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K “We need to remember.”
J “We cannot forget.”
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[See the e-commentary at Humanity’s Motto: To Enslave And To Colonize (January 27, 2014).]
Bumper sticker of the week:
To Enslave And To Colonize. Hey, it’s who we are.
Archive for the Slavery Category
Juneteenth (June 19, 2023)
Posted in Freedom / Liberty, Slavery on June 19, 2023 by e-commentary.orgJuneteenth (June 14, 2021)
Posted in Race, Slavery on June 14, 2021 by e-commentary.org. . .
[See the e-commentary at “King Seale Newton X Davis Dellums Day. Oh, And Happy Martin Luther King Day! (January 21, 2019)”, “Charlottesville . . . Chancellorsville? (August 14, 2017)”, “Rerouting History (February 15, 2016)”, “The Confederate Flag: What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015)”, “Celebrate Virginia’s ‘Celebrate Slavery Month’ (April 12, 2010)”, “King Daze (January 20, 2014)”, “Dixie Visited (September 17, 2012)”, “Brown Is The New Black (February 18, 2008)”, “Seeing 2020: A Sanctuary City Is Legal If It Respects And Protects ____________. Oh, And Happy Martin Luther King Day! (January 20, 2020)” and “Columbus And The Redskins (October 14, 2013)”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Remember
The Ali Gedenkschrift/Festschrift (June 13, 2016)
Posted in Race, Religion, Slavery, Society, Sports on June 13, 2016 by e-commentary.org. . .
“Muhammad Ali: Never the White Man’s Negro” Joyce Carol Oates
“Muhammad Ali: The Champion Who Never Sold Out” William C. Rhoden
“What Happened To The Muhammad Ali I Idolized, Blackistone Asks” Kevin Blackistone
“Muhammad Ali: Worshiped. Misunderstood. Exploited.” Ishmael Reed
“In the Ring He Was Ali, but in the Newspapers He Was Still Clay” Victor Mather
“Muhammad Ali Was Her First, and Greatest, Love” Karen Crouse
“Muhammad Ali, the Political Poet” Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“Obama Remembers Ali as a ‘Personal Hero’”
“President Obama’s Statement on Muhammad Ali”
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[See the e-commentary on “Ali (June 6, 2016)” and “The Big Decision (December 13, 2010)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
He would have had fun with gedenkschrift/festschrift.
He would have played with the more familiar “roast and toast.”
Was he an activist or a pacifist?
Orlando
Rerouting History (February 15, 2016)
Posted in Civil War, Dollar - World's Reserve Currency, Iran, Race, Slavery, Society, South, Southern Strategy, Uncategorized on February 15, 2016 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “Any GPS system will take you to the intersection of Ronnie Reagan Road and Saddam Hussein Highway without hesitation or reflection.”
J “Or irony or regret. But Quantrill was a domestic terrorist whereas Hussein threatened the supremacy of the U.S dollar as the world’s reserve currency and was not nice in an area with many not nice people. We Americans should celebrate our own.”
K “Our own what?”
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K “Changing the names of streets and schools does not rewrite history, it changes the names of the individuals who are celebrated on streets and schools.”
J “I have found that those people who want to keep William Quantrill Circle are also those people who claim that the Civil War was about state’s rights rather than about slavery.”
K “Streets and schools should be named after heroes not villains. The history books should be written to reflect the actual history including the actual exploits of the heroes and the villains.”
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K “Not only are Stuart and Lee going down the road, Washington and Jefferson also will be sent down a trail renamed after someone else.”
J “Rename the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall as the ‘George Washington Carver Monument’?”
K “Then we could still refer to it generically as the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall.”
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[See the e-commentary at The Confederate Flag: What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015) and Columbus And The Redskins (October 14, 2013).]
[See the e-commentary at Has Scalia Gone Feral (March 4, 2013) and One Gun Per White Adult Male? A Flintlock Musket? The “One Man, One Gun” Decision (October 4, 2010).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Happy Presidents’ Day
Celebrate heroes on streets and schools; chronicle the activities of the heroes and villains in the history books.
The Confederate Flag: What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015)
Posted in Politics, Race, Slavery, Society, South on July 6, 2015 by e-commentary.org. . .
1 “It means that Blacks are second class citizens.”
2 “It means that voting rights should be denied.”
3 “It means that discrimination should be allowed.”
4 “It means that lynching should be legal. For Blacks, I mean.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
E “All of the above.”
It’s mean?
Opportunity, Welfare And Unrest (June 15, 2015)
Posted in Collapse, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Kleptocracy, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Slavery, Society, Wages, War, Welfare on June 15, 2015 by e-commentary.org. . .
4 “They say that welfare is the bribe paid to the underclass not to revolt. The bribe is no longer enough. The underclass reasonably seeks more from the overclass. Many of them do not want a bribe, they want opportunity. There is no opportunity today and will be even less opportunity tomorrow. There is more restiveness. There is more restlessness. There will be more unrest.”
6 “The war on poverty has become the war on those in poverty.”
