right of
free blacks to live as free and equal citizens of the United States. William
Lloyd Garrison of Boston was probably the best-known white abolitionist in the
country after 1830, and he was also a passionate opponent of colonization and a
strong champion of the rights of free blacks in North America. Free blacks
loved Garrison. A host of other New England activists stood with him, demanding
the inclusion of free blacks as equal citizens. If most New Englanders sought
to expell or eliminate blacks from their midst, these radical abolitionists
often embraced the freed slaves, sought to educate them, published their
narratives, and even, as in the case of Frederick Douglass, hired them as
abolitionist speakers. One goal of the abolitionist efforts was to show the
public that black people were fully human, able to be educated, and deserving
of all the rights that whites had. Thus, well into the nineteenth century, a
segment of white New Englanders actively resisted the view that blacks were
inherently inferior and different from whites, and they fought to educate
blacks for life as full American citizens. If, as Melish argues, New England
whites sought to eradicate blacks, this process was contested by some whites as
well as blacks.
Melish's most important contribution
may be to the emerging body of literature on how North Americans constructed
and made use of an ideology of race. Here she pushes to locate precisely when
and how Americans racialized difference and came to define blackness and
whiteness as fixed, immutable, biological categories. Her answer, that this
process took place in New England during gradual emancipation, is new and
surprising.
Melish suggests that New England was
first in developing a new ideology of race because of its early experience with
slave emancipation. However, the struggle to define the meaning of emancipation
and the fundamental nature and place of blacks was also going on in the upper
South. There, manumissions increased during and after the American Revolution,
and the growing numbers of free blacks increased white anxiety. Indeed, anxiety
there was more pronounced than in New England, because of the larger black
population. Colonization was also very popular in the upper South, and much of
the strongest and most persistent support for colonization came from that
region. In contrast to New England, opponents of slavery in the upper South
never embraced the idea that freed slaves ought to remain in the United States,
and antislavery activists in the upper South always combined efforts at gradual
emancipation with plans for colonization. The process that Melish describes of
racializing identity and seeking to expell blacks may thus have been taking
place simultaneously in New England and the upper South. A comparative study of
emancipation efforts in the two regions would be illuminating. Of course, the
upper South did not achieve gradual emancipation, and over time, antislavery
activism and even voluntary manumission there were largely choked off.
Melish's book takes the reader through
the process by which white New Englanders, through their responses to slavery,
emancipation, and black people, created the myth of themselves and their region
as free and white. Melish's angle of vision and her argument are both fresh,
and she offers new insights and raises new questions about how the end of
slavery led to a new construction of race in North America. This is a terrific
book, one that all scholars of slavery, abolition, and the early republic
absolutely must read. Enjoy this one; I certainly did. -Reviewed
by Vivien Sandlund (Hiram College)
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Pot, meet kettle
-online amazon reviewer
By
now, it should be general knowledge among anyone presuming to comment on
American race relations and the Civil/War Between the States that the Northern
states did not exactly have clean hands when it came to keeping African (and
then African-American) slaves. Works like "Complicity" attest to the
element of discovery that recent academic research and journalism have made
possible. Nonetheless, it is taken as common knowledge that the Northern states
achieved emancipation reasonably quickly after the Revolution, even if
motivated chiefly by economics. It is still widely presumed that people in the
Northern states, the New England states in particular, were particularly
enlightened about slavery/emancipation and race, and therefore morally superior
to Southerners.
For this reason, this book is shocking: while it
delineates the gradual, compensated emancipation that was a feature of
England's vaunted anti-slavery laws, and thus outlines an alternative method
that could have been used to end slavery in all states, it demonstrates that
this process coexisted with the kind of racism people routinely associate with
the South and the South only. Dialect humor, "darkie" cartoons, and
the lingering assumption that Black people owed labor to whites go against the
cultivated image of enlightened New England. Even those already skeptical of
such claims to Northern moral superiority cannot but find themselves taken
aback by Melish's illustrations of Northern prejudice and dismissiveness. For
one thing, she hauls a carefully cultivated image up short. For another, the
attitudes she demonstrates among Northerners are those that give modern readers
pause and cause them to react with distaste.
I sense that, down the road, there will or should be a
national dialog about the received narrative of Northern clean hands/Southern
dirty hands, based on the new expositions and explorations of the history of
racial relations in America. This book should help facilitate that dialog.
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DENYING
the PAST
As the reality of slavery in the North
faded, and a strident anti-Southern abolitionism arose there, the memory of
Northern slaves, when it surfaced at all, tended to focus on how happy and
well-treated they had been, in terms much reminiscent of the so-called
"Lost Cause" literature that followed the fall of the Confederacy in
1865.
"The slaves in Massachusetts were treated with almost
parental kindness. They were incorporated into the family, and each puritan
household being a sort of religious structure, the relative duties of master
and servant were clearly defined. No doubt the severest and longest task fell
to the slave, but in the household of the farmer or artisan, the master and the
mistress shared it, and when it was finished, the white and the black, like the
feudal chief and his household servant, sat down to the same table, and shared
the same viands." [Reminiscence by Catharine Sedgwick (1789-1867) of
Stockbridge, Mass.]
Yet the petitions for freedom from New
England and Mid-Atlantic blacks, and the numbers in which they ran off from
their masters to the British during the Revolution, suggest rather a different
picture.
Early 19th century New Englanders had
real motives for forgetting their slave history, or, if they recalled it at
all, for characterizing it as a brief period of mild servitude. This was partly
a Puritan effort to absolve New England's ancestors of their guilt. The
cleansing of history had a racist motive as well, denying blacks -- slave or
free -- a legitimate place in New England history. But most importantly, the
deliberate creation of a "mythology of a free New England" was a
crucial event in the history of sectional conflict in America. The North, and
New England in particular, sought to demonize the South through its institution
of slavery; they did this in part by burying their own histories as
slave-owners and slave-importers. At the same time, behind the potent rhetoric
of Daniel Webster and others, they enshrined New England values as the
essential ones of the Revolution, and the new nation. In so doing, they
characterized Southern interests as purely sectional and selfish. In the
rhetorical battle, New England backed the South right out of the American
mainstream.
The attempt to force blame for all
America's ills onto the South led the Northern leadership to extreme twists of
logic. Abolitionist leaders in New England noted the "degraded"
condition of the local black communities. Yet the common abolitionist
explanation of this had nothing to do with northerners, black or white.
Instead, they blamed it on the continuance of slavery in the South. "The
toleration of slavery in the South," Garrison editorialized, "is the
chief cause of the unfortunate situation of free colored persons in the
North."[1]
"This argument, embraced almost
universally by New England abolitionists, made good sense as part of a strategy
to heap blame for everything wrong with American society on southern slavery,
but it also had the advantage, to northern ears, of conveniently shifting
accountability for a locally specific situation away from the indigenous
institution from which it had evolved."[2]
Melish's perceptive book, "Disowning
Slavery," argues that the North didn't simply forget that it ever had
slaves. She makes a forceful case for a deliberate re-writing of the region's
past, in the early 1800s. By the 1850s, Melish writes, "New England had
become a region whose history had been re-visioned by whites as a triumphant
narrative of free, white labor." And she adds that this "narrative of
a historically free, white New England also advanced antebellum New England
nationalism by supporting the region's claims to a superior moral identity that
could be contrasted effectively with the 'Jacobinism' of a slave-holding,
'negroized' South." The demonizing adjective is one she borrows from
Daniel Webster, who used it in the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.
The word is well-chosen. Webster's
"Second Reply," given in January 1830 during his debate with Robert
Young Hayne of South Carolina -- the most famous speech in a famous clash of
North and South -- shows the master orator of his time at the peak of his
powers. In these speeches Webster compellingly turned New England sectional
values into the supreme national values, while at the same time playing on the
racist fears of the average Northerner, who loathed slavery less for its
inherent injustice and more because it flooded the country with blacks.
Webster "articulated a clear and
compelling vision of an American nation made up of the union of northern and
western states, bonded by an interpretation of the origin and meaning of the
union and the U.S. Constitution and reflecting the core values of New England
political culture and history. Coded implicitly among those essential values
were claims to historical freedom and whiteness, against which Webster could
effectively contrast a South isolated by its historical commitment to slavery.
Such an interpretation, appealing as it did to the widespread desire among
northern states outside New England to eradicate their black populations and
achieve a 'whiteness' like that of New England, could rally and solidify
northern opposition to Slave Power."[3]
In the speech, Webster, like Pilate,
washes his hands of anything to do with American slavery. "The domestic
slavery of the Southern States I leave where I find it, -- in the hands of
their own governments. It is their affair, not mine."
This allows him to keep within the
frame of the Constitution, and at the same time cleverly disavow more than a
century and a half of New England slavery and slave-trading, which had financed
the first families and institutions of his home district.
After this contemptuous dismissal, he
holds forth on the glories of pure Massachusetts, which he apotheosizes, above
Philadelphia and Virginia, till it becomes the true genius of independence.
"There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; ... where
American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and
sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood and full of its
original spirit."
This was the opening salvo. Within a
few months, Webster's speech had been reprinted whole in newspapers across the
country and published in pamphlets that ran through 20 editions. A single
printing of it churned out 40,000 copies. Other Northern speakers and writers
picked up the tone and carried it like a battle-flag down the years to the War Between the States.
"Indeed, by the outset of the
actual war in 1861 the New England nationalist trope of virtuous, historical
whiteness, clothed as it was in a distinctive set of cultural, moral, and
political values associated with New England's Puritan mission and
Revolutionary struggle, had come to define the Unionist North as a
whole."[4]
Nothing illustrates this process better,
perhaps, than the semantic development of the word "Yankee," which,
in United States usage, always meant "a New Englander" before the
Civil War. But within a decade of Appomattox, it was being used generically by
Americans to mean "an American, regardless of place of residence."
1.
"Liberation," Jan. 8, 1831.
2. Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and
'Race' in New England 1780-1860, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
1998, pp. 222-223.
3. ibid., p.230.
4. ibid., p.224.
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John Avery Emison writes about the Jim Crow laws in the North, as well as other myths that have hidden from public consciousness and the sheer moral enormity of Lincoln's invasion of the South.
In addition, Emison discloses new information about Generals Sherman, Pope and others who carried out war crimes in states, other than those usually mentioned in "Sherman's March to the Sea."
The book is also an eye-opener concerning the 4,000 German revolutionaries who immigrated to the U.S. just after 1848, and were employed in the northern military, and used as 'pawns' in Lincoln's 1860 election.
Writing in the "Mississippi Valley Historical Review," in 1942, historian Andreas Dorpalen states: "It is generally recognized today that Lincoln could never have carried the northwest in 1860, and with it the country, without German support."
Donald V. Smith wrote in 1932, "that without the vote of the foreign-born, Lincoln could not have carried the Northwest, and without the Northwest, or its vote divided in any other way, he would have been defeated."
Historian W.E. Dodd said that "The election of Lincoln and, as it turned out, the fate of the Union were thus determined not by native Americans, but by voters who knew the least of American history and institutions. The election of 1860 was won only on a narrow margin by the votes of the foreigners whom the railroads poured in great numbers into the contested region."
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This table shows the effect of the German vote on Lincoln's election:
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The following table lists the progression, by year
and location. of the Jim Crow Laws in the North,
which 'kept the Negro
in his place.'
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When the Northern states began the slow process of the manumission (a word that means a slave owner freeing his slaves) of slaves held in their jurisdiction, a number of disquieting facts are worth noting because they are so frequently untold and unknown to most people:
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As already mentioned on this page, Lincoln voted for Jim Crow when he was a member of the Illinois legislature.
According to Lerone Bennett, Jr., Lincoln voted for a resolution that stated, "The elective franchise should be kept pure from contamination by the admission of colored votes." ("Forced into Glory," p.115).
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"The Color Barrier" worked well in Illinois where the total percentage of blacks fell with every census from 1820-1860. By 1861, 249 of every 250 people in Illinois were white.
Jim Crow was working in other states, like Indiana and Ohio, where the percentage of blacks hovered around 1-5% during that period.
Consider the resultant Racial settlement patterns of Indiana and Ohio counties from 2000 Census data:
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When Lincoln called for the invasion of the South there were more free blacks in Virginia, than Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio combined...and very little has changed in the 150+ years since.
According to the 2000 Census, there are still almost 500 counties in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota that remain as they always have been: Lily White!
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North of slavery; the Negro in the free States, 1790-1860
By Leon F. Litwack
Now in public domain:
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Forgotten History: How The New England Colonists
Embraced The Slave Trade
American
slavery predates the founding of the United States. Wendy Warren, author of New England Bound, says the early colonists imported
African slaves and enslaved and exported Native Americans.
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Racism Continued in the North, well after the War Between the States ended
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The Secret History of New England’s
Sundown Towns
(New England Historical
Society)
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"It’s
not Dixie’s fault"
By
Thomas J. Sugrue July 17, 2015 The Washington Post
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Many
of the racial injustices we associate with the South are actually worse in the
North. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File) (Dave Martin/AP)
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The
tragic Charleston, S.C., church shooting, in which nine black worshipers were
killed, allegedly by a Confederate-flag-supporting white supremacist, has
unleashed a new battle over Southern culture. Confederate monuments have been
defaced; leaders have demanded that emblems of the Confederacy be erased from
license plates and public parks; schools in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama are
struggling to defend their “rebel” mascots. Most predictably, pundits have
renewed their characterization of Southern states as the ball and chain of
America. If all those backward rednecks weren’t pulling us down, the story
goes, the United States would be a progressive utopia, a bastion of economic
and racial equality. “Much of what sets the United States apart from other
countries today is actually Southern exceptionalism,” Politico contributor
Michael Lind wrote this month in an essay called “How the South Skews America.”
“I don’t mean this in a good way.”
This
argument recapitulates an old, tired motif in American journalism that the
South is the source of our nation’s social ills. It has been blamed for our
obesity problem (“Why Are Southerners So Fat? ” Time asked in 2009), persistent
poverty (“The South Is Essentially A Solid, Grim Block Of Poverty,” the
Huffington Post asserted in 2014) and general stupidity (“What’s Wrong with the
South?” the Atlantic scoffed in 2009). This time, in the wake of the church
shooting, the states of the old Confederacy have become a national scapegoat
for the racism that underpinned the massacre. If only they would secede again,
Lind and others suggest, the nation would largely be free from endemic
prejudice, zealotry and racist violence.
Not
even close. These crude regional stereotypes ignore the deep roots such social
ills have in our shared national history and culture. If, somehow, the South
became its own country, the Northeast would still be a hub of racially
segregated housing and schooling, the West would still be a bastion of
prejudicial laws that put immigrants and black residents behind bars at higher
rates than their white neighbors and the Midwest would still be full of urban
neighborhoods devastated by unemployment, poverty and crime. How our social
problems manifest regionally is a matter of degree, not kind — they infect
every region of the country.
In
fact, many of the racial injustices we associate with the South are actually
worse in the North. Housing segregation between black and white residents, for
instance, is most pervasive above the Mason-Dixon line. Of America’s 25 most
racially segregated metropolitan areas, just five are in the South; Northern
cities — Detroit, Milwaukee and New York — top the list. Segregation in
Northern metro areas has declined a bit since 1990, but an analysis of 2010
census data found that Detroit’s level of segregation, for instance, is nearly
twice as high as Charleston’s.
The
division between black and white neighborhoods in the North is a result of a
poisonous mix of racist public policies and real estate practices that reigned
unchecked for decades. Until the mid-20th century, federal homeownership
programs made it difficult for black Americans to get mortgages and fueled the
massive growth of whites-only suburbs. Real estate agents openly discriminated
against black aspiring homeowners, refusing to show them houses in
predominately white communities.
When
all else failed, white Northerners attacked blacks who attempted to cross the
color line, using tactics we typically associate with the Jim Crow South. They
threw bricks through the windows of their black neighbors’ homes, firebombed an
integrated apartment building and beat black residents in the streets. In
Detroit, to name one example, whites launched more than 200 attacks on black
homeowners between 1945 and 1965. In Levittown, Pa., hundreds of angry whites
gathered in front of the home of the first black family to move there and threw
rocks through the windows. Racists burned crosses in the yards of the few white
neighbors who welcomed the new family. That violence occurred in 1957, the same
year whites in Little Rock attacked black students integrating Central High
School, yet it’s that story — of racial bias in the South — that dominates our
narrative of America’s civil rights struggle.
Passage
of the Fair Housing Act in 1968 didn’t eliminate racist real estate practices.
A recent National Fair Housing Alliance investigation found that in 87 percent
of test cases, agents steered customers to neighborhoods where existing
homeowners were predominantly of the customers’ own race. And while Southern
states are home to a larger portion of the nation’s minority residents, nearly
half of all fair-housing complaints during the 2012-2013 fiscal year were filed
in the Northeast and the Midwest.
Economic
segregation is most severe in America’s Northern metropolitan areas, as well,
with Milwaukee; Hartford, Conn.; Philadelphia; and Detroit leading large cities
nationwide, according to an analysis of 2010 census data by the Atlantic. White
suburbanites across the North — even in Bill and Hillary Clinton’s adopted home
town, Chappaqua, N.Y. — have fought the construction of affordable housing in
their neighborhoods, trying to keep out “undesirables” who might threaten their
children and undermine their property values. The effects of that segregation
are devastating. Where you live in modern America determines your access to
high-quality jobs (which are mostly in suburban places), healthy food (many
urban areas are food deserts) and, perhaps most important, educational
opportunities.
Education
remains separate and unequal nearly everywhere in the United States, but
Confederate-flag-waving Southerners aren’t responsible for the most racially
divided schools. That title goes to New York, where 64 percent of black
students attend schools with few, if any, white students, according to a recent
report by the Civil Rights Project. In fact, the Northeast is the only region
where the percentage of black students in extremely segregated schools — those
where at least 90 percent of students are minorities — is higher than it was in
the 1960s. Schools in the South, on the other hand, saw the segregation of
black students drop 56 percent between 1968 and 2011.
White
Southerners fought tooth and nail to prevent desegregation, using protests and
violence to keep black children out of all-white schools. But federal courts
came down hard on districts that had a history of mandated segregation, and
federal troops and law enforcement officers escorted Little Rock and New
Orleans students through angry white mobs in front of their new schools.
White
parents in the North also fought desegregated schools but used weapons that
seemed race-neutral. Black and white students above the Mason-Dixon line
attended different schools not by law but simply by nature of where they lived.
This de facto school segregation appeared untainted by racist intent, but, as
noted earlier, housing practices in the North were fraught with conscious
racial injustice. Further, metropolitan areas like Philadelphia and Detroit
contained dozens of suburban school districts, making it easy for white
families to jump across district boundaries when black neighbors moved in.
(Often, Southern districts, as in Charlotte, encompassed the inner city,
outlying suburbs and even some rural areas, making it more difficult to flee
desegregation. As a result, Charlotte became one of the most racially
integrated school districts in country.) Unlike in the South, it was nearly
impossible for civil rights litigators to prove that all-white schools in the North
were a result of intentional discriminatory policies.
None
of this denies that the South is, in many ways, shaped by its unique history.
It broke from the union over slavery, and its economy was indelibly shaped by
that peculiar institution. After emancipation, it took a century of grass-roots
activism and public policy to break down the legal barriers that limited
Southern blacks’ economic opportunities. But the South is not timeless and
unchanging. The region’s per capita income began to converge with the rest of
the nation’s during World War II and accelerated in the decades after the
passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, according to Stanford economist Gavin
Wright. The South is still at the bottom economically, but the regional gaps
have narrowed considerably, especially for African Americans. By the 1990s,
Southern black men earned as much as their counterparts in other regions. Now,
Northern blacks are migrating South in search of better economic opportunities,
reversing historic trends.
The
South has become an increasingly heterogeneous place, home to the
fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country, led by North Carolina,
Georgia, Arkansas and Tennessee. Immigration has remade Southern big cities and
small towns alike: North Carolina chicken-processing centers have attracted
Guatemalan immigrants. Suburban Atlanta is dotted with panaderias and taco
shops catering to the rapidly growing Mexican population. And Vietnamese-born
shrimpers are working the Gulf of Mexico’s shores in Texas and Louisiana. In
the past decade, immigrants have accounted for half of the growth of
country-music capital Nashville, with large numbers of Latinos as well as
Kurds, Bosnians and Somalis.
It’s
reassuring for Northerners to think that the country’s problems are rooted down
South. But pointing our fingers at Dixie — and, by implication, reinforcing the
myth of Northern innocence — comes at a cost. As federal troops and Supreme
Court decisions forced social change in the states of the old Confederacy
during the 20th century, injustices in the North were allowed to fester. That
trend continues, as Northerners seek to absolve themselves of responsibility
for their own sins by holding aloft an outdated and inaccurate caricature of a
socially stunted South. In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. said: “Another group
with a vital role to play in the struggle for racial justice and equality is
the white northern liberals. The racial issue that we confront in America is
not a sectional but a national problem.” That holds true for most of America’s
troubles today. Enough finger-wagging at Dixie. Change begins at home.
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Jay Fayza uses facts and statistics to show that whites and western nations are the least racist and bigoted people on earth, contrary to lies told by liberal media and academia:
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Why the War Between the States
was not just fought over Slavery, but for a variety of reasons
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On the evening of October 11, 1858, a standing-room-only crowd of politicians and businessmen honored a visitor at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass.
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The wealthy merchants and bankers, the powerful of this premier city in Massachusetts, lauded the intellectual cultivation and eloquence of the senator from Mississippi; and when Jefferson Davis walked onto the stage, the Brahmins of Boston gave him a standing ovation.
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The
Anti-Secessionist Jefferson Davis
(source: National Park Service, Boston, Mass.)
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The senator from Mississippi
stood in front of a crowd of Democrats in the "Cradle of Liberty" -
Faneuil Hall. He was just starting his second term as a senator after completing
a stint as Secretary of War. It was 1858 and the United States was tearing
apart at the seams. The question of slavery had been an issue since 1787 when
the United States Constitution was signed. In the 1850s, some called for the
abolition of slavery while others began calling for secession. In front of a
packed room he declared, "My friends, my brethren, my countrymen...I feel
an ardent desire for the success of States' Rights Democracy...alone I rely for
the preservation of the Constitution, to perpetuate the Union and to fulfill
the purpose which it was ordained to establish and secure." Advocating for
a States' Rights Democracy while disagreeing with the idea or need for
secession in the same speech, Jefferson Davis sat down.
Born in what is now Todd
County, Kentucky (and only about 100 miles from the birthplace of his famous
contemporary, Abraham Lincoln), Jefferson Davis moved to Mississipi around
1810. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1828. By 1836 Davis was
a plantation owner, and in the 1840s he owned over 70 slaves. He became
involved in local Mississippi politics in the early 1830s, but really made a
name for himself fighting in the Mexican-American War.
Using his new found fame, he
was appointed a United States Senator from Mississippi in 1848, finishing out
someone else's term. He used his new position to propose annexing more territoy
from Mexico (which later became the Gadsden Purchase), as well as from Cuba for
the expansion of "slaveholding constituencies." He resigned to run
for governor of Mississippi on an anti- Compromise of 1850 platform and started
to attend states' rights conventions. In 1853 he was appointed Secretary of War
by President Franklin Pierce. His time during this appointment gave him a
better perspective about the location of railway lines and the military
strengths of the country - where the southern states were at a distinct
disadvantage. Following his 4 years as Secretary of War, he was elected to a
second term as senator for the state of Mississippi.
By this point, the country
had nearly broken apart many times, mostly in 1850. The Compromise of 1820 and
1850 had put some Band-Aids on the wound, but like a virus the problems began
to aggressively spread. The arguments between abolition vs. slave-holding,
state's rights vs. a strong federal government were getting more frequent and
more violent. These issues threatened to destroy the great experiment that was
America. It is with this backdrop that Jefferson Davis spoke at a convention of
Democrats in Faneuil Hall.
In choosing Boston, and more
importantly Faneuil Hall, to give his speech, Davis drew comparisons between
the founders of America and the struggle of his time. In his speech, he
frequently made comparisons between the Founding Fathers and States Rights
advocates, comparing the great voices that echo in Faneuil Hall to the
disgruntled voices of his day. Simultaneously, while comparing his party to the
revolutionaries of the previous generation, he stated the United States, unlike
Britain and the colonies, needed to stay together. "...[Y]ou see
agitation, tending slowly and steadily to that separation of the states, which,
if you have any hope connected with the liberty of mankind... if you have any
sacred regard for the obligation which the acts of your fathers entailed upon
you,--by each and all of these motives you are prompted to united an earnest
effort to promote the success of that great experiment which your fathers left
it to you to conclude."
Davis, a Mississippian at
heart, reminded Northerners that their economy relied on the South. "Your
prosperity is to receive our staple and to manufacture it, and ours to sell it
to you and buy the manufactured goods. This is an interweaving of interests,
which makes us all the richer and all the happier." This interdependent
relationship would be interrupted by the abolition of slavery. Even worse, this
would be interrupted if the country split. The economy of both the North and
South would suffer if this flow of trade were interrupted.
In the end, Davis made a
passionate plea for unity. "[W]e should increase in fraternity; and it
would be no longer a wonder to see a man coming from a southern state to
address a Democratic audience in Boston." While Boston did have a
Democratic Faction, it was also the heart of the abolition movement in America
(coincidentally, Faneuil Hall was used by abolitionists as well). After all,
everyone belonged to the great experiment that was the United States. Both
sides wanted to continue what the Founding Fathers had started.
At the heart of this debate
over slavery and state's rights was the idea of property. Can a human being be
someone else's property? To Democrats, that's what the slaves were, and as such
they had rights as slave owners. "The Constitution recognizes the property
in many forms, and imposes obligations in connection with that
recognition." It was not the right of any other person, despite political
party, to take away someone's personal property. These were the very values
that were fought for in Faneuil Hall itself during the Revolutionary era,
according to Davis.
Davis may have had practical
reasons for arguing against secession and preservation of the union. He would
have known as a result of his term as Secretary of War that the South was ill
equipped to fight a war against the North. The weapons manufacturing was in the
north as were most of the railroad lines and the majority of the male
population. While he knew the people he represented were passionate, they were
also unprepared. It's possible that his passionate pleas to save the union may
have been an effort to peacefully save the South. Either way, in the building
where America began he argued for its preservation.
That was Jefferson Davis's
last trip to Boston. Following his speech, which was received with great
reception by Massachusetts Democrats, Davis returned to the United States
Senate where he continued to be a proponent of state's rights. Following the
election of Abraham Lincoln, many in the South had had enough. South Carolina
seceded from the union on December 20, 1860 and other states soon followed.
Mississippi followed suit on January 9, 1861. Davis resigned his senate seat
twelve days later, reportedly "the saddest day of [his] life." On
February 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the President of the
Confederate States of America.
Reference:
Rice University. "The
Papers of Jefferson Davis." © 2011
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As my Biology professor, Dr. Marvin G. Williams once said, "You cannot understand a book without first reading the preface." I hope you will take time to read the preface to this section before proceeding.
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Special 2017 Sub-Section
After this web page was first inaugurated, we noticed an upturn in violence by individuals who are still fighting the Civil War.
This brief section will examine "the why" and "the effects" of this unrest. Material in this section on 2017, (and the sub-section on 2020), does not endorse any political party on my part, in keeping with our family's theology and upbringing, especially when it comes to keeping politics out of the pulpit and in the teaching of History.
Note, that we also do not condone lying on the part of major 'players' and they are appropriately 'called out.' We also do not support any organization that is founded by Socialism or Marxism. Nor do we support any individual who does.
I do not sequester myself with one or two television channels to learn the news of the day. My ancestor John Read, in antebellum Mississippi, had several different newspapers with different viewpoints (as pointed out earlier on this webpage) to read. I have found much that is not "fake news" by looking abroad at other news sources, such as the BBC and SkyNews Australia; as well as other foreign newspapers. Foreign correspondents for those news outlets are very thorough in their coverage of what is going on, even in our country. They are able to cut through the 'fluff' and get to the truth of a situation.
Also included, is a brief history about how a previous U.S. President, Calvin Coolidge, handled the issue of Confederate heritage.
One has to wonder what the Read and Wauchope families would have thought of the current turmoil over statues. They would understand that slavery was legal in the days of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. Did it remain legal? No. It was constitutionally dealt with. But they were not swayed by the extreme left Marxism that was slowly taking root when John's grandchildren were alive. They were very circumspect and did not fall for that which did not support their democracy. I know because my mother kept in touch with many of her cousins and uncles and often discussed them with my brother and me. We also had the opportunity to visit one of these Uncles personally.
We need to understand that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) devotees screaming 'race' and 'slavery,' were not a part of that by-gone era; they never endured slavery. In fact, as has been documented time and again, there is not a majority of Americans who, in the year 2020, believe in the 'racism' they are shouting about. We do not live in a racist country; although the BLM founders, who are trained Marxists, would have you believe that. The statues they want torn down have a more sinister agenda. More on that later.
You will discover on this web page how the BLM were organized by Marxists, and are co-opting the slavery issue which was legal in the 1800s, for their own 21st Century agenda, which has everything to do with anarchy, and nothing to do with true racism.
Further, they have been able to "export" this Marxist anti-democracy nonsense to other countries because of their international Marxist network.
Australia, which was visited by a Confederate ship in 1865, is, today, pushing back on the BLM Marxist-inspired agenda. England is pushing back too. Bravo to them!
Knowing John Read from the documentation we have seen in primary sources at the Mississippi archives, I do not think he nor his family, were they alive today, would sanction or agree with the BLM's Marxist/anarchist agenda. He was a staunch Unionist and supported our Country.
Even after the Civil War, we have letters that prove that his grandchildren, including Charles Read, 'came around' to supporting the Union.
I personally feel it is always wise to tell the truth, regardless of people who may think one is not "politically correct." I always treat everyone with dignity and respect, regardless of their race, class, political persuasion, or age. I think this is what John Read did, and would do today. I know my parents and brother did too. -J. Hughes
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These are some of the newspapers I read to get a wider perspective:
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A flash point of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, has resulted in the deaths of two of our fine Virginia State Troopers. How did the controversy start in Charlottesville?
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The admitted anti-White, Wes Bellamy, Vice
Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia,
has been THE long-standing proponent of taking down monuments,
not only Confederate, but also any statues of Thomas Jefferson.
This man
was on the Virginia State Board of Education and was fired from that job; he had been a
Albemarle High School teacher, but was suspended from that job; and then forced to resign.
He is discussed in this telling interview which reveals what the college students in Charlottesville really think about the situation.
Documentation is presented that proves that
Wes Bellamy was racially biased and anti-white.
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Bellamy was active in counter-protests to the white supremacist rally
throughout the weekend that saw violence and the death of two state
police officers and a 32-year-old woman after a car plowed into
counter-protesters during Saturday's rally, seen in picture below with a megaphone stirring up the crowd.
After the rally, he dissed the President, calling him 'Number 45', and in City Council on the next day, proposed the city park in question be re-named Emancipation Park. Angry rhetoric from an admitted racist helps nothing in restoring peace and harmony in a difficult situation.
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Wes Bellamy, the racist and anti-White Vice-Mayor of
Charlottesville, wore a Black Panther backpack on the way to closed door meeting
on Unite The Right rally:
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In September 2017, Wes Bellamy was caught on camera during a Charlottesville City Council meeting, demeaning a white man who spoke in favor of conciliation and compromise. Bellamy was immediately reprimanded by a white female on the Council.
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Should monuments to
the U.S. Confederacy be destroyed or removed to museums? It’s a question cities
and towns across the South are now faced with. A question perpetrated by liberal and in some cases, racist politicians, who have sub rosa agendas.
Two City Councilors in
Charlottesville, Virginia have called for the removal of a statue to Robert E.
Lee from a downtown park. Award-winning journalist Coy Barefoot explores the
debate with preeminent Civil War Historian Gary Gallagher of the University of
Virginia.
Professor Gary Gallagher, Professor of Civil War History at the University of Virginia, correctly assesses
the Confederate monument removal controversy in Charlottesville and elsewhere. He made a presentation to City Council.....but his advice was ignored.
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Virginia
City Sued for Removing 100-Year-Old Confederate Monument(Reported by Warner Todd Houston, March 2017)
Early in February,
the City of Charlottesville, Virginia voted to remove several statues
commemorating Confederate generals Lee and Jackson that stood in the town for
nearly 100 years. Now the town is being sued to prevent the removal.
In a three to two
vote on February 6, the Charlottesville City Council moved to eliminate the
equestrian statue memorializing Confederate General Robert E. Lee that was
first erected 93 years ago in the city’s Lee Park. After the vote, city leaders
also vowed to erase Lee’s name from the park.
The decision sparked
several weeks of protests and meetings of those both in favor of and in
opposition to the plan that the city said would cost up to $300,000 to
complete.
Now two organizations
and 11 local citizens have joined together to file a lawsuit against the city
to stop the removal of the statues, according to The Cavalier Daily of the
University of Virginia.
The plaintiffs,
including the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. and
the Monument Fund, Inc., cited a number of reasons for filing the lawsuit.
Chief among those reasons is their contention that the city is in violation of
a state law preventing alteration of such monuments.
According to state
law, it is illegal for local officials to tear down memorials to war veterans. Virginia code
15.2-1812 reads, “If such [memorials for war veterans] are erected, it shall be
unlawful for the authorities of the locality, or any other person or persons,
to disturb or interfere with any monuments or memorials so erected, or to
prevent its citizens from taking proper measures and exercising proper means
for the protection, preservation, and care of same.”
In addition, the
lawsuit claims that the city is violating the deed written in 1918 by the
McIntire family granting permission to create Lee Park.
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Listen to a Black Conservative tell you why removing Confederate statues is "revisionist history":
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One editorial recently stated this:
620,000 people (Americans) died in the War Between the States. Roughly 2%
of the population. No matter which version of history you have been taught, the
bottom line is these soldier's were your average man. On either side of the war
these men were still Americans and should have their memories honored. This
hysteria of removing monuments, digging up graves, not allowing flags on graves
is sad. It was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight. Just as most
Northerners did not fight to end slavery, most Southerners did not fight to
preserve it.
In 1904, the Confederate monument in Gainesville, Georgia
was erected. In attendance were UNION and Confederate Veterans who both
supported the monument. They showed each other respect as fellow Americans.
They honored each other’s dead. Now there is a media fueled history witch-hunt
to remove historical monuments. Removing monuments does not end racism; it only
dishonors the American soldier’s who died. We can learn a lot from history and
learn nothing by erasing it.
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Leading Civil War Historians weigh-in on the Monument removal controversy, courtesy of "Civil War Times," Oct. 2017:
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View from the "North"... Why we should keep the Confederate Statues:
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H.K. Egerton, former President of the NAACP, speaks at the Hollywood, Florida
City Commission:
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Predominantly
Black Dallas Group Forms To Protect Confederate Monuments:
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An excerpt from the Mississippi Public Broadcasting report on the Confederate monuments in that state:
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Concerning Confederate Monument Desecration.....................
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August 2017 saw the rise of violence:
*Defacing the Lincoln Memorial *Call by Maryland Governor for removal of the statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in that state *Removal by mob violence, of a Confederate statue in Durham, NC, while the police stood by and did nothing.
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People who came to Charlottesville with wrong motives, are at fault, as seen in one of many pictures: a Counter-Protester strikes a White Nationalist with a baton during the violence, which went unchecked by local city police.
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Notice carefully, the sign carried by one member of the unrestrained mob in Durham, North Carolina, next to the toppled statue:
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This shows clear hatred for police authority:
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They should have seen this coming.........local city police leadership was interviewed: told to stand down........who ordered that? The Mayor or Vice-Mayor of Charlottesville?
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On the night before the riot:
A Nazi-styled torch-light parade on the UVA Campus:
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The disgusting image of giving a Nazi salute in front of the Thomas Jefferson statue on campus:
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University of Virginia president Teresa A. Sullivan
condemned
the protesters in a statement issued late Friday night.
As President of the University of
Virginia, I am deeply saddened and disturbed by the hateful behavior displayed by
torch-bearing protestors that marched on our Grounds this evening. I strongly
condemn the unprovoked assault on members of our community, including
University personnel who were attempting to maintain order.
Law enforcement continues to
investigate the incident, and it is my hope that any individuals responsible
for criminal acts are held accountable. The violence displayed on Grounds is
intolerable and is entirely inconsistent with the University's values.
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Another key figure in the ongoing UVA racial unrest was a member of their student Honor Committee. Martese Johnson, seen in the next two photos, shown holding a sign protesting the fact that he is "the only Black member of the Honor Committee." Then, low and behold, he is arrested for being drunk and disorderly: he was under 21 and in violation of civil law and UVA honor code standards in attempting to enter a bar in the downtown district.
As a former Judicial Vice-President of the Old Dominion University Honor Council, elected by their student body, and having dealt with other Virginia college and university Honor Councils, I must say that this young man has brought disgrace to the organization he is suppose to be representing. Thankfully, he is no longer on their Committee. -J.Hughes
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Which Statues are Next? (As a trained historian and former History teacher in Virginia, I agree with Tucker Carlson's appraisal)
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A statue of Lincoln has been torched; the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. has been defaced:
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The Lincoln Memorial vandalized:
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Governor Vance statue in North Carolina, vandalized:
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In Memory of Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen and Trooper Berke M.M. Bates
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I share with you the following excellent statement from the Sons of Confederate Veterans:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Sons of Confederate Veterans support for our
nation and the rule of law
(Elm Springs, TN) 14 August 2017 – The Sons
of Confederate Veterans opposes the KKK and other racist organizations. The SCV
condemns in the strongest possible way the actions, words, and beliefs of any
racist group. These groups are filled with hatred and bigotry, and their
espoused principles are counter to the American principles of freedom for all
citizens. Neither white supremacists nor any other racist group represent true
Southern Heritage or the Confederate Soldier, Sailor, or Marine. In like
manner, the SCV condemns the actions of the “Antifa” counter-protestors whose
role was to meet violence with violence and to answer hate with hate. The SCV
also condemns the Alt-Left’s attempts to attack Confederate monuments and other
war memorials in an attempt to tarnish the true history of our great nation and
to further their modern socialist political agenda.
The clash in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12
August between the “Antifa” and “Alt Right” has nothing to do with the
Confederacy, the SCV, nor Southern history. Antifa and the Alt-Right are
opposing political perversions which chose a hallowed historical monument as
the location for their vile criminal acts. There is no link between these
criminal elements and Confederate history, and to try to create one is
ridiculous. Leave history to history.
