The War on Jefferson—Is Franklin Next?
Oct 23, 2021 10:36:16 #
As I have written earlier, that we must see the good, in human behavior, that exceeded over the bad.
Thomas Jefferson, one of the most brilliant ancestors had some flaws and short comings in life. He is human, and NOT perfect. But all his great works, the product of his wisdom had exceeded way more than the wrongs that he had committed. Most human beings had wrongs. If we focus on slavery alone, and destroy the whole history of how this country was founded upon on freedom and God's guidance, then until now black slavery over rules our system of life.
What has Africa offered to the world if the slavery did not exist? They'll still be there up on the trees living their natural ways. How are they doing right there until today? Is that what you idiots wanted?
I think it was a blessing that slavery happened, and brought to the West. So many of them now are on top of the world multi-millionaires, and multi-billionaires. They have reached and accomplished thru freedom that this country has offered. The wisdom of the Founding Fathers did that.
We must look at the bright and good side, and forget the wrongs so that all of us will feel the blessings of God, instead of hatred and vengeance towards each other. Nothing good will come to that except destruction. Does God wants that? NO!
From the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson, he wrote this at the Declaration of Independence: Excerpt:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
================================
Ah, life, isn’t it complicated? Just ask Sally Hemings. But you can’t, obviously. Who knows—perhaps Jefferson went to his grave wishing he could have married Sally, his slave with whom he apparently had children. Sally may well have felt the same way. Nothing is simple.
Like it or not we are all creatures of our times. Thomas Jefferson was clearly a hypocrite, often tortured by his own hypocrisy,[b] but he was also a genius whose writings offered great hope for humanity, all of humanity, despite NY City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian caucuses calling, as Goldman reminds us, the Declaration he authored]/b] “the disgusting and racist basis on which America was founded.”
Having been a professional writer all my life and having had the good fortune to know many fine authors, playwrights, and essayists, some “of color” even, I know not one who has written anything nearly as powerful and evocative as “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Those words bring tears to my eyes, now more than ever, given the current state of our presidential rhetoric which runs to “Build back… y’know… the thing.”
What Jefferson’s critics are unable to do, likely don’t want to do, is practice what is known in psychoanalysis as “containment” and is defined in Webster’s as “the act, process, or means of keeping something within limits.”
Someone with a relatively healthy mind is able to put historical revelations in a context. Nothing appalls the “woke” more than that. They are always accusing the rest us of “contextualizing.” But that is what adults do. We look at the past, evaluate it, try to take the best from it and avoid the worst, and move on.
That is the way to observe George Santayana’s dictum “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The left don’t aim to remember the past. They aim to obliterate it.
And thus they are condemned to repeat it. As they are now—in the United States of America—to everybody else’s dismay and horror.
Who will be the next to go? Benjamin Franklin—America’s own DaVinci. No doubt he’s in their crosshairs. (What about that poor little mouse from “Ben and Me” so many of us grew up with?)
Fortunately, in the case of the Jefferson statue, it will not be destroyed, but removed to another location. (Wise move because these things often are walked back when people come to their senses.) And it’s not the original anyway, but a copy. The original is in the Capitol Rotunda, waiting for The Squad to complain about its presence and/or existence, if they haven’t already.
I learned something I had not known about that original from Goldman’s article. It was “commissioned by the French sculptor David d’Angers in 1833 by Uriah P. Levy, a Jewish naval officer who suffered from antisemitism in his military career.” That included six courts-martial, some apparently stemming from duels fought over religious slurs.
Levy was devoted to Jefferson’s memory, particularly because of the third president’s strong belief in religious freedom. But Levy—who had commanded a vessel to suppress the slave trade—had some blemishes of his own. After Jefferson’s death, he purchased more than a dozen slaves to work on the restoration of Monticello.
Which, ironically, leads us to the present when the crusade against Jefferson at the City Council has been led by pro-despot (Mugabe and Qaddafi), pro-Hamas, ally of the New Black Panther Party Assemblyman Charles Barron, who has claimed “real” Semites are black and accused Israel of—you guessed it—“genocide.”
