Special Opinion to the Mirror by C. Augustus Landis
While there has been much attention given to Jay Ford (a spokesperson for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation) and his effort to take down a business in Cape Charles because the owner expressed an opinion he and other woke fellow travelers do not like, there should be even greater concern with his broader agenda.
There should be no doubt, Ford and fellow travelers have, or will have, targets other than a pub in Cape Charles or a Confederate statue in Parksley. Ford has said historic homes built with slave labor should be torn down if used as a venue for social events. This would, then, include Brownsville (Nature Conservancy), Eyre Hall (raises money for Garden Club of Virginia), Ker Place (home of Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society), Barrier Islands Center (promotes watermen as “soul of a culture”), Makemie Memorial (founded Presbyterian Church in America), Bagwell Memorial in Onancock Town Square (he fought with Lee at Appomattox)… the list is long and wonders if it includes churches and cemeteries.
He has also said that historians who have written about the history of the Shore have written “fake” history and the “REAL” history is of racism. In particular, Ford has cited my book, An Introduction to the History of the Virginia Eastern Shore, as “fake” history. My book is a collection of essays on important persons and events in the 400 year history of the Shore . All of which Ford has attacked as “fake” because (he says) the “REAL” history is of oppressive racism. Burn history books or just rewrite the “REAL” history?
Most important to Ford and fellow travelers is removal of the Confederate statute in Parksley and replacement with a memorial that tells of the oppression on black persons by white persons in Eastern Shore history.
In my book , I write of seven persons in Eastern Shore history that historians agree are most important in telling our story. Uniquely important among these people is Anthony Johnson (1605-1670), a freed black slave who achieved the American Dream of life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness which was so elusive to most immigrants whether slave, free. or indentured in the colonial period.
Anthony Johnson was an Angolan slave brought to Jamestown c. 1619-1620. Through hard work and perseverance, he bought his freedom and for his wife and children, acquired 900 acres and had 9 servants, black, white, bonded, and indentured. He also prevailed in court in a landmark case against a white landowner.
Everyone, residents and visitor alike, would appreciate a monument to Anthony Johnson. It would unite and focuses on the positive in Eastern Shore history. It does not focus on division based on racial prejudice and ignorance as in cause of Mr. Ford and fellow travelers.
It is indeed a great misfortune for the people of the Eastern Shore that, because of prejudice and ignorance of Eastern Shore history, Mr. Ford and fellow travelers are unable to see the opportunity to unite and not disparage and divide the people of the Shore.
This is that opportunity.
As to Ford and fellow travelers cause to remove the Confederate statute, the Eastern Shore Post cites the inscription on the monument which says “They fought for conscience sake and right” and Post editor saying “they fought for the vile institution of slavery”. Omitted is an important part of that history they need to understand in meaning of “conscience and right” and what they fought for.
There was no referendum on decision of Southern states to secede from the Union. 854 men, mostly wealthy plantation owners, were selected by the state legislators to attend conventions to decide on secession. 697 voted for and 157 voted against; thus a small group of rich and powerful men (697) decided for 9 million mostly poor people. The voters and Confederate soldiers that fought the War had no voice in the decision.
An important person in Eastern Shore history and Virginia’s entry into the War is Governor Henry Wise (1806-1876) who, after leaving office, informed delegates to the Virginia Secession convention that the Virginia Militia had sworn allegiance to him and he had captured the Federal naval shipyard in Norfolk. Thus , Virginia was in the War. Neither voters or Confederate soldiers represented in the Parksley statue had a vote in Wise’s decision.