The SCV has a strict policy which forbids SCV
members from associating with the Klan or any other racist organizations. The
SCV supports and promotes a unity and respect. The U.S. is a nation of laws,
and the SCV respects the Constitution our forefathers wrote and the government
of our reunited country. There are no classes of citizens and the SCV is no
different. We expect and demand that all Americans respect each other’s
perspectives with civility, regardless of demographics.
As an organization, the SCV goal is to follow
the direction of the Apostle Paul and "speak the truth in love"
(Ephesians 4:16). There is no place for violence and hatred. All individuals
are created in the image of God and worthy of acceptance and respect. The SCV
condemns all acts of hatred and the improper use of our ancestors’ battle flag,
which they nobly carried into battle for their own political independence. The
Battle Flag was not and never has been a legitimate symbol of racism; it is a
soldier’s battle flag given to the SCV by the Confederate veterans themselves.
The KKK, nor any other group, has legitimate use of our Confederate symbol.
Thos. V. Strain Jr
Commander-in-Chief
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Franklin Graham
August 13 at
3:20pm ·
Shame on the
politicians who are trying to push blame on President Trump for what happened
in #Charlottesville, VA. That’s absurd. What about the politicians such as the
city council who voted to remove a memorial that had been in place since 1924,
regardless of the possible repercussions? How about the city politicians who
issued the permit for the lawful demonstration to defend the statue? And why
didn’t the mayor or the governor see that a powder keg was about to explode and
stop it before it got started? Instead they want to blame President Donald J.
Trump for everything. Really, this boils down to evil in people’s hearts. Satan
is behind it all. He wants division, he wants unrest, he wants violence and
hatred. He’s the enemy of peace and unity. I denounce bigotry and racism of
every form, be it black, white or any other. My prayer is that our nation will
come together. We are stronger together, and our answers lie in turning to God.
It was good to hear that several Virginia and Charlottesville leaders attended
church today at Mt. Zion. CNN said, “The racial divides that fueled Saturday’s
violence were replaced by unity Sunday…” Continue to pray for peace and for all
those impacted by Saturday’s tragedies.
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Dr. John MacArthur on Charlottesville
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Dr. Alveda King, Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: If you remove our History, people will forget about it.
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Former Secretary of State, Condoleezza
Rice
blasts efforts to ‘sanitize history’
by removing historic monuments
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Former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized efforts to tear down southern
monuments to Confederate leaders because she doesn't believe in sanitizing
history.
"I am a
firm believer in 'keep your history before you' and so I don't actually want to
rename things that were named for slave owners," she said Monday on Fox
News.
"I want us
to have to look at those names and recognize what they did and to be able to
tell our kids what they did and for them to have a sense of their own history.
When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you
feel better it's a bad thing," she said.
Rice said instead it should be celebrated
that the country has come a long way from the times when the founders agreed to
count each slave as three-fifths of a person or when black men in Alabama
wouldn't be allowed to register to vote in the 1950s. Rice pointed to her
father's troubles registering to vote in 1952 as a marker of how far the
country has come.
She said it was about 50 years later that she
was sworn in as secretary of state, becoming the first black woman to hold that
position.
"The long road to freedom has indeed
been long, it's been sometimes violent, it's had many martyrs but ultimately
has been Americans claiming those institutions for themselves and expanding the
definition of we the people," she said.
She said the founders should be viewed in the
context of their time instead of through the prism of modern values.
"They were people of their times. I wish
they had been like John Adams, who did not believe in slavery. I wish they had
been like Alexander Hamilton, who was an immigrant by the way, a child of
questionable parentage from the Caribbean," she said. "I wish all of
them had been like that and Jefferson in particular, a lot of contradictions in
Jefferson but they were people of their times and what we should celebrate is
that from the Jefferson's and the Washington's as slave owners, look at where
we are now."
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"My
fellow blacks, please: Stop wasting time on statues and solve today's problems" -Herman Cain
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This is insane.
Atlanta’s Bishop Jerome Dukes was quoted widely in the media
last week explaining why he thinks we should be spending time protesting
statues of people from the Confederacy, and ultimately having them taken down.
He explains that some of our nation’s founders may have
seemed like visionaries and trailblazers to some, but to African-Americans all
that matters is that they owned hundreds of slaves.
Let’s talk about that.
I am an African-American. I hate the institution of slavery
as much as Bishop Dukes does. But I have noticed something he seems to have
missed. I am not a slave! And neither is he.
Slavery was an awful historical injustice, and it helped set
in motion many of the problems the black community faces today. But it is not
the problem we need to solve today. Those problems are poverty, illiteracy,
drugs, crime and violence.
Tearing down statues doesn’t solve any of those problems,
and solving those problems is what we need to be focused on.
It might create a problem, though. Tearing down statues that
represent history is like pretending history didn’t happen. It did. And not
everything that results from history is something you will like. We need to
remember all of it, even (and perhaps especially) the parts that bother us
because this is what we learn from.
Now we’re hearing that it’s not enough to tear down statues
of Confederate soldiers, because having fought for the slave-owning Confederacy
is not the only sin that needs to be erased from history. Now some want to tear
down memorials to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson too, because they also
owned slaves.
Tell you what: Why don’t you erase from history every
reference to a person who had a serious character flaw? Do that and you’ll have
very short history books. You’ll be able to get through a semester in a day or
two. There’d be almost nothing you would be able to teach.
Or we could just tell the whole story. Yes, these men had an
amazing vision and used it to create the greatest nation the world has ever
seen. Yes, they gave us a political system that has protected freedom and prosperity
like nothing we’ve ever seen.
Also, they were participants in an institution that was
evil, if very common for wealthy men of their day. They might have been better
men if they had rid the world of that institution, and they did not do that.
But they did create the political system through which it would be eliminated
less than a century later. That is not nothing.
So how do you regard them? As heroes or as villains? It’s
the wrong question. The right question is how to ensure that people know the full
story. Maybe one of the things we can learn from this is that history has
offered us very few people who had no character flaws at all. I can think of
only one, probably the same one you’re thinking of.
But flawed men and women have given us quite a world, and we
should know as much about it as we can. Maybe the lessons they teach can even
help us solve the problems we face today.
Or we can waste our time tearing down statues, which solves
nothing, nor does it make history go away. It just makes us ignorant of it.
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Karen Cooper discusses why she supports the Confederate Battle Flag:
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The Wrong Side of History......................
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Why Confederate Statues Matter..........
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Why the South erected Confederate Statues................................................
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Ole Miss goes Bananas By Rod Dreher
I wondered how long it would take our crackpot culture to come up with a Politically Correct outrage more stupid than ESPN from pulling an Asian announcer named Robert Lee from calling a UVA game.
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Now individuals are vandalizing our U.S. Servicemen's graves and desecrating National Parks.
A national disgrace: Fury as
vandals and looters desecrate veterans graveyards and historic battlefields
across three states on Memorial Day weekend.
A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area
of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti.
In Kentucky, a driver deliberately drove
across grave sites marked by white wooden crosses.
Looters ripped up parts of Virginia's
Petersburg National Battlefield in an apparent search for relics.
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Anger
as remains of soldiers from Revolutionary and Civil war are dug up and their bones
spilled throughout historic cemetery;
Historical cemetery
dating back to 1758 holds graves of veterans from the Revolutionary War, Civil
War and World World I.
Among those dug up
was the grave of 14-month Emma Jane McElmurray who was buried in 1884.
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News from Memphis...............................
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Vandals destroy monument at Camp Chase, Ohio, Civil War cemetery, where Rita Hughes' Great-Great Grandfather is buried:
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Columbus
Mayor Andrew Ginther issued this statement today:
“I
understand that markers of the Confederacy bring pain to those fighting
persistent racism in our community and across our country, but the destruction
of property — and the desecration of any grave site — is unacceptable
regardless who was interred. We must remain focused on productive, not
destructive, action to bring about the change we seek and to further the fight
for equality.”
The
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs also issued a statement:
“Destruction
and defacement of federal property is a serious crime, and VA is working with
law enforcement officials to identify those responsible. VA is committed
to maintaining our cemeteries as national shrines, and that includes repairing
this statue, which was erected in 1902 as part of a peace and reconciliation
effort led by wounded Union soldier William Knauss.”
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From the "Dally Times," September 2017:
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Former Virginia Governor writes new book concerning the events in Charlottesville:
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A Lesson in Christian morality and decency in the North, during the
War Between the States:
A Confederate flag was removed from the
grave of a Civil War solider at a cemetery in Gray. WMTW News 8's Kyle Jones
has more, including how the Confederate soldier's body ended up buried in Maine
more than 150 years ago.
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As my Father, Rev. Hughes, once said, when you are pastor of a church, you need to leave politics out of the pulpit. There is a lot more in the Bible to preach on than politics. When a pastor preaches, as we say, "the whole counsel of God," he will eventually go through a text of scripture that will address the needs and issues of the hour.
Unfortunately, some ministers, as seen in the next article, don't understand their calling to the ministry and bring politics into a Sunday or Wednesday night service; or on prime-time television. This does not mean we condone racism, but a pastor needs to be careful when in public not to take sides in politically-charged issues; the pulpit is not the place for politics. Period. -J. Hughes
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Special Sub-section:
June - November 2020
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But, who is Robert Wright Lee, IV Who makes another appearance in 2020?
His bio in one of his 2 books states:
Robert W. Lee, IV is a faculty lecturer at Appalachian State University
where he received his Bachelor of Arts in religious studies. Rob is a religion
columnist for the Statesville Record and Landmark, and his first book,
Stained-Glass Millennials was released in 2017. Lee completed his Master of
Theological Studies from Duke University and is currently a doctoral student in
public theology.Lee lives in the Piedmont of North Carolina with his wife
Stephanie and poodle Frank.
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Virginia Governor Northam recently trotted out Robert Wright Lee, IV to support his action in removing the Lee statue from Richmond (June 2020).
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the Governor, he didn't realize that this "Lee" is NOT related to
General Robert Edward Lee of Virginia.
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What do we know about
Robert Wright Lee's family ancestry?
I must tell you frankly,
that he has not been able to prove who he says he is. I have, along with the
family of John Lee, traced this man's ancestry AND General Lee's ancestry, past
7 generations. Robert Wright Lee's
most distant ancestor, Robert Scothrup Lee, was born 1822, in Alabama, and has no relation
whatsoever to General Lee. John Lee's wife, who researched the Lees of both
Virginia and Maryland, stated she saw nothing that confirms Robert Wright Lee
IV as a "descendant." He has supposedly said he is a nephew of
General Lee. (Nobody descends from an uncle.) The generations appear to be
wrong (he says four greats for his uncle) as we know rather well from one of
Robert E. Lee's true great-great granddaughters.
This man made an appearance
after the Charlottesville disturbance a few years ago, when he first trotted
himself out as “a descendant.” He has
never proven any lineage in the two books he has written on social issues.
Someone in his line may have referred to himself as “Robert E. Lee,” but as
anyone familiar with genealogy knows, there are a ton of same names within and
without blood families. I have also discovered a problem with the widow of
Robert Scothrup Lee’s request for a pension; the Fold3 government website has
papers that disputed her claim that this Lee had ever served in the Confederate Army.
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Some other Virginia-born residents had this to say about Governor Northam:
Taking down the monument is a move to try to change history.
History cannot be changed. We learn from history not to make the same mistakes
as our predecessors. African-Americans should especially be against taking down
monuments for this reason. Jews do not want to take down monuments to the
Holocaust or close museums documenting the horrors of that period of history.
We must learn to live with our history and not try to hide it. The Virginia
governor is wrong on this action.
Once again Governor Northam, who can't recall his picture
being taken during his fraternity years, is now hoping to win back favor by
tearing down a monument. It's a desperate move by a simple man to distance
himself from the past and feed his constant desire to make Someone or Anyone
remember him when he's gone. It sure won't be me, monument or not...
We learn from history. We can improve after understanding past problems, in our
history. Taking down statues doesn't change history. It's impossible to change
history.
Removing statues of history, changing road & school
names. Maybe we should all change our names since they all derive from old name
sake's from years passed. From now on we will just be a number with no
identity, we could get a tattoo of the number on our arms, oh wait, that’s
already been done and we all know how that turned out.
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The erstwhile relative of General Lee, Robert W. Lee, IV (who is NOT related to General Lee) continues to appear on TV to promote his version of history, including promotion of the removal of the General Lee statue in Richmond, VA, in September 2021.
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Sky News host
Gary Hardgrave says the 21st century is "so filled with red tape processes
and bureaucratic oversight" after Virginia's governor called for the
removal of a historic statue. It comes as the statue of Confederate General
Robert E Lee has been removed. "The Virginia Governor, Ralph Northam, has
said, 'let's tear down the statues because history must reflect the 21st
century'," Mr Hardgrave said. "Now if that's the case then I want
every statue around the world, particularly around Australia, redesigned so
they're to have a clipboard on it. "Because seriously, the 21st century is
so filled with red tape processes and bureaucratic oversight that we possibly
can't be celebrating any of our heroes of the past without actually
acknowledging the clipboard of the 21st century. "They want to rewrite
history, they want to devalue our values, they don't want to know where we've
come, from how we've got here, and whether we can do better is only off the
back of all the mistakes we've made in the past."
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Lucian K. Truscott, IV A disgraced West Point graduate who claims to be a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, but wants the Jefferson Memorial removed from Washington, D.C.
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He recently put this on Twitter; an insult to our Commander-in-Chief:
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To understand Truscott, we need to research his checkered past and disgrace to the uniform he once wore, and then discarded, which resulted in an
"Other Than Honorable Discharge."
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“N.Y. Times offers
platform for scurrilous attacks on Army”
By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Arizona
Republic, 26 Feb 1973, Page 5
Lucian K. Truscott IV,
cashiered West Pointer and bearer, via his father and grandfather, of one of
the Army’s most respected names, has for some time been a *hair shirt not only to the Army but in particular to
West Point, from which he was allowed to graduate In 1969.
[*a constant punishment to the Army and West
Point]
Truscott has written
incessantly against the Army in the Village Voice, Saturday Review and the New
York Times. He has concentrated much of his fire against West Point, which he
correctly perceives as embodying ethical and professional values central to the
American regular officer corps.
….
For a standard-bearer in a crusade against values whose common factor
is honor, Truscott has, by public record or his own admission, a somewhat *gamey pedigree.
[* malodorous; smelly.]
While at West Point, Truscott
was far from a model cadet.
Among others at the Point to
brand him as a cadet troublemaker was (by Truscott’s admission) then Col. (later four-star general)
Alexander M. Haig, Henry Kissinger’s Man Friday and new deputy to Army Chief of
Staff Creighton Abrams. Haig was deputy commandant of cadets (the No, 2
disciplinary officer of the military
academy).
Not only did Truscott receive
demerit-totals above the ceiling for graduation,
but, according to the New York Times of May 22, 1969, he was one of four cadets
found guilty (less than a month from graduation) of
running up $562 worth of long-distance calls on a fraudulent credit-card number.
Allowed to graduate despite
the foregoing and given a probationary Army commission on the personal
Intervention of Brig. Gen, Bernard W. Rogers, long a ‘‘progressive’’ and
champion of Army permissiveness, Truscott lasted 13 months and 17 days as an officer.
At Ft. Carson, Colo., in
mid-1970, ironically under command of Gen. Rogers, who had left West Point when
Truscott did, Truscott was allowed to resign from the Army “under other than honorable conditions” for the good of the service,
Charge: “Conduct
unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.”
….
…Truscott since has repeatedly *traduced the
honor code of the Army and West Point
[*speak badly of or tell lies about (someone) so
as to damage their reputation.]
…and …the New York Times,
which has afforded this *scapegrace ex-officer the considerable platform of its prestigious op-ed
page, declined to enlighten its readers as to Truscott’s unsavory credentials.
[*a mischievous or wayward person,
especially a young person or child; a rascal.]
Last Aug. 19, the Times ran a
bitter and cynical op-ed column by Truscott, “West Point: On Their Honor.” For
the Times to have published such a piece by a contributor of Truscott’s
background can only be likened to printing a polemic against bank examiners by
a known *embezzler.
[*one who steals money he has been trusted
with, especially from his employer]
To compound what must surely
be construed as extreme unfairness if not one-sidedness against West Point and
the Army, the Times then refused room in its pages for a *remonstrance and rebuttal written by J. Robert Harman Jr., president of
the West Point Society of New York.
[*a strong protest, complaint, or criticism about something.]
Harman’s letter, dated Aug,
31, not only refuted the Truscott column but called the Times to task for accepting a contribution from a
person of Truscott’s
bias and
history (which Harman briefly summarized).
More than three weeks later
after the Times had hastily printed a routine opposed letter objecting to the Truscott column but making
no disclosure of the writer’s past, Harrison Salisbury. Times associate editor, wrote Harman that, because it had already run one letter
(dated five days after Harman’s), the Times “had decided against carrying
anything further.”
In opening its op-ed page to
the likes of Truscott. whose background the Times surely must have known, and
in then declining to grant equal time to a respected West Point alumni
spokesman, let alone to disclose the nature of Truscott’s past association with
and separation from the Army, the Times violated elementary tenets in the journalist’s code of fair play and truth.
Were this shabby episode
alone, it would reflect badly enough on a journal which proclaims considerable
rectitude if not moral anointment.
The Times, has. however, also
lent its op-ed page in 1972 to irresponsible attack on West Point and on the
Army by a
sorehead non-West Point officer who had retired hastily on receipt of Vietnam
orders.
It also has run how-to-do-it
incitations for putting out underground Army newspapers, contributed by a seditious soldier-editor.
The entire thrust of these
New York Times articles, tendentious in the extreme, antimilitary, cynical and destructive in nearly every respect, has been to undermine the Army as an institution in its hour of greatest
travail, national unpopularity and vulnerability.
For the Times to give the
sanction of publication in its pages to such views is hurtful enough to the
common defense. For it to afford space — while stifling full disclosure and
rebuttal — to anti-Army advocacy of such tarnished provenance is unforgivable.
There is more to say about Lucian K. Truscott
IV, and how he let his ancestor Thomas Jefferson down, but I will leave that
for another time.
Today Truscott likes to attack
Commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, President Donald Trump.
Were Thomas Jefferson alive today, he might apologize to President Trump,
saying, “I have hundreds of descendants. There was bound to be at least one
turncoat amongst them.”
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So, if you recently read an article or heard a sound-bite by Truscott concerning the monument controversy, you know that he has much to hide, and not much to offer in the way of evaluating our American heritage.
As Kevin Williamson recently wrote...
"If you have come across the byline of Lucian
K. Truscott IV in the past, then you may know that he is a distant relative of
Thomas Jefferson’s. In fact, almost every article that I can remember having
seen from him (not a huge sample, I admit) mentions that connection. Being a
distant relation of Thomas Jefferson’s is, in part, the profession of Lucian K.
Truscott IV. And that is sufficient to get him into the pages of the New
York Times with an exercise in pointlessness headlined “I’m a Direct
Descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Take Down His Memorial.”
As any direct descendant of Adam could tell you,
being a distant relation of Jefferson’s gives no one any special insight into
the contemporary controversy over Washington’s monuments. Does Lucian K.
Truscott IV have anything interesting to say on the subject of the Jefferson
Memorial? No, Lucian K. Truscott IV does not have anything interesting to say
on the subject of the Jefferson Memorial. The Times knows that he has
nothing interesting to say, but the Times thinks it is
interesting that he says it. The Times is wrong about that. There
is not one original thought or interesting sentence in the essay."
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Before proceeding into the iconoclastic statue controversy, let's be clear: there is a sinister motive behind the Black Lives Matter organization wanting these statues removed:
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The BLM Marxist's organizers co-opt 'Woke' simpleton protesters to
topple a Confederate statue in Richmond: June 6, 2020.
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More than 700 officers injured in George Floyd
protests across U.S.
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2 Marines
are assaulted in Philadelphia while on active duty
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A Black Marine Vet
speaks out against BLM
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The Rise of Mob Violence in America (A Biblical caveat concerning one comment made in this video: we are born into sin; it is not just "inherited" as bad habits and evil habits can be taught by a parent to children; or as children may learn from others. Parents have a lot to do with how children are brought up.
See Psalm 51:5 and 1 John 1:10).
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Kneeling to and for any organization will never be enough for a mob. We should only kneel to God. In light of what the Bible says, Christians should be very careful about who and what they kneel to, and for. There are serious spiritual consequences for kneeling to anyone or anything, other than God.
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The Bible also says in
Exodus 23:24, “Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow
their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to
pieces."
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"I only kneel for God"
Georgia State Trooper
refuses to kneel during protest.
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Meanwhile, in Chicago,
a conference call with the Mayor and Aldermen, revealed the Mayor's unconcern with the violence. And in another instance, a Black politician, revealed on camera, that he wouldn't have even attended the protest that turned violent, if he hadn't been running in a local primary:
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Attempting to Change American History
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A 21st Century "5th Column" takes over Seattle Police Precinct:
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My brother Jim, who died in the line of duty as a policeman, was honored posthumously by this organization. I have decided to present their viewpoint on the most recent event in Seattle, WA.
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Seattle
Leaders Surrender Police Precinct to the “Mostly Peaceful Protesters,” so They
Won’t Destroy it.
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Symbol of Anarchy (a circle with an "A" superimposed over it) painted in Seattle:
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Tucker Carlson interviews a reporter who gives an inside look at the chaos of CHAZ anarchy in Seattle:
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Former Police Lieutenant gives assessment of Seattle Anarchy:
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BLM Marxists and ANTIFA take over in Seattle
Made up mostly of white, Nazi-like Anarchists, who wear all-black clothes, and who have co-opted the BLM movement, whom they don't really respect, to incite violence.
And yes, to answer a question I have been often asked, they do have young white men who have joined Antifa as anarchists.
This is a very old movement among the young people in this country, I met my first one, a young teenager, who attended our Sunday School in one of the Virginia churches I pastored, who explained what the "A" superimposed over the "O" meant. And that was back in the 1980s!!
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"No gods, No masters" is the philosophy of Anarchy, as seen in the graffiti of the following picture. This philosophy is being pushed by liberal/left-wing professors in larger universities.
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Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” is an amorphous movement whose adherents
oppose people or groups they consider authoritarian or racist, according to the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors extremists. Antifa aims to
“intimidate and dissuade racists,” but its aggressive tactics including physical
confrontations can create “a vicious, self-defeating cycle of attacks,
counter-attacks and blame,” the ADL said.
The FBI has been increasingly concerned about violence perpetrated by Antifa
at public events, according to a 2018 report by the Congressional Research
Service, a public policy research arm of the U.S. Congress.
They like to wear black ("Black-Bloc") and cover their faces so they cannot be identified by the police or other protesters they despise and brawl with.
BUT IN FACT: They ARE a FASCIST organization which wants to destroy capitalism and our democracy!!
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The name Antifa suggests that they are
anti-fascist, but they are themselves the definition of fascism. Wikipedia
defines Antifa this way, “Antifa aims to achieve their objectives through
the use of both non-violent and violent direct action rather than
through policy reform.
Antifa political activists engage in
protest tactics such as digital
activism and militancy, sometimes involving property
damage, physical violence… Individuals involved in the movement tend to
hold anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist views, subscribing
to a range of left-wing ideologies such as anarchism, communism, Marxism, social
democracy and socialism.”
Wikipedia further describes fascism
this way
“Far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism characterized by
dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, as well as strong
regimentation of society and of the economy.
Fascists believe that liberal
democracy is obsolete and regard the complete mobilization of society
under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary.” Antifa would
certainly not be considered far-right, but they are fascist in every other sense
of the definition.
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Rowan Dean of Sky News Australia tells the public exactly what Antifa is:
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A "Proud Boy" gang member with an "Antifa Hunting License" sticker on his helmet:
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"Black Bloc"
is a tactic of the anarchy movement, and refers to the mostly white men in Antifa who wear all black clothes (they go "Black Bloc" wearing all black clothes and head and face covered in black hoods to keep law enforcement from identifying them), currently a part of the Seattle/Portland unrest. Here, seen a few years back, as they co-op the "Occupy" movement:
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The Marxist-led Antifa has been around for a long time in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon.
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Note what the banner says:
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"Ruining Lives since 2007"? I do not find anywhere in the Bible that Jesus taught that we should "ruin" someone's life.
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They identify the names of those they oppose from photos taken undercover at protests, by posting them with identifying arrows and their names, on Antifa Rose City webpages in order for the Antifa members to be able to identify them later when they meet at a protest to brawl. They oppose not only "alt-right" (extreme right-wing) groups like "Proud Boys," but also Trump and other democratic peaceful groups. They have co-opted the BLM movement for their own evil ends: destruction of our country and way of life. John Read and his family and the Wauchope family would oppose this.
Make no mistake: Antifa groups are against our Democratic American society and other Democracies in Great Britain, Australia, and other Western and European countries. They would like to see our government and way of life destroyed.
There is a disappointing silence among Congressional Democrats about this Marxism in our country.
John Read's family would not have been silent. He supported our country before and after the Civil War. That is a matter of record. He was also a Christian and would not have tolerated the criminal abuse and behavior now seen by those who steal (loot) from others.
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Portland, Oregon in 2022:
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Frustrated families in Dem-led Portland are selling their HOMES as homeless camps go up outside their front doors!
Here's the story:
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WHAT IS THE BOOGALOO MOVEMENT?
They carry high-powered rifles and wear
tactical gear, but their Hawaiian shirts and leis are what stand out in the
crowds that have formed at state capital buildings to protest COVID-19 lockdown
orders. The signature look for the “boogaloo” anti-government movement is
designed to get attention.
The anti-government boogaloo movement embodies
a militant ideology whose members believe the United States will enter into a
second civil war, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks
hate groups. Boogaloo followers anticipate the government will attempt to
confiscate people’s guns.
The boogaloo ideology itself is not white
supremacist, but some white supremacist groups have embraced it, the ADL found.
“Whereas the militia movement (and) radical
gun rights activists typically promote the boogaloo as a war against the
government or liberals, white supremacists conceive of the boogaloo as a race
war or a white revolution,” the ADL wrote in a November analysis.
Boogaloo groups have grown in popularity
online in the past year. The Tech Transparency Project, a Washington-based tech
watchdog group, found tens of thousands of people joined boogaloo-related
Facebook groups over a 30-day period in March and April as stay-at-home orders
took effect across the United States to prevent the spread of the novel
coronavirus. Project researchers found discussions about tactical strategies,
weapons and creating explosives in some boogaloo Facebook group.
They carry high-powered rifles and wear
tactical gear, but their Hawaiian shirts and leis are what stand out in the
crowds that have formed at state capital buildings to protest COVID-19 lockdown
orders. The signature look for the “boogaloo” anti-government movement is
designed to get attention.
Pictures of these members of the movement wear
fatigues or Hawaiian shirts, and are usually fully armed:
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A Christian street preacher is attacked in Seattle by Antifa gang:
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Reporter on the ground details the
Antifa Anarchy:
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Kyle Shideler, director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, spoke with the Daily Caller's Samantha Renck about the history of Antifa, Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and more:
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Some years back, we included an interview with Dr. Alveda King reference the riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, which can be seen earlier on this page concerning that 2017 event.
Here, in 2020, she talks about the
Seattle Mayor
in denial about the growing unrest:
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"Summer of Love" in Seattle, according to the mayor, is just as violent in other major cities, where young black children are being killed and the BLM movement is nowhere to be found in protesting those murders by other blacks.
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As of June 30th, the CHOP/CHAZ has been dismantled.
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And George Floyd? The man who is being eulogized in June 2020? Not to condone how he died, but the whole story includes the fact that he had a long rap sheet for criminal activity:
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So-called "peaceful protests" in England are transformed into violence by thugs who have co-opted the BLM agenda.
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Black Lives Matter protesters in England
destroy and deface monuments, including that of Winston Churchill.
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I had no earthly idea that Churchill owned slaves during World War II.
Of course he didn't !!
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My comment about the next photo: If you think Churchill was a war-provoking racist, wait till you meet the German guy he defeated.
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British citizens come that night and the next day, to help clean up Churchill statue; they know that Churchill DID NOT own slaves and was not a racist.
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Ignorant people, who have not studied History, defacing a statue of Winston Churchill are Idiots. They have not one idea of what he did to preserve the freedom of Great Britain. He did not own slaves!!
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Here is Churchill speaking on "We Shall Never Surrender":
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You cannot appease the BLM and Antifa: Minneapolis Mayor tries to appease the mob. Idiotic Antifa racists deface Winston Churchill statue. He was instrumental in defeating Facisism in WW2. These groups are simply Anti-Democracy.
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Churchill statue vandalised again as topless
climate protesters chain themselves to railings
It comes a few months after it was
defaced during racism demonstrations and had to be boarded up.
Thursday
10 September 2020
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Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square has been
vandalised with graffiti again.
The words "is a racist" were sprayed on the plinth
beneath the statue of the wartime prime minister.
It comes only three months after it was vandalised with
similar words during Black Lives Matter protests - forcing it to be boarded up
for its own protection.
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Those who support the
Black Lives Matter organization,
DO NOT understand history;
they are IGNORANT of the role Churchill played in helping to defeat Nazi Germany; they have been fooled by this Communist front organization!
Consider this from
Winston Churchill:
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London's Metropolitan Police said a man had been arrested on
suspicion of causing criminal damage on Thursday evening.
Today's graffiti was sprayed amid protests by "Extinction
Rebellion" activists in the capital.
Police made arrests after at least 13 topless women put bike
locks round their necks and chained themselves to railings near parliament to
highlight the "bare truth" of climate change.
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Words including drought, starvation and wildfires were
written on their chests and they wore masks with 4C written on them -
referencing the temperature increase that many scientists believe will have
dire consequences for the planet.
Sarah Mintram, a teacher who took part in the action, said:
"Now we've got your attention. By neglecting to communicate the
consequences of a 4C world - war, famine, drought, displacement - the
government are failing to protect us."
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Police removed the D-locks from the protesters' necks and
took them away in four vans as their supporters cheered.
The Met said 648 people had so far been arrested during the
climate protests in London this month.
Last week demonstrators delayed the delivery of millions of
newspapers when they blocked printworks in Hertfordshire and Merseyside.
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And the Lincoln statue in London? It too was defaced.....here is the clean up going on:
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As the protests descended
into chaos, one protester was seen climbing on the historic monument "The
Cenotaph" which honors those who died in World War I, and setting fire
to the Union Jack flag:
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I didn't know British soldiers in
World War I owned slaves.
They didn't !!
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Antifa Marxism is alive and well in London and other parts of England:
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Destruction of another statue:
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Politically Correct Mob now look like the 'Woke' Taliban:
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From the British Prime Minister:
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The British Prime Minister speaks on the Violence in the UK:
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Violent protesters warned they could face jail within 24 hours ahead of Black Lives Matter and far-right demonstrations.
Violent protesters could be jailed within 24 hours, as authorities attempt to deter march trouble, reports have suggested.
The fast-track court plans courts come as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and far-right demonstrations are expected this weekend.
Anybody caught vandalising, causing criminal damage or assaulting
police officers could be processed through magistrates’ courts with
extended opening hours quickly, according to The Times.
The paper suggests that Justice Secretary Robert Buckland and Home
Secretary Priti Patel have drawn up the plans based on the response to
the 2011 London riots.
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The British Home Secretary responds:
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Of course, not everyone in London supports the BLM rioters:
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Defaced monuments show protesters lack of knowledge
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It has been learned that the statue of the founder of the Boy Scouts has been targeted for attack by the UK protestors.
Rover Scout Matthew Trott salutes a statue of Robert Baden-Powell on Poole Quay in Dorset Credit: Andrew Matthews/PA:
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Meanwhile,
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council has delayed plans to temporarily
remove a statue of Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell after angry residents
vowed to fight to protect it.
The
council had originally said it would move the statue from Poole Quay on
Thursday over concerns it was on a target list compiled by anti-racism
activists.
The statue
features on a “topple the racists” website which lists more than 60 statues and
memorials across the UK which they argue should be taken down, because they
“celebrate slavery and racism”.
In
a statement issued on Thursday afternoon, the council said the listing “placed
the much-loved statue at risk of damage or even destruction”.
It
added: “We know that local people feel proud of Lord Baden-Powell’s and the
Scout movement’s links with Poole, and that some people feel that we would be
giving in to the protesters by temporarily removing the statue.
“However,
we feel it is responsible to protect it for future generations to enjoy and
respect.”
The
council said the statue would not be removed because its “foundations are
deeper than originally envisaged” with discussions needed with contractors on how
to move it safely.
24-hour
security will be put in place “until it is either removed or the threat
diminishes,” the council said.
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I am incensed that anyone would want to attack the Boy Scouts of Britain or the U.S. My brother and I both belonged to this organization and I am angry that the statue of it's founder has been targeted by this BLM group in England. (Paintings courtesy of Norman Rockwell, in public domain).
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Two-thirds
of Britons back
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's
refusal to 'take the knee'
because people should not be 'bullied' into making 'gestures'
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Not every Mayor is giving in to the Marxist BLM organization and "taking a knee."
Bristol, England Mayor shows courage.
Edward
Colston's statue stood for 125 years. The Black Lives Matter statue that
replaced it under cover of darkness and without permission, stood for about 25 hours.
A man has been arrested in connection with the toppling of a
statue of Edward Colston.
A
bronze memorial to the 17th Century merchant was torn down in Bristol during a
Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June and was dumped in the harbour.
Avon
and Somerset Police said it would review footage of a "small group of
people" filmed pulling down the statue with ropes.
A
24-year-old has been held on suspicion of criminal damage.
The
investigation remains ongoing.
Then, under cover of darkness, a group of the BLM movement, erected a statue of a black woman giving the "Black Power Fist Symbol." Mayor Marvin Rees ordered the statue which was put up without permission, removed. And, even though he himself is black, he is now receiving threats and hate mail for doing the right thing.
In the first picture: the statue of a woman giving the "Black Power Fist Symbol" which was put up overnight without permission.
The second picture: the illegal statue begin hauled away in a trash truck.
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Dawn Butler, black Member of Parliament, who once
claimed that 90% of Giraffes are gay; insisted that babies are born without a
biological sex; and claimed that she was endorsed by Barack Obama....when it
was later learned that the 'Obama endorsement' letter was in fact, written by
her own aides....is now playing the innocent victim of racial profiling by
British police. She edited the video she took of the incident, later claimed that the driver was black, when he was clearly white, in order to claim victim status. How, we wonder, did such
an individual ever become a Member of Parliament?
Here's the story,
interview with editor who told the truth, followed by his written statement:
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Racial Grievance Culture in Britain is driving people apart.
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Pathological Hypocrisy is at the heart of the
race-based protests
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And over in France:
Multiculturalism
is a 'poisonous ideology' spread by the Marxist BLM.
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And then the CEO of "Christianity Today" magazine in the U.S. has created his own controversy this month,
with an article which begins by using a verse of Scripture out of context, and then, after a so-called history lesson that leaves us shaking our heads (how could he get it so wrong?)
He then recommends that the church start paying Blacks monetary restitution, based again on a portion of Scripture taken out of context.
Is it no wonder that Billy Graham broke with this ultra-liberal/extremist religious magazine years before he passed? My father also realized years ago, that this organization and it's magazine had gone off the (left) deep end theologically. Enough said.
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Meanwhile, back in Richmond, Virginia, while the Mayor "takes a knee" to the protesters, he is ignored, and they continue to riot, burn, erase history, and most of those arrested were not from that city.
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Richmond Mayor attempts to appease the mob and is shouted down:
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Byrd Theater in Richmond, attempts to be "politically correct":
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Confederate Museum, Richmond, VA
has been transformed into the generic American Civil War Museum, with a director who is in favor of erasing our American history; and spoke recently in a symposium clearly expressing her ignorance of pre- and post-Civil War history.
Confederate Museum, first picture, with flag removed from the White House of the Confederacy next door.
American Civil War Museum, second picture.
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From Joe Ryan's Civil War series, we have two brief clips outlining the problem with Coleman's statistics:
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Then, as political leadership in Richmond sits idle, or 'taking a knee' in hopes that this will show solidarity, which it won't, we have this:
Confederate Memorial Hall burned as second night of outrage erupts in Virginia (Middle of the Night: June 1, 2020)
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RICHMOND, Va. (Virginia Mercury) — Protesters in Richmond set fire to
the United Daughters of the Confederacy headquarters and covered Confederate
memorials with graffiti during the second night of outrage and violence
Saturday that saw one person shot, businesses around the city looted and
storefronts torched.
Mayor Levar Stoney condemned the
destruction, which has played out in cities across the country following the
death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Stoney announced Sunday morning that Gov.
Ralph Northam had granted his request for a curfew and said the National Guard
was on standby to help enforce it.
Police said one person in a vehicle
was shot by a protester and the victim is in life-threatening condition. In a
separate incident, police said protesters set fire to a home occupied by a
child and blocked the fire department from responding.
“We can not sit here idly and tell
everyone here that these actions are productive — because they’re not,” Stoney
said. “When you block law enforcement from allowing fire services to get to a
home, an occupied home that has caught fire, you are not inspiring change.”
The protests Saturday began peacefully
but quickly grew violent when a crowd of at least 500 people marched to Capitol
Square, where they ripped down a make-shift barricade and hurled bottles and
traffic cones at a line of officers blocking the entrance with riot shields.
The crowd left the area as a mass of
state police officers approached, heading west to the city’s police
headquarters, where the night before protesters had set a police cruiser on
fire and broken out windows.
Officers had fortified the area
Saturday and responded almost immediately with teargas, flashbang grenades and
non-lethal rounds.
By midnight, protesters had dispersed
throughout the city, lighting fires in trash bins, breaking windows and looting
stores, including a state liquor store, a video game shop, and a CVS. At least
two businesses burned, including a shoe store and a Rite Aid pharmacy that
workers had been attempting to board up as the protest began.
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United Daughters of Confederacy headquarters on fire, 2 Capitol Police officers
injured as violence erupts during second night of protesting in Richmond
3 a.m. update: An apartment building at 309 W.
Broad St. was on fire as protesters still marched through the streets of
Richmond.
As
the fire department arrived on the scene, protesters wouldn't let them through.