How to explain, then, that the Arab population of Israel has grown considerably faster than the Jewish? Problem, no? You’d think after Auschwitz the Jews would know how to do genocide. Slow learners, I guess.
But no matter. Such things don’t concern folks like Barron. (He also called Jefferson a “pedophile” who “raped children.”)
Give me Thomas Jefferson, warts and all, over the Charles Barrons of the world any time.
As for where the Jews fit in all this, I will have more to say when reporting from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference in Las Vegas Nov 5. It’s safe to say their kinsman Merrick Garland will not be popular with this group. He sure isn’t with me.
So, to paraphrase Sun Tzu, keep your Jefferson statues close and your Franklin statues closer. (And maybe keep a few Madisons in the closet.)
Thomas Jefferson, one of the most brilliant ancestors had some flaws and short comings in life. He is human, and NOT perfect. But all his great works, the product of his wisdom had exceeded way more than the wrongs that he had committed. Most human beings had wrongs. If we focus on slavery alone, and destroy the whole history of how this country was founded upon on freedom and God's guidance, then until now black slavery over rules our system of life.
What has Africa offered to the world if the slavery did not exist? They'll still be there up on the trees living their natural ways. How are they doing right there until today? Is that what you idiots wanted?
I think it was a blessing that slavery happened, and brought to the West. So many of them now are on top of the world multi-millionaires, and multi-billionaires. They have reached and accomplished thru freedom that this country has offered. The wisdom of the Founding Fathers did that.
We must look at the bright and good side, and forget the wrongs so that all of us will feel the blessings of God, instead of hatred and vengeance towards each other. Nothing good will come to that except destruction. Does God wants that? NO!
From the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson, he wrote this at the Declaration of Independence: Excerpt:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
================================
Ah, life, isn’t it complicated? Just ask Sally Hemings. But you can’t, obviously. Who knows—perhaps Jefferson went to his grave wishing he could have married Sally, his slave with whom he apparently had children. Sally may well have felt the same way. Nothing is simple.
Like it or not we are all creatures of our times. Thomas Jefferson was clearly a hypocrite, often tortured by his own hypocrisy,[b] but he was also a genius whose writings offered great hope for humanity, all of humanity, despite NY City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian caucuses calling, as Goldman reminds us, the Declaration he authored]/b] “the disgusting and racist basis on which America was founded.”
Having been a professional writer all my life and having had the good fortune to know many fine authors, playwrights, and essayists, some “of color” even, I know not one who has written anything nearly as powerful and evocative as “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Those words bring tears to my eyes, now more than ever, given the current state of our presidential rhetoric which runs to “Build back… y’know… the thing.”
What Jefferson’s critics are unable to do, likely don’t want to do, is practice what is known in psychoanalysis as “containment” and is defined in Webster’s as “the act, process, or means of keeping something within limits.”
Someone with a relatively healthy mind is able to put historical revelations in a context. Nothing appalls the “woke” more than that. They are always accusing the rest us of “contextualizing.” But that is what adults do. We look at the past, evaluate it, try to take the best from it and avoid the worst, and move on.
That is the way to observe George Santayana’s dictum “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The left don’t aim to remember the past. They aim to obliterate it.
And thus they are condemned to repeat it. As they are now—in the United States of America—to everybody else’s dismay and horror.
Who will be the next to go? Benjamin Franklin—America’s own DaVinci. No doubt he’s in their crosshairs. (What about that poor little mouse from “Ben and Me” so many of us grew up with?)
Fortunately, in the case of the Jefferson statue, it will not be destroyed, but removed to another location. (Wise move because these things often are walked back when people come to their senses.) And it’s not the original anyway, but a copy. The original is in the Capitol Rotunda, waiting for The Squad to complain about its presence and/or existence, if they haven’t already.