Abel Upshur (1790-1844) whom I consider the most consequential and important person in history of the Eastern Shore history gave the legal and constitutional justification for nullification and secession for Virginia. He argued that the states were sovereign from their original formation and had never given up that sovereignty when they entered the union; the Constitution constructed a union that was of a federal (federation) nature distinctly different from a union of a national character. Regardless of the federal character of the union, sovereignty was indivisible and existed only in the individual states When the Post, Ford and fellow travelers say the Confederate soldiers represented in the Parksley statute fought for slavery, they need to understand Upshur Upshur’s writings on nullification and secession were written 20 years before the Civil War and was required reading for a generation of law students at the University of Virginia and William and Mary.I fully support the idea of a monument to celebrate black peoples contribution to Eastern Shore history. Indeed a monument celebrating Anthony Johnson would be a very positive memorial to black history. There is nothing to prevent Mr. Ford, the Post, and fellow travelers from building such a testimonial. There is nothing to prevent Parksley from constructing a narrative that would include Wise, Upshur, and Johnson. Unfortunately, however, Ford, the Post, and fellow travelers only want to erase and rewrite our history as only racist. Their problem is they do not know or care about the history of the Eastern Shore or its people other than their own prejudice persuades.
Ford has often said that racism is endemic to the culture of the people of the Eastern Shore throughout their history. If racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or group of people because of the color of their skin, then Ford and fellow travelers are very much racist because they denigrate the white people of the Eastern Shore throughout their history because of the color of their skin and presumption of guilt of all.
You can remove the memorials in our history but you cannot remove the history. The memorials to Confederate veterans are not for the Lost Cause but for veterans and all the lost blood. Period.
Paul Plante says
Note to Pope Jay Ford of the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us:
Dear Pope, there would not have been Black slaves in America if the more powerful Black folks in Africa were not capturing them and putting them on the market as slaves.
In the Senegambia region, between 1300 and 1900, close to one-third of the population was enslaved.
In early Islamic states of the western Sahel, including Ghana (750–1076), Mali (1235–1645), Segou (1712–1861), and Songhai (1275–1591), about a third of the population were enslaved.
In Sierra Leone in the 19th century about half of the population consisted of enslaved people.
Among the Vai people, during the 19th century, three quarters of people were slaves.
In the 19th century at least half the population was enslaved among the Duala of the Cameroon and other peoples of the lower Niger, the Kongo, and the Kasanje kingdom and Chokwe of Angola.
Among the Ashanti and Yoruba a third of the population consisted of enslaved people.
The population of the Kanem (1600–1800) was about one-third enslaved.
It was perhaps 40% in Bornu (1580–1890).
Between 1750 and 1900 from one- to two-thirds of the entire population of the Fulani jihad states consisted of enslaved people.
The population of the Sokoto caliphate formed by Hausas in the northern Nigeria and Cameroon was half-enslaved in the 19th century.
Slavery was widespread among Taureg peoples and lasted until at least 1975.
Among the Adrar 15 percent of people were enslaved, and 75 percent of the Gurma were enslaved.
When British rule was first imposed on the Sokoto Caliphate and the surrounding areas in northern Nigeria at the turn of the 20th century, approximately 2 million to 2.5 million people there were enslaved.
Slavery in northern Nigeria was finally outlawed in 1936.
That is REAL history, not the FAKE version your Church is trying to peddle.
Ray Otton says
Well before the Africans got in on the slavery action the tobacco growers in the Chesapeake region turned to a different source for labore when they couldn’t get enough workers from the homeland………………………Native Americans.
That’s right, Indians were the first source of slavery for white settlers. They traded slaves for weapons until the white folks figured out this was a pretty dumb idea.
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So, ALL the races carry the burden of slavery.
Stop pointing fingers and start looking forward.
Stuart Bell says
“Sick of liberals trying to make you feel guilty about slavery? All you need to do is remind them of a few historical points:
All races kept slaves all throughout history.
Most of the American slaveships and American slave-markets were run by Jews. But no one blames modern Jews. Because if anyone today says anything was “run by Jews”, they’re immediately dismissed as a crazy anti-Semite, regardless of whether or not it’s true.