Police rushed in with tear gas to clear the area and let the fire fighters
through.
While
the fire department worked on putting out the fire, protesters rolled a burning
trash can onto Broad Street.
1:40 a.m. update: The headquarters of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy was ablaze in the early hours on Sunday morning as
protests raged in Richmond.
The
Richmond Fire Department could be seen working to put out the fire, which
appeared to cover much of the front side of the building, which is located on
Arthur Ashe Boulevard between the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia
Museum of History & Culture.
Nine
fire trucks and a police line three blocks long worked to assuage the fire and
protect the building.
Graffiti
covered much of the building's facade: “f--- racists,” “police are creepy,”
“stole from us,” and more.
On
the front steps, the word, “abolition.”
Nearby,
graffiti covered the Stonewall Jackson statue on Arthur Ashe Boulevard and
Monument Avenue, where protesters had gathered earlier in the night. The nearby
Robert E. Lee memorial and was also covered in graffiti.
A
CVS pharmacy also nearby showed shattered glass windows and front doors.
Graffiti covered the side of Whole Foods on Broad Street near Boulevard.
The
Richmond Fire Department tweeted that they battled two fires Saturday
night/Sunday morning. The one at the United Daughters of the Confederacy by the
VMFA and the other at VCU's Rhodes Hall on the 700 block of West Franklin
Street.
"Both
fires are now under control and were on the exterior only," the fire
department tweeted around 1:30 a.m. "Crews are being extremely cautious as
they’re potentially intentional."
12:45 a.m. update: Two Capitol Police officers were
taken to VCU Medical Center for treatment for leg injuries after they were
struck by objects thrown at them by protesters, according to Capitol Police
spokesperson Joe Macenka.
One
officer reported having been struck by a baseball bat and the other by a beer
bottle, according to Macenka, after crowds gathered at the main Capitol Square
gate at Ninth and Grace streets shortly after 9 p.m.
11 p.m. update: Police at least twice launched
tear gas into a crowd of protesters from the barricade it formed around
Richmond Police headquarters on West Grace Street as firecrackers were ignited
and dumpsters burned.
Police
lined the front of the headquarters and the alleys around it Saturday night as
protesters made it the focus of their march for the second straight night.
Shortly
after, crowds seemed to disperse as tear gas lingered over Broad Street like
fog.
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Brazen terrorists will often take pictures/video to put on their Facebook, as if to say, "see what I did." Here is one taken at the United Daughters of Confederacy building; we have muted the sound because of the profanity:
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Now, one of the results of the arson and vandalism at the United Daughters of the Confederacy building in Richmond, Virginia:
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As the Richmond, Virginia civil unrest and riots continue,
even into July 2020,
Mayor Stoney is rebuked by the courts.
The riots have continued, the city has gone through 3 Police Chiefs, Police were ordered to stand down, but nothing changed.
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"Richmond judge bars removal of lone remaining
Richmond-owned Confederate statue" (The General Robert E. Lee Statue).
After chiding
Mayor Levar Stoney’s handling of civil unrest, a Richmond judge barred his
administration from taking down any more Confederate statues in the city for 60
days.
Richmond Circuit
Court Judge Bradley B. Cavedo on Thursday granted an anonymous plaintiff’s
request for a temporary injunction in a suit brought against Stoney Tuesday.
The mayor ordered Richmond’s Confederate iconography removed beginning last
week using his “emergency powers.” The statues, Stoney has said and his lawyers
argued, were a threat to public safety.
Not so, Cavedo
said from the bench. “Rioters” and the absence of “law and order” are threats,
he said. Police had told him directly they were “being told to stand down,” he
said.
“We’ve been
through three police chiefs now, and I don’t see much of a difference. And who
is their boss?”
Cavedo cited
incidents at the John Marshall Courts Building last week, as well as looting
and vandalism that took place weeks earlier amid protests initially sparked by
the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Before the city began removing
statues, protesters toppled several and attempted to pull down another. Stoney
and some members of the City Council said they were worried someone would be
hurt or killed if the statues remained and the attempts continued.
By looking at the videos and reading through the news reporters' transcripts, it was very apparent that the Mayor HAD told the police to stand down, as the vandalism of the historic monuments continued and the toppling of the statues proceeded unhindered by the mob. This mayor needs to be held accountable for contributing to the violence by his ineptness and the "stand down" order to the police. Instead of another new police chief, this mayor needs to resign and let the city have a new fresh face.
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Richmond, Virginia riots continue.
A 120 year-old business has been destroyed:
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July 31, 2020: Violence in Richmond, VA continues:
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Arson suspected in barn fire behind National Civil War
Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia
By Samantha
Serbin | June 4, 2020 at 11:29 PM EDT - Updated June 10 at 12:39 AM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - New details
have been released about a fire that destroyed a piece of property at the
National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus.
The executive director spoke on the
loss and cause of the fire for the first time.
Columbus Fire Department officials
said the cause of the fire is arson. It was not the museum itself that burned
down, it was a barn out back with some valuable historic artifacts.
“We now know everything inside is
burned,” said Executive Director Holly Wait.
The barn behind the National Civil War
Naval Museum in Columbus once housed an old ship, tools, small modern boats,
engines and more .
Wait said this wasn’t the first time
arson threatened the property.
“I was very naive thinking, well
whoever set it didn’t do a good job and they’re not coming back. But sure
enough, Sunday night late, early Monday morning, they came and burned
again," Wait said.
As first responders diligently fought
to extinguish the fire, bystanders captured video of the flames soaring high.
“I really couldn’t think. It was
beyond me. I was in shock the first day. I just kind of wondered around and
felt lost," Wait said.
A chain link fence now surrounds the
property to keep people safe from the embers and dangerous debris. Wait said
there’s no price you could put on the damage.
“Any historical piece has such value
in telling us who we are and why we are,” Wait said.
There is a hotline you can call if you
have information on what happened at the museum. To the person or persons who
started the fire, this is Wait’s message.
“Your mama taught you not to mess with
other people’s things," she said.
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Many of these terrorists are so ignorant of our American history.
Consider what some did:
trying to set fire to a WW II statue at the William C. Lee Airborne Museum:
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World War II museum blames 'some jerk punk' for
setting fire to what they may have thought was a Confederate monument. It's
actually a memorial honoring a WWII veteran.
A
statue of a World War II veteran was doused in flammable liquid and vandalized
last week by "some jerk punk(s)" who likely mistook the memorial for
a Confederate monument, according to a North Carolina museum.
The
Major General William C. Lee Airborne Museum in Dunn, North Carolina, commemorates
the state's "famous airborne hero" who led the US Army Airborne
Command.
"The
U.S. Army Airborne soldier is highly respected worldwide. Then comes along some
jerk punk (s) and he tries to burn down the statue of WWII Major General
William C. Lee….the Father of the United States Airborne Army," a
statement on the museum's Facebook page said.
Photos
attached to the post showed the charred base of the white, marble statue.
"You
can see the burn marks in the marble where the jerk placed the remainder of the
fuel container on the platform," the museum's Facebook post said.
The
Dunn Police Department is investigating the incident and offering a $1,000
reward for information leading to an arrest, the local CBS affiliate WNCN
reported.
The
museum's curator, Mark Johnson, told The Daily Record he suspects that the
vandal or vandals believed the statue depicted Robert E. Lee, the Confederate
general whose monuments have spurred controversy in recent years.
In
recent years, multiple Confederate monuments in the nearby Raleigh-Durham area
have been pulled down by protesters.
"So
just an alert to people who may be thinking about such things, this is the
wrong general," Johnson said. "Complete different generation,
complete different war, complete different everything."
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Trump is moving the nation toward police reform and
racial justice
by Alveda King
June 22,
2020 12:00 AM
In
his “I Have a Dream” address of August 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called
for an end to the scourge of racism in the United States. Although our nation
has made significant progress in the 57 years since Rev. King’s speech, the
unjust murder of George Floyd proves there is still much work and healing to be
done.
We
must never forget Dr. King’s less cited but extraordinarily meaningful words
from that same historic speech: “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro
is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.”
As
President Trump works toward building a more perfect union, America can dream
again. Immediately after Floyd's brutal death, Trump made clear that he is
fully committed to ensuring justice will be served for George and his family —
that he will not have died on that gray pavement in vain. “Equal justice under
the law," the president said, "must mean that every American receives
equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement, regardless of race,
color, gender, or creed.”
Powerful
words like this matter, coming from our leaders. Trump knows, as my uncle Dr.
King knew, that with God’s help, humans have the ability to have our hearts and
minds transformed and thereby heal the wounds of division.
Let
us open our eyes and see that we are one human race. We are not colorblind. We
all bleed the same. We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters in
America; not perish as fools.
Unlike
most leaders in Washington, Trump backs up his words with action — often by
executive decisions. Last Tuesday, the president signed an Executive Order on
Safe Policing for Safe Communities. This landmark order takes unprecedented
steps to strengthen relations between law enforcement and the communities they
serve.
This
order adopts a commonsense approach that emphasizes the need to invest more
resources in police training and community engagement. Improving trust between
law enforcement and underserved communities will bridge the divide that so
often leads to tragedy. We can only be successful in creating real change if we
are willing to have uncomfortable conversations and address these issues
head-on. This executive order is a very important step in advancing that noble
goal.
I
look forward to Trump working with Congress on additional measures in the days
and weeks ahead. Police reform is an issue relevant to every American. It
requires a bipartisan solution and open hearts.
I
am grateful that Trump is the one leading to bring about this change. The
president’s aspirational leadership is helping restore and renew the true
promise of America. We must set aside our partisan divisions and come together
in support of the noble pursuit of justice that Trump is undertaking. The
American people can accomplish anything when we stand united.
Dr. Alveda King is an evangelist and the niece of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. She is a member of Black Voices for Trump.
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Now they're after the statue of
Theodore Roosevelt:
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Why remove a statue of Theodore Roosevelt, whose father was an ardent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and the Union during and before the Civil War?
Roosevelt as President, invited a Black man, Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner; the first President to do so.
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In response to criticism he received for hosting Mr. Washington to dinner, he said this:
“…the only wise and honorable
and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man
strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows
himself worthy to have.”
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Why do the Riots continue?
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Far-Left Fuel the Protests (Burning down Black businesses)
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What about Twitter? Well, it has become the 'Wuhan Wet Market of Ideas.'
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Big Tech's Anti-Conservative Bias is now Well-Documented:
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The truth about
Black Lives Matter
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On June 22, 2020, Shaun King, a Socialist/Marxist leader of the Black Lives Matter movement has a sinister agenda, and issued this statement:
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Here it appeared on Network TV. For the full newscast, see:
https://youtu.be/Z8jTARMuMUA
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Shaun King and the advent of cultural
iconoclasm
by Rev. Ben Johnson • June 26, 2020
Acton Institute Powerblog:
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But the BLM leaders' hate speech occurred earlier than 2020, as seen in this Twitter post, where racism is alive and well within the BLM
Marxist movement:
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National Public Radio
reveals one of the scams:
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Financial
contributions to Black Lives Matter are first processed through a Democratic
and progressive fundraising group, one which takes a cut of all donations
before passing it along to the racial justice organization.
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Watch Out: There’s A ‘Big’ Black Lives Matter
Scam About
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Online scammers are exploiting
Black Lives Matter movement
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$$$$ Follow the Money $$$$ A tech support manager has discovered where the money goes that people are donating to the Black Lives Matter website:
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WHO OVERSEES THE FUNDS OF THE BLM MOVEMENT?
A CONVICTED TERRORIST IN THE UNITED STATES.
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Funding schemes: Act Blue and
Thousand Currents:
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Only 6% of your donation to BLM will go to BLM:
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National Public Radio
has exposed
a company
That Profits off of the Black Lives Matter Movement (NPR logo and program courtesy of National Public Radio)
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"Dark Money" which is part and parcel of the BLM
organization's funding source. Even PBS had a program about the
problem. Here's a "trailer" for the program:
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Slavery is banned in this country; but not in China, where slave labor is working for several U.S. companies, which are funneling some of the profits into the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization.
Here's the story; let's follow the money:
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What does the Black Lives Matter organization
really stand for? Who founded this movement? What is their philosophy?
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If you've never read the "fine print" of the BLM organization statement, then you are unaware of their true purpose, especially when it comes to dismantling the nuclear family structure.
Jason Whitlock explains:
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The Marxist.Com website:
a mouthpiece for the BLM, recently posted news from around the world which praised the BLM movement.
Their website has the icon/slogan: "In Defense of Marxism" and features photos from protests accompanied by commentary that pointedly wants to destroy democratic institutions around the world. They even offer online courses in Marxism.
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From the Christian Broadcasting Network:
The Shocking Truth about the Marxists behind the Black Lives Matter Organization:
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The Three Founders of the
Black Lives Matter
movement are Communist Marxists
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A MARXIST AGENDA UNDERPINS THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT. JUST READ THEIR WEBSITE AND LOOK
AT THE 3 FOUNDERS OF THE MOVEMENT:
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FBI
reveals that Black Lives Matter wants to light the U.S. on fire. Here is a former FBI Agent interview:
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Democratic mayors align with rioters and looters
against police (A statement by James A. Gagliano, FBI agent for 25 years)
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FROM THE EDITOR OF “THE
NEW ERA”
A News Organization
founded in 1929
Many people think “Black
Lives Matter” is a slogan, an ideal, or a grassroots movement.
Dig deeper: BLM is a
political organization with eight figures of funding and a hardcore left-wing
policy agenda. BLM is a Marxist political organization funded by dark-money
(white) socialist billionaires and “conscience-laundering” corporations that want
to hold on to the Deep State action or further their “hip” or “chic” facade and
pass the “cool comrade credentialing” media inspection.
Write it down: BLM’s
Marxist ideology includes “liberation” politics, transgenderism and violence
that far exceeds criticizing excessive use of force by police officers.
Patrisse Cullors,
co-founder of BLM, is on record speaking for all three key founders: “We are
trained Marxists. We are super versed on ideological theories.”
Karl Marx himself taught
their violent methods, starting with their attack on history in these words:
“Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily destroyed.”
Those who join with BLM
are partners in destruction. With Marxists, the issue is never the issue. The
only issue is the revolution. That is a key reason why they never partner for
solutions.
George Orwell wrote in
“1984”: “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future:
who controls the present controls the past, which had not been merely altered,
it had been actually destroyed…Everything faded into mist. The past was erased,
the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
Today’s compromised media have been harnessed
and steered into scripted brainwashing. Destruction is BLM’s goal, starting
with the past and continuing to include family structure, property, economics,
law and order and representative government: “The goal of socialism is
communism,” said Vladimir Lenin.
The BLM website uses the word “comrades” to
describe a new order: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family
structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and
villages that collectively care for one another.”
These radicals have no
belief that an intact family, personal property, personal wealth, and
achievement are healthy rights. So, your property, possessions and
accomplishments mean nothing to them, regardless of your skin color. That’s
where you get their riot statements that it’s nothing for a store or person’s
business or home to be destroyed.
What we see now is a well-funded re-enactment
of the script that recently sank Venezuela, and before that Cuba, China, North
Korea and Russia, to name only a few. They are destroying Confederate monuments
and they do not plan on stopping there.
“During the French Revolution
there were attacks on statues. Of course, that devolved into attacks on
people,” notes Jarrett Stepman, author of “The War on History.”
Seriously, BLM and their
cohorts are spreading a far more serious virus than COVID-19; it is a wicked
plague that kills life, liberty, economics, peace and social order by spreading
division, hatred for and rejection of family structure, gender, personal
responsibility and property, all laws based on the Ten Commandments given us by
the Lawgiver Himself.
It is time for those of us
who value these things to stand in the evil day.
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More Information about the Marxist
Black Lives Matter Organization
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The statistics in the United States:
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In the U.S., the "Left" has tried to define protests as "Peaceful." But the truth is far different:
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Which 'Black Lives' really matter? (Protesters and Looters are not the same)
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The Left are forcing new ‘victimised stereotypes’ upon
minorities
Sky News host
Rowan Dean says a renewed form of racism has emerged from the hard left who are
“demanding a new stereotype” be put on African-Americans, one where “you have
to be a victim of an injustice perpetrated not by a black person”. Mr Dean told
Sky News for those on the hard left or even the “normal left” the only black
lives which matter are “those that fit a stereotype”. “This is racism,” he
proclaimed.
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What is the truth behind the removal of statues? It is symptomatic of a more serious problem:
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Mayor gives out masks to rioters.
Black store owners loose their life-investment. Protesters are hurting the black minorities in their cities. Here are the facts:
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters 'not as friendly and peaceful as
mainstream media portray'
Former White
House staffer Barbara Heineback says many deaths have occurred in major cities
across America because of the demonstrations of Black Lives Matter protesters.
"They're not as friendly and peaceful as mainstream media want us to
believe," Ms Heineback told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. "I've written
an article, I've been trying to get it published now for a couple of months
that speaks about this". Widespread protests have been seen across
America, and the world, following the death of unarmed African-American man
George Floyd while in police custody in May.
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Listen carefully to what this founder of BLM says....and it is shocking:
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Black Lives Matter organization opposes traditional Family values (Don't believe it? Read the manifesto on their website!)
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ANARCHY reigns in Portland
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Portland has become the playground for brawling and Antifa-style violence.
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Portland, Oregon
continues in unchecked violence into July and August 2020
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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – Portland City
Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty issued a statement on Twitter giving Mayor Ted
Wheeler an ultimatum: “If you can’t control the police, give me the Portland
Police Bureau.”
“You are putting our community in
danger. You are putting my staff in danger. We need you to be better,” Hardesty
said in an open letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler.
Hardesty currently oversees Portland
Fire & Rescue, the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management and the Bureau
of Emergency Communications.
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Portland business owners are demanding the Mayor and City Leaders take action to stop the violent protests that are rocking downtown Portland night after night.
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Portland, Oregon Mayor fiddles while the city burns.
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler,
(like Charlottesville City Councilman Wes Bellamy at the 2017 Charlottesville riot) (see the 2017 sub-section on this page), recently went to the crowd of protesters and attempted to be one-with-them.
In my estimate, this is like "taking a knee" with, and to them. He even stated that he wanted to be "with them at the protest." But he got caught up in the riot, as expected, when he pandered to the criminal activity.
He was jeered by the by the crowd, briefly applauded when the shouted "Black Lives Matter" and shook his fist into the air, trying to make a show of solidarity with the rioters, giving the 'black Marxist salute.' But then had to be hustled out and away from the mob who were cursing at him....peaceful protest? No.
As Mayor, he is also the Police Commissioner, an unusual dual-hatted job; and is also in favor of de-funding the police and closing down jails.
Unbelievably he made the statement that "someone might be killed"? Some protestors came with dangerous laser pointers and aimed them at police who were protecting a federal courthouse. Peaceful? Don't think so. Christian peaceful protest? No.
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Democrat Ted Wheeler, Mayor of Portland, Oregon, shows up
to support the riot in his city:
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Ted Wheeler, the hapless mayor of Portland wandered into the
crowd on Thursday night, with a security detail of course, and found himself
heckled and harassed by the “peaceful protestors” to the point where he had to
be ushered back inside, you can see him looking back in frustration as if to
say, “but I’m on your side.” Apparently the rioters don’t think so, to them
he’s just another tool of the evil state.
Wheeler leaves the scene. Protesters throw water bottles at
him and curse him. He manages to get inside a building after a scuffle between
protesters and his security detail. pic.twitter.com/eRn2gWlpqm
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 23, 2020
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Federal
agents didn't make a single appearance to protect the Hatfield Courthouse in Portland, until multiple fires were lit and people
stormed a broken section of fence - which Mayor Ted Wheeler clearly saw and was standing near - only to later claim falsely that the
feds instigated everything.
The following graphic video feed clearly shows him with the Antifa mob at the fence surrounding the Courthouse; then the mob starts the violence; Wheeler, understandably tear gassed, retreats and is attacked and cursed by the Antifa mob for not staying with them. Graphic, use discretion.
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One politician said, they were "peaceful protesters."
Portland Protesters must face the consequences of their crimes.
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The the truth about the violence in Portland: unchecked by the Mayor and his city.
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Portland's Violent Riots That The Media Doesn't Want You To Know:
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Listen carefully to the hate speech exposed in the following video of a Portland riot, by the two Antifa men, especially the one with the portable megaphone, against a Christian-led protest; he says he wants our country to be Communist Marxist!!!! This did not appear on main-stream media TV.
This is NOT a "peaceful protest" which is what many Democrats in congress call it.
Then a rioter goes after someone, runs in front of truck, and gets hit:
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Undercover expose on Portland Riots:
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"Who is responsible for spreading the Pandemic," can be answered by asking,
"Who is responsible for the riots in Portland, many of whom do not wear face masks?"
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Portland academic Elliott Young, wants what he calls "Broken Windows Policing" to end. (He never gets to the point on his website of "who" is doing all the breaking of the windows).
Elliott Young, unfortunately a tenured History professor at Lewis & Clark College, wants the police to be de-funded and money moved into social work services, according to a website "Street Roots" he helps run.
But de-funding the police and verbally attacking government response to the now over 50 days of violent street protests there, is not the answer, as these business owners state in the following interview; some moving out after 30 years in Portland:
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‘Our city is
filled with violence’: Portland police union president pens letter to mayor and
district attorney
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ANTIFA and BLM are now co-opting military Vets into their planned protests.
In fact, one major BLM website has a Word Excel spreadsheet that posts calendars of planned activity and which groups of the population they are asking to come out and protest with them.
One day it's the "mothers for BLM;" then it's "Vets for BLM"...all under the guise of freedom of protest, they will tell you;
but those that agree to come don't understand the deeper, sinister motives of the BLM movement.
Among
various organized groups, including "Healthcare Workers Protest," "Teachers
against Tyrants," "Lawyers for Black Lives," and the “Wall of Moms." (And those so-called 'Moms' were in the big middle of the rioting crowd attempting to destroy federal property).
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Youth Liberation Front:
A Communist Organization
involved in the Riots
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Some people are slow to learn the truth in Congress:
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Some are speaking out in Letters to the Editor: "The Democrat Love Affair with Antifa"
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Attorney General Barr tells why Federal Marshals were necessary:
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One man in Scottish dress rides a unicycle all over the Portland area; and plays bagpipes which shoots out flames:
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Portland prides itself on being weird; they even have "weird" festivals and "weird" parades. Is it any wonder there are problems in this type of city?
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Organized ANTIFA Criminality is rampant (which not one Democrat Senator in a recent hearing acknowledged):
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Antifa and BLM also clash with another group "Proud Boys" (an alt-right gang, made up entirely of white males).
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Antifa group goes after the "Proud Boys" with this banner:
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Black Lives Matter Protesters are
co-opted by the Antifa movement
(who are made up of mostly white males and are true Fascists.)
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Antifa, Boogaloo Boys, and Proud Boys is a radioactive mix of violence
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BLM protesters in
Portland decided to kick things up a notch in August 2020, and burn stacks of Bibles. What this
has to do with George Floyd is anyone's guess.
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Senate hearings, courtesy of C-Span, reveal the dark side of Antifa:
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During one event, the police allowed the Proud Boys to brawl with Antifa:
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Antifa are not small in number as seen in the photo below; and in the film that follows, watch the long red-haired woman fighting with the mob:
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Why have the riots lasted so long in Portland? First, the Mayor is supportive of them and has refused to stop the violence. Second, ANTIFA Marxism in Portland is very organized and has had support from Marxist-leaning professors in Oregon universities:
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After the 2016 election,
far-right brawlers began to use Portland as a playground for beatdowns.
For nearly three years, all summer and through
the fall, hundreds of citizens dressed in black have flooded downtown to clash
with men in red "Make America Great Again" caps.
The right-wing brawlers
come to town looking for a fight. Antifa gives it to them—and, according to
some, plays right into the hands of the MAGA crowd.
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The history of corruption in Portland is instructive in understanding corruption in 2020:
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Mayor Ted Wheeler has been allowing anarchy since 2017. Here's a portion of a news article from that year:
Portland mayor stands by
decision to allow antifa to block traffic, hassle motorists
By Valerie Richardson - The
Washington Times - Sunday, October 14, 2018
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler
came under fire over a viral video showing antifa protesters blocking traffic
and harassing drivers, but he says he supports the decision by police to watch
from a distance without getting involved.
“I was appalled by what I saw
in the video, but I support the Portland Police Bureau’s decision not to
intervene,” he said at a press conference. “This whole incident will be
investigated.”
The video posted by
journalist Andy C. Ngo showed protesters, including members of antifa and Black
Lives Matter, blocking an intersection and attempting to direct traffic at
while officers on motorcycle watched from a block away.
At one point, the activists
chased down 74-year-old Kent Houser after he made a right turn against their
wishes, pounding on his silver Lexus and breaking a window. The car sustained
thousands of dollars in damage, he told the Oregonian.
Even so, Mr. Wheeler insisted
that “motorists should feel completely safe coming into downtown Portland."
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Some good kids are now sporting T-shirts that read:
Ted Wheeler:
Supports Antifa Promotes Riots Wants Violence Hates America
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Wheeler is now faced with a re-election, and running against him is a woman who is publicly supporting Antifa !!
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During a recent Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, a
naked woman sat down in the middle of an intersection, spread her legs, and
faced off against a phalanx of cops, their spotlights illuminating her.
Captured in a photo that went viral, the image of the woman, described as an
“apparition” and “Naked Athena,” became a symbol of the city’s BLM protests.
Hailed as vulnerable and brave, she pirouetted as cops shot rubber bullets at
her feet.
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Not all were impressed by the spectacle. E. D. Mondainé,
president of the NAACP’s Portland branch, found Naked Athena’s act symptomatic
of a larger trend: “As the demonstrations continue every night in Portland,
many people with their own agendas are co-opting, and distracting attention
from, what should be our central concern: the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Mondainé is right. Many activists embrace protests as a
stage on which to preen—and they’re not alone. As our current political
discourse shows, many people employ moral talk for self-promotion and
status-seeking. Hoping to be viewed as morally impressive, they use self-righteous
attacks to shame political opponents and earn praise from their own political
tribe. This moral grandstanding clogs up the public square with words aimed not
at helping others but at promoting one’s own moral reputation. Grandstanders
turn discourse into a vanity project.
Studies suggest that most of us think we’re morally superior
to the average person—and we want others to think this of us, too. People
constantly compare themselves with others and try to get a boost in the
competition for social status. Social media and public protests offer ideal
platforms to put moral credentials on display. Some grandstanders seek social
prestige, wanting to present themselves as moral exemplars. Others want to
dominate others, joining in on public shaming to humiliate strangers.
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Grandstanding, it turns out, has poisoned social media,
causing polarization, cynicism, and outrage exhaustion. It also infects our
politics and activism. The incentive for grandstanders is not to do good but to
look good. Too often, these goals conflict, and grandstanders prioritize the
wrong one.
A political culture dominated by grandstanding makes it
harder to solve problems. When grandstanding overtakes public discourse,
activists face a paradox. Activists, like politicians, draw their support from
people who want them to solve important social problems. But if they solve
those problems, then they’ll lose the support that keeps them in business, and
they’ll have to find something else to do. A more sustainable model, then, is
to use activism to impress others and gain status, which then bolsters popular
support. The more gratifying this approach to political action becomes, the
more that people will dedicate themselves to activism for its own sake. If an
activist exploits morality and politics to impress others, he will be motivated
to pursue vague or open-ended goals and create or “discover” new problems,
leaving real problems unaddressed.
The paradox arises at both the individual and organizational
levels. For the individual, his identity as an activist and reformer is at
stake. If he achieves his goals, he will have no reason to remain active in his
cause, aside from watching vigilantly for a reappearance of the issues that
once moved him. He could find a new cause, but that would take time and effort.
When efforts conclude, they can bring an end to meaningful relationships based
on a common purpose, which can lead to a sense of loss and a desire to
reminisce over past victories. Surely, though, these regrets count for little
against the possibility of solving an important social problem. Injustice isn’t
an opportunity to show off for friends or feel important. It’s a call to make
things better.
Organizations also face the paradox. If an organization is
established for a specific cause and is successful in pursuit of it, its
employees may eventually find themselves out of work. They may have planned
their lives around the continued existence of the organization. Thus, the
institution’s achievement of its goals could throw their lives into disarray.
But again, that doesn’t seem like a good enough reason to hope that a serious
problem never gets solved—or, if it does get solved, to insist that something
is still wrong. Many activists, seeking to continue their work, find it
irresistible to hunt for moral wrongs.
The point of political action is to solve problems, not to
create a forum for the glorification of those who participate. But formulating
clear goals and identifying workable solutions often take a backseat to the
need to grandstand. When politics becomes a morality pageant, the contestants
have an incentive to preserve the problems they campaign against.
Justin Tosi is assistant professor of philosophy at Texas
Tech University. Brandon Warmke is assistant professor of philosophy at Bowling
Green State University. They are coauthors of Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse
of Moral Talk.
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Leaf Blower Protesters Protesters come out prepared with Leaf Blowers to blow back the tear gas from the police:
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A Portland Police sergeant gives his assessment in the following 2 videotaped clips of an interview:
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The General Public is finally catching on to the Marxist background of the Black Lives Matter organization (not the slogan):
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It made no difference that the Federal Marshals left Portland; the riots continued and the city police had to deal with the same issues, this time without the additional federal assistance.
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Pioneer Family statue in downtown Portland is destroyed:
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Downtown Portland has lost
$23 million in recent riots, says Portland Business Alliance
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Senator Cruz calls for investigations of
Antifa, Portland Mayor
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How long will Democrats
pretend the chaos in Portland is normal?
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Rioters in Portland are allowed to organize their "equipment" of hate and pass them out to the "Peaceful Protesters": shields, sprays, signs, etc.:
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Mayor Ted Wheeler forced from his home after riot in his neighborhood,
Sept 1, 2020:
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Democrat Mayors are forced to flee their homes:
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson
(D) has temporarily relocated from her Central West End home, the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch reported on Wednesday, after her neighborhood landed in the
national spotlight when two neighbors emerged in June to point weapons at
protesters.
In Chicago, Mayor Lori
Lightfoot (D) has assigned police to control access to her street to keep
protesters away, citing threats she has received. Police have locked down
Lightfoot’s block using a local ordinance that bans even peaceful protests in
residential neighborhoods.
As hundreds of protesters
gathered Monday outside a condo building where mayor Wheeler lives in the upscale
Pearl District of Portland, Ore., some set off fireworks, sprayed graffiti and
broke windows. After someone tossed a burning object inside, police pushed the
crowd away and made 19 arrests.
The next day, Portland Mayor
Ted Wheeler (D) sent a letter to his neighbors letting them know he planned to
move out of his $840,000 condo in response to a string of protests targeting
the building, the Oregonian reported.
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The BIG Mistake: Portland Police trying to placate the protesters by "Taking a Knee":
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ANARCHY has spread from Portland to Eugene, Oregon
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Anarchy which has been allowed to continue in Portland, Oregon by the Mayor and City Council,
has become the laboratory of violence for Eugene, Oregon
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Vandalism is Violence: Destructive Riots are not 'Just Property Damage.' Property rights are human rights, and we discard them at our own peril.
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Mainstream Media calls this "Peaceful Protesters?" Notice the police trying to escape the protesters:
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ANARCHY quashed in Kenosha
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Foreign Correspondents, who have been following American politics, are on the scene in Kenosha, Wisconsin:
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ANARCHY reigns in Chicago
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Mayor of Chicago bows down to the socialist minority and removes statues of Columbus under cover of darkness to "cancel the culture":
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How the "peaceful protest" was transformed into a riot; then the rioters ambushed the Chicago Police.
Watch carefully and note the use of the black umbrellas and the men who change their clothes in order to wear all black:
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One reporter doesn't seem to know why the Looting (stealing) returned to Chicago,
August 9, 2020:
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Here's the truth of what happened; it was organized Looting (stealing) and it had NOTHING to do with George Floyd:
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CHICAGO — Hundreds of young
people looted stores, broke into indoor shopping malls and battled with police
overnight Sunday into Monday in the city’s central downtown business district.
The reason for the unrest,
according to several looters who spoke to The Washington Post on Monday, were
reports alleging a police-involved killing of a Black man on the city’s South
Side late Sunday afternoon. But police said those accounts were misinformation
spread across social media that appeared to encourage people to head downtown
to create violence.
Chicago Police Superintendent
David Brown said Monday that officers responded to a call about a man with a
gun in the Englewood area; once spotting the man, they pursued him on foot.
After the man shot at them, police said, the officers returned fire. The man,
20, is now recovering at the University of Chicago Hospital and is expected to
survive, police said.
“This was not an organized
protest. This was an act of pure criminality,” Brown said.
Downtown Shop Owners Clean
Up After Looting:
‘This Is My Whole Life Savings’
Many of the shops were looted
two months ago after protests demanding justice for the police killing of
George Floyd. The latest looting came after police shot a man in Englewood who aimed a gun and shot at an officer.
“Demonstrating peacefully is
great, but this … this is done intentionally,” he said in a sea of damaged
goods as an alarm chirped in the background.
Police monitoring social
media said they saw posts encouraging people to form a car caravan to the Loop
so they could loot, Brown said.
“This was not an organized
protest; rather, this was an incident of pure criminality. This was an act of
violence against our police officers and against our city,” he said during a
Monday morning press conference.
Dozens of stores had windows
smashed and merchandise stolen, including in River North, the Gold Coast, the
Loop and South Loop. Damage was also seen at the Apple store at North and
Clybourn in Lincoln Park. The first incident of looting happened at a store
near 87th and the Dan Ryan, Brown said.
A scared cleaning crew locked
themselves inside Nordstrom, according to reports.
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A local reporter tells what happened in Chicago on the night of August 9, 2020:
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Economic Recovery will be difficult to impossible, if state and local governments don't step in and stop the violence and stealing.
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Riots, looting, and stealing is NOT "Peaceful Protesting" and Black and White people are involved in massive theft of that which does not belong to them.
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Here is CNN News falsely reporting what is happening:
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Take a closer look at the screen above. CNN wrongly attributed the riots to "fears of a corona virus":
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"Corona Virus" has nothing to do with stealing that which is not yours.
In another instance, CNN wrongly put up video of buildings burning in the background with a reporter, then on the screen beside their "Breaking News" they say: "Peaceful Protest."
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Some store owners are fighting back:
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ANARCHY reigns in Seattle
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Seattle did not settle down after the "CHOP/CHAZ" was closed in that anarchist occupy movement in the Seattle Capitol Hill area.
Riots are back in full force. There is an online website "Seattle Met" which supports the riots with a Windows-style Excel Spreadsheet calendar showing where the riots and protests are planned for each month; inviting different groups to join on different days; telling groups to provide food, etc. on certain days. It's organized mayhem and violence writ large.
Seattle Police Department said the protests were not peaceful, but violent. Here is the report from July 24, 2020:
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Black Lives Matter is the new
Trojan Horse in our country.
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Violent Protests are NOT about
Black Lives Matter........
but the overthrow of our country.
It is being correctly and independently reported that Democrat mayors and governors in charge of cities and states which continue to experience riots and stealing, are fanning the flames by not cooperating with the police in their cities; have been cutting police budgets, even while the Federal government has offered assistance:
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Summary of "Peaceful "Protests" on
July 27, 2020:
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Meanwhile, in Kentucky, the death of Breonna Taylor is being used as a Trojan Horse to exploit racial tensions:
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One city in my home state is marching in support of their police: Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Hundreds marched in
Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Sunday to show their support for the police, amid
nationwide calls for defunding and even dismantling law enforcement
departments. Protesters, mostly white people, were chanting "Back the
Blue" as they gathered in downtown Fredericksburg, then marched to
Fredericksburg Police Department, where Chief Brian Layton acknowledged the
support and thanked the participants. A demonstrator, Susan Weimer, admitted
that although she did not know "the specifics" of what defunding the
police meant, she does not want it "to happen at all." "I think
retraining officers is important, but defunding and taking away from them and
showing the disrespect that so many have done for officers is not
acceptable," she added.
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The war against white people
By Jim Cegielski
Jun 26, 2020
I would hope by now that it is clear
to everyone that the protesting, rioting, looting, vandalism and anarchy that
has gripped this nation has nothing to do with justice for George Floyd. It doesn’t
even have anything to do with ending racism. Actually, it is the complete
opposite. It has everything to do with promoting racism, but this time it is
racism against white people. It’s about the false narrative that white people
are evil and must be punished for the crime of being born white.
Just look what has happened with
NASCAR, a sport that has a fan base that is predominantly white. First, they
banned Confederate flags while at the same time embracing Black Lives Matter, a
group that is the equivalent of the KKK. This is a group that openly hates
white people. Even their name is racist. Yes, black lives matter but no more
than Chinese lives, Hispanic lives or white lives. But BLM is worse than just a
group that hates white people. This is a group that openly and proudly calls
for the murder of police officers. Yet NASCAR, The NFL and just about every
other sport openly embrace them.
And don’t even get me started on the
billions of dollars of corporate money that is being thrown at this terrorist
organization. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Nike are just a few of the dozens of
big corporations that are treating a domestic terrorist organization like this
one as the second coming of the Boys and Girls Club of America. It’s sick, it’s
appeasement and it’s no better than those who supported the Nazi Party in 1920.
But back to NASCAR. After their lone
black driver, Bubba Wallace, who drives a Black Lives Matter car, claimed that
a noose was found in his assigned garage at Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR put
on a big show of support for Wallace even though there was absolutely no proof
that anyone had committed any sort of racist act. Of course, the media, which
is hyping the crap out of the “racist white America” (read Donald Trump
supporter) narrative because they believe it helps Joe Biden, played the story
to the hilt. This mysterious noose was all the proof they needed that every
white person in America is indeed a racist devil.
The story gets worse. No fewer than 15
FBI special agents descended on Talladega Superspeedway to apprehend the
culprit. Because let’s face it, this was the crime of the century. Apparently,
much worse than the murder of 3-year-old toddler Mekhi James, who was gunned
down in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend or the more than 100 other
Chicagoans who were shot on that same weekend. No, that was black on black
violence and it is apparently of no concern because it is too difficult to pin
those on evil white people.