I learned something I had not known about that original from Goldman’s article. It was “commissioned by the French sculptor David d’Angers in 1833 by Uriah P. Levy, a Jewish naval officer who suffered from antisemitism in his military career.” That included six courts-martial, some apparently stemming from duels fought over religious slurs.
Levy was devoted to Jefferson’s memory, particularly because of the third president’s strong belief in religious freedom. But Levy—who had commanded a vessel to suppress the slave trade—had some blemishes of his own. After Jefferson’s death, he purchased more than a dozen slaves to work on the restoration of Monticello.
Which, ironically, leads us to the present when the crusade against Jefferson at the City Council has been led by pro-despot (Mugabe and Qaddafi), pro-Hamas, ally of the New Black Panther Party Assemblyman Charles Barron, who has claimed “real” Semites are black and accused Israel of—you guessed it—“genocide.”
How to explain, then, that the Arab population of Israel has grown considerably faster than the Jewish? Problem, no? You’d think after Auschwitz the Jews would know how to do genocide. Slow learners, I guess.
But no matter. Such things don’t concern folks like Barron. (He also called Jefferson a “pedophile” who “raped children.”)
Give me Thomas Jefferson, warts and all, over the Charles Barrons of the world any time.
As for where the Jews fit in all this, I will have more to say when reporting from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference in Las Vegas Nov 5. It’s safe to say their kinsman Merrick Garland will not be popular with this group. He sure isn’t with me.
So, to paraphrase Sun Tzu, keep your Jefferson statues close and your Franklin statues closer. (And maybe keep a few Madisons in the closet.)
Oct 23, 2021 10:52:34 #
WinkyTink
Loc: Hill Country, TX
[quote=Radiance3]As I have written earlier, that we must see the good, in human behavior, that exceeded over the bad.
Thomas Jefferson, one of the most brilliant ancestors had some flaws and short comings in life. He is human, and NOT perfect. But all his great works, the product of his wisdom had exceeded way more than the wrongs that he had committed. Most human beings had wrongs. If we focus on slavery alone, and destroy the whole history of how this country was founded upon on freedom and God's guidance, then until now black slavery over rules our system of life.
What has Africa offered to the world if the slavery did not exist? They'll still be there up on the trees living their natural ways. How are they doing right there until today? Is that what you idiots wanted?
I think it was a blessing that slavery happened, and brought to the West. So many of them now are on top of the world multi-millionaires, and multi-billionaires. They have reached and accomplished thru freedom that this country has offered. The wisdom of the Founding Fathers did that.
We must look at the bright and good side, and forget the wrongs so that all of us will feel the blessings of God, instead of hatred and vengeance towards each other. Nothing good will come to that except destruction. Does God wants that? NO!
From the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson, he wrote this at the Declaration of Independence: Excerpt:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
================================
Ah, life, isn’t it complicated? Just ask Sally Hemings. But you can’t, obviously. Who knows—perhaps Jefferson went to his grave wishing he could have married Sally, his slave with whom he apparently had children. Sally may well have felt the same way. Nothing is simple.
Like it or not we are all creatures of our times. Thomas Jefferson was clearly a hypocrite, often tortured by his own hypocrisy,[b] but he was also a genius whose writings offered great hope for humanity, all of humanity, despite NY City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian caucuses calling, as Goldman reminds us, the Declaration he authored]/b] “the disgusting and racist basis on which America was founded.”
Having been a professional writer all my life and having had the good fortune to know many fine authors, playwrights, and essayists, some “of color” even, I know not one who has written anything nearly as powerful and evocative as “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Those words bring tears to my eyes, now more than ever, given the current state of our presidential rhetoric which runs to “Build back… y’know… the thing.”
What Jefferson’s critics are unable to do, likely don’t want to do, is practice what is known in psychoanalysis as “containment” and is defined in Webster’s as “the act, process, or means of keeping something within limits.”