When the Trans-Atlantic slaveships docked at African slave-markets to buy slaves, they bought slaves who were already slaves. It was Arab Muslims and Black Africans themselves who captured members of rival tribes and took them to the coastal slave-markets to sell to the Whites and Jews. White people didn’t go into Africa and kidnap free black people. They barely needed to get off their ships to buy slaves, it was like buying McDonalds at a drive-through. The slaves were already at the slave-market in chains, ready to go.
In the 16th – 18th century, Africans enslaved 1.5 million White Europeans in the Barbary Slave Trade. African Muslims raided up the coastlines of Europe, particularly the British Isles but even as far as Iceland, kidnapping and enslaving White European Christians. The men were galley slaves, and the women were sex slaves. This was more brutal than working on a plantation or as a domestic servant.
Native Americans and Jews owned Black slaves too, but no one seems to assign a collective guilt to modern Native Americans and Jews for their slavery. In fact, Jews were the biggest slave-owners in America per capita.
Whites were the first people to stop slavery in modern times, whereas slavery still continues in Africa to this day. In Mauritania slavery was only made a punishable offense in 2007!
Less than 2% of Whites in America ever owned slaves
Only 5% of the black slaves transported across the Atlantic actually went to the modern U.S. Most in fact went to Latin America to serve Hispanic slave-owners. But we don’t look at modern Hispanics as evil slave-owners.”
Liberals have one color.
Alan Silverman says
Where do you get your data on Jews running the slave trade, , Stuart? Such an assertion must have documentation behind it. Kindly provide it and the source, as it appears to be invented
Concerned Citizen says
The first labor in Jamestown were indentured servants from England who were given promises of land and glory in exchange for a period of servitude.
I encourage you to read the book “White Cargo” by Don Jordan.
Blue Hoss says
Africans were the first to sell their kin into slavery while 28% of free Blacks in the US owned slaves, in much higher proportion than free whites.
10-15 million African slaves were shipped to the New World, but only 6% (400,000) to North America. The vast majority went to South America, yet countries like Brazil don’t get hit with slavery guilt.
1.5 million Whites also fell victim to white slavery in the 19th century, trafficked into prostitution. Jewish traders were instrumental in this, being the dominant slave traders for centuries as per H. D. Brackman and others. This is why slave auctions weren’t held on a Sabbath.
Jews were also the main slave traders bringing Blacks to the US. Aaron Lopez is notable: in Newport, the biggest slave trading hub, “for over 50 years over 50% of bills of lading, concessions, receipts, port clearances carried his signature.”
In all, Jews of Newport owned 300 slave ships. Of 128 slave ships docked one year in Charleston, over 120 were undersigned by Jews of Newport & Charleston. Jews were also over twice as likely to own slaves than non-Jews.
Nonetheless, slavery is projected onto and laid entirely at the feet of White men by a Jewish-dominated MSM & Hollywood. There’s also much (buried) evidence to suggest Whites were in America before Amerindians. Look up the Lovelock Cave skulls, the Solutrean hypothesis etc.
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Ray Otton says
Yes, and within 30 years they ran out of people will to commit to indentured servitude on the tobacco farms.
The farmers then turned to the nearest source of slaves, that being American Indians.
It’s all laid out in “1493” by Charles V. Mann.
That and the book “1491”, also by Mr. Mann, take an in depth look at the “Colombian Exchange”, the process that has shaped our world, for better and worse.
Well worth the read.
Unless you’re woke. It you’re woke you won’t like a lot of what he writes because it reaffirms what us un-woke folks believe. That humans exploit each other all the time, no matter the color of skin.
Carole V says
Mr. Jay Ford should quit trying to forget the past and it’s lessons and focus all that “woke” energy on abolishing existing slavery across the globe today.
Yes Mr. Ford, slavery is alive and well even as you seem to think that erasing history will make it all well as if it never happened.
There are an estimated 20 to 30 million slaves across the world today.