We still have no idea who shot and
killed innocent little Mekhi James, but fortunately, the FBI was able to get to
the bottom of the mysterious NASCAR noose. Apparently the “noose” wasn’t a
noose at all and instead was a pull for a garage door. It took one day to
figure out through video evidence that the “noose” had been hanging in that
particular garage since October 2019 and had absolutely nothing to do with
Bubba Wallace or his Black Lives Matter car. Of course, instead of apologizing
for creating a racist witch hunt, Wallace went on the leftwing networks to insist
that indeed the rope he saw was an actual noose.
In the meantime, Mekhi James is still
dead and very few people seem to care about that. As a matter of fact, the only
way Mekhi James’ death would get the attention it deserves is if he would have
been killed by a white person. CNN and their ilk would have devoted hundreds of
hours to that story because it fits the false narrative they want to jam down
our throats.
A few years ago, I wrote a column in
response to the call to take down Confederate statues and change the
Mississippi state flag. At that time I wrote that if you appeased the left and
gave into those demands then it would only be a matter of time before they came
after George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the American flag.
Well, I’m not claiming to be
Nostradamus as it wasn’t a hard prediction to make, but it’s now upon us. A
Portland, Ore., statue of George Washington, the father of this nation and the
soul of everything we stand for, had an American flag draped over his head, lit
on fire and then toppled to the ground and defaced. The perpetrators of that
crime should have been bayoneted to death. Instead, nothing happened to them.
They were appeased.
Black Lives Matter and their white
Marxist brethren in Antifa don’t want to simply demonize white America, they
want to destroy it. What they are doing to our monuments is symbolic of what
they openly admit they want to do to America — burn it to the ground.
Democrats, the media and large corporations better be careful of supporting the
terrorist anti-American behavior of both of these groups because they will
eventually turn on them.
It’s not just Washington, Jefferson
and Christopher Columbus statues that are under attack. The Lincoln Memorial
was vandalized and a Ulysses S. Grant statue was toppled. What were the sins of
Lincoln and Grant in the eyes of these terrorists? My guess is they were white.
Does anyone really believe that these same people are going to accept a
demented old white guy named Joe Biden as their president?
And just this week, Sean King, a
leader in the BLM movement, called for the tearing down of murals, stained
glass and statues of Jesus Christ, calling them “a gross form of white
supremacy.” These are the people Americans are appeasing.
Like the Nazis, BLM and Antifa are
attempting to take over a country through violence, intimidation and fear. They
want to erase our history, disrupt our way of life and then control our future.
And we are allowing them to do exactly that.
President Trump finally sent in the
National Guard to protect our monuments in Washington, D.C. I don’t know why it
took him so long. And where are Republicans in general? Sadly, the Republican
Party is America’s only hope of being saved from a Marxist totalitarian future
in which all of the freedoms that this country was founded on are stripped
away. People will be persecuted for merely speaking their mind or, worse yet,
for being born white. It’s already happening. The Democrats and media are
clearly on the side of the anarchists. All we have left is the Republicans, but
the Republicans are oddly and dangerously quiet.
I’m sure many of you are asking the
same thing that I am, “Why am I outraged by what is going on in this country
but none of our elected officials are doing anything about it?” Are they
scared?Are they in hiding? This isn’t a time for cowardice. This isn’t a
time for appeasement. Millions of Jews died because the Nazis were
appeased and allowed to flourish. This time the victims of totalitarianism
won’t be European Jews, it will be white middle-class Americans.
Jim Cegielski is publisher of the
Leader-Call. He lives in Laurel.
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Black Americans
are speaking out against this racist (yes, THEY are "Racist"), BLM/Marxist and Antifa movement:
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Some Black candidates for public office are not staying quiet and are telling the truth to the public:
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Herschel
Walker slams BLM as 'anti-government, anti-American, anti-Christian,
anti-everything' and asks NFL owners and players 'is this who you are
supporting' after learning founders once called themselves 'trained Marxists'?
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Marxist Organization Black Lives Matter want to destroy our American way of life and government. There is a difference between the slogan "Black Lives Matter" and the Organization:
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George Floyd's brother calls out the rioters and protesters who are destroying property and attacking people:
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Muhammad Ali was a boxing legend. His son,Muhammad Ali, Jr., has come out against the Black Lives Matter group as being "racist." He said that his father believed that ALL LIVES MATTER. He supports President Trump.
Here is the report:
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Rosalynn Carter's
former press secretary
Barbara Heineback speaks out on Black Lives Matter, Black-on-Black Crime, and the failure of President Obama to speak out.
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It’s
disappointing Barack Obama is refusing to speak about the epidemic of
black-on-black crime now that his presidency is over, according to Rosalynn
Carter's former press secretary Barbara Heineback. According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the Justice Department, African Americans
die from homicide at 13 times the rate of white Americans, with the bulk of
those homicides are black-on-black incidents. Ms Heinback told Sky News
President Obama should use his office to draw attention to the crisis. “Why
hasn’t he said anything, he refuses to talk about black-on-black crime,” she
said. "You are having more murders in Chicago, Illinois over a weekend
than we did over the Vietnam War.” "He refuses to speak about it."
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A young Black politician has decided to do something about the ghetto that Baltimore has become. Having visited that city myself, I totally agree with her assessment:
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Slides from the end of the Baltimore video for reference:
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Kim Klacik is interviewed on Australian national television:
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Anarchy reigns in
New York
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What happens when you attempt to
de-fund the police
and New York City
is a good example where the current mayor wants to shift $1billion from the Police Department to social services:
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This de-funding effort came after the Mayor's daughter, seen here with her father, was arrested, and had initially spoken about the violence:
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Daughter of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, arrested in
Manhattan protest
June 1, 2020
NEW
YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daughter was arrested Saturday night during a
protest near Union Square, police sources said.
Chiara
de Blasio, 25, was busted on 12th Street and Broadway, as part of a group of
about 100 people who were throwing objects toward cops, sources said.
The
mayor’s daughter didn’t toss anything, but refused to leave the area when cops
ordered her to do so, sources said.
She
was arrested at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, given a desk appearance ticket charging
her with unlawful assembly, and released, one source said.
She
gave her dad’s Gracie Mansion address to the arrest cops.
According
to another source, Chiara de Blasio has been quarantining at Gracie Mansion
with her brother, Dante; mom, Chirlane McCray, and the mayor.
The
NYPD made 345 arrests by early Sunday after a chaotic night of protests and
looting in New York City over the death of George Floyd that saw 33 cops
injured and 47 police vehicles damaged, sources said.
Shortly
after his daughter’s arrest, the mayor spoke out against the growing violence
at the protests:
“If
you went out peacefully to make a point for the need for change, you have been
heard and change is coming. It’s time to go home so we can all move forward,”
Mr. de Blasio said. “But those who are out there simply to express violence and
express hatred against our police officers, if you are going to commit violence
you will get arrested. You will feel the consequences of that activity.”
City
Hall declined to immediately comment Sunday night.
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What is the truth about systemic racism (a 'throw-away' 'catch phrase' used by BLM Marxists) in police departments? The statistical data do not support the lies being perpetrated on the public by the BLM, Anarchist, Antifa, and racist politicians:
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Anarchy in upstate Rochester, New York:
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Several thousand people marched down East Avenue from
downtown, and turned right on Alexander Street before approaching restaurants
with diners eating outside at around 9:35 p.m.
Video footage shows protesters crowding the landing at Swan
Dive on Alexander Street. Some cleared tables of people eating outside, causing
the diners to get up and leave. A chair was thrown toward the building and a
number of protesters can be heard decrying that behavior.
Minutes later, members of the group crossed the street and
entered an outdoor seating area at Ox and Stone, where several large groups of
diners were seated. Chairs were overturned and glasses were shattered on the
tables as protesters motioned for the dining groups to get up and leave.
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Minneapolis.......months after the George Floyd incident:
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Denver, unlike many of the aforementioned cities, where Anarchy reigns, is doing something about the riots:
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Los Angeles: now Day 4 of riots (Sept 8, 2020). Police report that this riot had nothing to do with an armed felon who was recently shot by police, but the rioters were from outside the state and were armed with typical Antifa gear.
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Lancaster, PA: Knife wielding man attacks police and is shot. Sept 2020. BLM protests still erupted even though the man shot was at fault trying to kill the police.
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Floyd actually died of an overdose:
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Unlike the 'Mainstream Media' in the United States, the Australian television stations and
British Newspapers are correctly reporting what is going on IN the
United States:
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What happened to the daughter of a Texas Police Officer who was killed in the line of duty:
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The view from our friends and allies in Australia is enlightening.
(Courtesy of SkyNews Australia)
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The Destruction of REASON has seen the rise of IGNORANCE....Again
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Riots have shown 'how weak western governments
have become'
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CULTURAL VANDALISM: Too easy to say "it will never happen":
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Black Lives Matter protesters are not as "peaceful" as the mainstream media portray them to be:
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United States is becoming ideologically fractured amid leftist media agendas:
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GUY MUNCHING ON NOODLES REBUTS CNNs CHRIS COMO'S MISREADING OF THE CONSTITUTION:
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Riots no longer have anything to do with the George Floyd incident:
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Who is responsible for the riots?
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Who is promoting Socialism in our country?
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The slogan "Black Lives Matter" is the 'Trojan Horse' for a Marxist movement. The people who were there for George Floyd months ago, have now been replaced by the hardcore Marxists.
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Identity Politics Explodes:
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Australians (and Americans) are entitled to ask why different rules apply to Activists when it comes to COVID-19 restrictions, i.e., NO masks, NO social distancing:
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Black Lives Matter and Antifa Protesters are playing Russian Roulette with people's lives!!!! (NO Masks, NO Social Distancing)
while all law-abiding citizens are following those guidelines.
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The latest poll taken in Australia:
Protesters in large numbers during COVID-19 are putting their entire country at risk. And the poll reveals that most Australians think that the situation in America is very different to Australia and has no relevance their own situation as far as race relations is concerned. But there are those who want to import the problematic BLM and Antifa protests to their country:
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Black Lives Matter mass protests with
NO social distancing and NO face mask are contributing to the spread of COVID-19. City Officials who approve all these protests, while making law-abiding citizens stay home are hypocrites with a double standard:
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August 29, 2020: The latest craziness in England and other major countries.
More than 10,000 COVID conspiracy theorists
gather in London: Huge crowd of anti-vaxxers led by David Icke gather to argue
that virus is a lie spread in secret global plot organised by
Bill Gates.
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Huge crowd gathered in London 's
Trafalgar Square to protest against government's Covid restrictions.
Mass demonstration is one of several
taking place around the world today as Europe cases continue to surge.
Demonstrators hold signs
claiming masks reduce immunity and some likened restrictions to 'child
torture'.
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Who are the "Stand Up
X" who organised today's demonstration and what do they believe in?
"Stand Up X"
describe themselves as a 'community of people protesting and standing up for
our rights'.
Its website cites
various bizarre conspiracy theories about government control - including about
5G.
They stand in
opposition to the Government's measures to slow the spread of deadly
coronavirus - which has killed more than 40,000 people in the UK alone.
They believe
Britain's 'new normal' - the widely-accepted social distancing measures put in
place across the UK - amount to 'authoritarian control'.
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Now England faces more outbreaks from the COVID-19 Virus because of this HOAX perpetrated on an unsuspecting and uneducated public. Unbelievable that people could be so stupid.
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Anti-Semitism is a sin.
But many in the Black Lives Matter movement are practicing it.
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A Canadian sculptor made the following statement:
"Removing my statue of John A. Macdonald from view is
not going to change our history"
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Artist John Dann working on his
sculpture of Sir John A. Macdonald in 1981. The statue was installed outside
Victoria's City Hall in 1982 and has now been removed.
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Cancelling our Culture: the new Insanity
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BLACK LIVES MARXIST ACTIVISTS
ARE TWISTING YOUR WORDS:
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U.S. Media becoming "de facto propaganda arm" of the Democratic Party:
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Individuals are Speaking Out against the "Cancel Culture":
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I am proud of young people like Nick, who stand up for what is right and will not be 'cancelled' or bullied by the mob. We need more authentic "Civics" education for our young people in high schools today; true government education courses, that include constitutional and state history; how our federal and state governments work.
One book my brother and I had to supplement our high school text was "Your Rugged Constitution," which is still available (photo below). It went step by step through the Constitution and also how a bill "enrolled" in Congress, would become law. There are many good textbooks still available and there is no excuse for our schools not teaching the Civics lessons which are needed today.
-Joe Hughes
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WHO IS ILHAN OMAR ?
DID YOU KNOW SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER ?
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Australians refuse to bow to the 'cancel culture' and remove statues of
Captain James Cook, early explorer
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Mentioned in the above video, is the Marxist and anti-democratic organization called "U.S. Architecture Think Tank" which proposes changing buildings, monuments, etc. to conform to their racist viewpoint; and getting a foothold in schools of architecture to graduate students who will carry out their despicable agenda. I have researched this organization, and the commentator in the forgoing video is absolutely correct in his assessment of this leftist organization.
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BLM further divides people and makes race relations far more antagonistic
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Just because the mob is screaming is no reason to give into them.
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BLM Mob surrounds a woman at Washington, D.C. restaurant screaming “White Silence is Violence!” and demanding she show solidarity.
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Above picture shows as Black Lives Matter mob harassed, screamed at,
flipped off and abused a young white couple sitting outside at an outdoor
restaurant trying to eat their meal.
The BLM mob (mostly white young people) was OUTRAGED that the young white couple would
not raise the black power fist in support of the Marxist BLM movement.
The Australian commentator accuses them of being "sooks" which is an Australian/Canadian name for those who complain.
Do people harassing the couple actually believe this is helping race relations?
Here's the video, and listen closely as you'll hear one of the white girl protesters ask, "Are you a Christian?" Clearly handing the lady at the table a 'guilt trip.' That protester is certainly not acting Christ-like.
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In
Washington DC, a diner is tormented by Black Lives Matter mob
By Dominic Sandbrook for the Daily Mail, 26 Aug 2020
The footage could hardly be more chilling,
like something from the wilder fringes of Hollywood's dystopian imagination.
A woman sits at a table, recoiling in fear.
She is penned in, surrounded by a mob of masked men and women, their clenched
fists raised menacingly in the air.
Again and again the rhythmic chants go up:
'White silence is violence! No justice, no peace!' The woman shrinks further
back in her chair. The mob moves in. Some of them lean into her face. They
stand over her, fists raised, shrieking and shouting, demanding that she too
raises her arm in salute.
On and on it goes. Nobody comes to her defence.
It's an awful scene, reminiscent of the street scenes in in the spring of 1933,
when Nazi thugs demanded that ordinary people raise their arms in homage to
Hitler.
Black Lives Matter mob harasses woman for
not raising her fist
But this is not Germany in 1933, and neither
is it some overwrought science-fiction vision of the future. This was
Washington DC, one of the great capitals of the democratic West, just two days
ago.
The woman's name was Lauren Victor, and her
crime was to have been spotted having dinner outside a Washington restaurant.
The mob were, inevitably, Black Lives Matter protesters, roaming the streets of
the US capital during their latest demonstrations about alleged police
brutality towards black Americans.
According to an appalled reporter from the
Washington Post, the predominantly white activists were trying to force
ordinary diners to raise their fists and join in with their chants. Miss
Victor, an urban planner, said no.
Ironically, it turns out she had previously
been on Black Lives Matter marches herself, but now she just wanted to have her
dinner in peace. 'It didn't feel right,' she said afterwards, adding that she
felt 'under attack'.
That seems a remarkably understated way of
putting it. I wonder how many of us, in Miss Victor's shoes, would show the
same grace and guts under such horrendous pressure. In almost every detail,
it's a scene that turns your stomach.
The snarls of aggression and ritual chanting
are nothing new. Neither is the hysterical, bullying tone of the protesters.
But the facemasks give the episode a deeply
sinister feel. So do the ubiquitous camera phones, held up as if the protesters
are recording Miss Victor's non-compliance for some future show trial. In
America, the pictures inspired well-deserved horror.
Many moderate black leaders were quick to
express their condemnation, and even some Black Lives Matter protesters were
eager to distance themselves.
This is insane,' tweeted the award-winning black writer
Thomas Chatterton Williams. 'This is cult behaviour. This is what a moral panic
powered by technology looks like.'
He
was, of course, quite right. Yes, black Americans are often grievously
mistreated by the US police; and yes, racism in any form is self-evidently
despicable.
But
for weeks now it has been obvious that whatever its origins, the Black Lives
Matter movement has become a nihilistic, monomaniacal cult. And I would go further.
It
is now perilously close to fascism – not, perhaps, the same kind of fascism
practised by Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels, but fascism of a peculiarly
sinister 21st-century variety.
Like
all true fascists, the most extreme BLM supporters have a crude,
conspiracy-theory view of history. They believe that the world is steeped in
evil, thanks to the machinations of their morally diseased opponents.
They
believe that through the fires of destruction – 'defunding' the police, tearing
down statues, emptying museums – humanity can be purged of its original sin.
Like
the Nazis, they regard the very idea of objective truth with contempt, and
claim that language itself is tainted by the past.
Like
the Nazis, too, they see themselves as victims – even though, as the pictures
show, all but a handful of the activists were no blacker than I am.
There
is, of course, a bleak irony here. Over time, it has become glaringly obvious
that the BLM movement is largely driven by rich, white, expensively educated
Left-wing university graduates, like the people involved with Oxford's Rhodes
Must Fall movement.
A
year ago, they were marching behind the banners of Extinction Rebellion. But
anti-racism has become their new status symbol, their latest fashionable bien-pensant
cause.
In
their twisted minds, these spoiled brats' sense of victimhood entitles them to
do whatever they please to advance their cause. Traditions and customs, the
basic decencies and conventions of everyday life, are their sworn enemies.
Their
sacred cause permits them to break whatever laws they like. If they loot and
riot, if they tear down busts and statues, it is entirely justified. And if
they break social distancing rules in a pandemic, it doesn't matter – because,
according to BLM supporters, 'we are living in a racism pandemic' as well.
It
is tempting, of course, to pretend that this merely a mad aberration, which is
precisely what some people said in the 1930s. But we know that's not true.
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Here in Britain, too, shrieking mobs have
taken to the streets, tearing down statues and screaming at passers-by. When
the outspoken Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens went to watch a BLM
protest in Oxford, they jeered and howled at him, even following him down the
street.
For the believer in the cause, no
disagreement can be tolerated. Doubters and sceptics must be silenced. It is
true, of course, that the anarchists and anti-capitalists in the BLM movement
are only a tiny minority.
But like all intolerant, authoritarian
minorities, they demand the collaboration of the quiet, easy-going majority.
And because so few people want to be called 'racists', they often get it.
That's why the scenes in Washington, however
shocking, were also depressingly familiar. Like Hitler's stormtroopers before
them, the protesters wanted ordinary diners to raise their fists and join in
their chants. And hoping to be left alone, many of them did so.
Here in Britain, too, cowardly and foolish
people in our major cultural institutions, from the BBC and the National Trust
to Oxford University and the British Museum, can hardly wait to fall meekly
into line with the bullies' demands. That's how coercion and collaboration
work.
In many ways these dreadful scenes recall the
world created by the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood in her disturbing book
The Handmaid's Tale.
In Atwood's novel, now an equally chilling TV
series, America has fallen under the sway of a weird fundamentalist sect. Doubt
and disagreement are savagely punished.
Suffused with moral certainty, the
perpetrators never doubt that they, and they alone, are on the side of justice.
But I'm also struck by the parallels with
George Orwell's terrifyingly prescient book Nineteen Eighty Four. There, if you
remember, Britain is controlled by the Thought Police, who have erased any
trace of our history and demand total suppression of individual freedom.
Like the BLM protesters, Orwell's Thought Police
want to control language itself, turning plain English into the jargon known as
Newspeak.
'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow
the range of thought?' one character says. 'In the end we shall make
thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to
express it.'
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According to a reporter from the
Washington Post, the predominantly white activists were trying to force
ordinary diners to raise their fists and join in with their chants
That, I think, perfectly captures the spirit of today's
self-appointed Thought Police – the kind of people who chant that 'white
silence is violence', even though it manifestly isn't.
It is no exaggeration to say that these self-styled
activists will not rest until every museum has been remodelled, every patriotic
hymn suppressed, every country house 'contextualised', every employee
re-educated, every curriculum rewritten. That, too, is how fascism works.
There is only one way to stop them. They cannot be appeased,
for with every concession their appetite grows. We cannot ignore them and hope
they will go away. Nor can we go along with them and hope they leave us alone.
The only way to beat them is to stand up to them, and say: 'No.'
That brings me back to that video in Washington. For there's
another way of looking at those pictures, which tells a rather more inspiring
story.
It's not the story of the intolerant mob who ranted and
raved, or the story of the countless passers-by who looked on and did nothing.
It's the story of Lauren Victor, the woman at the table.
For even as the new fascists came closer and closer, raising
their voices louder and louder, she still said: 'No.'
Remember her, the woman who said: 'No'. For when such
scenes come to Britain, as they assuredly will, that is the only way we'll beat
these bullies.
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Then, there's the abusive Biden supporter....
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Athletes are pressured to "take a knee" but not all are 'bowing' to their
Marxist agenda:
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The Smithsonian Institute
makes a "primitive" stand on "Whiteness"
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Australian's are standing up to the "Cancel Culture" but a British Cathedral bows to the BLM, and re-paints a picture of "The Last Supper" with a picture of a black Jamaican model, instead of the typical Middle Eastern Jesus.
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Political Correctness and the "WOKE" Culture
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Misusing the English language for Marxist purposes:
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Go "Woke" Go "Broke" is a good answer to those corporations who want to "Go Woke":
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Seattle tells it's white employees
to work on undoing their 'whiteness'
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Former President Obama calls out
"Woke Culture" as Politically Naive.
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Biden has many problems with his racist past. Overseas news organizations are stepping up to report the truth of what happened in this latest incident:
Biden
labeled 'racist' for saying people could quarantine because 'some Black woman
stacked the grocery shelf'
'They’re
saying, 'Jeeze, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because
some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf,' Biden was heard saying
in the clip:
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Black American man in personal video (seen below) talks to a friend about Biden's racist positions and, we discover that he is well-versed in why Trump is NOT a RACIST.
(WARNING: Language is not suitable for anyone under 21).
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden came under fire
recently for a clip that went viral on social media where he was heard saying
he was able to go into Covid-19 lockdown because he knew "some Black woman
was able to stack the grocery shelf".
The 10-second video was originally shared by a pro-Trump
Twitter user whose account was suspended sometime on Monday, October 5, evening
after his tweet went viral. The clip in question contained a fragment of the
comments made by the former vice-president during a September 15 roundtable
with veterans in Tampa, Florida, and was uploaded on September 29. During
the roundtable, Biden took a positive tone, saying that he was "more
optimistic ... than I’ve ever been in my whole career" when it comes to
dealing with the social and economic issues that the nation was facing,
especially in the light of the ones that stemmed from the ongoing pandemic.
"And they say, 'Well, why in the hell would you say
that Biden? You just talked about all these difficulties.' Well, I’ll tell you
why. Because the American public, the blinders have been taken off," Biden
told the attendees. "They’ve all of a sudden seen a hell of a lot clearer.
They’re saying, 'Jeeze, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is
because some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf. Or a young
Hispanic is out there, these dreamers are out there, 60,000 of them acting as
first responders and nurses and docs.' Or all of a sudden people are realizing,
'My Lord, these people have done so much. Not just Black, White, across the
board, have done so much for me. We can do this. We can get things done.' And I
think they’re ready."
Could you speak a bit louder for those of us in
the back?
“The reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home was
because some black woman was able to stock the grocery shelf.”
pic.twitter.com/TV5yDQKMra
— Dan Mellis (@MtgGuyDan) October 5, 2020
After the short clip went viral, many of the conservatives
branded Biden a "racist". "What???? And Black folks STILL giving
him a pass!" National Diversity Coalition for Trump CEO Dr. Darrell Scott
exclaimed. "You ain’t Black if you ain’t stocking a grocery shelf for Joe
Biden," political commentator Dave Rubin quipped, alluding to Biden's
infamous "You ain't Black" gaffe from earlier this year. "This
should spark a lot of conversation about the morality of the lockdowns and how
we’ve made lower-income Americans into human shields," Ricochet editor
Bethany Mandel tweeted.
"Joe Biden: 'The reason I was able to stay home was
because some black woman was able to stock the grocery shelf.' Just so we're
clear—the media is more upset at the fact that Donald Trump is healthy than
they are at Joe Biden for making ANOTHER blatantly racist comment,"
tweeted Charlie Kirk, the founder and president of Turning Point USA.
Right-wing radio host Dan Bongino said, "Biden had better denounce white
supremacy immediately or he’s definitely a racist."
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee discusses the first debate and Joe Biden's KKK contacts:
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Biden's racism was evident to the general public early in the Democratic primary:
Joe Biden’s Stunningly Racist Answer on the Legacy of
Slavery Has Been Overlooked
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'Put y'all back
in chains'? More Biden being Biden
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Back when she was
San Francisco D.A., U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, now a presidential contender
and a self-described "progressive prosecutor," cost the city of San
Francisco millions of dollars and cost Jamal Trulove more than six years of his
life. Harris allowed the people working under her to pursue a murder charge
against Trulove that was ultimately overturned by an appeals court. Harris has
yet to account for this incident, which is in stark contrast to the progressive
image she is trying to project as she runs for president. Trulove shares his
experience growing up in San Francisco and his thoughts on Harris' role in his
case. (Despite numerous attempts to reach her, Harris did not return VICE's
requests for comment.) Update from 8/14/20 - Jamal Trulove shared his thoughts
on Harris’ nomination for Vice President via a video on his Twitter.
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The BLM debate has gone away, and rioters are now demanding homes of other people:
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And here we are. BLM and its associates, despite being the direct
descendants of Marxist domestic terrorists, despite rejecting the principles of
America itself, and despite holding views that are not even representative of
the people they purport to represent, now have the resources and path they need
to wreak the havoc they have been planning for years. They have already
succeeded in causing more chaos than their intellectual parents. As ever, the
Democratic Party refuses to oust or reject them from its ranks with vigor.
Worse, outside of President Trump, many in the Republican Party are still too
cowardly to denounce them—even as America burns.
Our failure to stop this movement decades ago is what led us to this
moment. Now, we have no choice. It is time to stop pretending that BLM and
Antifa are anything other than domestic terrorist groups led by radicals who
seek to rip America apart.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER IS A COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION
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Bishop Fulton J. Sheen addresses the subject of Patriotism.
When I first saw this, I thought to myself, well it's from a different religious source, but if you heard this without seeing it, you would think it was recorded yesterday. I think it's well worth a look.
Sounds like ANTIFA and BLM today;
revolutionaries without flags; they are small minorities, but they are the most
vocal and scaring the majority to bend to their will because of their
violence.
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In his acceptance speech, candidate Joe Biden repeated
the lie in which the democrats claim President Trump spoke about white
supremacists at the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, as being “very
fine people.”
But at the time of the 2017
Charlottesville protests, President Trump had made his stance clear:
“I’m not talking about the
neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally
– but you had may people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white
nationalists, okay?
Now, in the other group also,
you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers [Antifa] and you see
them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball
bats – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too."
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For the first time in my memory, the Democrat Party changed the Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag, to leave off the words "under God."
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Democrats have crafted a platform that is based on the Socialist agenda of Bernie Sanders and other left-wing-Marxists. Socialism is, for the first time I can remember, now one of the guiding principles of that party:
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What has happened to Civility in public discourse?
As far as the first Presidential Debate of September 29th is concerned, I was disappointed with both men. There was no civility and I feel sure that my father would have turned off the television set before it ended. This will be discussed further.
In one video, further down on this page, a Democrat Congresswoman is actually advocating violence by her constituents in an open-air rally. This should not be. I was not brought up to behave that way nor was I taught in school that this is how a member of Congress would behave. I would never have believed that this prominent Black Democrat Congresswoman would have stooped to expressing such a disgraceful remark, had I not heard and seen it for myself.
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Fact Checking the insults in the first debate:
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I grew up in an age when television journalists were honest and forthright. The first convention I remember seeing was the one nominating Eisenhower for a second term, on a black and white TV set. It was an age when both political parties had great orators and civility was continually practiced.
In the following collage of pictures from CBS News, in public domain of some of those I remember: top row, L-R: Douglas Edwards, Marvin Kalb, John Cameron Swayze, Eric Sevareid, and Roger Mudd. Center: Edward R. Murrow, Dan Rather. Bottom Row: Robert Trout, Richard C. Hottelet, Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite.
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But, as journalist and ABC TV newsman Ted Koppel recently pointed out, the news has become very slanted:
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Sky News host Rita Panahi says
former US President Barack Obama was full of hyperbole with little action, but
his “greatest legacy” is President Donald Trump. President Trump formally
accepted the Republican Party’s nomination last week during the final event of
the party’s convention at the White House. Mr Trump signaled the upcoming
election was the “most important” in the history of the nation. “I don’t think
that’s hyperbole,” Sky News host James Morrow said. “When Barrack Obama was President
he promised to fundamentally transform the nation, fundamentally transform the
United States. “The voters rejected that ultimately when they brought in Donald
Trump."
Here is the Report:
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Democrats
"own" the violence and riots in their cities:
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WHY DID BIDEN'S FIRST RUNS FOR OFFICE FAIL?
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An independent news reporter for a major Australian TV Network, reports on what is going on in our U.S. cities:
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(Keep in mind that the 'Mainstream Media' in the United States have not been showing the full coverage of the riots and violence for the last 3 months in our country).
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ANARCHIST RIOTERS CHANT
"DEATH TO AMERICA"
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Reporters from overseas TV networks and newspapers are
now wondering aloud if the U.S. is headed toward another 'Civil War'.
And they have said they don't want that in their own countries.
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Mobs, supported by leftist Democrat mayors and governors, are taking cover under the Black Lives Matter Marxist agenda, to loot, steal, kill, and destroy; all the while, they are racists themselves:
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Uncontrolled Rioters push, confront, threaten, and attack RNC conventioneers leaving the White House. Here they attack Senator Rand Paul:
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The “unhinged hatred” largely
manifested by rioters in Democrat-run states has long been incited by many
within the party and whitewashed by the biased mainstream media, according to
Sky News host Rita Panahi. “The democrat's propaganda arm - the bulk of the
mainstream media - is all too eager to whitewash the lawless thuggery because
reporting on it accurately can only help Trump,” she said. This past week
violence broke out in Kenosha Wisconsin after a police shooting, and again in
Minneapolis after a murder suspect shot himself when police approached.
"This unhinged hatred has long been incited and encouraged by
Democrats," Ms Panahi said. “In Democrat cities, in Democrat states we
have seen brazen acts of violence, arson, looting and property damage by
leftist agitators, all captured on video but receiving scant media coverage
from Left leaning media outlets. “That is the modern Left and Joe Biden is
their candidate in 2020."
Here is her Report:
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Vice President Democrat candidate Harris said that the protests "should continue." I cannot remember ever hearing a major candidate for President or Vice President saying such a thing. But then, they have lost control of the BLM riots they have encouraged:
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Former Australian Member of Parliament weighs in on Biden's mental difficulty as he gives his first short speech, after leaving his basement:
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Australian foreign correspondent discusses the issue of personal security, Sept 1, 2020:
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The words that politicians hide behind:
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Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., discusses the current unrest and Trump and Biden:
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Representative Scalise discusses current situation:
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Senator Kamala Harris playing the Identity Politics game, is rebuked by her father:
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Joe Biden flew to Pennsylvania, spoke for 12 minutes, took no questions, and flew back to his basement in Delaware. After watching his short speech, one wonders if he is cognitively coherent.
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And in the same news report, we are told and shown that the Democrat campaign has now been linked with the hate group Antifa. Google "Antifa.com" and you will be re-directed to the Biden Campaign headquarters website. This is a disgrace.
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Joe Biden had the audacity to say that George Floyd's death had more impact than that of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Democrats trying to have it both ways on Street Violence; the truth about
the 3 who were shot in Kenosha, Wisconsin; Portland Mayor has to move out when 'peaceful protesters' try to burn down his apartment building; 'peaceful BLM protesters' trash Rochester, NY restaurant:
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White and Black come together in BLM Marxist movement, to Burn Everybody's Business Down, which has nothing to do with George Floyd.
The "hard Left" have been given license to burn down American businesses, and thus, our country. And the Democrats have remained, for the most part, silent. These riots cannot be blamed on President Trump. Look at the core beliefs of the BLM movement: they are Marxists being supported by the Democrats.
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Foreign News Correspondent says: "Losers of 2016 Election have been screaming over Trump ever since."
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Australian political
strategist Sir Lynton Crosby says the US presidential contest is about
"getting votes in the right places" with the race for president
likely being much closer than people may think:
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Miranda Devine af foreign correspondent, tells what happened in the U.S. over Labor Day weekend:
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Hispanic People are Endorsing
President Trump.
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"Peaceful Protests" of Anarchy continue...... in Los Angeles:
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Joe Biden stumbles again and Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris REFUSES to take questions:
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Sky News Foreign Correspondents cover the Election Campaign, September 2020:
Campaign Rallies Compared.
Teleprompter Biden.
There is now no question Democratic
Presidential nominee Joe Biden is the “Beijing-picked, Beijing-endorsed
candidate” of the Chinese Communist Party, according to Sky News host James
Morrow.
Accusations of "White Privilege" Rears it's Ugly Head on an Airplane.
Here is that Report:
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Sky News host Paul Murray says the
Left media is still saying, despite the fact the Black Lives Matter riots in
America caused over a billion dollars of damage, they were “mostly peaceful”. “Remember
when the old Biden booster network (CNN) was literally standing in front of a
burning building and saying the protests, they’re mostly peaceful?” Mr Murray
said. “Today we are starting to get the bill back from some of these riots, and
… despite the fact that more than a billion dollars of damage has happened,
they’re mostly peaceful. “It is literally a story about more than a billion
dollars’ worth of damage, but you still say mostly peaceful. “Insert joke about
hurricane here, insert joke about any other natural disaster here."
Here is the report:
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Here is an example of a truly "Peaceful" Protest and Rally, without the looting and burning:
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The
O.C.'s Samaire Armstrong blasts BLM calling it a 'terror organization funded by
white guilt' and says the 'far-left mob' have silenced Americans as she pledges
her support for Trump.
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Several British newspapers tell their reading public the problem with
Joe Biden:
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Sky News host Chris Kenny has called
out New Jersey’s prestigious Princeton University for virtue signalling after
it came under investigation for self-reportedly having racism embedded in its
culture. It comes after Princeton’s president posted an open letter to the
college community earlier this month which read, “Racism and the damage it does
to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton as in our society.” The
letter went further, saying “Racist assumptions from the past also remain
embedded in structures of the Universities itself.”
The university made these
claims despite claiming it “fights against all forms of discrimination,” Mr
Kenny said. As a consequence of this letter, the United States Department of
Education opened an investigation into the university, seeing as Princeton
receives federal funding, and governments “should not fund racist
institutions”, according to Mr Kenny.
“If Princeton is truly non-discriminatory
and fights against racism as it has simultaneously tried to argue, then it will
have to admit that the open letter from the president was a lie,” he said. “A
pathetic attempt at self-flagellation that denied the truth, that overstated
racism for the simple purpose of signalling virtue. “I wonder which it’s going
to be, because Princeton can’t at once be racist and virtuous, those claims are
incompatible."
Here's the Report:
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University Professor fought back against Racial Indoctrination and won:
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MAGA / YMCA Parody By The American People
Featuring:
Ricky Rebel
Mindy Robinson
Joy Villa
The Deplorable Choir
Tommy Joe Ratliff
Dee Dee Deplorable
Produced by Ricky Rebel, Jason Fishbein, and Dee Dee
Deplorable
No Sampling of Original Song by The Village People.
(Y.M.C.A.) (Copyright holder has given permission for RNC to use the Y.M.C.A. music).
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Former adviser to
the Clinton White House Barbara Heineback has jumped to the defence of
President Donald Trump – saying he is not “interested in what colour you are”
because he is working for all Americans. “I am so tired of the rhetoric of just
throwing every single little thing you can at a person when they’ve done all
they could for the country, they’re doing so much for Americans, and Donald
Trump is really not that interested in what colour you are,” Ms Heineback told
Sky News host Chris Kenny. “I’ve seen this, he likes people who want to earn
their own and make their own way, and he’s happy to provide opportunities for
all American citizens, and he continues to improve that. “It is not the
Republicans talking about all of these racial issues, and it’s a darn shame we
have had to have so many discussions in the last year or so since all of this
Black Lives Matter nonsense has crept up. “It’s an insult to those of us,
people of colour like myself, who do not consider ourselves a victim."
Here is the report:
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Socialism, Mob Rule, Lawlessness...... the New Extreme Democrat Party is now exposed:
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Sky News host
Alan Jones says if it was anyone else who brokered the very peace deal done by
US President Donald Trump, it "would be all over the world lauded as a
magnificent diplomatic triumph".
It comes as US President Donald Trump has
declared the "dawn of a new Middle East" as he facilitated the
official signing of an historic Middle-Eastern peace compact between Israel,
the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. Leaders signed the declarations during a
ceremony at the White House with the UAE and Bahrain the first Arab nations to
sign diplomatic accords in almost three decades.
Sky News contributor Catherine
McGregor said what has occurred is "strategically significant". Ms
McGregor said the deal "honours a promise he made way back during the
campaign that he wanted to end these endless wars". "I think there's
a lot to like about what has been done," she said.
Here's the report:
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The thing about
Joe Biden is he has been in Washington for nearly half a century however
"he doesn't actually accomplish anything" according to author and
commentator Mark Steyn. "His experience consists of experience in not actually
accomplishing anything," Mr Steyn told Sky News host Chris Kenny. Mr Steyn
discussed the Democrat's stance on President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem
being Israel's capital. He said while Mr Biden "might have theoretically,
ideologically" been in favour of Jerusalem being the capital of Israel,
"would he have done anything about it? No". "What he says today
bears no relation to anything from the last 47 years".
Here's the report:
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Sky News
contributor Cory Bernardi says the extreme Left are using Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden as a puppet and that’s “very, very dangerous
for America” and the west. His comments come after Mr Biden referred to the
future presidency, should he be elected, as the “Harris-Biden administration”.