4 “Always a war. Could be a hot summer. Or a hot winter.”
6 “A hot winter? Is that anthropogenic global climate change?
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Bumper sticker of the week:
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy
Unionizing Athletes And Adjuncts (And Sherpas) (April 21, 2014)
Posted in Education, Occupy Movement, Pogo Plight, Schooling, Slavery, Sports, Unions, Wages, Work on April 21, 2014 by e-commentary.org. . .
1 “They say you need three things to run a college: sex for the students, tenure for the faculty and football for the alumni.”
2 “That’s about it. The sex is self-executing. Tenure for the faculty is now tenuous with the adjuncts impressed to assume the laboring oar. That leaves the futball team – the sine qua non that justifies the existence of a college in America today.”
1 “The young gladiators are relieved of paying some of the lease payments for the classrooms they may not frequent and the coliseums they fill and toil in for the benefit of the ‘lums. Granting tenure might foster academic freedom and independence. Adjuncts can be underpaid and overworked along with the gladiators.”
2 “Today all the money is deployed for administrators who are bureaucrats with shiny pedigrees. Someone needs to develop a percentage formula to limit the amount spent on the administrators who exist to collect big pay checks and approve tuition increases.”
1 “Humans seek to enslave other humans. We need to resist our basic impulses. Unless the athletes organize and unless the adjuncts organize, they will be exploited. And the Sherpas too.”
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1 “Kids who do not understand their own mortality do not understand that their student debt is immortal.”
2 “The solution is simple. After high school, youngsters are still engaged in the emancipation process from their parents or parent. A two-year break allows them to flirt with adulthood rather than go to college and extend their adolescence. A summer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, a stint in the military, a go at something out of their community or comfort zone provides critical perspective.”
1 “Even one year. The kids in college who took a year off before starting college were three years more mature than the others.”
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2 “If fewer students attend college, the unused dorms can be used for housing of others in the community to allow students to interact with other members of the community and develop a sense of community.”
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2 “We paid the lead Sherpa the equivalent of two year’s wages via a stack of Benjamins for our climbing fee. He paid his countrymen and women a few Rupees a day to do the work and carry the load.”
1 “Humans seek to enslave other humans.”
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[See the “e-ssays” titled “Is College Worthless? (July 25, 2011)” and “Humanity’s Motto: To Enslave And To Colonize (January 27, 2014).”]
Bumper stickers of the week:
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have let my schooling interfere with my education.
Occupy Namche Bazaar
Earth Day
Writin’ (February 17, 2014)
Posted in Awards / Incentives, Book Reference, Plastic, Slavery, Writing on February 17, 2014 by e-commentary.org. . .
W1 “Read and write and read and write and read and write and read and write and rinse and repeat.”
W2 “Learn to juggle all the words in the English language and a few other languages behind your back in the dark with ease.”
W1 “And recognize the nuances of education, location, geography, employment, religion, politics, race and class.”
W2 “Develop an eye for detail and an ear for dialogue.”
W1 “Subtly appreciate and acknowledge the true nature and flow of actual daily discourse and conversation.”
W2 “And understand and capture the smell and feel and taste of a person, place and thing.”
W1 “Write what you know. And know much.”
W2 “Go beyond knowing and write what you understand.”
W1 “And understand much.”
W2 “Go beyond understanding and write about and with wisdom.”
W1 “Then write what terrifies you and satisfies you and mystifies you and pacifies you.”
W2 “Show. Do not tell.”
W1 “Tell a great story by showing a great story.”
W2 “Show and tell may be the most revealing show and tell.”
W1 “It is often easier done than said.”
W2 “It is only said if it is done.”
W1 “It is only done if it is done.”
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W2 “Celebrating one’s love for language is another way to celebrate the day.”
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W1 “Are ‘Doonesbury’ and ‘Prairie Home Companion’ the Great American Novels?”
W2 “A novel notion. The Great American Novel is not a novel after all but rather a visual depiction in “Doonesbury” and an oral transmission in “Prairie Home Companion” depicted and transmitted in dollops over the decades. They reward those with an eye for detail and an ear for dialogue.”
W1 “Devoid of all the insecure male posturing that seems to be deemed the sine qua non of the GAN.”
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[See the article at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/nyregion/ban-sought-on-microbeads-in-beauty-items.html?hp&_r=0 seeking to address microscopic beads that get into the water supply. See the “e-ssays” under https://e-commentary.org/category/plastic/ that are part of “Project Plastic.”]
[From the New Confederacy in Utah and Oklahoma to the Old South in Virginia, hate is on the run, on the retreat, and on the retrograde. See the e-ssay” titled The Sea Change Is Now A Tsunami (March 11, 2013). For those who are troubled by slavery in all its forms and permutations, the vote in Tennessee, a charter member of the Old South, on unionization at the Volkswagen plant is disappointing.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Observe, Listen, (smell, feel, taste), Question, Comment
Art for art’s sake is somewhat uninspired and uninspiring. Exquisitely superb art that promotes positive political, economic and social purposes is the most inspired art.
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