An estimated 800,000 people are illegally trafficked across international borders every year.
There are 161 countries affected by human trafficking.
The total yearly profit gained from human trafficking is a staggering $32 billion a year.
The majority of modern slavery victims are between the ages of 18 and 24 years old.
1.2 million children are enslaved through forced labor and exploited in the sexual industry each year.
In terms of profit, Human Trafficking is ranked as the 3rd largest international crime industry – just behind Drugs and Arms Trafficking.
And you, Mr. Ford, are concerned with a “canceling” a statue and a cafe. Disgusting.
https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Modern_Day_Slavery_Statistics
Paul Plante says
Very well said!
But he is the Pope of the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us, and therefore he is infallible!
Louise Johnson says
Absolutely
Tim Parks says
‘Him’s Woke’
The term ‘woke’ started in the black community. It is Ebonics for Awakened. When the term first started, it was shocking to hear educated white folks repeating it on TV.
Paul Plante says
After proving himself to be politically reliable with his blatant attack on the CIVIL RIGHTS of an American citizen.
Perhaps an explanation for “BLACKFACE” Northam wearing BLACK FACE as if he were really a Negro is that he anticipated where the winds of time were blowing, and he wanted to get out ahead of the curve by experiencing what it was like in real life to experience what it would be like to be BLACK in America instead of having WHITE PRIVILEGE.
From a psychology perspective, it seems a valid premise to me, anyway.
Another explanation is that he was really playing at being Marcus Garvey which would explain why he was standing there next to the Klucker.
Stuart Bell says
WOW! Look how his master has rewarded him. Neither one could make a pimple on a real leader’s a$$.
Louise Johnson says
AMEN!!
E White says
Jay Ford again?
This man hasn’t a clue about real Eastern Shore Life, and I’ve long wondered if his display of concern is real, of if it what best benefits him at the moment.
Stuart Bell says
He was just working on his resume…
MJM says
The best defense is a good offense. An adage often applied to a game of football. I would love to see a bunch of folks get organized and apply it to knocking the CBF down a few pegs in this situation. Kelly has a right to his opinion and he may not say it in a woke manner (I really don’t like this new definition of that word. I think t’s a crock). Be that as it may, in my opinion the CBF has been feeding all of us lies for a very long time. They have been leading us to believe that they should be in charge of the restoration of The Chesapeake Bay because they could fix the problems. Well, I’d like to see a list of the problems they’ve FIXED. I’m sure we could get a list of how they have gotten a a lot more money year after year by lobbying Congress so much. They are getting themselves more and more money and power, but what have they FIXED ? in my opinion the answer is NOTHING. I also think they don’t want to fix anything. They just want to make more and more noise to be able to become a bigger player in The Swamp and get more money and push more people around like our friends in Cape Charles.
I think we should all stop donating to the CBF. The CBF just wants more money so they can send their kids to Ivy League Schools. Let’s another more effective organization than the CBF. Someone who actually wants to help the Chesapeake and be a good neighbor to us at the same time that they are also a good neighbor to Americans who run their own business, are a wonderful part of the community, and speak their minds. At least when they speak their minds they aren’t lying.
Louise Johnson says
Agreed 100%
Sorin Varzaru says
“Anthony Johnson was an Angolan slave brought to Jamestown c. 1619-1620. Through hard work and perseverance, he bought his freedom and for his wife and children, acquired 900 acres and had 9 servants, black, white, bonded, and indentured. He also prevailed in court in a landmark case against a white landowner.
Everyone, residents and visitor alike, would appreciate a monument to Anthony Johnson.”
I would not appreciate it. He was as ass, regardless of his skin color. after freeing himself from slavery he made other people his slaves. no, no statue for him or anyone who didn’t recognize humans as their equals.
Tear off all statues of assholes. Keep the books. We don’t have to honor them to remember history.
Stuart Bell says
Go on home, your mamma’s calling you.