“Realistically, any critical assessment would be that he’s not mentally fit
enough for the job at hand, and that means you would have Kamala Harris pulling
the strings behind the scene and presumably assuming the presidency,” Mr
Bernardi told Sky news host Peta Credlin. “It was also belled by Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez today who said they would push Joe Biden in the progressive
direction they wanted to go. “So you’ve got the extreme Left that are using Joe
Biden as a puppet and that’s very, very dangerous for America, it’s dangerous
for the west, and I really hope that Donald Trump will prevail come November."
Here's the report:
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Sky News
contributor Cory Bernardi says the Leftist media in the United States will not
give US President Donald Trump credit for anything he does and it demonstrates
the partisan nature of American media. It comes after President Trump brokered
an historic peace deal between Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Israel in
a move to normalise contentious relations in the Middle-East. “Whatever Trump
does they (mainstream US media) just don’t want to give him any credit or
recognition … it’s always bad,” Mr Bernardi told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“It says something about the partisan nature of the mainstream media in the
states, that they will not praise their president even when he does really
really good things on a global scale."
Here's the report:
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Democrats in 2018-2019, said Biden was mentally slipping:
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Democrats
and Their Media Allies Impugned Biden’s Cognitive Fitness. Now They Feign
Outrage.
Concerns
about the former vice president’s cognitive decline came from his supporters,
not Trump or Sanders.
Here's the story:
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Joe Biden was on
his way out of the event and decided to take a last-minute question from Fox
News after his staff hand-picked all of the other reporters to ask questions.
It turned out to be a big mistake for him because the reporter exposed his
hypocrisy on COVID-19. WATCH Press Sec. embarrass reporter for ignoring the
riots.
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Jill Biden refuses to comment on Joe Biden's memory loss:
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Remembering Associate Justice Ginsburg
As previously mentioned on this page, John Read was a lawyer and lived the remaining days of his fruitful life as a Christian and devout supporter of the Union, on a cotton farm in Mississippi, prior to the Civil War, before retiring to live with his son Jesse. We know that he had access to several newspapers of his day, and would have been well acquainted with those who were serving on the Supreme Court. We must pause and wonder how he would have reacted to the response now evident by Liberal and Conservative individuals, to Justice' Ginsburg's death and the process of her replacement.
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The remaining eight Supreme Court Justices are
speaking out about their colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at age
87.
Some, like Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer,
served with her for nearly all of her 27 years on the high court, and wrote
emotional statements following news of her death. The justices all spoke of her
undying devotion to the law and her grace as a colleague.
Excerpts from their statements, as released
Saturday by the court:
Chief Justice John Roberts:
“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic
stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we
mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader
Ginsburg as we knew her -- a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
___
Justice Clarence Thomas:
Thomas wrote he was heartbroken to learn of
her passing. “Through the many challenges both professionally and personally,
she was the essence of grace, civility and dignity. She was a superb judge who
gave her best and exacted the best from each of us, whether in agreement or
disagreement. And, as outstanding as she was as a judge, she was an even better
colleague – unfailingly gracious, thoughtful, and civil.”
He said the quality and pace of her work never
suffered as she was ill, nor did her demeanor toward her colleagues.
“The most difficult part of a long tenure is
watching colleagues decline and pass away. And, the passing of my dear
colleague, Ruth, is profoundly difficult and so very sad,” he wrote. “I will
dearly miss my friend.”
___
Justice Stephen Breyer:
Breyer wrote that he heard of her death while
he was reciting the “Mourner’s Kaddish” at the Rosh Hashanah service.
He wrote:
"I thought:
a great Justice;
a woman of valour;
a rock of righteousness;
and my good, good friend.
The world is a better place for her having
lived in it." ___
Justice Samuel Alito:
Alito wrote that he and his wife were deeply
saddened.
“Ruth and Marty made us feel at home
immediately when I joined the Court, and we will certainly miss her. Justice
Ginsburg will go down as a leading figure in the history of the Court. She will
be remembered for her intelligence, learning, and remarkable fortitude. She has
been and will continue to be an inspiration for many. ”
___
Justice Sonia Sotomayor:
Sotomayor called her a dear friend and
colleague, and “an American hero" who spent her “fighting for the equality
of all people, and she was a pathbreaking champion of women’s rights.”
“I will miss Ruth greatly,” Sotomayor wrote.
“She welcomed me to the Court with a warmth I could not have expected, and I
came to feel a special kinship with her. She was someone whose wisdom,
kindness, and unwavering support I could always rely on. I will forever cherish
the moments we shared.”
___
Justice Elena Kagan:
Kagan echoed Sotomayor's comments that
Ginsburg was a hero and tireless fighter for equal rights.
“Ruth reached out to encourage and assist me
in my career, as she did for so many others, long before I came to the Supreme
Court,” Kagan said. “And she guided and inspired me, on matters large and
small, once I became her colleague. I will miss her — her intellect, her
generosity, her sly wit, her manifest integrity, and her endless capacity for
work — for the rest of my life.”
___
Justice Neil Gorsuch:
Gorsuch wrote he and his wife had lost a
cherished friend and colleague who was a distinguished judge.
“We are blessed by the happy memories that
will remain, like traveling with Ruth to London where (to her delight) an
uninformed guide kept calling her ‘Ruthie,’ or all the opera she tried so
valiantly to teach me, or her sweet tooth at lunch, or the touching stories of
her remarkable life with Marty. We will miss Ruth and our hearts go out to her
family. May she rest in peace.”
___
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh:
Kavanaugh wrote that no American had ever done
more than Ginsburg to ensure equal justice under the law for women.
“A meticulous and pathmarking judge, she held
herself to the highest standards of precision and accuracy in her beautifully
crafted opinions. And she inspired all of us to try to meet those same exacting
standards. I learned from her principled voice and marveled at her wonderful
wit at our weekly conferences and daily lunches. Justice Ginsburg paved the way
for women to become lawyers and judges.”
___
Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy:
“The members of the Court always will cherish
all that Justice Ginsburg meant to us as a distinguished jurist and an
inspiring, wonderful person,” he wrote.
“By her learning she taught devotion to the
law. By her dignity she taught respect for others and her love for America. By
her reverence for the Constitution, she taught us to preserve it to secure our
freedom.”
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Foreign Correspondents report on:
--Joe Biden goes missing on RBG death --Trump Tractor Rally --Nashville Mayor and Health Department hid COVID-19 information
Here's their report:
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Supreme Court Nominee, Democrat backlash, Joe Biden's memory failure, and VP candidate Harris gives no press interviews:
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This slogan "Make America Great Again" has been used by both Democrats and Republicans:
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The Read/Wauchope Family in 2020
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It is very unfortunate in 2020, that I can sense some (not all) members of the current Read and Wauchope families are sticking to their strictly Democrat heritage per their family backgrounds. In other words, they will always vote and support financially a Democrat, regardless of the truth about the candidate. I know for a fact that some Read family members have financially backed Democrat candidates in the past and given public support to them. I know they will never vote for any Republican or Independent candidate.
I was fortunate to be brought up in a family (in which I include Grandparents and First Cousins) that saw and voted both sides, Democrat and Republican. I look for the character background of the candidate, as well as what they stand for, which will benefit our country, not the party label. I will not now, under any circumstance, vote for someone who is being backed by Socialist-leaning individuals and is supporting a Socialist agenda.
Everyone who is reading this page needs to listen to Lisa Sergio's audio recording of a speech she gave at Bluefield College, which I heard in person, in November 1966, "The How and Why of Dictatorships" to get a full understanding of how the Socialist/Left agenda in this country has become a 'dictatorship of ideas' and is being espoused by leading members of the Democrat party post- President Clinton.
Miss Sergio makes the case for those in our country who did not live during the tragedy of WW 2, being susceptible to ideas that are put forth today, which sound good, but have, in fact, a sub rosa (under the table) agenda. We do not need Democratic Socialism in our country. We do not need to support the Black Lives Matter organization, which was founded by 3 trained Marxists. Period.
I consider many Democrat candidates to have left the traditional party of yesteryear. They do not represent the true Democrat party. Several old-time Democrats recently said to me, "I did not leave the Democrat party; they left me." Well said.
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Presidential Debates and Campaigns
before 2020, were also raucous affairs.
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As we consider the first presidential debate in 2020, we should consider that, although it was a blood-pressure-raising 90 minutes, with fault on both sides, it is not the first time in our history such has occurred. To get the 'take' by some writers on the first debate in 2020, it was interesting what Matthew Walther said:
"On Tuesday night the American people, or at least those unlucky millions who were not watching the Yankees-Indians game on ESPN instead, were subjected to an hour and a half of mindless shouting from two hapless sad-looking old men who looked as if they would rather be anywhere else but that auditorium in Ohio."
"It was like witnessing an argument about an arcane procedural rule during a senior bingo night at a nursing home in purgatory. It was vicious, tasteless, witless, and (surprisingly, alas) painfully unfunny."
But, if you listened carefully, the former Vice-President made false claims about crime, the economy, Amy Coney Barrett's views, and his son Hunter's 6-figure salary by a Ukrainian mining company.
But in the 1800s, the political rancor, albeit before Television and Radio, was nonetheless apparent, and in fact, more violent. One senator even struck another in the congress with his cane, knocking him unconscious.
Keeping in mind that the Read and Wauchope families were keeping up with the political news in the papers available to them (previously discussed on this page), here are some of the cartoons which filled the newspapers of those days before Television depicting the scandal and acrimony of the day:
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The Hayes-Tilden Election was contested:
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Now, we consider what the correspondents thought of the first 2020 debate:
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One foreign correspondent tells why you cannot trust most of the 'mainstream media' in the United States:
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Joe Biden said during the debate that Antifa was an idea not an organization !!
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Joe Biden says Antifa is "an idea" not an organization.
But here are two foreign correspondents who respond with the truth:
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A recap of what was really said during the first 2020 debate and what it means for the future of America:
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What the voters have considered before watching the first debate:
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The Biden----Sanders debates:
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Newspapers from overseas are digging into the truth about the candidates:
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"Big
lie: Joe Biden compares Donald Trump to Joseph Goebbels"
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US Democratic presidential candidate Joe
Biden said he expects “personal attacks and lies” from Donald Trump in their
first televised debate on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), comparing the Republican
president to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
“It is going to be difficult,” the former
vice-president acknowledged in an interview broadcast on Saturday on MSNBC.
“My guess is, it’s going to be just
straight attack. They’re going to be mostly personal. That’s the only thing he
knows how to do,” he said of Mr Trump.
The debate in Cleveland, Ohio will be the
first time the 77-year-old veteran politician has faced the President he has
promised to unseat. The men will meet again for two more debates before the
November 3 election.
But some of his supporters fear that Mr
Biden, who is prone to blunders and slip-ups, may waver in these televised
duels under the rhetorical blows of the Republican billionaire — who is also
prone to blunders and slip-ups, but who is far more aggressive.
“He doesn’t know how to debate the facts.
He’s not that smart,” Mr
Biden also claimed. “He doesn’t know much about foreign policy, he doesn’t know
much about domestic policy. He doesn’t know much about the detail.” As a
result, Mr
Biden predicted, “it’ll be mostly personal attacks and lies; but I think the
American people are on to him.”
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Question to ponder: Could it be that Harris knows that Biden is a bonafide racist and that her claim that he was guilty of sexual impropriety with the young lady in his office that he denied; and that's why Biden HAD to put Harris on the ticket to ensure her silence?
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On the heels of a charged
sexual assault allegation, Joe Biden may be in even more impending political
trouble as recently uncovered ancestry documents appear to demonstrate his
ancestor was a slaveowner.
Biden’s lineage was traced by
genealogical expert William Addams Reitwiesner, an American genealogist who was
best known for tracing the ancestry of celebrities, U.S Political figures, and
English royalty.
In an extensive tree created
by Reitweinser prior to his 2010 death, he attempted to detail Biden’s heritage
to the 9th-extended great grandparent, but it is the well-documented section on
Biden’s alleged great-great-great grandparents that have caught the attention
of some internet sleuths.
Jesse Robinette, whose
surname is shared with Joe Biden’s middle name, was a slaveowner.
According to the 1830 census
of slave holding, Jesse Robinette declared he had 7 slaves, three of which were
boys under the age of 15, and two of which were girls under the age of 10.
Joe Biden has been previously
bashed by critics for refusing to commit to reparations for slavery, and has a
long, well-documented history of racially problematic remarks and policies.
During the Democratic
Primaries, Biden was slammed by opponent Kamala Harris for his role opposing
school desegregation in the 1970s. Biden introduced proposals which blocked the
Justice Department’s attempts to use the busing of African American children to
racially integrated schools as a desegregation tool. He also called the
desegregation effort an “asinine policy.”
In 1994, Biden also played a
key role in the infamous Crime Bill which disproportionately impacted African
Americans, often penalizing them harsher for the same crimes.
As recently as May 2020,
Biden came under fire for telling African Americans who were unwilling to cast
their ballot for him that they “ain’t black.”
William Addams Reitwiesner
died at Washington, D.C., 12 November 2010. The genealogical portion of this
website is now being managed by his literary executor, Christopher Challender
Child of Boston, Massachusetts. Please direct correspondence to
WmAddamsTrust@gmail.com.
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Joe Biden’s Stunningly Racist Answer on the Legacy of
Slavery Has Been Overlooked
When asked about the
legacy of slavery, Joe Biden lectured black people on their parenting
abilities.
By Ryan Grim, author of the
new book We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the
End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement.
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Who is Joe Biden? Who is Kamala Harris? (A Catholic viewpoint with facts unknown to most voters)
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(All Perry Mason TV photos courtesy of CBS and in public domain on this page.)
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Democrat candidate Joe Biden comes out of his basement to falsely accuse the President of denigrating our military....do we really want a president who jumps to conclusions without checking out the facts first?
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I like what my brother told me one of his high school English teachers said in class about sources for writing: "Always check your sources; don't write something without knowing the truth." That certainly applies here when it comes to discerning the true from the false statements being put out by one presidential candidate in particular. Unsourced news should not be trusted.
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Consider an early film shown to elementary and high school students, "How to Judge Facts" as a basis for our consideration of how to check facts put out by candidates and their surrogates:
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Now, lets look at the techniques of campaign propaganda in this next early film:
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Even Perry Mason would ask Paul Drake to check his facts carefully before presenting a case in court.
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But as everyone knows during an election season, it's the
"October Surprise"
you have to vet carefully.
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Former Australian Ambassador to the United States discusses the current crisis in our country and the "Fake News":
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Why slander our military with
"Fake News"?
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(Biden in the picture above, is NOT in California, but next to a field near his home. Listen very carefully to what Biden had to say in his remarks that follow, as he compares himself to the power of God. This is not anything a Christian would say.)
Biden is using the "fake issue" of Climate Change to try and control the election conversation.
(Sidebar: as a Catholic, he has been banned from taking Communion in Delaware by the Bishop because of his stand on abortion.)
Here is the Report of what Biden said:
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Now another "Fake News" story from the Democrat spin machine....Russian Conspiracy...again....
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Fake NASCAR Noose News.
When I heard about the Black race car driver who made the accusation that someone had put a 'noose' in his car garage, and then, what the 'noose' actually was, I laughed to myself: here is someone who works around car shops and doesn't know what a garage door pull looks like?
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Sky
News host Paul Murray says a concerted effort should be made to find out the
full story behind recent statements about the COVID-19 made by US
President Donald Trump, given the Leftist media "often fails to tell the
entire truth". It comes after a piece of audio was released in which
President Trump says he “wanted to always play it (coronavirus) down”, sparking
criticism from the media across the country. Had the immediately following line
of the quote been played, it would have revealed President Trump actually said,
“I wanted to always play it down, I still like playing it down because I don’t
want to create a panic.” "Of course it didn’t matter what the full quote
was, the headline was enough,” Mr Murray said. “Listen to the whole clip.” The
clip was recorded by journalist Bob Woodward, the US president appeared to
understand the threat of COVID-19 as he was telling Americans it was no
worse than the seasonal flu. The book also claims that the president was told
the novel coronavirus would be "the biggest national security
threat" he would face during his term in office.
Here is the Report:
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From Sky News, we learn the truth about the early treatment needed with this drug, with Zinc added.
The "Fake News" was the early report that was released in the U.S. that lied to doctors and the public.
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Medical journal "Lancet"
withdraws study flagging COVID-19 drug's Risk
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Three of the four creators
behind a huge scope concentrate in The Lancet that raised security fears over
the utilization of normal enemy of malarial medications to treat COVID-19
withdrew their paper on Thursday, accusing a social insurance organization that
provided the dataset.
The examination reflectively
dissected somewhere in the range of 96,000 patient records, finding that
hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine demonstrated no advantage against the
coronavirus and even expanded the danger of biting the dust in the medical
clinic, with heart arrhythmia a specific concern.
The discovery drove the World
Health Organization to suspend clinical preliminaries into the prescriptions,
yet it was before long followed by across the board worry among researchers
over an absence of data about the nations and emergency clinics that
contributed information.
Mandeep Mehra, an educator at
Harvard University who drove the work, alongside Frank Ruschitzka of the
University Hospital Zurich and Amit Patel of the University of Utah, said in an
announcement they hosted attempted to dispatch a third-get-together friend
audit into the information.
In any case, Surgisphere, a
generally secret social insurance investigation firm situated in Chicago that
provided the records, would not help out the friend commentators, who had been
approached to confirm the records and recreate the examination's discoveries.
"In light of this turn
of events, we can no longer vouch for the veracity of the essential information
sources," the three said.
"Because of this
disastrous turn of events, the creators demand that the paper be
withdrawn."
They focused on that they had
worked "by some basic honesty and during a period of extraordinary need
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We profoundly apologize
to you, the editors, and the diary readership for any shame or burden this may
have caused."
Sapan Desai, a vascular
specialist, and Surgisphere's CEO didn't join the withdrawal. The advertising
firm that speaks to him disclosed to AFP he would not be saying something right
now.
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More evidence about the drug reported by Australian doctors:
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"White Fragility"
A Side Show
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"White Privilege" Another Side Show
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David Webb speaks at the Oxford Union concerning "Institutional Racism"
ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Union is the world's
most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing
international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189
years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University,
but across the globe.
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Professor Walter Williams had this to say just a few years back, about slavery, the Confederacy, and political correctness:
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And then, Professor Williams tells us the truth about the so-called
"White Privilege":
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One result of "White Privilege": Police protection goes away.
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Oprah Winfrey: now teaching racism in August 2020
Contrary to her opinion, we do not have a "caste system" in this country. She needs to read the truth about our history. This woman became rich off of some very poor people who watched her on tv every day. No, we do not have "white privilege" in our country. She's judging people on the color of their skin, not on the conduct of their character. She is out of touch like so many Hollywood types. How dare Billionaire Oprah lecture the rest of us. Is it any surprise she is "all in" with Marxist Black Lives Matter?
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FRSO: Freedom Road Socialist Organization is another Marxist organization alive and well in the United States.
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The Freedom Road Socialist
Organization (FRSO) is a Marxist–Leninist organization formed in 1985, as many
of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist
Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing. The FRSO tried to
consolidate some of these groups into a single, lasting organization.
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ARE MILLENNIALS' THE NEW AGENDA NEO-COMMUNISM and SOCIALISM?
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Many people immigrated to our country and became citizens in order to escape Communism and Socialism. America is now facing the same thing under a new branding:
"Democratic Socialism."
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Is the above statement true? Yes, my wife has a relative who supports Socialism and Bernie Sanders. He is unaware of the Marxist history leading to Socialism. And, "Democratic Socialism" is still Socialism.
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Take a step back in time and view the following films from the 1950s, which are very instructive concerning the issues we are facing today in the United States:
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The Democrats have been taken over by "Democratic" Socialism:
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Now the Democrats are pushing for a new sub rosa agenda: "The Reset"
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The partisan politics of the 2020 election has taken a much needed pause on
Oct 2nd, with President Trump releasing a formal statement that he opposes extremist/white nationalist groups; being admitted to the hospital with COVID-19; with Mr. Biden suspending his negative campaign ads.
I would like to take this moment to suggest we return to the Civility of one man I always admired for his leadership and diplomatic ability to bring Republicans and Democrats together on important issues. That was former Speaker of the House,
Tom Foley.
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FOLEY, Thomas Stephen, a
Representative from Washington; born in Spokane, Wash., March 6, 1929;
graduated from Gonzaga High School, Spokane, Wash., 1946; A.B., University of
Washington, Seattle, Wash., 1951; J.D., University of Washington Law School,
1957; lawyer, private practice; appointed deputy prosecuting attorney, Spokane
County, Wash., 1958; professor, Gonzaga University Law School, Spokane, Wash.,
1958-1959; appointed assistant attorney general, State of Washington, 1960;
assistant chief clerk and special counsel of the Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs of the United States Senate, 1961-1963; elected as a Democrat
to the Eighty-ninth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1965-January 3, 1995); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred
Fourth Congress; chair, Committee on Agriculture (Ninety-fourth through
Ninety-sixth Congresses); majority whip (Ninety-seventh through Ninety-ninth
Congresses); majority leader (One Hundredth and One Hundred First Congresses);
Speaker of the House of Representatives (One Hundred First through One Hundred
Third Congresses); awarded the title Knight Commander of the British Empire by
Queen Elizabeth II in 1995; Ambassador to Japan, 1997-2001; died on October 18,
2013, in Washington, D.C.
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Foreign Correspondents report on President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis and other noteworthy news:
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"Hanoi" Jane Fonda: makes public statement about COVID-19
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"TWITTER" is doing all it can to make President Trump lose the election:
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Trump is back campaigning in Florida. Joe Biden announces to 30 campaign attendees that he's "a Democrat and I'm running for the Senate." ?????????
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Now that the first debate is over and the "dueling" Town Halls have ended, evidence is mounting that the Debate Commission is rigged:
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Democrats "plant" Biden supporters as "undecided voters"
in his Town Hall audience
with scripted questions. And, I think, it's fair to assume that Biden has already rehersed
the questions and answers.
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Columbus Day 2020 brings more violence to Portland, Oregon created by ignorant protesters and statue haters:
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Joe Biden, with memory loss, says that 56% of Americans should not vote for him. Biden's memory is so bad, that he makes a campaign ad that actually supports Trump:
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Presidential Candidate Joe Biden keeps announcing at rallies that he's running for the Senate ????
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Vice-Presidential 2020
Debate Assessed
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Larry Elder exposes the lies being told about President Trump AND
exposes the lies being told by Joe Biden.
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College Students who support Biden are shocked at his racist remarks:
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Another
"October Surprise"
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The Biden scandal you will see detailed below, ranks up there with that of former President Warren G. Harding. We know from history that Harding entered office having already committed adultery. His political cronies paid for a round-the-world trip for one couple. He had been caught in adultery with the man's wife, and the scandal would have ruined his chances of winning the election. After he got into office, he surrounded himself with old friends and party hacks who knew nothing about honesty and government. They freely engaged in graft and corruption. Only a very few in his cabinet were honest. One has to wonder if this will be repeated in the Biden administration.
Knowing the integrity of John Read from original sources, I cannot imagine him ever voting for Biden as president. Even former President Harry S. Truman once said, "There is nothing worse than a liar in public office."
There is also a mandate from God's Word, the Bible, to tell the truth and not cover-up evil.
-J. Hughes
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Former Mayor of
New York City, and current attorney to President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani
comments exclusively on the latest developments regarding Joe and Hunter Biden,
and Hunter Biden's alleged dealings and wrongdoings overseas, as well as a
perceived 'media bias' in coverage of the story, and how it may affect Joe
Biden's Election Day chances. - with Newsmax TV's Shaun Kraisman:
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Director of National Intelligence, says that emails are NOT Russian propaganda:
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Sky News host
Andrew Bolt has condemned Twitter and Facebook for running a “protection
racket” for Joe Biden after they censored a report on explosive emails
revealing an alleged meeting between the former vice president and a Ukrainian
businessman. “Twitter and Facebook – they’re running a protection racket for
Joe Biden and keeping news from you using their incredible market power,” Mr
Bolt said. “It is a disgrace and a threat to democracy.”
The New York Post
said it received a copy of a hard drive from a laptop, left at a repair shop,
via the Trump campaign which included emails and candid images of Mr Biden’s
son, Hunter. A document obtained from the hard drive showed an email from Vadym
Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma Holdings, which expressed thanks
to Hunter for arranging a meeting with his father, who was then the vice
president. “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an (sic)
opportunity to meet your father and spent (sic) some time together. It’s realty
(sic) an honor and pleasure,” the email said.
The meeting, in
April 2015 in Washington, DC, took place less than a year before Mr Biden
pressured government officials in Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was
investigating the company. Mr Bolt pointed out the contrast between how the
social media giants manage content about Mr Biden and President Donald Trump.
“When did Twitter and Facebook ever apply those same standards to protecting
Donald Trump?” he said. “Trump’s tax records the other day were stolen and
leaked, Twitter and Facebook didn’t mind, no warning there, no bans. “And for
years the media published, promoted, talked up a faked dossier that Democrats
had paid for.”
Mr Bolt said the
social media giants had gone to “astonishing” and “frightening” lengths to stop
the public reading about the story. “The excuses Twitter and Facebook gave for
this political censorship, let’s be honest about it, that’s all it is, changed
during the day,” he said. “Oh, look the link was unsafe, no the material was
stolen, these emails, no, no actually it was private information, it was false,
whatever.
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Sky News host Paul Murray
says the left media have shut down and ignored all the evidence being put
forward regarding Joe Biden’s reportedly being linked to son Hunter Biden’s
dealings with Chinese businesses.
It comes as the New York Post
released an expose detailing links between Joe Biden and his son who was paid
at least $50,000 a month to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company who
allegedly set up a meeting with the Vice President.
“They (left wing press)
ignored it, and then their mates in big tech did the hard work for them,” Mr
Murray said.
“That story is legitimate,
and it’s legitimate by the standards of 2020 when ‘anonymous source this and
leaked document that’ is enough to justify days and days of news coverage.
“Facebook and Twitter, within
minutes of this thing becoming public started to shut it down; people weren’t
able to tweet about this story, let alone to actually share the details of it,
Facebook did the same thing.”
Mr Murray pointed to multiple
stories about President Donald Trump which stayed online for days despite being
called out and discredited, while stories which are potentially incriminating
for Joe Biden were swiftly censored.
“The guard rails are being
heavily policed by activists, activists who turn every lie about Trump into a
reality, and every potential Truth about Biden into misinformation,” he said.
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My Mother quoted on occasion, what Matthew Henry, a Presbyterian minister born in Wales, and had written some of the best commentaries on the Old and New Testament, said about those who refuse to face the truth of a matter (taken from his commentary on Psalm 82):
"None so deaf as them that will not hear. None so blind as them that will not see."
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Censorship comes to America as the coverup of Biden's scandal is exposed.
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Sky News host
James Morrow says the shocking part of the Biden scandal story is the way which
tech giants reacted to the news, in a manner contrary to their claims of being
“neutral platforms”. It comes as the New York Post released an expose detailing
links between Joe Biden and his son who was paid at least $50,000 a month to
sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company who allegedly set up a meeting
with the Vice President. Facebook and Twitter both censored the article,
advising they are limiting the distribution of the story on their platforms
until a third-party contractor can "fact check" the article. “It’s
scandalous behaviour given not only the number of people who get their news via
social media but also the stories they have allowed in the past to go through
unchecked,” Mr Morrow said.
“Twitter and
Facebook never warned anyone about sharing stories about Trump’s tax returns,
even though unauthorised sharing of personal tax data is a big violation of US
federal law. “Now that we have clear evidence plain as day of Biden family
corruption less than 500 hours away from a hotly contested US election, Twitter
and Facebook want to be the final arbiters of truth and decide what you are and
are not entitled to say. “It’s not good enough and it puts the lie to claims
that these tech giants are just natural platforms."
CENSORSHIP EXPOSED:
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The Senate Report on Biden Corruption:
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Watch the reporter's video clips closely; you'll see that Biden has to have a Teleprompter for every event.
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Witness to actual Biden involvement releases statement:
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More October 2020 news about
Biden emails and Election:
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Democrat Governors are responsible for the COVID virus spreading. Look back at the 1918 Pandemic and notice the similarities.
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It's ironic that on December 7, 2020, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, that a Chinese Professor accidentally told the truth about Hunter and Joe Biden's involvement in the China scandal.
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Quislings are everywhere in the US Government.
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Congressman Eric
Swalwell under fire for connection to alleged Chinese spy:
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Trump CAUGHT
China Spy-Reporter Red Handed, Humiliates Her on Live TV:
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Other Democrats in leadership positions are not immune to falsehood:
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The truth is revealed by Foreign Correspondents Alan Jones and
James Morrow:
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Joe Biden's lies are legendary:
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Campaign Ads need to be vetted for truth:
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Remember the Trump impeachment trial? Lo and behold, going back in time,
Pam Bondi argues
Biden corruption concerns are legitimate.
Pam Bondi, the former attorney
general of Florida who is a member of the Trump impeachment legal team,
outlined on Jan. 27 the concerns she said the president had about potential
corruption on the part of the Bidens in Ukraine. Bondi pointed to numerous news
reports raising questions about Hunter Biden’s appointment to the board of
Ukrainian energy company Burisma. The move “looks nepotistic at best, nefarious
at worst,” Bondi said, speaking on the Senate floor during the impeachment
trial. While some ethics experts have said Hunter Biden’s seat on the Burisma
board could raise the appearance of a conflict of interest, independent news
reports have found no wrongdoing by Hunter Biden or former vice president Joe
Biden. Democrats argue Trump used the idea of corruption as a cover for efforts
to get Ukraine to investigate his political rival. Trump’s defense team is
presenting their arguments as part of the Senate impeachment trial. The trial
has entered a pivotal week as his defense team resumes its case and senators
face a critical vote on whether to hear witnesses or proceed directly to a vote
that is widely expected to end in his acquittal. The articles of impeachment
charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The House of
Representatives impeached the president in December on those two counts.
You can watch her presentation to the U.S. Senate here:
https://youtu.be/oPvMuzyVOig
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THE EMAILS ARE REAL, DESPITE WHAT 'MAINSTREAM' MEDIA PEDDLERS ARE SAYING:
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PIERS MORGAN: Despite the best,
biased efforts of Facebook, Twitter and the overwhelmingly Trump-hating media
to kill the story, Biden now has serious questions to answer about Hunter's
dodgy deals and he can't duck them forever.
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THE BIDEN SCANDAL DEEPENS:
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Can Joe
Biden be trusted? -Cal Thomas
It was President Richard Nixon who said in the midst of the
enveloping Watergate scandal: "People have got to know whether or not
their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've
got."
That standard should be applied to Joe Biden before the
election. He should be pressed to explain his son Hunter's financial dealings
in Ukraine and Beijing.
In a rare moment when a reporter is able to ask Biden a
substantive question, Bo Erickson of CBS News wanted to know the candidate's
response to a New York Post story that alleges a Hunter Biden laptop discovered
at a repair shop in Delaware contains damning evidence of the Biden family
profiting from Hunter's relationship with the Ukraine gas company Burisma and
sharing some of the money with his father, reportedly referred to in a Hunter
Biden email as "the big guy."
Sounds preposterous? Then if the story is false, as Biden
supporters claim, why, according to a story in the Washington Times, has the owner
of the repair shop confirmed to a Senate committee that it was Hunter Biden,
himself, who dropped off the laptop? Joe Biden didn't deny the story, but
claimed to Erickson, "it's another smear campaign, right up your alley,
those are the questions you always ask."
Not exactly. The media have almost universally been in the
tank for Biden and his running mate, the equally invisible and inaccessible,
Sen. Kamala Harris. Over the weekend, Biden campaign surrogate Jenna Arnold
repeatedly refused to deny the authenticity of the alleged Hunter Biden emails.
When asked by Fox News' Leland Vittert if they were genuine, Arnold responded,
"I don't think anybody is saying they are inauthentic."
It was reported last January by The New York Post that
Hunter Biden, his father, and other family members profited from Joe Biden's
positions in government. The story cited Peter Schweizer's investigative book
"Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive
Elite": ... no less than five family members benefit(ed) from his
largesse, favorable access and powerful position for commercial gain. In
Biden's case, these deals include foreign partners and, in some cases, even
U.S. taxpayer dollars."
As the political journalist Michael Kinsley observed in
1986, "In Washington, the scandal isn't what's illegal; the scandal is
what's legal." If true, Biden's influence and positions in government were
used by himself and his family for profit. People who have not yet voted
deserve to know whether a man who might be elected president is a crook, or
not, or at a minimum if he traded his influence for cash, even if it was
technically legal.
There is, after all, the matter of propriety and setting a
good example for others, two assertions by Biden as to why he is a better
choice than President Donald Trump.
Thursday's debate moderator, Kristen Welker of NBC News, has
an obligation to press Biden on this question, as George Stephanopoulos failed
to do in his ABC News town hall with Biden. The former vice president should
not be allowed to get away with the claim that he is being smeared, especially
when the smear appears to be coming from his own muddy hands.
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Australian Foreign Correspondents remain concerned about the
U.S. Election outcome.
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And in the 2nd Presidential Debate........
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I have a question for any Biden supporter reading this webpage:
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Why did Biden bring up Hitler in the debate? Biden said, "We had a good relationship with Hitler before he invaded Europe." That is not true.
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They're back on the campaign trail...but Biden keeps telling voters not to vote for him. This is one example of many:
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JOE BIDEN WILL BAN FRACKING and DRIVE DOWN THE OIL INDUSTRY.
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We are at at crossroads in our country because many Americans don't really know Joe Biden, the person or Joe Biden the candidate; and can't think of what he stands for or proposes. He has stayed hidden in his basement, after all.
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What do Biden's so-called 'gaffes' tell us about his character, intellect, and ability to govern as president?
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The Biden pay-for-play scandal is being censored on Twitter and Facebook AND the search engine "Google" is limiting your ability to search for the story !!!!!!
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Fear and
loathing in the Biden Crime Family:
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'The corpse that is Joe Biden' gets
'tuckered out' after a day off: Paul Murray
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Secret Service Travel
Records Confirm Hunter Biden Trips Detailed In Email
Subsequent reporting from
the Post confirmed by Fox News later revealed that Chinese businessmen with
deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party were offering Hunter Biden $10 million
a year for “introductions alone,” 10 percent of which would be funneled to Joe
Biden, according to laptop emails.
The FBI, Department of
Justice, and the Department of National Intelligence have each debunked
conspiracies peddled by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and
others who perpetuated the Russia hoax against President Donald Trump that the
treasure trove of emails found on the Delaware computer were planted by the
Russian government to interfere in the November election.
More Details:
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The November election coverage in the U.S. by Australian reporters:
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Both Democrat and Republican Town Halls were "rigged" with already-decided voters:
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November 3rd report from Foreign Correspondents:
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November 4th and beyond: reports from Foreign News Correspondents
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It is alarming that Joe Biden could be the Commander-in-Chief. He even introduced his granddaughter as his dead son. It is so sad that this man could be the leader of America.
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The Second Presidential Debate Assessed:
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Kamala Harris Finally Goes Full Marxist on November 1st:
‘Equitable Treatment Means
We All End Up at the Same Place’
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I have to wonder, in watching this primary debate between Harris and Biden, why Biden would even consider Harris as his VP pick:
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Have you ever
"Googled" any of the previous stories on this webpage; especially the words 'Biden' 'emails' and
come up empty? I wondered about this
soon after the NY Post broke the story because it seemed as if these stories
had vanished from the internet via Google.
I looked; these stories were gone, and everything was turned negative against President Trump. The Google search engine is CENSORING what YOU see!!
This interview will explain why one of the leading search engines is
censoring what you search:
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Professor Hanson was interviewed by Tucker Carlson after the election:
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Totalitarianism is on the rise in the U.S. with the launch of the
"Trump Accountability Project"
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From the "Trump Accountability" website:
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JUST LIKE STALIN'S 'PURGE' WITH AN 'ENEMIES LIST,' AOC SUPPORTS THE
'TRUMP ACCOUNTABILITY LIST'
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Did you read what David Plouffe wrote in the Tweet above?
"He (Trump) must be destroyed thoroughly." ??
Who does he think he is?
He is clearly a Totalitarian Stalinist in disguise !!!! Why are the tech media giants not censoring that?
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Another way of looking at this is the story of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
At the height of the
Cold War, Senator Joseph McCarthy rose to power by stoking fears, declaring his
opponents "enemies of the state,” and overwhelming the press and the
public with one lie after another. His communist hunt consisted of largely
baseless claims that derailed the lives of those he accused, prompting historic
condemnation.
In such a similar way, the BLM and ANTIFA forces have gotten the ear of the leftists of the Democrat party and they are now looking for their own "enemies."
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Here are those
who formed the
"Trump Accountability Project"
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AOC reveals authoritarian fascist instincts after calls for a hate list; while CNN host(s) melt down; and Biden supporters celebrate with a "Super-spreader COVID" street event:
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A closer look at AOC’s
ideas: They are communist and insane, but I repeat myself.
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Yet, while forming an 'enemies list' CNN allows this false accusation of Trump:
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Another friend of AOC's is Omar,
a Muslim extremist:
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Omar's status as a Muslim immigrant and Trump target continues to
give the radical congresswoman a pass for antisemitism and threats to ‘burn
down everything.'
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Election Fraud is detailed on the
Heritage Foundation website:
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What happened in Michigan
at 4 AM
on November 4th?
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As Democrat operatives on CNN are talking about "snuffing out Trump and his legacy," let us remember what Stalin said about voting:
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If you think that is a too 'over-the-top' statement by Stalin to put on this webpage, just observe and read on this page what has been going on to suppress the freedom of speech and press in this country, by Democrats and their operatives. Research for yourself the amount of money given by owners of 'big tech' to those who are committing the fraud. Try to research on Google the truth, and see for yourself how this 'platform' censors what you can search for. This is a serious matter....a very serious matter.
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Now we use statistical analysis to prove that fraud was committed in the 2020 election:
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Here's the data for Pennsylvania proving fraud:
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And in Chicago and other areas, Joe Biden's votes indicate fraud:
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As of Nov 9th, thousands of military ballots are yet to be counted that were turned in on time.
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The leftist Democrats and their media pundits have given no credit to Trump for his diplomatic work in bringing peace to the Middle East.
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COVID-19 has apparently been completely solved by a Biden presidency:
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There is nothing threatening about Joe Biden; and that's the point:
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Voting fraud is investigated and pertinent information leading up to the certification of the 2020 presidential winner:
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CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY NOVEMBER 10, 2020 (Courtesy of Cal Thomas website):
“HEALING? UNITY?”