Someone with a relatively healthy mind is able to put historical revelations in a context. Nothing appalls the “woke” more than that. They are always accusing the rest us of “contextualizing.” But that is what adults do. We look at the past, evaluate it, try to take the best from it and avoid the worst, and move on.
That is the way to observe George Santayana’s dictum “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The left don’t aim to remember the past. They aim to obliterate it.
And thus they are condemned to repeat it. As they are now—in the United States of America—to everybody else’s dismay and horror.
Who will be the next to go? Benjamin Franklin—America’s own DaVinci. No doubt he’s in their crosshairs. (What about that poor little mouse from “Ben and Me” so many of us grew up with?)
Fortunately, in the case of the Jefferson statue, it will not be destroyed, but removed to another location. (Wise move because these things often are walked back when people come to their senses.) And it’s not the original anyway, but a copy. The original is in the Capitol Rotunda, waiting for The Squad to complain about its presence and/or existence, if they haven’t already.
I learned something I had not known about that original from Goldman’s article. It was “commissioned by the French sculptor David d’Angers in 1833 by Uriah P. Levy, a Jewish naval officer who suffered from antisemitism in his military career.” That included six courts-martial, some apparently stemming from duels fought over religious slurs.
Levy was devoted to Jefferson’s memory, particularly because of the third president’s strong belief in religious freedom. But Levy—who had commanded a vessel to suppress the slave trade—had some blemishes of his own. After Jefferson’s death, he purchased more than a dozen slaves to work on the restoration of Monticello.
Which, ironically, leads us to the present when the crusade against Jefferson at the City Council has been led by pro-despot (Mugabe and Qaddafi), pro-Hamas, ally of the New Black Panther Party Assemblyman Charles Barron, who has claimed “real” Semites are black and accused Israel of—you guessed it—“genocide.”
How to explain, then, that the Arab population of Israel has grown considerably faster than the Jewish? Problem, no? You’d think after Auschwitz the Jews would know how to do genocide. Slow learners, I guess.
But no matter. Such things don’t concern folks like Barron. (He also called Jefferson a “pedophile” who “raped children.”)
Give me Thomas Jefferson, warts and all, over the Charles Barrons of the world any time.
As for where the Jews fit in all this, I will have more to say when reporting from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference in Las Vegas Nov 5. It’s safe to say their kinsman Merrick Garland will not be popular with this group. He sure isn’t with me.
So, to paraphrase Sun Tzu, keep your Jefferson statues close and your Franklin statues closer. (And maybe keep a few Madisons in the closet.)[/quote]
Their problem is despite removal of the effigies, I remember. I retain my public school education from before it turned to indoctrination. My children and grandchildren also know.
Thomas Jefferson, one of the most brilliant ancestors had some flaws and short comings in life. He is human, and NOT perfect. But all his great works, the product of his wisdom had exceeded way more than the wrongs that he had committed. Most human beings had wrongs. If we focus on slavery alone, and destroy the whole history of how this country was founded upon on freedom and God's guidance, then until now black slavery over rules our system of life.
What has Africa offered to the world if the slavery did not exist? They'll still be there up on the trees living their natural ways. How are they doing right there until today? Is that what you idiots wanted?
I think it was a blessing that slavery happened, and brought to the West. So many of them now are on top of the world multi-millionaires, and multi-billionaires. They have reached and accomplished thru freedom that this country has offered. The wisdom of the Founding Fathers did that.
We must look at the bright and good side, and forget the wrongs so that all of us will feel the blessings of God, instead of hatred and vengeance towards each other. Nothing good will come to that except destruction. Does God wants that? NO!
From the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson, he wrote this at the Declaration of Independence: Excerpt:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
================================
Ah, life, isn’t it complicated? Just ask Sally Hemings. But you can’t, obviously. Who knows—perhaps Jefferson went to his grave wishing he could have married Sally, his slave with whom he apparently had children. Sally may well have felt the same way. Nothing is simple.