Cosmic Charlie says
Heard that before
Ray Otton says
So yesterday Mr. Ford posted this comment on his FB page –
“Here’s the thing folks…
This is the only time we will be alive.
The best & most amazing thing we are capable of is love.
Spend your time accordingly.”
I left this comment –
“Says the guy who actively tried to shut down a Pub in Cape Charles for no other reason than he disagreed with the owner’s take on BLM. You are a hypocrite of the first order.”
I encourage you to join the conversation because if we don’t fight back, we are doomed. –
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=jay%20c.%20ford&epa=SEARCH_BOX
Mary says
He has removed your remarks, Ray. I, however, added my own- along the lines of what you said. Let’s see how quickly he takes it down.
Ray Otton says
And Pooofff, just like that ALL our remarks are gone.
He should’ve recalled the old saying “Can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen”.
He won’t, of course. As shown right here on the CCM, Liberals never learn. 🙂
Note: We saved all or most of the comments.
Stuart Bell says
Henry Wise (1806-1876), Abel Upshur (1790-1844)
They are still passing those last names on to their new born babies, but claim that they are hurt by slavery and the thought of slavery. GTFOH! Who would name their child after a slave owner and then bitch and complain about white people?
Oh Yeah, Blacks.
Janet Godfree says
You are allowed to your opinion but as an FYI. The historical records in Eastville will show that they were never given a last name while slaves. Those who were freed were most often freed as “Abel by Upshur” on their papers. Occasionally they would go through the trouvle of changing it to something like “Freeman” or “Godfree” but more often than not they wanted to keep the name of their owner because they are the ones who could prove that they were set free. Is interesting stuff and honestly doesn’t have to be an argument. If you don’t like blacks I can’t help you but… History is cool and available to learn.
Stuart Bell says
Liking black people has nothing to do with it.
Who would name their child after a slave owner and then bitch and complain about white people?
Oh Yeah, Blacks.
Todd Holden says
I don’t think he was looking for yours or anyone else’s help. He stated facts and you helped to justify his post. The free Blacks took (he never said they were ‘given’) their master’s last name and they have passed it on to every child they bore. They also complain about whites and slavery. Any Questions?
MJM says
A long time ago The United States of America made a decision to begin to morally, socially and economically recognize all people of all races, creeds and colors to be equal. The Civil War, and wars in court rooms, businesses and schools have been carried on for a very long time to attempt to help us all believe it and accept it all. Don’t we wish all countries and all peoples would do these things ? If everyone is set free to be the best they can be it is simply more productive and beneficial to us all.
We have some old statues in areas that are now being recognized as something that need to be removed and destroyed, when what they actually are is a reminder of what we went through, what we used to be, and no longer are. They are also a reminder that we learn from our mistakes and make progress in moving forward and away from our serious social problems. It’s called recognizing and learning history.
Everyone can take these statements for what they are worth and agree or disagree with me. That’s why we have free speech here in America.
HOWEVER we are certainly being slapped in the face with the fact that The CBF did not hire an outreach coordinator when they hired Jay. C. Ford. Look it up. His job description is “to connect people in the community and to cultivate relationships with businesses, individuals and relevant organizations”. I submit to everyone reading this that this absolutely is not what CBF has hired him to do, and he most certainly is not doing. Whether or not you like Kelly’s comments, or think he is just being piled on for not picking the best words, CBF is not cultivating a relationship here. I have earlier stated they are liars with what they represent to us all as their “work” in/on The Bay”. I submit to you all that they are also lying to us through the voice of Jay c. Ford, and they are doubling down and supporting his words and attack on Kelly’s.