IN A SPEECH
TO THE NATION LAST SATURDAY NIGHT JOE BIDEN CALLED FOR HEALING AND UNITY. WHO
COULD OPPOSE THAT? IT IS A WONDERFUL SENTIMENT, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN
PRACTICE? FOR DEMOCRATS IT MEANS FOR TRUMP VOTERS TO AGREE WITH BIDEN’S
POLICIES. IT NEVER WORKS IN REVERSE. THE
HARD LEFT OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS ALREADY PLOTTING REVENGE AGAINST THOSE WHO
SUPPORTED AND CONTRIBUTED TO TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN. WILL THAT BRING UNITY AND
HEALING?
A WALL STREET
JOURNAL EDITORIAL NOTED “AFTER A CAMPAIGN IN WHICH HE CALLED THE INCUMBENT A
RACIST AND BLAMED HIM FOR EVERY COVID-19 DEATH, WE’LL GIVE THE FORMER VICE
PRESIDENT THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT THAT HE MEANS WHAT HE SAYS NOW.” I DON’T
NECESSARILY AGREE BECAUSE BIDEN CHANGES POSITIONS AS OFTEN AS HE CHANGES
CLOTHES. THE EDITORIAL CONTINUES: “(TRUMP’S) OPPONENTS HAVE SPENT FOUR YEARS
WARNING THAT HE IS A WOULD-BE HITLER WHO WOULD STAGE AN AMERICAN REICHSTAG
FIRE, OR SLOWLY EXTINGUISH POLITICAL FREEDOM. THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS INVOKED AS
A WAY TO REMOVE MR. TRUMP FROM OFFICE.”
THE ONLY REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS LIKE ARE THOSE WHO LOSE
ELECTIONS AND QUICKLY CONCEDE. I GIVE YOU BUSH 41, BOB DOLE AND MITT ROMNEY.
THOSE WHO FIGHT ARE DEPLORED BY THE LEFT AND THEIR MEDIA ACOLYTES.
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"Bipolar America" by Cal Thomas:
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TECH GIANTS WILL DETERMINE WHAT THE PUBLIC WILL SEE:
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BIG TECH CENSORSHIP KEEPS YOU
FROM SEEING THE TRUTH:
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NO TRANSPARENCY IN VOTE COUNTING:
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"Trump derangement syndrome"
is evident in the leftist politicos, who unleash a new form of 'cancel culture':
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American politics is starting to look a little bit Soviet:
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Voter Fraud Denial by Democrats
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Congressional House Democrats try to circumvent the US Constitution:
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The written letter of above original:
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Full Text of Letter Informing GSA
that there is no President-Elect Yet
November
13, 2020
The
Honorable Emily Murphy
Administrator
General Services Administration
1800 F St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20405
Dear
Administrator Murphy:
On November 9, 2020, Democratic House Members sent you a letter that
misrepresented the facts surrounding your responsibilities under the
Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (Act).1 I write to correct the
record.
Under
the Act, you, as administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA),
have the authority to provide government-funded transition assistance to the
President-Elect and the Vice-President-Elect.2 However, this
assistance can only occur after there are “apparent successful
candidates for the office of the President and Vice President, respectively, as
ascertained by the Administrator [you].”3
There
are enough state contests in question, such that there is not yet an apparent
President or Vice-President-Elect. Precedent and legislative history present
three situations where there may be an un-apparent President-Elect:
- The
drafters of the Act anticipated three electoral situations where there
would be an unapparent President-Elect: (1) a tie, (2) a plurality winner,
or (3) the presence of extensive voter fraud or intimidation.4
The third being applicable to 2020 since the Trump campaign has raised
questions and filed legal challenges in several states;
- The
drafters concluded that “if there is any doubt in the Administrator’s
mind” the Administrator does not have to release transition assistance.5
Since states have not yet
The
Honorable Emily Murphy
November 13, 2020
Page 2
certified an electoral winner and some states are still tabulating legal
ballots, there remains doubt as to the winner; and
3.
The precedent set by the Clinton Administration in the contested 2000 election
is that to ascertain an apparent President-Elect there would need to be a
concession—which has not yet occurred in 2020—or no more legitimate continuing
legal challenges—which has not yet occurred in 2020.6
According
to Congressional intent and past precedent set by President Clinton, as of
today, there is no apparent President-Elect.
A
GSA spokesman recently stated that “the GSA Administrator ascertains the
apparent successful candidate once a winner is clear based on the process laid
out in the Constitution.”7
I
strongly encourage you to do just that: follow the Constitution and past precedent,
not the media, when making your determination of the President-Elect. This
democracy relies on a rule of law and the law must be followed.
Sincerely,
Jody Hice
Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Government Operations
cc: The Honorable Gerry Connolly, Chairman
Subcommittee on Government Operations
———————————————–
1 Letter from Gerry Connolly, et. al., Member of Congress, to
Emily Murphy, Administrator, U.S. Gen. Serv. Admin. (Nov. 9, 2020) available at
https://connolly.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4126; See
Presidential Transition Act of 1963, Pub. L. No. 88-277, § 3(c), 78 Stat. 153
(1964).
2 Id.
3 Id (emphasis added).
4 Transitioning to a New Administration: Can the Next President be
Ready: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Gov’t
Mgmt, Information, and Technology, Comm. on Gov’t Reform, 106th Cong, 2nd
Session, (Dec. 4, 2000) (Prepared
Statement of Paul C. Light).
5 Id.
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Britain recognizing Google, Facebook, and Twitter censorship,
now aim to curb it:
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Sidney Powell: People with links to powerful Democrats
using Dominion voting machines to 'steal' votes
Daniel Chaitin
11/8/2020
Sidney Powell:
People with links to powerful Democrats using Dominion voting machines to
'steal' votes
Former federal
prosecutor Sidney Powell accused a leading voting machine firm of stealing
votes from President Trump.
Powell, the lead
attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is helping Trump's legal
effort in the 2020 election, said on Sunday that people with links to top
Democrats are using Dominion Voting Systems to commit "fraud" on
elections. She did not present any evidence to support her claims.
Mentioned during
a Fox News interview by host Maria Bartiromo were Nadeam Elshami, House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi’s former chief of staff who last year became a lobbyist for
Dominion, and Richard Blum, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, who she
said is a significant shareholder in the company.
"They have
invested in it for their own reasons and are using it to commit this fraud to
steal votes. I think they’ve even stolen them from other Democrats in their own
party who should be outraged about this also," Powell said.
The attorney also
suggested that Dominion had a hand in tilting the primaries in Joe Biden's
favor. "Bernie Sanders might very well have been the democratic candidate
but they’ve stolen against whoever they wanted to steal it from," Powell
said.
Dominion did not
immediately return a request for comment on Powell's claims.
The company,
which has a lock on a third of the voting machine market according to
Bloomberg, has faced scrutiny in the past couple of days with voting problems
reported in parts of Michigan and Georgia, although the company and local
officials have discounted the idea that the software was to blame.
Dominion has
customers in 28 states and Puerto Rico, including all of the battleground
states where Trump and his allies are contesting and pinning their hopes on
recounts after media outlets called the presidential race for Biden.
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From Italy, we get this from overseas correspondents: proof of election fraud:
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NOV 28th: RIOTS CONTINUE IN PORTLAND AND SEATTLE:
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There is a reason why CNN reported on the Wuhan files, 3 weeks after the US Election:
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Leftist media again swallowed rubbish that was incorrect:
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HOW IT STARTED: Senate Hearing On FBI Investigation In
President Trump and Russia. We have the moral and ethical collapse of the
free press. The media has become a platform for disinformation.
Congressional Oversight in the Face of
Executive Branch and Media Suppression: The Case Study of Crossfire
Hurricane. Full hearing at this website by clicking on this link:
https://youtu.be/oAwMWPzzNgw
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Commentary on Trump election:
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Judge Jeanine: The American people can see through Democrats' lies:
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Trump has not conceded nor should he:
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Republicans tender new CCTV footage to Georgia Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee
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An attorney has
tendered CCTV evidence to a Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which she
claims shows poll workers waiting for observers and media to leave before
accessing ballot-stuffed suitcases from under a table.
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CLICK ON LINK TO SEE THE EVIDENCE:
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Correspondents from overseas give detailed and truthful news reports while the Election, at present, is still contested and not reported on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or NBC:
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Large scale fraud exposed and is now being censored by Google:
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This next recent news item perfectly illustrates why Joe Biden is unfit to be president:
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News about Biden crime family continues as Election continues to be contested; people who are hearing this for the first time want to know why:
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Youtube, which is owned by Google, is removing any video which deals with the 2020 Election or Joe Biden, in a new round of Totalitarian censorship in our country. Google is already censoring what you can search for on their internet search engine. If you look for anything negative about Democrats or Joe Biden or the Election, you will not find it. Only positive information or negative information about President Trump will appear.
You are advised to use other search engines to locate truthful information.
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THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT APPEARS ON THE SCREEN WITH YOUTUBE CENSORSHIP:
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Meanwhile, in Portland, the violence escalates:
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His Fraudulency, Mr. Joe Biden
-Don Polson
The
title follows from Mr. Biden’s assertion that “We have put together I think the
most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of
American politics.” The same ones rationalizing Biden’s endless gaffes and
dismissing any errant statement he utters, did the same for Obama’s dissembling
(“57 states,” “keep your doctor/health plan” ad infinitum, ad nauseam), AKA
lies. “But Trump said…”
Trump’s
opponents, deranged haters and enemies—encompassing nearly all news media—have
zero credibility defending Biden, or being taken seriously by President Trump’s
supporters. Let the Democrats’ hypocrisy be shouted “from the rooftops.”
Greatest
Democrat/media hits of fantastical, malicious and ultimately baseless charges
directed at Trump: Russian collusion to cheat Hillary in the 2016 election,
demanding that electors not vote for Trump even if he won their state,
groundlessly urging his cabinet to use the 25th Amendment to remove him,
justifying an impeachment trial over a routine leader-to-leader phone call to
Ukraine’s new president, and on and on.
They—including
local Democrats who believed it all without evidence (that never existed)—clung
to the conspiracy theory that we now know was hacked up from the bowels of
Hillary Clinton’s inner circle, and gained traction from Obama to Biden, Comey,
Brennan, Clapper er al. Yes, some of you probably still pride yourselves in
“knowing” that Trump associates met and colluded with Russians serving Putin’s
interests. A couple hundred thousand dollars of internet content were spent for
and against Trump, before and after the election. Mueller spent $40 million,
finding nothing. Keep hating; another reason will pop up.
Brain-dead
partisans and their media propagandists—justifying their “by any means
necessary” and “ends justify the means” jihad against Trump, his family,
political allies and supporters—fill their dark, cold hearts and empty souls
with the devil’s own will to destroy. Now their vile appetites support a
collectivist/socialist/race-based crusade against the economic and ideological
foundations of America’s magnificent Constitutional Republic, the world’s
beacon of liberty.
The
political/media megaphone asserted that Trump’s tsunami of votes would be a
“red mirage” on election night, yielding to an avalanche of mail-in Biden
votes. Hence, Hillary’s advice/instruction to Biden: “never concede.” Some
not-so-funny things happened, however, as the analysis of those mail-in voters
found around 40 percent supported Trump, undermining the narrative;
statistically, that doesn’t add up to a Biden win. He underperformed Hillary
outside of 4 corrupt Dem cities, where hundreds of thousands of “Biden-only”
votes magically showed up overnight—with no observers. Fraud on its face.
The
same partisan “hack-tivists” deny President Trump’s legitimacy even now—Biden
agreed publicly with a woman last year that Trump was not a legitimate
president; Hillary recently repeated her baseless assertion that the election
was “stolen” from her. They told us that 1) Al Gore’s legal challenges to the
2000 Florida vote results should be given time to finish; 2) George W. Bush
stole the 2000 election; and 3) that Barack Obama, emperor-elect, should have
been allowed to assume the presidential mantle a month early.
Republicans
are right to support Trump; and justified in suspecting fraud on the scale it
would take to reverse the results. Consider: No president gets defeated who has
positive job approval; or when a solid majority of voters say they’re better
off than 4 years before; or who expands his support among minorities; or who
has massive, tens-of-thousands strong rallies; or whose “coattails” sweep his
party into more House seats and governorships, while holding the Senate. There’s
no “Blue Wave,”
“The
last time a Democrat ‘won’ the presidency while his party sustained a
double-digit loss in the House was in 1960, during an election tainted by
probable vote fraud in Illinois and Texas. Still, we’re expected to believe
that Joe Biden achieved the same feat in 2020 with no skullduggery?…that,
despite the worst showing among minorities of any Democratic nominee since JFK,
Biden surpassed Barack Obama’s record-breaking turnout by 10 million votes?”
(From “What We Must Believe to Believe Biden Won; We must accept a perfect
storm of implausible anomalies and brazen irregularities” David
Catron, spectator.org.)
For
40 years, only 19 counties picked the winner of every presidential election;
only one backed Biden this election. So, the basement campaign of Joe Biden
attracted no crowds, and less enthusiasm from his party’s voters, but had a
massive win? He lost the bellwether state of Ohio; ironically, the AP explains
that Ohio must no longer have a bead on who is the winner. Me: not buying it
for one minute.
Catron:
“This brings us to ground zero for election fraud — Pennsylvania. The
Commonwealth illegally changed its election rules before and during the voting
process…[and] ignored the General Assembly and the U.S. Constitution to rig the
election on behalf of Joe Biden.
“The
American Spectator’s Paul Kengor and Jeffrey Lord have covered this
chicanery…We are expected to believe that such stories are conspiracy theories,
despite videos showing Democrat election officials evicting Republican election
observers from vote-counting locations and erecting physical barriers to
prevent them from watching.
“Finally,
we come to the Smartmatic/Dominion software that was used to tabulate votes in
the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin…As Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani reveals, this software was developed
in Venezuela and banned from the U.S. a decade ago.
“It’s
now been brought back into the country under the aegis of a subcontractor. Its
major design feature is that it allows the vote counters to calculate how many
votes they need to win. Jeffrey Lord has more. The Democrats want you to
believe this is a conspiracy theory. It isn’t. The Democrats knew they couldn’t
beat Trump honestly, so they’re stealing the election.”
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The real disgrace of the US Election was the way the states run by Democrats decided to change the rules; Pennsylvania even went against their own state constitution:
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In order to cover-up any fraud in the 2020 election, Youtube which is run by Google (which, by the way, is already censoring what you can search for on that search engine), is now deleting all videos put online that show the fraud and cover-up. This is big tech censorship; a ramp up of totalitarianism. This is even while the election is being officially contested.
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Now in early December, as Christmas approaches, the 'Left' is joyless and for them, everything is politics. Even Santa Claus is becoming "Woke":
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Former ABC chairman Maurice Newman
says President Donald Trump is “not a globalist” while all who are opposed to
him are including big tech, big media, and the "crony capitalists".
“They are the big tech, big media, the crony capitalists who are into renewable
energy and all of those global type activities,” Mr Newman told Sky News host
Alan Jones. Mr Newman spoke of Trump’s achievements during his term as
President, commenting he stood up to and “upset” many from other countries.
“The United States is now getting $300 million more a year than it was prior to
Trump because he stood up NATO,” he said. “NATO had been free-riding on the
United States, and it took him to actually press what they had all agreed to do
but had not honored. Mr Newman said Trump’s actions with NATO saw him vilified
in the media as being a disrupter of all of these things. “For the last four
years, Donald Trump has been mercilessly hounded by the media, by his political
opponents in a way I don’t think any president in history has been,” he said. Here is his interview:
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Biden wants to get back in bed with brutal Iranian regime:
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President Trump brokers another peace deal (the 5th one; none of which has been covered in the mainstream media) with the Middle East:
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President Trump orchestrated
"Operation Warp Speed" but got no credit in the mainstream media:
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President Trump orchestrated the COVID-19 "Operation Warp Speed" vaccine, but got no credit:
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Chinese spies found attempting to influence and surborn Democrats:
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Australia pushes back from the "Great Reset" Marxist ideology....but will America? Biden has been pushing the "Build Back Better" slogan which is another name for the "Great Reset."
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The media covered up Hunter Biden story in order to get 'dodgy Joe' over the line:
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Joe Biden is set to enter the White House, we think, and is already 'in bed' and compromised by Communist China. Are you aware of the persecution of Catholics and Protestants going on in China in 2020? Andrew Bolt reports:
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Have another look at the Chinese Communist caught on TV discussing their wide influence on our high-ranking politicians, including Joe Biden. This is the full film. (English subtitles are on the screen):
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Joe Biden has consistently lied to the American public about his involvement and knowledge of the money he and his son got from China:
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New York Post reporter is interviewed after the election:
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Chinese Communist infiltration into the United States and other countries:
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A major leak
containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members has
occurred – exposing members who are now working all over the world, while also
lifting the lid on how the party operates under Xi Jinping, says Sharri
Markson.
Ms Markson said the leak is a register with the details of Communist
Party members, including their names, party position, birthday, national ID
number and ethnicity. “It is believed to be the first leak of its kind in the
world,” the Sky News host said. “What's amazing about this database is not just
that it exposes people who are members of the communist party, and who are now
living and working all over the world, from Australia to the US to the UK,” Ms
Markson said. “But it's amazing because it lifts the lid on how the party
operates under President and Chairman Xi Jinping”.
Ms Markson said the leak
demonstrates party branches are embedded in some of the world’s biggest
companies and even inside government agencies. “Communist party branches have
been set up inside western companies, allowing the infiltration of those
companies by CCP members - who, if called on, are answerable directly to the communist
party, to the Chairman, the president himself,” she said. “Along with the
personal identifying details of 1.95 million communist party members, mostly
from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches,
many of them inside companies”.
Ms Markson said the leak is a significant
security breach likely to embarrass Xi Jinping. “It is also going to embarrass
some global companies who appear to have no plan in place to protect their
intellectual property from theft. From economic espionage,” she said. Ms
Markson said the data was extracted from a Shanghai server by Chinese
dissidents, whistleblowers, in April 2016, who have been using it for
counter-intelligence purposes. “It was then leaked in mid-September to the
newly-formed international bi-partisan group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance
on China - and that group is made up of 150 legislators around the world. “It
was then provided to an international consortium of four media organisations,
The Australian, The Sunday Mail in the UK, De Standaard in Belgium and a
Swedish editor, to analyse over the past two months, and that's what we've
done".
Ms Markson said it, “is worth noting that there's no suggestion
that these members have committed espionage - but the concern is over whether
Australia or these companies knew of the CCP members and if so have any steps
been taken to protect their data and people”.
HERE IS THE REPORT:
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The Chinese connection to the head of the World Health Organization; also, the teenager with no experience or academic credentials, who tries to have her way on climate control; and finally, Great Britain scraps "unconscious bias training"....thank goodness.
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In addition to sexual assault claims against Joe Biden, now his reported pick for Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has also been openly accused of the same:
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BIDEN IS A CAPTIVE TO THE RADICAL LEFT AND A CLIMATE
"VIRTUE-SIGNALLER"
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Commentator Alan Jones talks with Nigel Farage about the fraud and industrial scale ballot harvesting in the US election:
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Joe Biden practices "Identity Politics"
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"Time's Man (Person[s]) of the Year":
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The Media lied to protect the Bidens
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Senator Ron Johnson on Biden family corruption:
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Senator Grassley: Hunter and James Biden served as agents of the Chinese Communist Government:
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One young man presents an excellent digest of the Biden Family Corruption in 5 Minutes:
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December 14th: More shocking revelations about Joe Biden Family's Corruption:
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Joe Biden refuses to answer any question about Hunter, James, or himself; and their involvement in the Corruption Scandal. The silence continues, even as it did during the campaign when he accused individuals who asked questions of lying. It's now been proven that he was the one lying and covering up the truth. "Come on' man."
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I have just reviewed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's examination of the Biden scandal, and it is similar to the one from Australia, presented below. Our country is becoming the laughing stock of our Allies.
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Mid-December finds more lies and cover-up:
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Journalist Trevor Loudon from New Zealand reveals new information about Joe Biden and his runningmate Harris:
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December 22nd, Breaking News:
New link that proves Joe Biden has lied to the American public concerning his knowledge of Hunter's business dealings with the Chinese:
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As of December 23rd, Joe Biden is calling the evidence against Hunter Biden and himself "Russian disinformation." This is not true. The evidence says otherwise.
December 29, 2020: the Ukrainan Government has come forward with the proof that Joe Biden has been lying to the American public:
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Here, in detail is the press conference; notice the tape recording of Joe Biden's coziness with Ukraine officials he does business with:
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JOE BIDEN HAS LIED FOR OVER 47 YEARS:
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FORMER DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEVELAND SAID THIS:
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If you voted for Biden, this is what to expect:
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Even comedians tried to tell the truth about Biden:
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"Joe Biden in a Word" Research by the Pew Research Center/Washington Post:
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"Joe Biden in a Word" research details:
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From the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, we find how the Electoral College operated and how the electors were to be chosen in each state. Mark Levin is interviewed on January 5, 2021, and explains what happened in several states before the 2020 Election:
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I majored in History, taught History and Political Science in high school, and my brother was an excellent student of the Federalist Papers and our Constitution. Mark Levin has it right on the unconstitutional scandal in several states. Having heard the late Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia speak in the Senate Chamber on several televised occasions, and knowing how well-versed he was in the Constitution, I can only imagine what he would say today.
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January 6, 2021
People protest the election fraud but are infiltrated by BLM, Antifa, and Alt-Right agitators, dressed like Trump supporters, who create the riot to enter the Capitol.
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Yes, there were some Trump folks inside the Capitol, but consider this:
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Eye witness account that Trump supporters were infiltrated by Antifa, BLM, and right-wing protesters
who were wearing Trump hats:
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A paid protester confesses his part in the Capitol riot:
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OVERSEAS JOURNALIST DETAILS THE ANTIFA MEMBERS AT THE CAPITOL:
HOW THEY ENTERED THE BUILDING, FROM NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN
VIDEO FOOTAGE. British journalist shows you the individuals dressed in what he calls 'black bloc' (all black clothing which is how Antifa/BLM/Right-wing men dress) and those who assist them (facing away and toward the Trump people, in holding back the real Trump supporters who try to stop the violence.
Note:
A black bloc is a tactic used
by protesters who wear black clothing, ski masks, scarves, sunglasses,
motorcycle helmets with padding, or other face-concealing and face-protecting
items. The clothing is used to conceal wearers' identities and hinder criminal
prosecution by making it difficult to distinguish between participants.
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January 6th timeline of Capitol incitement is debunked:
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With all this evidence, Senator McConnell still blames Trump for the violence in a senate speech, January 19, 2021.
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Prior to the 2020 Election, if you went on to the ANTIFA website, you were automatically directed to the Joe Biden election/donate site; this was proved in video you can find on this page. No wonder that Antifa supports Biden:
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New information has come to light that Capitol police simply opened the doors to the protesters; that some policemen were sent home and not recalled with the riot broke out; this has been documented by one of the policemen who was interviewed. There has also been a suggestion made that it was 'an inside job.'
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These are not Trump supporters; notice the tattoo on this man's hand:
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New evidence has emerged that there were police holding the doors open for the protesters to enter the Capitol, and that it was an 'inside job.'
Here is an email sent out in advance to members of Antifa:
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Stunning new information found about a plot that was known beforehand:
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As of January 15th it is now a known fact that the FBI in Norfolk, Virginia was one of the organizations that sent a warning in advance to Washington that there was to be an incursion into the Capitol; this was ignored.
Further, the Secret Service WAS NOT notified of this credible threat; therefore President Trump did not know about it.
Further, it has been firmly established that while President Trump was speaking at the Ellipse, the mob HAD ALREADY started laying siege to the Capitol.
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So when Joe Biden says this:
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...just remember that Joe Biden stayed hidden in his basement and only went out to controlled events with his 'handlers' who whisked him away (which I saw) when he was confronted with questions he couldn't deal with; couldn't read off a teleprompter which had planned questions and answers. And when he states that he says that he has known that Trump 'isn't fit to serve' for a long time, he is referring to his decision to run after the Charlottesville, VA incident (which is covered on this page), in which he misinterpreted what President Trump said.
Trump NEVER condoned Antifa (which Biden still thinks is 'a myth'), and NEVER condoned any white/right nationalist/ALT-Left group. The obvious dementia which Biden suffers from makes him "unfit to serve."
He also, in the longer clip of his statement, brought 'race issues' into it by mentioning the BLM (which is a Marxist organization and kept our country stirred up with riots all last year; which he did not condemn.)
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Biden is a disgrace as he tried to equate the Nazi movement of the 1930s, with the MAGA movement and Trump:
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JOE BIDEN FANS RACIAL FLAMES:
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The following 3 individuals stoked unrest with their inflammatory speech on TV:
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But now, those 3 individuals pictured above which include the Vice-President elect, have 'changed their tune' and try to distance themselves from their own seditious speech.
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AOC not only stoked violence herself, but now, as of Feb 3, 2021, we now know that she didn't tell the truth about her whereabouts during the Capitol riot:
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January 13th:
Now our country has to endure the turmoil of a second unethical Impeachment of President Trump.
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The proposed "11th Hour" Impeachment by Pelosi is political theater and a farce. It is a clear attempt to suppress the Constitution of the United States.
We go back into time when Thomas Jefferson, a Republican (not the Republican party we have today, but a party in Jefferson's day which used that name) tried to set himself and Congress over and against the Supreme Court and the Constitution. Jefferson thought Congress could determine what the Constitution said. That was not correct.
The current crisis of the Pelosi
Impeachment proposal is not in order and any subsequent trial in the Senate would amount to a witch hunt Kangaroo type that would prove nothing but expose those members of Congress who have no real qualifications to hold their positions.
This issue was settled in the case of Marbury v Madison. It is clear, this Impeachment trial proposed for a president who has left office, is unconstitutional.
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From the "Equal Justice Under Law" film series, now in public domain, we have this short dramatization of the crucial decision, "Marbury v Madison":
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President Trump continued to call for peace:
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"America United" as a Biden theme for his inauguration is laughable:
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MISUSE OF SCRIPTURE IN CONGRESS AND IN AN INAUGURATION PRAYER
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While Joe Biden (who said Antifa "was just an idea") was being inaugurated, Antifa was rioting in Seattle and Portland:
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NOTICE what is written along the bottom of this Antifa banner about what they want: "For Police Murders" "Imperialist Wars" "Fascist Massacres":
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All during the summer of 2020, Democrats across the board, condemned President Trump's attempt to stop the violence. They cheered it on; they called federal officers protecting the Federal Court buildings in Portland 'storm troopers'; and VP-elect Harris even supported raising bail money for those arrested. Now on January 20th, the Democrats call for unity?
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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS AGAIN BRING US THE TRUTH ABOUT PELOSI AND HER ILK:
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Commentary: Impeach Joe Biden? Yes, he is guilty:
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AOC’s suggestion of commission to 'rein in' media slammed as ‘wholly
un-American':
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High School boys can use girls' restrooms? Yes, according to Joe Biden:
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Why I will not accept Joe Biden as president:
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Where was the condemnation when rioters destroyed and looted all last year in the name of Black Lives Matter, the now-proven Marxist organization?
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Joe Biden is so deranged himself, that there is now a website that follows that: https://joebidenhasdementia.com/
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Norwegian Psychiatrist
Claims Joe Biden is Suffering From “Dementia”
Says condition has
worsened “at galloping speed.”
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In an opinion piece published by Nettavisen
entitled ‘Why Democrats are rallying behind a possibly demented candidate?’, Heggen, who
is also a medical director at the Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital’s psychiatric clinic
in Oslo, says the presidential candidate is suffering from obvious cognitive
failure.
“Of course I may still judge him wrongly,
but in my eyes he appears as a person who is already very affected by dementia.
And the presidential election is still far ahead. What if his condition worsens
further over the next two-three months?” Heggen asked.
The psychiatrist asserts that Biden’s
behavior at campaign events and debates over the past few moths, characterized
by “forgetfulness, mischief, confusions, gaffes, and aggression,” is indicative
of someone who is beginning to struggle to perform basic mental functions.
“This is not scare propaganda on my part.
Everyone who has had experience with people with dementia knows that a
deterioration can come quickly and have a particularly dramatic course,” Heggen
wrote.
The psychiatrist suggested that Biden’s
campaign staff were aware of his limitations and that this is why he is only
rarely presented for short speeches and is heavily screened from the public and
the media.
Heggen opined that it was “madness” someone
like Biden should be allowed to have “his finger on the nuclear button.”
Biden has made numerous gaffes in recent
months, including when he told a crowd in South Carolina, he was “running for
the United States Senate” and that if they don’t like him they can “vote for
the other Biden.”
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Whistleblower:
Joe Biden Is In The Early Stages Of Dementia And Is On Medication For It + More
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September 12, 2020
On Wednesday, a “low-level staffer” who claims to have
worked at Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters in Philadelphia revealed some very
interesting inside information concerning not only the general atmosphere of
the Democrat presidential nominee’s campaign, but also his ongoing battle with
a number of health-related issues.
Read the full confession below (Note: Some names have been
omitted in the interest of privacy)
“I worked as a low-level staffer for the Biden campaign’s HQ
in Philly from July to the end of August. I am more of a Bernie guy, but I
thought I should do whatever I could to defeat Trump, so I joined up.
Eventually, I became so disgusted with what was going on, I had to leave. Some
of this I experienced, the juicier bits are things my (now former) co-workers
told me, so take those bits with a grain of salt.
“One – The whole campaign is extremely paranoid about
leaks/getting hacked.
“If I were to publish the email chains I got, you’d see
about a thousand messages saying ‘please see me’ or ‘meeting at 10am.’ No one
wants another DNC hack situation, so no one puts any real information in emails
or texts. Even with COVID, in-person meetings are the norm. They don’t want to
do anything on Zoom either, in case someone records it. Everyone is suspicious
of each other, and nobody likes to give specifics on anything. It was
frustrating.
“Two – All of the Bernie bros joke about being ‘another Seth
Rich.’
“With the paranoid atmosphere, some of us would make
comments about ending up like Seth. None of us really believed the conspiracy
theories, except for one weird older guy who was convinced that M****** N****
murdered him. His evidence? N**** made some cryptic tweets about ‘punishing the
hackers’ the day before Seth was murdered, and the deed was done less than a
mile from the Intelligence Museum in DC that N**** owns. I didn’t buy it, but I
can’t say I wasn’t intrigued by the coincidence.
“Three – There are people whose job is to digitally de-age
Biden for political ads.
“If you saw a recent speech for Joe and though he looked like
a mummy, then saw snippets of the same speech in an ad, you might have noticed
he looked a lot better. That’s because they contracted VFX artists from
California to de-age him. Normally I wouldn’t begrudge them this, as I’m sure
all campaigns try to make their candidate look good. But, considering what
they’re really covering up…
“Four – Joe Biden is in the early stages of dementia, and is
on medication for it.
“This is the big one, and the one I have the least direct
experience with, but it’s been an open secret for some time. Anyone who has had
a relative with Alzheimer’s or dementia can tell you, there are good days and
bad days. On the good days, when Joe is at his most lucid, his campaign manager
Jen will send him out for photo ops or TV interviews… make hay while the sun is
shining, you know? On the bad days, Jen just tells the press pool ‘No Joe
today,’ and they’re all like, ‘Okay, cool!’ Most of the time, he’s just a
little foggy and gets really agitated. But one of my co-workers told me that back
in May, there was a day where he thought he was running against Gary Hart in
the ’84 primary again. Joe went under wraps for several days after that.
“He’s been more lucid recently because his physician, Dr.
O******, put him on Namenda. Jen apparently was worried about someone finding
it out, because she insisted that he prescribe it under a series of phony
names, and then have the interns pick it up. I bet there are a lot of
pharmacists in Philly wondering why there are so many young people on Namenda.
“Five – The dementia medication has had, um… unfortunate
side effects.
“There’s no dancing around this… the medication has made Joe
incontinent. Though his ‘good days’ have increased dramatically, he can barely
get through a press event without running to the bathroom. That’s why he didn’t
take questions after announcing Harris as his running mate. They weren’t afraid
of the questions, the press loves him… they were afraid he was going to piss
his pants on-camera. Lately, Jen’s been having closed-door meetings to discuss
which brand of incontinence pads would be best to purchase. Seriously, a group
of paid staffers sat around and discussed which brands were the least visible,
the least likely to leak, and wouldn’t audibly ‘crinkle.'
“That’s around the time I left the campaign. I can’t be a
party to this sick game anymore. I never really liked Joe Biden, but he
deserves better than to be thrust into the public eye when he should be in
memory care. His wife should put a stop to this, but she’s way too excited
about being ‘First Lady’ to care about her ailing husband.”
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Joe Biden's dementia is on full display at Inaugural
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Now it can be told: listen to the following video from C-Span and hear Biden repeat the words "salute the Marines" which he hears in his earpiece; and like an idiot, repeats it OUT LOUD.....while failing to salute as he walks past the Marine guards!
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Then we have this gem: Biden says he doesn't know what he's signing....listen carefully....turn up the volume:
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Jill Biden knows nothing about protocol and attempts to shake hands with an honor guard upon entering the Capitol:
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Members of our National Guard have been treated disgracefully:
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My thanks to former President Trump for always supporting our troops:
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And now we have this (Jan 9, 2021) as reported in the New York Times: according to the Pentagon, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, tried to get the military to remove Trump (not just the nuclear codes) and the Pentagon has stated that she wanted them to participate in a "coup." I believe she's the one unhinged not the president. She's the one who tore up the president's State of the Union speech at its conclusion, on national TV.
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Keeping our troops, the barbed wire, and barriers up in our capitol is an insult to all patriotic Americans. Democrats are creating a climate of fear.
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What overseas media organizations are saying about the turmoil in our country:
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What was said earlier by one Australian correspondent, needs to be repeated in case you didn't get it the first time:
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Delta Force raids Biden compound in Ukraine
January 2021:
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The Democrats have ignited
"Cancel Culture" in Congress:
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For those who didn't see this timely assessment by Australian correspondents, we offer it again here:
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The media 'fawn' over Joe Biden's vaccine response:
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BIDEN'S PERFORMANCE AT CNN'S FEBRUARY TOWNHALL WAS SHAMEFUL
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And now.....the ultimate idiocy:
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The Biden regime has introduced injustice, racism, and lawlessness
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Biden is determined to destroy our country:
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Democrats should never have nominated Biden, and they should be blamed for the results we are now experiencing:
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Gene Whitehurst, son of former organist Gwen Whitehurst at
South Norfolk Baptist Church for over 25 years, has written beautifully about
the problem of children's transgender and sexual orientation; how parents are
viewing this situation; how they approach raising their children. He has given permission to republish it
here. It is well worth reading.
Male and Female He created them
“Train up a child in the way he should go…” (Prov 22:6)
Recently, I heard where a 5 year old boy thought that he was
or was inclined to be a girl. And his
mother was encouraging him to choose for himself. I’ve talked to young boys who at some time in
their early youth identified himself to be an elf; later a brontosaurus; later
a ninja; still later an astronaut.
Through these stages these boys would choose outfits suitable to his
childish ideas. These young boys were
raised in Christian homes and were trained in Scriptural truths by his parents
and church. It does not take long for a
boy to understand sexual differences and accept his sex.
God has built into us certain innate knowledge as to one’s
sex. Unfortunately such knowledge has
been distorted and corrupted by a people who increasingly exclude God and His
Bible from our culture. To counter this
corruption parents should ensure that a child understands his/her sex.
Parents must be aware of the pressures on a child by culture
and to ‘train their children in the way that they should go.’ A young child neither has the capacity nor
life experiences to decide to be the opposite sex or to know what that
means. This is especially true if they
are influenced by a culture that wants a child to decide for themselves what
sex they want to be. If it is observed
at birth that a newborn is a boy or girl, then this should foster the
appropriate teaching that that child should receive by the parents – and every
other responsible person in their life.
"Male and female HE created them…” (Gen 5:2)
Females have two X chromosomes in their cells, while males
have an X and a Y chromosome in their cells. Egg cells all contain an X
chromosome, while sperm cells contain an X or Y chromosome. God created man and woman with this clear
attribute. A person’s sex is chosen by
God. These chromosomes are in the brain
not in the sex organs! God ordains one’s
sex at conception, so one is either male or female at conception. God decided which sex you were to be. This is Scripture and this is science.
Trying to psychologically or surgically change one from one
sex to the other is trying to reverse God’s decision. Going against God’s decisions has grave
dangers. Stick with God’s choice. Don’t monkey with God’s decisions.
Gene Whitehurst
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Who should get the Nobel Peace Prize:
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President Trump was a businessman and saw the value of not being oil-dependent on the Middle East, of the increase of U.S. jobs, of joint-partnership with our ally Canada, and keeping our gas prices low. Now, Joe Biden, who is not a man with 'business sense,' but a corrupt politician, with an executive order, cancels all that:
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Sky News host
James Morrow says the left is having a bad case of buyer’s remorse with Joe
“bombs away” Biden. “After four years of relative peace and stability in the
middle east under Trump, this week Biden joined the great tradition of
peace-loving Democrats from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama and started dropping
bombs – this time on Syria, striking what he said were ‘Iran-backed militias,’”
Mr Morrow said. “It also shows the gullibility of the left which, in their
haste to get rid of Trump, went the full Weekend at Bernie's and shoved a guy
into office who is ultimately, and hilariously, disappointing them. “Anyway,
it's not just bombing Syria that has the left concerned. During the election,
he promised $2000 stimulus checks to every American. “The promised checks
haven't arrived yet, and as black American progressive Shaun King tweeted, ‘We
are crossing the point where people are starting to say Donald Trump did a
better job getting people stimulus checks than Joe Biden.’ “Well, guys, can't
say you weren't warned."
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No, this is not
"getting back to normal"
The extinction
of reason, justice and freedom on campus is now to be institutionalised as
American government policy
-Melanie Phillips
Jan 24
Has there ever been such a
profound and jarring disconnect between a new American president’s words and
actions on his very first day in office?
In his inauguration speech,
President Joe Biden hymned unity. America, he said, must “stop the shouting,
and lower the temperature”. It must put behind it “anger, resentment, hatred,
extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness” and
reaffirm “history, faith and reason”.