Like it or not we are all creatures of our times. Thomas Jefferson was clearly a hypocrite, often tortured by his own hypocrisy,[b] but he was also a genius whose writings offered great hope for humanity, all of humanity, despite NY City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian caucuses calling, as Goldman reminds us, the Declaration he authored]/b] “the disgusting and racist basis on which America was founded.”
Having been a professional writer all my life and having had the good fortune to know many fine authors, playwrights, and essayists, some “of color” even, I know not one who has written anything nearly as powerful and evocative as “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Those words bring tears to my eyes, now more than ever, given the current state of our presidential rhetoric which runs to “Build back… y’know… the thing.”
What Jefferson’s critics are unable to do, likely don’t want to do, is practice what is known in psychoanalysis as “containment” and is defined in Webster’s as “the act, process, or means of keeping something within limits.”
Someone with a relatively healthy mind is able to put historical revelations in a context. Nothing appalls the “woke” more than that. They are always accusing the rest us of “contextualizing.” But that is what adults do. We look at the past, evaluate it, try to take the best from it and avoid the worst, and move on.
That is the way to observe George Santayana’s dictum “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The left don’t aim to remember the past. They aim to obliterate it.
And thus they are condemned to repeat it. As they are now—in the United States of America—to everybody else’s dismay and horror.
Who will be the next to go? Benjamin Franklin—America’s own DaVinci. No doubt he’s in their crosshairs. (What about that poor little mouse from “Ben and Me” so many of us grew up with?)
Fortunately, in the case of the Jefferson statue, it will not be destroyed, but removed to another location. (Wise move because these things often are walked back when people come to their senses.) And it’s not the original anyway, but a copy. The original is in the Capitol Rotunda, waiting for The Squad to complain about its presence and/or existence, if they haven’t already.
I learned something I had not known about that original from Goldman’s article. It was “commissioned by the French sculptor David d’Angers in 1833 by Uriah P. Levy, a Jewish naval officer who suffered from antisemitism in his military career.” That included six courts-martial, some apparently stemming from duels fought over religious slurs.
Levy was devoted to Jefferson’s memory, particularly because of the third president’s strong belief in religious freedom. But Levy—who had commanded a vessel to suppress the slave trade—had some blemishes of his own. After Jefferson’s death, he purchased more than a dozen slaves to work on the restoration of Monticello.
Which, ironically, leads us to the present when the crusade against Jefferson at the City Council has been led by pro-despot (Mugabe and Qaddafi), pro-Hamas, ally of the New Black Panther Party Assemblyman Charles Barron, who has claimed “real” Semites are black and accused Israel of—you guessed it—“genocide.”
How to explain, then, that the Arab population of Israel has grown considerably faster than the Jewish? Problem, no? You’d think after Auschwitz the Jews would know how to do genocide. Slow learners, I guess.
But no matter. Such things don’t concern folks like Barron. (He also called Jefferson a “pedophile” who “raped children.”)
Give me Thomas Jefferson, warts and all, over the Charles Barrons of the world any time.
As for where the Jews fit in all this, I will have more to say when reporting from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference in Las Vegas Nov 5. It’s safe to say their kinsman Merrick Garland will not be popular with this group. He sure isn’t with me.
So, to paraphrase Sun Tzu, keep your Jefferson statues close and your Franklin statues closer. (And maybe keep a few Madisons in the closet.)[/quote]
Their problem is despite removal of the effigies, I remember. I retain my public school education from before it turned to indoctrination. My children and grandchildren also know.
Oct 24, 2021 13:19:04 #
wtroxell wrote:
Their problem is despite removal of the effigies, I remember. I retain my public school education from before it turned to indoctrination. My children and grandchildren also know.
** How to explain, then, that the Arab population of Israel has grown considerably faster than the Jewish? Problem, no? You’d think after Auschwitz the Jews would know how to do genocide. Slow learners, I guess.
**
Could the Jews be incorporating a slave group compiled of Arab Muslims. ?
A group to defend them against the Arab Muslim aggression ?
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