Many of us are trying to learn from history and don’t want statues torn down. CBF and Jay C. Ford have created (I went there and read it) a go fund me page and want to tear down a statue of a history lesson and replace it with a prejudiced, ignorant and bigoted replacement of a black man or woman. Tear down a statue of a white guy and replace it with a black guy and call it “all inclusionary”. That replacement would be the opposite color of what happened so long ago, and so many of us have learned from. It would just change the color of the statue and be so very much worse because it would be a modern day lauding of only one of the races of this country. It will be a disgrace and a testimony to the fact that The CBF and Jay C. Ford are all very much lost, are a bunch of liars, are prejudiced and bigoted, and certainly have no idea how to lead us in any inclusionary ideas.
Mr. Jay C. Ford declares himself to be, and apparently The CBF has hired him to be, an “outreach coordinator” for the CBF.
Blue Hoss says
Funk him and the CBF.
Louise Johnson says
agreed
Mary says
Just as Ford encouraged all his followers to join in his attack on Gene Kelly and his business, I would suggest that everyone who cares about this issue and find Ford’s behavior concerning also reach out to the CBF and express those concerns. I have done so, though I have received little response. The one reply I got was from the CBF head honcho- Mr. Will Baker, who simply said Thank you for sharing your views with us. That’s IT. The obvious deduction from this is that the CBF is onboard with the smearing of individuals who don’t share the WOKE attitude of Ford and his friends. I say vote with your wallet accordingly.
Paul Plante says
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the CBF is partly funded with FEDERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS, which happens to be your tax dollars going to work to destroy an American citizen for utilizing his freedom of expression, which happens to be an important human right which is essential for a society to be democratic because it enables the free exchange of ideas, opinions and information and thus allows members of society to form their own opinions on issues of public importance.
Why are federal taxpayer dollars being used to crush an American citizen, and this crap of he is doing it on his own time doesn’t cut it.
If he is going to discriminate against an American citizen “on his own time,” then he is demonstrating bias.
If he demonstrates bias and hatred on his “own time,” then how can he be trusted on the taxpayer’s dime to not be biased and discriminatory?
The answer is he can’t.
As to the use of taxpayer dollars to fund what is an overt political agenda by Jay Ford, the Hatch Act, a federal law passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees, as well as some state, D.C., and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs.
The law’s purposes are to ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation.
If federal programs are to be administered in a nonpartisan fashion, should that apply to federal funds going to the CBF?
A question for our times.
MJM says
Well Mary, I have had to learn to temper my response to folks like Misters Ford and Baker, because my first response is to hit them with something much more violent than a wallet. You know what I mean ?
This cancel culture is as sick and as violent as can be, and I do not excuse any of them for creating any part of it. I choose to take a higher road and ask you to do the same. I think you will feel better. Do not lower yourself to their sad standard. Write them again. And again. When some of these small businesses get put out of business, it literally kills the owner. 60 year old people suddenly put out of business often times have nowhere to turn and the emotional trauma that is thrust upon them can cause serious medical issues. THAT is violence in no uncertain terms. NO ONE deserves that simply because they have a difference of opinion.
I suspect Mary that you are on the e mailing list of The CBF as I am. I too wrote the CBF to complain of this situation as a response to something they e mailed me. I too complained that Mr. Ford had no reason to begin this ignorant tirade against this business. I seriously questioned whether an outreach coordinator should be conducting himself in such a manner, and whether or not the CBF should be. I too got a response that lacked any amount of substance, and it too was from a Mr. Baker. He simply thanked me for my opinion.
I am suggesting that anyone here reading in here do the same. Write the CBF. Be civil. Tell them how their cancel culture has no place here.
I think they are reading this thread. Keep writing them and that will tell them to. Let’s make them keep reading it, and pay attention. They seem to think they always need to teach everyone something. Ha ! Instead let’s teach them something.
WE THE PEOPLE of The Eastern Shore live a lifestyle every single day that helps and protects the Chesapeake Bay. We have green footprints just by living here. Many of us invest heavily with our businesses and farms to help this precious natural resource called The Chesapeake. We interact so much, in a passive way with this bay, that we are virtually a part of it. We live and breath it. We, and the owners of small business here deserve to be attacked and driven out of here ? Just for a misunderstood statement, or difference of opinion ? I DON’T THINK SO !