Yet within hours of that
speech, Biden signed a slew of executive orders to set America on a path of
anger, resentment, hatred, division, lawlessness and joblessness and which
undermine history, faith and reason.
And — excuse me — executive
orders? When President Donald Trump used them, the Democrats howled that this
showed he was a proto-fascist hell-bent on circumventing constitutional procedures
and proper democratic scrutiny. When
Biden signs a whole bunch of them on his first afternoon in office, however,
this is apparently “getting back to normal”.
But to call these measures
“normal” would surely have made Lenin blush. Biden’s immigration orders, giving
citizenship to some 11 million illegal immigrants, halting construction of the
Mexican border wall and imposing a moratorium on deportations for 100 days,
trash the rule of law and spell administrative and policing chaos. More than that,
they undermine the very concept of a nation, which depends for its continued
existence upon its borders being secure; and they take a wrecking ball to the
concept of citizenship: the bargain of duties and rights that exists only
between a government and its country’s citizens.
The implications are so dire
that Texas instantly launched a lawsuit against the new administration. Its Attorney-General, Ken Paxton, said:
“In one of its first of
dozens of steps that harm Texas and the nation as a whole, the Biden
administration directed DHS to violate federal immigration law and breach an
agreement to consult and cooperate with Texas on that law. Our state defends
the largest section of the southern border in the nation. Failure to properly
enforce the law will directly and immediately endanger our citizens and law
enforcement personnel.”
In another order, Biden undermined American
security by reversing the ban on travel from terrorist hotspots, including
Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia in addition to North Korea, Chad and
Venezuela. This ban was not, as was so falsely and slanderously characterised
by the Democrats, a “ ban on Muslims”. It was introduced in 2017 against
certain countries whose governments could not provide proper documentation,
vetting or identification information for citizens travelling to the US. It was a ban on countries whose record of
Islamist or other anti-western extremism and violence meant that prudence
dictated its inhabitants should be presumed to be a potential danger to America.
By ending it, Biden has made America unsafe. It is an unreasonable act,
motivated entirely by the Democrats’ ideologically twisted misrepresentation of
any action aimed to protect citizens against Islamic extremism as anti-Muslim
bigotry.
Next, Biden revoked the order
limiting the ability of federal agencies, contractors and other institutions to
hold diversity and inclusion training. This is part of what his transition team
described as the new administration’s “whole-of-government initiative to advance
racial equity”.
But “racial equity” is
emphatically not the same as treating every person as of equal value regardless
of their ethnicity. It does not mean, in the words of Martin Luther King (who
must surely be turning in his grave, not least by being given a shout-out in
that Biden speech) judging someone by the content of their character rather
than by the colour of their skin. It is the precise opposite. It is a doctrine
which holds that white people are intrinsically racist; that the west is therefore
intrinsically racist; and that therefore black people in the west should be
privileged over white.
So this so called “racial
equity” actually institutionalises anti-white hatred and discrimination. And
this deeply illiberal, racist doctrine is now to be enforced throughout
American public life. Biden has appointed Susan Rice as his administration’s
Robespierre, requiring all federal agencies to make “rooting out systemic
racism” central to their work. In the Orwellian language of the left, this means
imposing anti-white racism; and so “diversity and inclusion training” is a
euphemism for subjecting employees to anti-white propaganda.
As Heather MacDonald has
written for City Journal, there is already a sickening proposal to discriminate
against white people in Covid-19 vaccinations. She writes:
The “systemic racism” conceit
means that every American institution is illegitimate and needs to be
reconstructed. Biden’s cabinet nominees, whether in health, finance,
environmental policy, or education, have declared that eradicating systemic
racism is their top priority. How this agenda will play out has already been
adumbrated in the CDC’s initial priority list for Covid vaccinations: hold off
on vaccinating the elderly, despite their higher risk levels, because the
elderly are disproportionately white.
Racial quotas will become
even more the order of the day than now. The diversity obsessives in the
federal science bureaucracies waited out Donald Trump’s presidency. They will
now redouble their efforts to treat a researcher’s race and sex as scientific
qualifications in the awarding of federal research grants. Expect to see any
mention of merit or excellence denounced as a form of bigotry, a response that
the University of California and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African
American History and Culture, as well as an army of corporate diversity
trainers, have already perfected.
The next four years will
likely be one long anti-white-privilege struggle session. Any real effort to
close racial achievement gaps, such as fighting the “acting white” ethic that
prevents many inner-city children from trying hard in school, will be deferred
and discredited.
In similar vein, Biden signed
an executive order to “remove discrimination on the basis of gender identity or
sexual orientation” — which, according to Abigail Shrier, places all girls’
sports and women’s safe spaces in its gender-bending crosshairs. In the Wall
Street Journal, Shrier spells out the implications:
Any school that receives
federal funding—including nearly every public high school—must either allow
biological boys who self-identify as girls onto girls’ sports teams or face
administrative action from the Education Department. If this policy were to be
broadly adopted in anticipation of the regulations that are no doubt on the
way, what would this mean for girls’ and women’s sports?
…“Finished. Done,” Olympic
track-and-field coach Linda Blade told me. “The leadership skills, all the
benefits society gets from letting girls have their protected category so that
competition can be fair, all the advances of women’s rights—that’s going to be
diminished.”
Biden’s action will thus
institutionalise injustice and discrimination against women in sport. For
regardless of whatever procedures individuals may have undergone in order to
assume a different gender, if they were born as men they retain a clear advantage
over women in sport through their difference in strength and physique. So at a
stroke, Biden has struck a grievous blow against women, thus undermining any
feminist credentials his administration may want to claim — and indeed, any
claim to reason or moderation.
Gender is not the same as
biological sex; but for telling this
fundamental truth about what makes us all human, the Biden administration now
clearly intends to punish anyone who dares do so. The people who will most find
themselves in this particular firing line will be those with traditional
religious beliefs. Thus the Biden administration has also signalled the end of
religious freedom in pursuit of the project to remake nothing less than human
identity itself.
He also displayed an instant
contempt for the niceties of constitutional proprieties, let alone human
decency. Within minutes of being sworn
in, Biden told Peter Robb, general counsel of the National Labour Relations
Board, to resign by 5 pm or be fired. Robb refused to resign; so he was
promptly fired. The implications of this have been spelled out in the Wall
Street Journal by Kimberley Strassel. She writes:
The general-counsel position
is a Senate-confirmed four-year appointment at an independent agency; Mr. Robb
had 10 months left in his term. No NLRB general counsel had ever been fired,
and the Biden White House provided no cause for the action.
… Democrats rely on unions to
get elected, and unions are therefore first in line to get rewarded. The most
effective vehicle for that is the NLRB, which has sweeping power to enforce
labor practices on companies across America. Mr. Obama used the NLRB to rig the
rules so that unions could dominate workforces.
… It is also an early
indicator of Mr. Biden’s governing philosophy, which is straight out of the
Obama playbook. The last Democratic president was so intent on rewarding labor
bosses, he proved willing to break almost anything (including the Constitution)
to do it.
…The new president is under
massive pressure from the progressive left, including many service unions, to
act aggressively on climate. Yet his first-day executive action canceling the
Keystone XL pipeline prompted a furious rebuke from blue-collar unions that are
set to lose jobs… Control of the NLRB will allow Mr. Biden to soothe labour
divisions by handing out sweeping rule changes that will benefit unions across
the spectrum. Mr. Robb’s firing will likely be only the first of many exercises
of raw power, many of which will likely make the Obama NLRB look tame.
When Biden speaks of unity,
he means it in the same way that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un or China’s President
Xi might mean it — unity on his terms, or else. Just as I wrote here, Biden
will be a president for everyone who thinks like him. If you don’t, you’ll be
purged. Biden’s “unity” excludes millions of white-skinned Americans — by
implication, in fact, potentially every white-skinned American — whom he
defamed in his speech by smearing them with “systemic racism”, “nativism” and
rising “white supremacy”.
In short, the chilling
extinction of reason, justice and freedom that has been taking place in our
universities is now to be institutionalised as American government policy.
It is more than illiberal; it
is totalitarian. It is based on coercion, intimidation and injustice; it will
deprive untold numbers of people of the prospects of employment, throw many
more out of their jobs and will forcibly disbar yet more; it will rewrite
America’s history as a libel against itself, will aim to remake society and
humanity, and will try to silence anyone who dares stand up for reason, justice
and moral decency.
One has to wonder: what price
the American constitution in this cultural revolutionary Terror? Presumably,
there will be lawsuits against sending America’s basic principles to the
guillotine. But is the US constitution itself safe from Senator Chuck Schumer’s
chilling victory boast to “change America”? After all, the Democrats have
already threatened to pack the Supreme Court by installing additional patsy
Democrat justices to remove its current conservative majority.
Far from a return to normal,
what the Biden administration calls irresistibly to mind is how the horrified 18th century philosopher
Edmund Burke described the French Revolution — as “a monstrous tragicomic scene”.
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Biden doesn't want to negotiate his agenda in Congress.
President Woodrow Wilson tried that with his WW1 peace treaty and look how that ended, not only the canceled peace treaty, but Wilson's debilitating illness while in the White House (which was covered up by his wife).
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Remember the first Impeachment trial?
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The Constitution is clear on the matter of Impeachment and the Congress has violated several of it's articles.
A Harvard Law Professor explains:
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Impeachment 'farce' unravels as the lies are exposed:
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What did Pelosi know, and
when did she know it?
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Former GOP Rep. and current
Fox contributor Sean Duffy accused Democrats of playing a role in the storming
of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
failed to act in a manner that would have prevented the attack.
According to Duffy, the
reason Democrats didn’t call witnesses during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial
is because they didn’t want to see “what we were going to find.”
“What did Nancy Pelosi know?”
Duffy told Fox host Will Cain. “When did she know it? If she knew that there
was an attack on Capitol, why didn’t she secure it earlier? Why didn’t she
bring in the National Guard? What did Mitch McConnell know? What did AOC know?”
Duffy’s wife, Rachel
Campos-Duffy, then chimed in and floated D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser as a possible
conspirator.
“That’s right,” her husband
agreed. “They don’t want to look there … They want to keep the focus on Donald
Trump, not on what they didn’t do to protect the Capitol.”
According to a recent report
from Fox News, top Republicans on several committees are demanding answers from
Pelosi over security decisions made leading up to the storming of the Capitol.
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Your
Government is Afraid of You
by Chris Farrell
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Again, overseas media are telling the truth, which Americans are missing when they tune into 'mainstream' U.S. media like CNN, MSNBC, etc.:
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Special Report: Inside the Left's Radical Plan to Erase President Donald Trump's Achievements
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Democrats' disunity in spite of Biden's call for 'unity' continues into February 2021,
with Impeachment farce Executive Order dictatorship, Expensive Climate Change that accomplishes virtually nothing, Biden trying to take credit for Trump's accomplishments, TV comedy censorship (more Cancel Culture):
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Megyn Kelly interview on "Outsiders" courtesy of Sky News:
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Our Freedom of Religion is under attack. Senator Langford speaks about what is happening now in America:
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Other items of interest to Americans...........
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Joe Biden in first Town Hall stumbles......
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Meanwhile, ANTIFA continues to riot in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.
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Biden comes to Houston, Texas and exhibits more cognitive fumbling:
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Joe Biden blunders on..........................
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What could possibly be a
reason for refusing to have church services but still meeting in mass
gatherings for Wokeness? There is only one plausible answer. They have
converted from Christianity in the embrace of the Popularity Gospel.
The Religion of Wokeness is
not compatible with Christianity. It has its own doctrines, own worship, own
ordinances (chiefly, protest and virtue-signaling), and own messiah-figures. It
has its own, competing version of confession, repentance, and atonement.
True Christians need to
reject Wokeness – and the high priests of Wokeness – as fierce opposition to
the Lordship of Christ and true religion.
“No one can serve two
masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be
devoted to the one and despise the other…(Matthew 6:24).
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"Unconscious Bias" comes from consultants pushing
"Diversity Training"
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"DIVERSITY IDENTITY POLITICS" IS A DEAD END
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Capitol Riot updated with new information about who was involved:
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A strange Town Hall with Joe Biden:
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An Australian point of view:
Never has the leader of the free world been so cognitively compromised.
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MONOPOLY, COKE, AND MATH.............. PAUL MURRAY EXPLAINS
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Dr. John MacArthur offers theological insight into Joe Biden's inaugural:
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Ten Absolute Truths About the 2020 Election and Election
Fraud That Every American Should Understand
by
Kevin Freeman
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How the American media LIED to the American public about Trump, prior to the 2020 Election:
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Listen carefully again, in full context:
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Maybe this is why Biden could stay hidden in his basement and not campaign, while his surrogates, big tech censors, and mainstream media 'talking heads', went and covered up for him.
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SHADOW "CABAL" SECURED
JOE BIDEN'S ELECTION
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Bombshell Report Finds 12,547 Illegal Votes In Georgia
Election, Enough To Swing State
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PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
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People do not realize how important
decisions are
until
they make
the wrong ones.
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We have tried to place warnings for folks who have read this page since 2017, and the first quarter of 2020, about the wrong direction our country is going in. This observation was not arrived at over night. I did not make up my own mind about choice of candidate(s) until I did further study of the individuals and the issues.
We have placed the warnings on this page and exposed the fraud of several violent groups, from a Christian perspective; especially from what the Bible says about the issues and groups we have examined.
We have vetted the background of radical groups and individuals who are anti-Church, anti-Christian, and anti-freedom of speech, religion, and press. The research involved did not come from so-called 'mainstream media,' but from outside, independent sources. Even statements from Fox news were checked for accuracy from other sources. I personally do not watch TV 24-7, to find accurate information, and during this 2020 election, did not watch any political program, except the last presidential debate.
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We have detailed on this webpage:
The lies.
The Marxist agenda of BLM,
which is the rise of a 'dictatorship of ideas' in our country. (Listen to Lisa Sergio discuss this in her lecture).
The reality of Antifa, (which
is only an idea, according to Joe Biden).
The "pay for play"
Biden family scandal which was hidden from the American public by the tech and media giants.
The rigged election votes in several states that have
been verified.
An overview of candidate Biden, who hid out
in his basement while letting the big tech media do his bidding. We have drawn parallels with his 'basement campaign' and that of Warren Harding's 'front porch campaign.' And Harding, (who, like Joe Biden, was sick before assuming the presidency,) died before the end of his term.
That Harris has openly
espoused Marxism and supported the Marxist run and funded BLM.
Harris would not answer
questions in town halls.
That the unverified cognitive testing
of Biden has never been revealed.
That Biden predicated his election
on ending the pandemic with no stated program except some vague statement that
sounded like the Trump agenda.
Finding big tech that has
censored the search engine "Google", Facebook, and Twitter.
The rise of a
Totalitarian state with the new website "Trump Accountability
Project" backed by far-left Marxist politicians, like 'AOC.'
BLM has written to Biden wanting his support with their agenda. His selection for Treasury Secretary is a firm supporter of this Marxist organization.
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The Bible is very clear about the things that are wrong, unethical, and sinful which have been detailed on this webpage:
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It
is a sad state of affairs in our country that so many have been fooled and
misguided. My brother Jim and I always voted for the individual not the party.
But
as my Mother used to say, and I say to those who have not taken the time to be informed; to those who always vote for the party instead of the character and background of the individual; or vote for someone without giving the choice careful consideration:
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My mother also could quote from memory these words of John Oxenham, which I have not forgotten:
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To every man
there openeth
A Way, and Ways, and a Way.
And the High Soul climbs the High way,
And the Low Soul gropes the Low,
And in between, on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A High Way, and a Low.
And every man decideth
The Way his soul shall go.
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We each have choices to make in this life, one which affects us for all eternity (accepting Jesus as our personal Saviour); and some which affect how we view our life here on earth. It is those choices which we make now which will determine whether we have taken the road less traveled of honesty, ethical morality, and good character, which will determine how we live now and affect others for eternity. People are always looking at Christians to see how they live, work, and yes, vote. We must always stand for that which is right in this world, for we will surely give account of that in the world to come. My prayer is that you have read this page carefully and that you will always make the right choices. -Joe Hughes
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As Christmas approached,
President and Mrs. Donald Trump sent the nation Christmas Greetings:
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June - August 2020 sub-section concluded:
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Richmond Police Memorial statue removed from Byrd Park after being
vandalized.
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A memorial honoring Richmond police
officers killed in the line of duty was moved from Byrd Park on Thursday, video
sent to 8News shows, after it was vandalized. The move comes after multiple
statues across the state were toppled by protesters.
The Richmond Police Memorial statue, which was moved to the park
in 2016, was vandalized and covered in paint following protests in the wake of
George Floyd’s death and growing calls for Virginia’s Confederate monuments to
be removed.
Mayor Levar Stoney’s spokesman, James Nolan, told 8News the
memorial “will be repaired and restored before it is returned to public
display.”
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Mexican president
López Obrador came to the White House, July 8, 2020 and thanked Trump for being
‘increasingly respectful’ toward Mexicans.
On his morning
itinerary, he laid a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial, which, thankfully, had not been destroyed.
Later, before signing a trade
agreement with President Trump, he gave some remarks which every American
should have heard. He certainly knows the history of our country.
He gave special mention of and thanks to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George Washington. He told how they had been instrumental in the relationship
between our two countries.
I decided to include this news article about the President of Mexico because it is unfortunate that many who protested over
the month of June are not as knowledgeable about the history of our country as this man.
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Here are the remarks which the President of Mexico gave:
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Supporters of Mexican
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gather near the White House on July 8,
2020, ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump are seen in the next
photograph:
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Instead of anarchy, Marxism, hate, and violence, we need peaceful dialogue, discussion, and love. This was a keynote at the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis. This is something that the late John Read and his son Jesse would have agreed with, as they had both served their country protecting America during the War of 1812, years prior to the Civil War. They were both Christians and did not believe in divisiveness and discord.
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Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr.
was the Distinguished Professor of History, Virginia Tech.
Several of his lectures are presented here as contributions to the discussion concerning the Civil War.
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One
of the most distinguished names in Civil War history, Dr. Robertson was
Executive Director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission and worked with
Presidents Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson in marking the war’s 100th
anniversary. Today his Civil War Era
course at Virginia Tech, which attracts 300 students per semester, is the
largest of its kind in the nation.
The
Danville, Va., native is the author or editor of more than 20 books that
include such award-winning studies as Civil War! America Becomes One Nation,
General A.P. Hill, and Soldiers Blue and Gray. His massive biography of Gen.
“Stonewall” Jackson won eight national awards and was used as the base for the
Ted Turner/Warner Bros. mega-movie, “Gods and Generals”. Robertson was chief
historical consultant for the film.
The
recipient of every major award given in the Civil War field, and a lecturer of
national acclaim, Dr. Robertson is probably more in demand as a speaker before
Civil War groups than anyone else in the field.
He
holds the Ph.D. degree from Emory University and honorary doctorates from
Randolph-Macon College and Shenandoah University. He is presently an Alumni
Distinguished Professor, one of ten such honorees among Virginia Tech’s 2,200
faculty. He is also Executive Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War
Studies, created by the University in 1999.
Robertson is also a charter member (by Senate
appointment) of Virginia’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
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I want to thank the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation for allowing this address by Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr. to be put in public domain. Dr. Robertson discusses the Confederate Monuments controversy. Video files in MP4 Quicktime are available below the youtube.
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"Sin is to Blame”
-Rev. Joe Hughes
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In thinking about the recent violence and unrest in our
country, I have been in prayer for our country and the leaders of our various
states. All Christians need to pray for peace. I remember a
poignant sermon Dad preached many years ago titled, "Sin is to
Blame," which addressed how individuals try to shift their actions away
from their own responsibility and, consequently, their own sinfulness.
I have also been thinking about what the Bible says about
the matter. The Bible is clear in its statements about the sin of
violence, which Jesus Himself condemned. It is one thing to defend
justice and righteousness, if we know the whole story, which Jesus espoused,
but it is something else to support violence that harms, injures those in
authority, and sins against another; violence which defaces and destroys
public and church property here and abroad; political leaders who will not
stand up for what is right; all of which, Jesus condemned. I am
especially sad that over 700 police officers across our country have been
injured while on the job during these protests. I can only wonder what my brother
Jim, a now deceased state policeman, would say about how these men and women
are being treated.
I remember what my mother often said, when she quoted
James 4:17, "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not,
to him it is sin."
Other scriptures that come to mind are....
Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his
ways. Proverbs 3:31
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the
wicked and the one who loves violence.
Psalm 11:5
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But
if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."
Matthew
5:38-39
For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will
repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
Hebrews 10:30
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do
you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of
God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to
me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an
account of himself to God. Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another
any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in
the way of a brother.
Romans 14:10-13
The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23.
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The Bible says in Proverbs 6:16-19:
“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an
abomination unto him:
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent
blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth
discord among brethren.”
Billy Graham had this to say about that Scripture:
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My father, Rev. Hughes, preached a sermon that
talks about this matter of sin. The Invitation Hymn "Only Trust
Him" which follows the sermon, invites us to respond in trust and faith:
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Having recently read the 2019 and 2020 Pew Research and Gallup reports,
I conclude that we do not have so-called "systemic racism" in our country, as some organizations are claiming in order to "get on the bandwagon" of "political correctness" with Black Lives Matter, which was founded by 3 Marxists who practice and espouse Communism.
Looking at the definition of "systemic" (which would include institutional-wide), that is not the case at present. Although some radical political proponents have led to spikes of agitation and backlash, nevertheless, slavery, long since ended in this country, cannot be made an issue, or excuse for violence and crime. Some politically motivated groups and individuals continue to use it as a "code word" for political gain. No one should "take a knee" and bow to involvement in that "smoke and mirrors" sub rosa campaign.
Those who continue to shout "slavery" forget: all 13 Original Colonies practiced slavery; slaves were enslaved in Africa by Black Africans not white men; all Northern states before the Civil War practiced slavery, with some slavery still in existence in the North as late as 1863, a slave market existed just blocks from the White House in 1863, before the war ended.
Less than 1/2 of the most segregated cities in the United States in 2017, when the riot occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, are located in the old Confederacy. The two most segregated cities in the U.S. are Detroit and Chicago. Cleveland is 5th and Buffalo is 7th. These northern industrial cities were intentionally segregated by private actors and by the local and federal governments, in response to the Great Migration of Blacks moving northward. Lest we forget: desegregation in schools was not exactly accepted with grace and dignity in many places in the North.
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I hate to tell you this, I really do, but
Abraham
Lincoln was,
like many white men of his day,
a stone-cold racist.
At the fourth Lincoln-Douglas
debate, held in Charleston, South Carolina, the “Great Emancipator” began with
the following [transcript courtesy of the National Park Service]:
“While I was at the hotel
to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in
favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people.
[Great Laughter.] While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say
much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy
perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it. I will say then that
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social
and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not
nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of
qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will
say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white
and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living
together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot
so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and
inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior
position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive
that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be
denied every thing.
"I do not understand
that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want
her for a wife. [Cheers and laughter.] My understanding is that I can just let
her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never have had a black
woman for either a slave or a wife. So it seems to me quite possible for us to
get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes. I will add to this
that I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man, woman or child who was in favor
of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and
white men. … I will also add to the remarks I have made (for I am not going to
enter at large upon this subject,) that I have never had the least apprehension
that I or my friends would marry negroes if there was no law to keep them from
it, [laughter] but as Judge Douglas and his friends seem to be in great
apprehension that they might, if there were no law to keep them from it, [roars
of laughter] I give him the most solemn pledge that I will to the very last
stand by the law of this State, which forbids the marrying of white people with
negroes. [Continued laughter and applause.]"
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We live in 2021,
not the 1860s. The Civil War has been over for a long time and we should let it
be over. Democrats need to stop screaming "systemic racism" which is a fraud.
We have to stop pretending that the Union Army was composed entirely
of dedicated abolitionists who believed in equality and fought against those
racist bastards in the South. There were racists in the North and the South in
the 1850-1860s. There were racists in the North and the South in the 1920s. There
were racists in the North and the South in the 1960s. There are racists in the
North and the South today. The Confederate States of America is not the enemy.
They were defeated. Slavery was defeated. Racism has not been completely defeated, but we've made much progress and do not have systemic racism as some would have you believe. White
supremacy has not been completely defeated. Anarchy has not been defeated. So let us shine a bright light on those white
nationalists who believe that their views are once again ascendant and let us,
ALL of us, in the North and the South, in the Democratic Party and the
Republican Party, tell them that their day is past.
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Much has been done over the years to erase racism in our country. Now is not the time to take a step back, but move forward....together. Politicians need to look to God for guidance and set the right tone of love for all men and women.
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My
brother Jim and I grew up in a Christian home; were taught the Bible; taught to
tell the truth; taught to confess sin and seek forgiveness; sought to live our
lives in view of that background. In addition, our school teachers
believed in the basic freedoms of our country and were diligent in passing on
those values to us in the classroom.
News from
the oldest, continuously published newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton, is
being censored. Due to the censorship of truthful news in the United
States; in a blatant attempt to stifle freedom of the press, I have taken the
unusual step of putting out some films from overseas news organizations which
are reporting the truth, courtesy of SkyNews, Australia.
The
censorship of documents, witness testimony, and truthful reporting on the
current election is ongoing. We grew up in a time when you could depend
on accurate news reporting; but that is becoming a thing of the past. I
was brought up to believe that America meant freedom and liberty, but what I'm
seeing now is the censorship usually found in Communist countries. Now, with VP candidate Kamala Harris releasing a
pro-Marxist video on November 1st, it is imperative that Americans realize what
is at stake in this presidential election.
While in
college I heard Lisa Sergio speak to the student body. I believe she has
correctly predicted how many folks in this country today are falling for a
"dictatorship of ideas" as it concerns the Black Lives Matter
organization, which was founded by 3 confirmed Marxist Communists, and other
radical leftist organizations like Antifa. These groups have orchestrated
the tearing down of statues and erasure of history. Violent protests have been
planned and coordinated. If you listen closely, you will notice that she also
predicted that China would be a problem in the future; and it is.
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Although the following lecture by Lisa Sergio is from 1966, and is 'dated' somewhat, it still addresses the issues of, and those who adhere to, the Black Lives Matter movement, which is tearing down the fabric of our country. Please listen to the lecture while keeping in mind what is going on in our country today in 2020. (There is a slight break as the tape is turned to side 2; also slight pauses as she is asked questions, she then answers).
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Note: lecture runs for approximately 30 minutes followed by questions and extended answers.
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There can be a “dictatorship
of ideas” when the conditions are ripe for these to take root:
This is not a dictatorship
led by one man.
People are advocating
change.
They want it in a
hurry. No revolution ever waited.
They don’t care what means
to achieve it.
You don’t need to have a
bunch of goose-stepping men in black shirts to have a dictatorship.
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What conditions are needed
to facilitate
a dictatorship of ideas?
There has been no serious
study of Marxism and Communism in schools and colleges.
The ignorant can be
exploited.
The leaders of the
movement look at the strengths of our Constitution and attack the weaknesses
found there.
You have to realize that
in our country, when we are faced with a challenge and have had no experience
of facing a challenge, that is fertile ground for a dictatorship of ideas.
We need to achieve
maturity so that we will not be prey to another dictatorship.
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Some of these ideas are
being fostered in the dictatorship of “my rights.” You never hear a child
say, “you have a duty.”
This is one of the
greatest open doors for a dictatorship of ideas to enter and fool the American
people.
The Black Lives Matter
organization fits this pattern of a dictatorship of ideas. They are
an organization founded by Marxists.
They advocate immediate change and don’t care how it is achieved. Many of their core supporters come from the 1960s era of
rioting and looting. They are currently attempting to get the Democrat candidate Joe Biden, to give them 'a hearing' and listen to their 'demands.'
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Two additional lectures by Miss Sergio:
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A brief bio of Lisa Sergio who appeared at another college:
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Several films from the 1950s and 1960s clearly show how Communism and Socialism can infiltrate our American society. Those who support "Democratic Socialism" and Antifa in 2020, are following the Communist plan for the destruction of our country under the supposed and benign theory of Socialism. Do not be deceived.
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This next film in particular, ties in with what Lisa Sergio said about a dictatorship of ideas:
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People are waking up to the threat posed by Communist China:
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The Deadliest Virus in the World: Communism
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In Memory of all Police Officers killed in the Line of Duty during the BLM/Anarchist Riots
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New hate/racist group "White Lies Matter" emerges in March 2021:
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End of Special sub-section
June-October 2020
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The special 2017 Section
continues
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And then, in September 2017, some of the idiot students at the University of Virginia, now want to remove the statue, of all things, the founder of their college. They protested by placing a black shroud over the statue of Thomas Jefferson, and attaching racist/rape signs.
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From the Richmond-Times Dispatch:
(Andrew Cain, Sept. 13, 2017)
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan on
Wednesday rebuked protesters who shrouded a statue of Thomas Jefferson on the
north side of the school’s Rotunda on Tuesday night, saying they were
“desecrating ground that many of us consider sacred.”
“I strongly disagree with the protesters’ decision to cover
the Jefferson statue,” Sullivan wrote in an email to alumni.
Protesters at the Rotunda covered the U.Va. founder’s statue
in black on the one-month anniversary of the white nationalist rally Aug. 12
that led to the death of Heather Heyer, a protester against racism.
The latest development — coupled with a Confederate heritage
group’s planned demonstration Saturday at Richmond’s Robert E. Lee monument in
defiance of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s temporary ban — stoked anew an issue that
continues to ripple through Virginia’s race for governor about eight weeks ahead
of the election.
The Republican Party of Virginia on Wednesday urged U.Va. to
prevent the “defacing” of historical monuments.
“The vandalism of the Thomas Jefferson statue at the
University of Virginia is the next step in the extreme left’s movement to erase
our history,” John Whitbeck, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, said
in a statement.
Ralph Northam, the Democratic nominee for governor, issued a
mild criticism of the protesters. “There are more appropriate ways to have a
discussion about our complex history,” he tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “Let’s
be civil and respect each other.”
Sullivan said that university personnel removed the shroud
and that one person was arrested Tuesday night on a charge of public
intoxication. The Daily Progress reported that university police arrested Brian
Lambert of Charlottesville on the public intoxication charge. Authorities said
Lambert, who is not affiliated with the school, was legally open-carrying a
firearm.
In her message to alumni, Sullivan alluded to white
nationalists’ torchlit march on the U.Va. campus the night before the Unite the
Right rally.
“Coming just one month after the August 11 torchlight march
by 300 racist and anti-Semitic protesters, a march that became violent, this
event has reminded us that there are critical and sometimes divisive issues
related to the exercise of free expression in an inclusive community,” Sullivan
wrote.
Sullivan said Jefferson “was an ardent believer in freedom
of expression, and he experienced plenty of abusive treatment from the
newspapers of his day.” Jefferson likely would not be surprised to find
expressions about “critical disagreements in the polity” at U.Va., Sullivan
added.
Sullivan said many alumni “experienced protests and
activism” during their college days at U.Va.
“I prefer the process of discussion and debate,” she said,
adding that “the debate is happening here” at U.Va. “That there is also
activism should not be a surprise to any of us.”
Protesters who climbed the Jefferson statue Tuesday night
added signs that referred to Jefferson as a “racist” and a “rapist.”
In a separate statement to the university community
Wednesday, Sullivan noted that Jefferson owned slaves.
She wrote that Jefferson “made many contributions to the
progress of the early American Republic: he served as the third president of
the United States, championed religious freedom, and authored the Declaration
of Independence.”
She added: “In apparent contradiction to his persuasive
arguments for liberty and human rights, however, he was also a slave owner.”
Sullivan note, “In its early days the University of Virginia
was dependent upon the institution of slavery. Enslaved people not only built
its buildings, but also served in a wide variety of capacities for U.Va.’s
first fifty years of existence. After gaining freedom, African Americans
continued to work for the university, but they were not allowed to enroll as
students until the mid-twentieth century.”
Whitbeck, chairman of the state GOP, said in his statement
that “the defacing of our historical monuments is not free speech, it is a
criminal offense, plain and simple.”
There have been no reports that the protesters damaged the
Jefferson statue.
On Tuesday, Virginia Military Institute announced that it is
keeping its Confederate statues, including one of Stonewall Jackson, who served
on the school’s faculty before the Civil War, and will consider adding more
historical context.
Northam, a VMI graduate, has said he backs the removal of
Confederate statues from prominent public spaces. He has said that he would do
“everything” in his authority to remove statues at the state level, but he gave
no indication Tuesday that he would press the issue at VMI.
David Abrams, a spokesman for Republican nominee Ed
Gillespie, said VMI’s decision is “consistent with Ed’s view that we should add
historic context to monuments.”
Corey Stewart, the Prince William Board of County
Supervisors chairman who made protecting Confederate statues a key to his bid
for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, also decried Tuesday’s protest at
the Jefferson statue at U.Va., issuing a series of tweets.
“It was never just about Lee,” he said in the first tweet.
“We warned of this in Feb. They’re going after the Founders, then the founding
documents.”
In another tweet, Stewart said: “@UVA must expel students
and fire any faculty responsible. Anything less is acceptance.”
Stewart is seeking the Republican nomination to run next
year against U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
Congress this week passed a bipartisan resolution decrying
the violence at the Aug. 12 rally in Charlottesville and urging President
Donald Trump to speak out against “hate groups.” The resolution was introduced
in the House by Reps. Thomas A. Garrett Jr., R-5th, and Gerald E. Connolly,
D-11th, and in the Senate by Kaine and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday
that the president plans to sign the resolution as soon as it reaches his desk.
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Governor Mike Huckabee puts the latest student idiots at UVA into context:
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A different story in Richmond, Virginia, September 16, 2017. With excellent work by the Virginia State Police, the Richmond City Police, the Capitol Police, and the Governor, the protest/counter-protest was a non-violent affair. Thanks also to First Baptist Church, where my wife and I used to attend church, located on Monument Avenue, for hosting a community briefing/meeting.
And then, this story, which shows what could happen when dialogue takes place:
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Away from shouting over Confederate history, a
basketball coach and a plumber take time to talk it out
By GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond
Times-Dispatch
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Richard Mason
(left), a youth basketball coach and entrepreneur from Chesterfield County,
spoke with Robert Kilpatrick, a plumber from Mathews County, during a
pro-Confederate rally and counter-protest Saturday.
It wasn’t as
dramatic as the yelling matches over Confederate history and the Black Lives
Matter movement. But for two men at Saturday’s rally on Monument Avenue, one
black and one white, a calm conversation, a handshake and a quick embrace meant
something more.
Standing in the
shade on the city’s iconic boulevard, Richard Mason, a youth basketball coach
and entrepreneur from Chesterfield County, talked with Robert Kilpatrick, a
plumber from Mathews County wearing a Confederate flag shirt and a gun on his
hip.
They may not
have agreed on everything as they explained their perspectives on history and
race over the course of 15 minutes. Still, they walked away convinced that the
social divides roiling America in 2017 probably aren’t going to be solved at
high volume.
“Whatever the
next man’s views are, because of freedom of speech, I’m open to it,” Mason
said. “There’s nothing someone can say derogatory toward me because I know who
I am.”
“We’re lucky to
be having this conversation right now,” Kilpatrick said.
The exchange
drew a crowd of onlookers and reporters, some of whom asked Kilpatrick why he
had brought a gun. He said he’s not “paranoid” and doesn’t usually wear one,
but he’s “not usually in a place where there are this many people.”
“I don’t want
violence. And this is a deterrent,” said Kilpatrick, who stressed that he had
no connection to the group that organized the rally and just came to watch.
Kilpatrick and
Mason were in full agreement on one point: that division comes from the top
down, not the bottom up.
“We’re sitting
here arguing about the top guys. We don’t realize they’re all friends,” Mason
said. “You think Obama and Trump ain’t sat down and drank a beer?”
After seeing
what was happening, one young attendee asked the two men for their thoughts on
how he could create more civil dialogue among his peers.
“Everyone has a
common denominator,” Mason said. “Sports. Theater. Literature. I just never
divide people.”
The answer
won’t be found above the noise at street rallies, Kilpatrick said, but in
smaller group discussions.
“It can’t be
people that have the Ph.D.s and the psychiatrists and all of that,” Kilpatrick
said. “It has to be everyday people like you and me having conversations.”
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Nationally,
majority favors keeping Confederate monuments, poll finds
By ANDREW CAIN Richmond Times-Dispatch
Sep 14, 2017
A clear
majority of respondents say Confederate monuments should remain in all public
spaces, according to a national poll out Thursday morning.
The Ipsos
poll on racial issues, conducted Aug. 21-Sept. 5 on behalf of Thomson Reuters
and the University of Virginia Center for Politics, also found broad agreement
on racial equality.
But it
spotlighted vestiges of what the pollsters termed “troubling levels of support
for certain racially charged ideas and attitudes frequently expressed by
extremist groups.”
On
Confederate monuments, 57 percent said they should remain in public spaces,
while 26 percent said they should be removed and 17 percent said they don’t
know. Among African-Americans, 54 percent said all of the monuments should be
removed. Among whites, 67 percent said the monuments should remain in place.
The survey
gauged attitudes on race by asking respondents whether they agreed or disagreed
with certain statements.
• Eighty-nine percent agreed that “all races should
be treated equally,” 85 percent agreed that “people of different races should
be free to live wherever they choose” and 82 percent agreed that “all races are
equal.”
• Thirty-one percent said they agree that “America
must protect and preserve its white European heritage,” while 34 percent
disagreed, 29 percent had neither opinion and 5 percent said they don’t know.
• While 78 percent agreed that “America must protect
and preserve its multi-cultural heritage,” 5 percent disagreed, 14 percent held
neither view and 4 percent didn’t know.
• Most respondents — 65 percent — disagreed with the
statement: “Marriage should only be allowed between people of the same race.”
But 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia decision struck
down laws barring interracial marriage, 16 percent said they agree with the
statement. Fourteen percent held neither view and 4 percent said they don’t
know.
• Fifty-five percent agreed with the statement:
“Racial minorities are currently under attack in this country,” while 22
percent disagreed, 19 percent held neither view and 5 percent did not know.
• A plurality — 39 percent — agreed with the statement:
“White people are currently under attack in this country,” while 38 percent
disagreed, 19 percent had neither view and 4 percent did not know.