Bullies act that way. Is that what the CBF is ? A bully ?
WE are THE PEOPLE they supposedly created their foundation for. Those that believe in The Bay. WE are what they wish they were. True supporters of the bay every single minute of every single day. We live here. They claim to wish they did, but they aren’t acting like they deserve the privilege to live here. We’ve earned that, haven’t we ? They are attacking the very foundation upon which they built themselves. They really oughtta cut it out and never do it again.
In the summer they oughtta sail over here from Annapolis in their yachts and stay for a while. Actually BECOME more of the community instead of just claiming to be capable of representing the needs of it. The livelihood and culture of The Chesapeake Bay is not coming from all the storm sewers and treated sewage of Annapolis. It’s coming from here, and they are obviously out of touch.
In my opinion, there is only 1 way for The CBF to fix this. I will not accept silence on their part, much less a continued cancel culture attack. This attempt at cancellation is frankly anti-American, and anti Eastern Shore.
I think the CBF needs to start holding monthly dinner meetings at Kelly’s. They need to start coming here and spending some good solid money in The Gingernut Pub and shutting down this irresponsible lie of an attack by publicly supporting this establishment and publicly showing they made a mistake several times. SEVERAL TIMES. Like through the winter and right through to next August. Establish some community spirit. Say you are sorry by spending money. Come on down and bring Mr. Ford with you. He can open the meeting each month by consuming a large piece of humble pie and he can crow about the value of such wonderful businesses such as this wonderful family establishment. I’ll cut his slice for him.
I believe that if plenty of folks start writing Mr. Baker he will pay attention. I believe that it is his business to care about what We The People of the Eastern Shore believe. More so than a mistaken, poorly socially educated, and misplaced outreach coordinator.
By the way, I had a late lunch at Kelly’s yesterday. It was delicious.
Paul Plante says
Well said, MJM!
Paul Plante says
After carefully considering the whole situation here and looking at it from every possible and conceivable angle and direction, where I have arrived at is a sincere belief that each and every one of us in here who are not Jay Ford, the infallible Pope of the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us, should be down on our knees in supplication, thanking the God of the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us for looking down from wherever in the aether He, She or It might be up there above us in the vault of heaven, and seeing us in our hour of need, having the benevolence to send us down Jay Ford and make him the omnisicient and inffallible Pope of the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us to lead us from our follies and set our feet on the path of righteous where his feet have already trod, so that we who are not him can easily follow his path and be saved!
Sing Hallelujah and say Amen!
And while we are on the subject of Pope Jay Ford and his infallibility and omniscience and the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us and their beliefs which due to the infallibility of Pope Ford are far superior to the beliefs of those of us not yet welcomed into the communion with the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us who form its congregation , here we have Bishop Hawk Newsome of the church revealing them to us in a recent interview on Fox, so that we can know is words are true, to wit:
“I love the Lord and my Lord and savior,” Newsome responded to MacCallum’s prompt.
“Jesus Christ is the most famous black radical revolutionary in history.”
“And he was treated just like Dr. King.”
“He was arrested on occasion and he was also crucified or assassinated.”
“This is what happens to black activists.”
“We are killed by the government.”
end quotes
Which is why God sent down Jay Ford to earth to put an end to government killing black activists like Hawk Newsome, who also said in the same interview that if he and the other members of that church do not get what they want, which is to rule America after being made free by Jay Ford as a modern-day Moses to lead them from captivity in Egypt, they’re going to burn down our system with us in it.
Sounds like an exciting future Jay Ford has in store for us, n’est-ce pas?
Ray Otton says
Yep, same for both my wife and me. Nothing but a generic “Thank you”.
Funny thing is, my wife, formerly of the Blue persuasion but now converted to Red, still gave to the CBF.
She’s done………………………..and trust me, when she says she’s done, she’s done.
Dave W says
I appreciate your presentation of history. As we know history is defined by the historians, however you present a compelling case that our past is very complex and that a single narrow view presented by Mr. Ford should not be the prevailing definition of the past of the Virginia Shore. I am not a life long resident of the area, but have come to appreciate the rich history and culture. Thank you again for your narrative–
Stuart Bell says
I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe.
Paul Plante says
And in one of those quirks of fate that seem to be associated with larger-than-life figures in history who create their own field of gravity as does Pope Jay Ford of the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us, in a 2018 article written in Jamaica Global, Donald Harris, the father of Democrat “Corn Pop” Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris, claimed to be a descendant of slave owner Hamilton Brown, which in turn would make Kamala Harris herself the off-spring of the famous slave owner Hamilton Brown (1776 – 18 September 1843) who was an Irish sugar planter and slave owner in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, which he represented in the House of Assembly of Jamaica for 22 years.
In 1832, Kamala Harris’ slave-owning ancestor Hamilton Brown met Henry Whiteley, the author of “Three months in Jamaica, in 1832: comprising a residence of seven weeks on a sugar plantation” published in 1833, on his trip to Jamaica to whom Kamala Harris’ slave-owning ancestor argued that Jamaican slaves were better off than the poor of England and therefore the British government should not interfere with the way the Jamaican planters managed their slaves; Whiteley went on to witness harsh and arbitrary whipping of slaves at the plantations that he visited during his stay.
And that brings us to today and an interview with NPR entitled “Sen. Kamala Harris On Reparations” on March 14, 2019, as follows:
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: One of the Democratic presidential candidates is floating an idea.
It’s a way to pay reparations for slavery and racial discrimination.
Several candidates have endorsed that notion, although they’re rarely giving specifics.
Senator Kamala Harris also says the matter needs study.
But in a talk with NPR, she did suggest what’s on her mind.
Can you give me an idea of one possible form this could take?
KAMALA HARRIS: Sure.
You can look at the issue of untreated and undiagnosed trauma.
African-Americans have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure.
It is environmental.
It is centuries of slavery, which was a form of violence where women were raped, where children were taken from their parents – violence associated with slavery.
And that never – there was never any real intervention to break up what had been generations of people experiencing the highest forms of trauma.
And trauma, undiagnosed and untreated, leads to physiological outcomes.
INSKEEP: We’re talking about the same thing as post-traumatic stress from a war.
HARRIS: Sure.
INSKEEP: That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about.
HARRIS: Absolutely.
But listen; when – unless there’s intervention done, it will appear to be, perhaps, generational.
But it’s generational only because the environment has not experienced a significant enough change to reverse the symptoms.
You need to put resources and direct resources – extra resources – into those communities that have experienced that trauma.
INSKEEP: Reparations could…
HARRIS: So that’s an example, in my mind…
INSKEEP: Reparations could be mental health treatment for African-Americans, hypothetically.
HARRIS: I think reparations – yeah.
I think that the word, the term reparations, it means different things to different people.
But what I mean by it is that we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.
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So we have the offspring of a wicked slave 0wner now running for vice president of the United States of America, and there above admitting the serious harm people like her slave-owning ancestor inflicted on all the Black people in America today who still haven’t gotten over being slaves for people like her slave-owning ancestor.
One would thank that that would have to flip Pope Jay Ford of the Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Among Us right out, the thought that the offspring of a slave owner will be one heartbeat away from the Office of the President on the United States of America.
David Moore says
It’s not about slavery people…WAKE UP!
Paul Plante says
What do you think it is about?
Do you think Kamala Harris is suffering from untreated and undiagnosed trauma like PTSD from a war because she is Black?
Should that perhaps disqualify her from office because of questionable mental status which would clearly affect her ability to make critical judgments?
Is that how you see things shaking out in here?