In separate
questions, the poll found scant support for the “alt-right” (6 percent), white
nationalism (8 percent) and neo-Nazism (4 percent.)
“Let’s
remember, there are nearly 250 million adults in the United States, so even
small percentages likely represent the beliefs of many millions of Americans,”
said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at U.Va.
The
pollsters surveyed 5,360 adults online from the continental U.S., Alaska and
Hawaii. Ipsos said the survey has a “credibility interval” of plus or minus 1.5
percentage points. In some instances responses do not total 100 percent due to
rounding. The sample had 2,255 Democrats, 1,915 Republicans and 689
independents.
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H.K. Edgerton speaks to a Republican conference on Southern Heritage in Ashville, North Carolina, 2015:
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Gregory Newsom, an artist and descendant of Black slaves, speaks on the importance of Blacks in the Confederate Army:
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President Calvin Coolidge:
"Remembering our Shared Fallen"
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The Confederate Monument today, looking south at Arlington
National Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
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“If I am
correctly informed by history, it is fitting that the Sabbath should be your Memorial
Day. This follows from the belief that except for the forces of Oliver Cromwell
no army was ever more thoroughly religious than that which followed General
Lee. Moreover, these ceremonies necessarily are expressive of a hope and a
belief that rise above the things of this life. It was Lincoln who pointed out
that both sides prayed to the same God. When that is the case, it is only a
matter of time when each will seek a common end. We can now see clearly what
that end is. It is the maintenance of our American form of government, of our
American institutions, of our American ideals, beneath a common flag, under the
blessings of Almighty God.
“It was for
this purpose that our Nation was brought forth. Our whole course of history has
been proceeding in that direction. Out of a common experience, made more
enduring by a common sacrifice, we have reached a common conviction. On this
day we pause in memory of those who made their sacrifice in one way. In a few
days we shall pause again in memory of those who made their sacrifice in
another way. They were all Americans, all contending for what they believed
were their rights. On many a battlefield they sleep side by side. Here, in a
place set aside for the resting place of those who have performed military duty,
both make a final bivouac. But their country lives."
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Americans
North and South gather with Coolidge, in the above photo, to honor all who fought and died for our
ideals, but especially those who wore the gray, 1924. Coolidge could have used
Presidential rhetoric to withhold recognition, instead he upheld the honor and
importance of what they died to preserve. He helped to heal, not inflame,
division and to reunite all Americans around our love of country founded on
principles we share in common.
“The bitterness
of conflict is passed. Time has softened it; discretion has changed it. Your
country respects you for cherishing the memory of those who wore the gray. You
respect others who cherish the memory of those who wore the blue. In that
mutual respect may there be a firmer friendship, a stronger and more glorious
Union…
“…A mightier
force than ever followed Grant or Lee has leveled both their hosts, raised up
an united Nation, and made us all partakers of a new glory. It is not for us to
forget the past but to remember it, that we may profit by it. But it is gone;
we cannot change it. We must put our emphasis on the present and put into
effect the lessons the past has taught us. All about us sleep those of many
different beliefs and many divergent actions. But America claims them all…” — President
Calvin Coolidge, May 25, 1924
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The Confederate Memorial
at Arlington in 1922, (seen in the next photo) two years before President
Coolidge spoke the words above. In the years to follow, the markers of
those who wore the gray would multiply as the great warriors of the South shed
mortality.
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In the next picture, below,
we see the return of the Confederate battle and regimental flags to Virginia, North Carolina
and Texas on December 16, 1927, on the White House grounds.
An earlier attempt by President Cleveland in
1887, met with successful opposition by the Grand Army of the Republic (Union
veterans) as “trophies” of the Civil War that should not be returned. It would be
“treasonous” according to the large body of obstinate veterans. These were Confederate flags which had been captured by Union soldiers during battles and represented "trophies" of their victory on the battlefield. Thus, the Union veterans did not want to return them to the Southern states. They were not ready to forgive their Southern brothers.
President Theodore
Roosevelt, through careful coordination with Congress, restored a partial
collection of battle flags to the Southern states in 1905, taking them from
storage at the War Department in Washington.
Like so many old wounds,
however, President Coolidge did not evade the controversy for fear that it
would cost political support. Coolidge upheld just dealings toward all, whether
it was the full citizenship for all Native American tribes or fair honor due Southern Americans
who fought just as valiantly as the Yankees did for principled reasons. It was
overdue and time to lay aside hostility, heal old grievances, and reestablish peace
between Americans, North and South.
He recognized that his duty
included leadership by example to help reunite the country around the
essentials we share as Americans. It would not be right to misuse a President’s
influence by keeping us divided and at war with one another. He was as much an
advocate of peace at home as he was abroad.
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In the next picture, below,
we see the return of the Confederate battle and regimental flags to Virginia, North Carolina
and Texas on December 16, 1927, on the White House grounds:
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You may be wondering why these Battle Flags were so hotly contested in the 1920s.
The Civil War re-enactors,
pictured below, illustrate what you didn't want to happen: the enemy capturing
your Regimental Battle Flag. The Color Bearer was an important individual on
the battlefield, both North and South.
It was a very heroic thing for one of the Read family members, Joe Read,
to do, in picking up the colors when the Color Bearer was killed. This incident is described on the "Read Family Story" page.
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Why did Civil War soldiers
placed so much importance on the flags of their regiments?
The devotion to a flag was
not merely an emotional matter. Men
would sacrifice their lives defending a regimental flag simply to protect it
from being captured by the enemies. Clearly,
Civil War regimental flags played a vital part in the outcomes of Civil War
battles and it is important to note why.
1. Flags were valuable
morale builders.
Civil War armies on both
sides of the battles were organized by regiments from particular states and
regions. Soldiers tended to feel their
first loyalty toward their regiment – similar to that of local sports teams.
Each state regiment typically carried its own flag into battle. Soldiers tended to take a great deal of pride
in their flags, in which case they were treated with reverence. Many ceremonies were held as a sort of morale
builder so the soldiers knew what/who they were fighting for. Some may find this hard to believe, but some Federals won the Medal of Honor for simply capturing a Confederate flag.
Civil War Color Bearers
played an important role in the outcome of battles.
2. Flags helped with drawing
practical battle lines.
Among all the smoke of the
battles and noise around, the lines of battle tended to become very
unclear. Flags were used as a visual
rallying point, of which soldier were trained to follow the flag. Because the regimental flags had genuine
strategic importance in battle, certain soldiers, known as the color guards,
were designated to hold and guard the flags.
Being a color bearer was considered a mark of great distinction.
3. Protecting the regimental
flag was of great importance.
The Civil War produced
countless tales of regimental flags being protected during the battle. Many stories were told of common soldiers
protecting the flag if/when the color bearer became injured or died in battle.
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Examples of actual Battle Flags:
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After watching a 2013 symposium
led by Dr. Gary W. Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of
the Civil War, University of Virginia (Pictured below, courtesy of the UVA
website), concerning the Battle at Gettysburg, I came to realize how central a
role Joseph D. Read played in picking up the regimental battle flag. It was no small thing for him to pick up the
battle flag when the assigned Color Bearer fell; it had enormous
consequences. I now understand why he
was so brave, so commended, (in writing), by his Regimental Commander for his
heroic efforts on the battlefield.
I have included a short clip
from Dr. Gallagher's lecture below, as he discusses the importance of the Color
Bearer:
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Coolidge spoke out in favor of civil
rights. He refused to appoint any known members of the Ku Klux Klan to office,
appointed African Americans to government positions and advocated for
anti-lynching laws. In 1924, Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act,
granting full citizenship to all Native Americans while permitting them to
retain tribal land rights.
President Coolidge believed in equality for all. Seen here with American Indians at the White House; he had just signed into law, the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
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Coolidge, in the next photo, wears the headdress presented to him by the Sioux tribe:
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President Coolidge was a morally upright man who lived his Christian principles at home, as well as in public. On his first week at the White House, he and his family attended church on Sunday. He believed in, and read the Bible, and kept one by his bedside all his life. The following two pictures show the church in Plymouth Notch, Vermont where he attended; and also the pew where he sat, marked today with an American flag.
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Calvin Coolidge attended the Edwards Congregational Church in Northampton, Mass. (seen in the next photograph) when he grew up. His funeral was held in this church.
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President and Mrs. Coolidge, seen leaving First Congregational Church, Washington, D.C. (On his first Sunday in the White House, he and his family attended church services).
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President Coolidge also believed in hard work and responsible citizenship. In the next photos, we see his family, and his children working on their grandfather's farm. While away from the White House, he worked on the farm himself, to help his father.
In the next photo, Left to Right: President Coolidge, his son John, son Calvin, Jr. on the hay wagon; Coolidge's father John, standing below.
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A film about Calvin Coolidge, courtesy of the Coolidge Presidential Foundation:
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The Coolidge family was close-knit. Here President Coolidge helps his son build a cart:
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President Coolidge and wife Grace, with the family dog:
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Coolidge family formal portrait: L-R: Calvin, Jr, President, Mrs. Coolidge, John, and father, John, Sr. Notice the well-groomed President and sons with polished shoes. This shows good upbringing.
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Coolidge family seen outside their "duplex" rented Northampton, Mass. house; L-R: John, Mrs. Grace Coolidge, President Coolidge, Calvin, Jr.
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I hope the reader of this page will see that this was a very happy family that worked, played, went to church together, and believed in and practiced Christian values that are often missing in today's 21st Century society. I strongly identify with this family, as this is how my brother and I were brought up by our own father and mother. -Joe Hughes
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Calvin Coolidge is one of the more maligned
presidents in American history. Coolidge should be commended for his
executive restraint and homespun honesty, two character traits that have
escaped the modern American executive. He was a throwback to the
nineteenth century when the president (save Lincoln and Jackson) was expected
to merely execute the laws of Congress. This was the correct position
constitutionally. Coolidge himself believed he was a “dinosaur” who could
not adapt to modern conceptions of executive power.
Coolidge should also be admired for his
willingness to include Southern history into the fabric of the American
story. Though Coolidge was a Vermont Puritan bred on New England history
and sensibilities, he nevertheless believed that American history was a complex
quilt of interpretations woven together in a “Union” of common interests.
No speeches better exemplify this belief than two he made at Arlington National
Cemetery in May 1924.
Reprinted below are the texts of both addresses. Coolidge lavished praise on both Lee and the Confederate
soldier for their heroism and determination, and he emphasized that the War did
not destroy the constitutional role of the States within the American
Union. To Coolidge, the Southern position of self-determination and
federalism still had a place in the Union of the twentieth century.
If only our modern “politicians” would be so
bold.
Address at
the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery:
“The
United Nation”
May
25, 1924
"If I am correctly informed by history, it is
fitting that the Sabbath should be your Memorial Day. This follows from the
belief that except for the forces of Oliver Cromwell no army was ever more
thoroughly religious than that which followed General Lee. Moreover, these
ceremonies necessarily are expressive of a hope and a belief that rise above
the things of this life. It was Lincoln who pointed out that both sides prayed
to the same God. When that is the case, it is only a matter of time when each
will seek a common end. We can now see clearly what that end is. It is the
maintenance of our American form of government, of our American institutions,
of our American ideals, beneath a common flag, under the blessings of Almighty
God.
"It was for this purpose that our Nation was
brought forth. Our whole course of history has been proceeding in that
direction. Out of a common experience, made more enduring by a common
sacrifice, we have reached a common conviction. On this day we pause in memory
of those who made their sacrifice in one way. In a few days we shall pause
again in memory of those who made their sacrifice in another way. They were all
Americans, all contending for what they believed were their rights. On many a
battle field they sleep side by side. Here, in a place set aside for the
resting place of those who have performed military duty, both make a final
bivouac. But their country lives.
The bitterness of conflict is passed. Time
has softened it; discretion has changed it. Your country respects you for
cherishing the memory of those who wore the gray. You respect others who
cherish the memory of those who wore the blue. In that mutual respect may there
be a firmer friendship, a stronger and more glorious Union.
"When I delivered the address dedicating the
great monument to General Grant in the city of Washington, General Carr was
present, with others of his comrades, and responded for the Confederacy with a
most appropriate tribute. He has lately passed away, one of the last of a
talented and gallant corps of officers. To the memory of him whom I had seen
and heard and knew as the representative of that now silent throng, whom I did
not know, I offer my tribute. We know that Providence would have it so. We see
and we obey. A mightier force than ever followed Grant or Lee has leveled both
their hosts, raised up an united Nation, and made us all partakers of a new
glory. It is not for us to forget the past but to remember it, that we may
profit by it. But it is gone; we cannot change it. We must put our emphasis on
the present and put into effect the lessons the past has taught us. All about
us sleep; those of many different beliefs and many divergent actions. But
America claims them all. Her flag floats over them all. Her Government protects
them all. They all rest in the same divine peace."
Address at
Arlington National Cemetery:
“Freedom and
Its Obligations”
May
30, 1924
"We meet again upon this hallowed ground to
commemorate those who played their part in a particular outbreak of an age old
conflict. Many men have many theories about the struggle that went on from 1861
to 1865. Some say it had for its purpose the abolition of slavery. President
Lincoln did not so consider it. There were those in the South who would have
been willing to wage war for its continuation, but I very much doubt if the
South as a whole could have been persuaded to take up arms for that purpose.
There were those in the North who would have been willing to wage war for its
abolition, but the North as a whole could not have been persuaded to take up
arms for that purpose. President Lincoln made it perfectly clear that his
effort was to save the Union, with slavery if he could save it that way;
without slavery if he could save it that way. But he would save the Union. The
South stood for the principle of the sovereignty of the States. The North stood
for the principle of the supremacy of the Union.
"This was an age old conflict. At its
foundation lies the question of how can the Government govern and the people be
free? How can organized society make and enforce laws and the individual remain
independent? There is no short sighted answer to these inquiries. Whatever may
have been the ambiguity in the Federal Constitution, of course the Union had to
be supreme within its sphere or cease to be a Union. It was also certain and
obvious that each State had to be sovereign within its sphere or cease to be a
State. It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and
enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the
individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an
individual. The fundamental question was then, is now, and always will be
through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.
"It needs but very little consideration to
reach the conclusion that all of these terms are relative, not absolute, in
their application to the affairs of this earth. There is no absolute and
complete sovereignty for a State, nor absolute and complete independence and
freedom for an individual. It happened in 1861 that the States of the North and
the South were so fully agreed among themselves that they were able to combine
against each other. But supposing each State of the Union should undertake to
make its own decisions upon all questions, and that all held divergent views.
If such a condition were carried to its logical conclusion, each would come
into conflict with all the others, and a condition would arise which could only
result in mutual destruction. It is evident that this would be the antithesis
of State sovereignty. Or suppose that each individual in the assertion of his
own independence and freedom undertook to act in entire disregard of the rights
of others. The end would be likewise mutual destruction, and no one would be
independent and no one would be free. Yet these are conflicts which have gone
on ever since the organization of society into government, and they are going
on now. To my mind this was fundamental of the conflict which broke out in
1861.
"The thirteen Colonies were not unaware of the
difficulties which these problems presented. We shall find a great deal of
wisdom in the method by which they dealt with them. When they were finally
separated from Great Britain, the allegiance of their citizens was not to the
Nation for there was none. It was to the States. For the conduct of the war
there had been a voluntary confederacy loosely constructed and practically
impotent. Continuing after peace was made, when the common peril which had been
its chief motive no longer existed, it grew weaker and weaker. Each of the
States could have insisted on an entirely separate and independent existence,
having full authority over both their internal and external affairs, sovereign
in every way.
"But such sovereignty would have been a vain and empty thing. It
would have been unsupported by adequate resources either of property or
population, without a real national spirit, ready to fall prey to foreign
intrigue or foreign conquest. That kind of sovereignty meant but little. It had
no substance in it. The people and their leaders naturally sought for a larger,
more inspiring ideal. They realized that while to be a citizen of a State meant
something, it meant a great deal more if that State were a part of a national
union. The establishment of a Federal Constitution giving power and authority
to create a real National Government did not in the end mean a detriment, but
rather an increment to the sovereignty of the several States. Under the
Constitution there was brought into being a new relationship, which did not
detract from but added to the power and the position of each State. It is true
that they surrendered the privilege of performing certain acts for themselves,
like the regulation of commerce and the maintenance of foreign relations, but
in becoming a part of the Union they received more than they gave.
"The same thing applies to the individual in
organized society. When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he
does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it.
By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for
a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity
of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering
obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the
exercise of increased and increasing rights. It is true that as civilization
becomes more complex it is necessary to surrender more and more of the freedom
of action and live more and more according to the rule of public regulation,
but it is also true that the rewards and the privileges which come to a member
of organized society increase in a still greater proportion. Primitive life has
its freedom and its attraction, but the observance of the restrictions of
modern civilization enhances the privileges of living a thousand fold.
"Perhaps I have said enough to indicate the
great advantages that accrue to all of us by the support and maintenance of our
Government, the continuation of the functions of legislation, the
administration of justice, and the execution of the laws. There can be no
substitute for these, no securing of greater freedom by their downfall and failure,
but only disorganization, suffering and want, and final destruction. All that
we have of rights accrue from the Government under which we live.
"In these days little need exists for
extolling the blessings of our Federal Union. Its benefits are known and
recognized by all its citizens who are worthy of serious attention. No one
thinks now of attempting to destroy the Union by armed force. No one seriously
considers withdrawing from it. But it is not enough that it should be free from
attack, it must be approved and supported by a national spirit. Our prime
allegiance must be to the whole country. A sentiment of sectionalism is not
harmless because it is unarmed. Resistance to the righteous authority of
Federal law is not innocent because it is not accompanied by secession. We need
a more definite realization that all of our country must stand or fall
together, and that it is the duty of the Government to promote the welfare of
each part and the duty of the citizen to remember that he must he first of all
an American.
"Only one conclusion appears to me possible.
We shall not promote our welfare by a narrow and shortsighted policy. We can
gain nothing by any destruction of government or society. That action which in
the long run is for the advantage of the individual, as it is for the support
of our Union, is best summed up in a single word; renunciation. It is only by
surrendering a certain amount of our liberty, only by taking on new duties and
assuming new obligations, that we make that progress which we characterize as
civilization. It is only in like manner that the citizens and the States can
maintain our Federal Union and become partakers of its glory. That is the
answer to every herald of discontent and to every preacher of destruction.
While this is understood, American institutions and the American Union are
secure.
"This principle can not be too definitely or
emphatically proclaimed. American citizenship is a high estate. He who holds it
is the peer of kings. It has been secured only by untold toil and effort. It
will be maintained by no other method. It demands the best that men and women
have to give. But it likewise awards to its partakers the best that there is on
earth. To attempt to turn it into a thing of ease and inaction would be only to
debase it. To cease to struggle and toil and sacrifice for it is not only to
cease to be worthy of it but is to start a retreat toward barbarism. No matter
what others may say, no matter what others may do, this is the stand that those
must maintain who are worthy to be called Americans.
"But that great struggle was carried on by
those whom this day is set apart to commemorate, not only for the preservation
of the Union. The authority of the Federal Government had been resisted by
armed force. They were also striving to restore peace. It must be remembered
that our Republic was organized to avoid and discourage war, and to promote and
establish peace. It is the leading characteristic of our national holidays that
they are days of peace. The ways of our people are the ways of peace. They
naturally seek ways to make peace more secure.
"It is not to be inferred that it would be
anything less than courting national disaster to leave our country barren of
defense. Human nature is a very constant quality. While there is justification
for hoping and believing that we are moving toward perfection, it would be idle
and absurd to assume that we have already reached it. We can not disregard
history. There have been and will be domestic disorders. There have been and
will be tendencies of one nation to encroach on another. I believe in the
maintenance of an Army and Navy, not for aggression but for defense. Security
and order are our most valuable possessions. They are cheap at any price. But I
am opposed to every kind of military aggrandizement and to all forms of
competitive armament. The ideal would be for nations to become parties to
mutual covenants limiting their military establishments, and making it obvious
that they are not maintained to menace each other. This ideal should be made
practical as fast as possible.
"Our Nation has associated itself with other
great powers for the purpose of promoting peace in the regions of the Pacific
Ocean. It has steadily refused to accept the covenant of the League of Nations,
but long before that was thought of, before the opening of the present century,
we were foremost in promoting the calling of a conference at The Hague to
provide for a tribunal of arbitration for the settlement of international
disputes. We have made many treaties on that basis with other nations.
"But we have an opportunity before us to
reassert our desire and to lend the force of our example for the peaceful
adjudication of differences between nations. Such action would be in entire
harmony with the policy which we have long advocated. I do not look upon it as
a certain guaranty against war, but it would be a method of disposing of
troublesome questions, an accumulation of which leads to irritating conditions
and results in mutually hostile sentiments. More than a year ago President
Harding proposed that the Senate should authorize our adherence to the protocol
of the Permanent Court of International Justice, with certain conditions. His
suggestion has already had my approval. On that I stand. I should not oppose
other reservations, but any material changes which would not probably receive
the consent of the many other nations would be impracticable. We can not take a
step in advance of this kind without assuming certain obligations.
"Here again
if we receive anything we must surrender something. We may as well face the
question candidly, and if we are willing to assume these new duties in exchange
for the benefits which would accrue to us, let us say so. If we are not
willing, let us say that. We can accomplish nothing by taking a doubtful or
ambiguous position. We are not going to be able to avoid meeting the world and
bearing our part of the burdens of the world. We must meet those burdens and
overcome them or they will meet us and overcome us. For my part I desire my country
to meet them without evasion and without fear in an upright, downright, square,
American way.
"While there are those who think we would be
exposed to peril by adhering to this court, I am unable to attach great weight
to their arguments. Whatever differences, whatever perils exist for us in the
world, will come anyway, whether we oppose or support the court. I am one of
those who believe we would be safer and that we would be meeting our duties
better by supporting it and making every possible use of it. I feel confident
that such action would make a greater America, that it would be productive of a
higher and finer national spirit, and of a more complete national life.
"It is these two thoughts of union and peace
which appear to me to be especially appropriate for our consideration on this
day. Like all else in human experience, they are not things which can be set
apart and have an independent existence. They exist by reason of the concrete
actions of men and women. It is the men and women whose actions between 1861
and 1865 gave us union and peace that we are met here this day to commemorate.
When we seek for the chief characteristic of those actions, we come back to the
word which I have already uttered; renunciation. They gave up ease and home and
safety and braved every impending danger and mortal peril that they might
accomplish these ends. They thereby became in this Republic a body of citizens
set apart and marked for every honor so long as our Nation shall endure. Here
on this wooded eminence, overlooking the Capital of the country for which they
fought, many of them repose, officers of high rank and privates mingling in a
common dust, holding the common veneration of a grateful people. The heroes of
other wars lie with them, and in a place of great preeminence lies one whose
identity is unknown, save that he was a soldier of this Republic who fought
that its ideals, its institutions, its liberties, might be perpetuated among
men. A grateful country holds all these services as her most priceless heritage,
to be cherished forevermore.
"We can testify to these opinions, not by our
words but by our actions. Our country can not exist on the renunciation of the
heroic souls of the past. Public service, from the action of the humblest voter
to the most exalted office, can not be made a mere matter of hire and salary.
The supporters of our institutions must be inspired by a more dominant motive
than a conviction that their actions are going to be profitable. We can not
lower our standards to what we think will pay, but we must raise them to what
we think is right. It is only in that direction that we shall find true
patriotism. It is only by that method that we can maintain the rights of the
individual, the sovereignty of the States, the integrity of the Union, the
permanency of peace, and the welfare of mankind. You soldiers of the Republic
enrolled under her banner that through your sacrifices there might be an
atonement for the evils of your day. That is the standard of citizenship for
all time. It is the requirement which must be met by those who hold public
place. That must be the ideal of those who are worthy to share in the glory
which you have given to the name of America, the ideal of those who hold
fellowship with Washington and Lincoln."
Source: Brion McClanahan
Brion
McClanahan is the author or co-author of five books, 9 Presidents Who
Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her (Regnery History, 2016), The
Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, (Regnery, 2009), The
Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution (Regnery History, 2012), Forgotten
Conservatives in American History (Pelican, 2012), and The Politically
Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes, (Regnery, 2012). He received a
B.A. in History from Salisbury University in 1997 and an M.A. in History from
the University of South Carolina in 1999. He finished his Ph.D. in History at
the University of South Carolina in 2006, and had the privilege of being Clyde
Wilson’s last doctoral student. He lives in Alabama with his wife and three
daughters.
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President Coolidge at the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, silent film:
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Four videos about the life of Calvin Coolidge presented by the Calvin Coolidge Foundation:
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Have
you ever thought about "reading" a monument? In this presentation,
Museum Historian John Coski demonstrates how Virginia's Confederate monuments
reveal the choices made by memorialists as they decided how and what to
remember about the Civil War--and what to forget. Find out how the Lost Cause
was shaped in part by these works in stone.
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How
to be Happily Unreconstructed in a World Gone Crazy
by Ben "Cooter"
Jones (Former Member of Congress)
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Now, about those statues.......
The Surprising Reason Why
So Many Civil War Memorials Look Almost Exactly the Same
In recent years, the
Confederate monument has gained a new level of symbolism, as the item at the
center of an ongoing debate — one that reaches far beyond the subject of
monuments — about how and whether a nation should remember the darkest moments
of its past. Statues to those who fought for the Confederacy have been brought
down in numerous cities by protesters or officials, while other people have
fought to keep them, as reminders of a heritage they say is about more than
slavery or simply as part of an undeniable history.
So it’s perhaps surprising
that some of the most common American monuments to those who fought for the
Confederacy have a distinct feature: they look almost exactly the same as
monuments to those who fought for the Union.
The reason that’s the case is
explained by a segment on an upcoming episode of the PBS series 10 That Changed
America, which takes host Geoffrey Baer across the U.S. for thematic looks at
how what the nation has built has, in turn, built the nation. In one new
episode, Baer focuses on “10 Monuments that Changed America” and the ways that
monuments can be a window into the psyche of the nation that erects them.
The monument in question, in
the video clip shown below, is the so-called standing soldier statue, a symbolic
monument to local individuals who fought in the Civil War. But it’s not just
one monument. Thousands of them can be seen in towns across America, in states
that fought for both sides.
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Those Mass-Produced Civil War Statues Were Meant to Stand Forever
The company
behind one popular cookie-cutter statue advertised they would “last as long as
the Pyramids of Egypt."
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Are there
any monuments of Union soldiers in the American South?
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End of special 2017 section
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Postscript to the two special subsections:
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Many of our freedoms are now under threat, including singing
our National Anthem, recently banned by one NBA basketball club owner. Consider that folks in Hong Kong were
recently singing the U.S. National Anthem and waving our U.S. Flag in protest
against the Communists attempting to take over their country. This ought to speak volumes to all who don't
realize what freedoms you have now in our own country.
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Billy Graham, speaking
from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., addresses
America:
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End of "The Old South" Sub-Sections.
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"The South During Reconstruction" an original term paper written and read for a radio broadcast by Jim Hughes:
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"The Reconstruction years in the South and the same years in the North, were somewhat a period of crime, intolerant mass psychology, business depression, moral slump, official sinning, and the launching of a new party in opposition to the Republican."
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"...so Lee met Grant in Appomattox........"
-Bruce Catton
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Bruce Catton speaks at the 100th Anniversary of the Surrender at Appomattox
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John Jeremiah Read was mustered out of Confederate service in North Carolina. According to documents and letters we have found, he was fearful of taking the train due to his wearing a Confederate uniform, as they were the only clothes he had, and therefore, walked most of the way back to his home in Mississippi.
He was also was aware of the war crimes that had been committed against civilians in the South. (See mustering out information below).
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The School of Education, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, provided a website which included information about what typically happened to Confederate soldiers who were paroled in that state. Included is a Civil War reenactment: Union
occupation and a Confederate soldier goes home, 1865.
In the video that follows below, a Confederate
soldier making his way home at the end of the Civil War is stopped by Union
soldiers at a checkpoint, then cooks for them in exchange for a day’s rations.
Filmed at Bennett Place Historic Site in Durham, North Carolina, July 18, 2009.
After nearly a week of
negotiations, Joseph Johnston surrendered his army to William T. Sherman on
April 26, 1865, at Bennett Place. Several days later, Confederates of the Army
of the Tennessee, detachments from the Army of Northern Virginia on duty in
North Carolina, and other units such as artisans and naval personnel posted in
the state were offered their paroles by Union authorities.
At 8:00 on the morning of
May 1, Brig. Gen. William Hartsuff, inspector-general of the Union Army of
Georgia, opened his paroling office in Greensboro’s Britton House Hotel. The
first Confederate to receive a parole was Rear Adm. and Brig. Gen. Raphael
Semmes, who had recently been given an army rank as his sailors were
transferred to the infantry in April. By the afternoon, so many Confederates
had received paroles that Hartsuff was running out of forms. He commissioned a
local printer and Confederate veteran, James Albright, to print 15,000 more
forms. Albright and his brother completed the work, receiving $125 for their
services.
By the end of May 2, paroles
had been issued to over 32,000 men. Johnston’s surrender affected the nearly
90,000 Confederates posted east of the Mississippi with the exception of those
who surrendered with the Army of Northern Virginia. According to Johnston’s
final morning report, 16,000 men were present for duty with the remnants of the
Army of Tennessee. In the days prior to the surrender, several thousand men had
simply left for home once they determined the war had ended.
Having received their
paroles, the Confederate troops performed their final mustering out ceremonies.
The majority of the army did so at Greensboro, where they stacked their arms
and equipment at the Guilford County Court House. Other detachments, mainly the
North Carolina Junior Reserves and elements of the Army of Northern Virginia on
detached service, mustered out at or near Bush Hill.
Joseph Johnston’s final
speech to his troops asked them to “discharge the obligations of good and
peaceful citizens at your homes as well as you have performed the duties of
thorough soldiers in the field.” Portions of the Confederate Treasury were
evidently handed out among the troops. According to Maj. G. W. F. Harper of the
58th North Carolina, “At Greensboro, the regiment was paid in Mexican silver
dollars –one dollar and fourteen cents to each officer and enlisted man
present.”
Having turned in their arms,
received their paroles and final pay, the former Confederates returned home.
For many of the members of the Army of Tennessee, getting home meant long,
arduous journeys to Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Texan Samuel Foster wrote,
“After turning in our guns and getting our paroles, we fell relieved. No more
picket duty, no more guard duty, no more fighting, no more war. It is all over,
and we are going home. Home after an absence of four years from our families
and our friends.”
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Pictured above, is what an actual parole looked like.
Salisbury, North Carolina,
May ________, 1865.
In accordance with the terms of the Military
Convention, entered into the twenty-sixth day of April, 1865, between General
Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate army, and Major-General W. T.
Sherman, commanding the United States Army in North Carolina,
[soldier’s
name]
has given his solemn obligation not to take
up arms against the Government of the United States until properly released
from this obligation, and is permitted to return to his home, not to be
disturbed by the United States authorities so long as he observes this
obligation and obeys the laws in force where he may reside.
[Signed by Special Commissioner, U.S.
Army, and the soldier’s commanding officer, Confederate Army]
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Those with last name of "Read" on parole list at Appomattox:
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Those with last name of "Walkup" (using the older spelling of "Wauchope") on parole list at Appomattox:
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A letter was found written by Charles "Savez" Read (seen in the next photo) which indicated his disappointment in not readily receiving amnesty, and not being accepted back into the U.S. Navy.
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North and South Veterans in the closing days of The Old South
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Home video brings 1938 Civil War reunion to life
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1911, 1914, 1929 Confederate Veterans Parades:
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Scenes from the
epic silent "Lost Film" THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG by Thomas H. Ince.
Orginally 50 minutes in length, less than 60 seconds remains. Released on June
1, 1913 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg:
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The New South after Reconstruction
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"The Civil War in Memory" a University of Virginia classroom lecture with Dr. Gary Gallagher
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150
years later,
War Between the States causes disputed
To mark the 150th anniversary of the
start of the Civil War, Martha Teichner explores the lingering dispute over the
war's causes - and what that means for our future as a nation. (Courtesy of CBS News)
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Last
widow of a Civil War veteran dies age 101: Woman who married 93-year-old
cavalry soldier when she was just 17 passes away at her Missouri nursing home
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Helen Viola Jackson (PICTURED ABOVE) died on December 16, 2020, at her
Missouri nursing home aged 101.
She had married Civil War veteran James Bolin
in 1936, when he was 93. (PICTURED BELOW).
Bolin asked her to marry him because he wanted
her to have his Union pension.Bolin died three years later, but Jackson
never claimed his pension.
Bolin's daughter threatened to ruin Jackson's
reputation if she took the money.
Jackson said that Bolin was a kindly man who
wanted to help her financially.
Jackson never remarried or had children, and
devoted herself to her community.
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For the first 98 years of her life, Jackson was known as a
woman who had never married. She had no children and was active in her
community through the Marshfield Cherry Blossom Festival, the Webster County
Historical Society and the Webster County Democrat Central Committee.
It wasn’t until 2017 when she revealed that as a teenager,
she wed James Bolin.
It was 1936, the height of the Great Depression, and she was
a 17-year-old school girl living in Niangua in southwest Missouri’s Webster
County. Bolin was 93.
“Her father had volunteered her to stop by his house each
day and assist him with chores as she headed home from school,” Brian C.
Pierson, commander in chief of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, wrote
Jan. 2 in General Order No. 9, issued to honor Jackson.
Bolin could not pay for her help, but he had something that
he thought she could use. He was a veteran of the Civil War, which made him and
his dependents eligible for a pension.
“Mr. Bolin explained that he did not have any money to pay
me for taking care of him,” Jackson said in an oral history recording in 2018.
“Therefore, he asked for my hand in marriage so that he could leave his pension
to me.”
They were married, and he died in 1939. Jackson never
remarried, never had children and never applied for a pension.
“I never wanted to share my story with the public,” Jackson
said. “I didn’t feel that it was that important, and I didn’t want a bunch of
gossip about it.”
Jackson died Dec. 16 in Webco Manor Nursing Home in
Marshfield. The record of her marriage is Bolin’s Civil War-era Bible, which
she kept as a treasured memento.
Jackson was born in 1919 and Bolin in 1843, but marriages
between Civil War veterans and young women were a fairly common occurrence in
the first decades of the 20th century. The pensions made the veterans
attractive mates to some. The last person receiving a Civil War pension, Irene
Triplett, died May 31 in North Carolina.
Triplett, who was developmentally disabled, received $73.13
a month because her mother married a veteran more than 50 years her senior in
1924.
Jackson’s husband, Bolin, was a private in Company F of the
14th U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. He never participated in any Civil War battle — he
was mustered into the service April 10, 1865, in Springfield, the day after
Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox
Court House, Virginia.
Lee’s surrender did not end the war that began in April 1861
after the secession of 11 slave states. The last Confederate commands held out
until June.
But with the war coming to a close, the 14th Cavalry was
sent to Nebraska for duty on the frontier. It was disbanded in November 1865.
Bolin was a widower when he married Jackson. His first wife
died in 1922.
Tommy MacDonnell, who will celebrate his 98th birthday
Saturday, signed an affidavit at the 2018 Marshfield Cherry Blossom Festival to
the wedding day timeline of events. McDonnell, who practiced medicine in
Marshfield, cared for many residents of his region, and they rewarded him in
1986 by electing him to the Missouri House.
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Jackson's death, and her story, was
confirmed by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
The story began with Bolin's signing up for
his military service at the age of 18, according to military records, as the
war was breaking out.
He fought with both the 13th and 14th Cavalry,
ending the war with F Company.
Missouri had both Confederate and Union
forces, but Jackson spoke of his Union pension, suggesting he fought with the
Missouri State Militia 14th Cavalry.
Members of the Missouri State Militia were
recruited from the state of Missouri, but armed by the federal government. They
had to provide their own horses in the cavalry regiments, and were given
sporadic bonuses for doing so.
They fought almost exclusively in the state of
Missouri, most notably in the Battle of Westport - one of the largest battles
west of the Mississippi, sometimes referred to as the Gettysburg of the West.
The battle was fought on October 23, 1864, in
modern Kansas City, Missouri, and saw a decisive defeat of Confederate forces.
The Missouri State Militia also fought in the
Battle of Mine Creek, the largest cavalry battle west of the Mississippi river,
involving approximately 10,000 troops.
Jackson kept her story to herself for
80 years, until finally telling her tale in December 2017.
Bolin married Elizabeth Davenport
Bolin - the date of their wedding is unknown - and the couple settled in
Niangua and had five children, born in the decade after 1869.
Elizabeth died in 1922 aged 79.
The Jackson family - James Washington
Jackson, his wife Thursa Arizona Shelby Jackson, and their 10 children - farmed
just outside Niangua, and began to assist the elderly widower.
Helen Jackson met Bolin at church,
during the height of the Great Depression, and her father volunteered her to
stop by his house each day and assist him with chores as she headed home from
school.
Bolin, who did not want to be seen as
a charity case, came up with the idea of marrying Helen, as a way of securing
her financial future.
'He said that he would leave me his
Union pension,' Jackson explained, in an interview with Hamilton C. Clark, a
historian.
'It was during the Depression and
times were hard. He said that it might be my only way of leaving the farm.'
The couple married in front of a few
witnesses at his Niangua home on September 4, 1936.
'Mr Bolin really cared for me,' she
said in an interview for Our America Magazine.
'He wanted me to have a future and he
was so kind.'
Bolin recorded the wedding in his
personal Bible, which is now part of a rotating exhibit on Jackson that has
traveled to several museum locations, including the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home
and Museum in Mansfield, Missouri.
The Daughters of the Union Veterans
confirmed Jackson's marriage using historical documents, including a signed
affidavit from the last living witness to the nuptials.
After the wedding Jackson remained on
the family farm, and few knew of the arrangement.
James Bolin is buried in Niangua cemetery, in
the town where he and Jackson both lived.
She was active in her Methodist church, where
the ladies' ministry was named in her honor, and in her local gardening club.
She also received an honorary high school
diploma from Niangua High School, courtesy of the class of 1937.
A play about Jackson's life, The Secret Veil,
was written in 2019 and performed at the Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival as a
fundraiser for the Randy Travis Foundation, set up by the country music star
for stroke victims.
Jackson died on December 16 at Webco Manor
Nursing Home in Marshfield, Missouri, where she had been a resident for many
years.
She was working on her funeral arrangements in
2017, when she finally decided to open up about her life.
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