Special Opinion to the Mirror by Chas Cornweller
There was an interesting article released by the Cape Charles Mirror last month entitled, “Town Council calls Library Board’s Bluff on WWI Plaque in Library”. A nice, pithy read on the discourse between a town council member, town manager and the Library Board about the wording on a Memorial plaque commemorating those that lost their lives during the first Great War. The article was structured around the selected wording (colored) and the level of perceived offensiveness to the citizens of Cape Charles and patrons of the library. Like I said, a nice, well-thought-out read on societal norms of today as opposed to societal norms of early part of the last century and our collective views on racial issues, past and present.
It was in the comment section, however, where the firestorm truly raged. Proving once again, our racial past is not quite past and still lingers in the minds of many as a dark reaction akin to an ancient family dispute or a historic injustice done by a neighbor, unresolved, left to fester. Mr. Plante painted a very succinct message in one comment about the heroism of not one, but several Black units and the commendations they received by the French government. In the very writing of his comments, it was clear to see that racism played a large part in shaping of these units’ history. It is a known fact that blatant racism was a large and present danger prior and during the Wilsonian period of American history. It is a known fact that, even though several of America’s African American soldiers had fought and died under extraordinary circumstances and had been rewarded by medals of high honor by the foreign nation they had defended, the very nation they wore the uniform of, did not recognize their bravery for nearly another one hundred years. It is a known fact, that each of these African American units conducted themselves with strength and bravery in the face of the enemy and under conditions indescribable to the average person and unknown to the rest of the world. Yet, they were shunned, beaten, killed and terrorized by their own countrymen on their return to the United States. These are all facts and cannot be denied.
And yet, there followed comment after comment reflecting the poor relational condition of Black Americans with their fellow countrymen. Beginning with “When will you ever become Americans and drop the hyphen.” Or, “the smart ones use it as a ladder to success and truly succeed. Most are comfortable with the crutches of victim hood.” Or this perpetual falsehood…” Maybe stop committing 65-75% of all violent crime. Just a thought, as you are only 13% of our population.” The comment that really turned my head was one, so full of falsehoods, I could barely make my way to the end of the disinformation. And it is the reason for this article. The commenter was comparing the Middle Passage and Slavery, with all its baggage, to “The Great Experiment.” An odd choice of wording, I might add. For any astute reader and one knowledgeable of U.S. history will catch this as code for separatism. To compare, (and at the same time segregate black and white) to a “Great (failed – my words) Experiment” is to at once deny the role that White America played in the disenfranchisement of African Americans from the American dream. That’s point one. Point two is, in denying White America’s role, individual whites deny their own actions, their laws, their own history in that ruinous societal role. And lastly, by that very denial, they absolve themselves of their roles. By implying it was “They” (who are they?) and “their” experiment, most whites are not implicit in guilt. Didn’t take part, had no knowledge, how could such a thing happen? Besides, it was so long ago, right? Sound familiar?
In Nazi Germany, six million Jews and several million dissidents, communists, religious leaders, homosexuals, non-compatriots, and anti-Nazis were eliminated, by what some called “The Final Solution.” What was the general consensus by the population in the waning days of the war, as Allied forces liberated those killing fields? “We didn’t know, had no part of, it was out of our hands…etc.” It is interesting that the “Final Solution” and the “Great Experiment” seem cut from the same mold. But, maybe that’s just my perception. But, here is my truth on this commenter’s alternate take on America’s history.
First and foremost, slavery, indentured servitude and an economic system was not built to conduct an experiment. It evolved from many other places, many other situations. And it usually involved peoples’ greed or lust for power, and to a lesser extent, the conformity of society to “go along.” Many indentured servants were willing to put themselves in that situation to be able to travel from England to the New World for opportunity and a chance at a new life. They could not have foreseen if their sponsor was a just and trusting soul or if, when they landed, their lives would be a living hell and their land taken. But, they had choice. And their sponsor had his. At the same time, there were several uprisings in both Scotland and Ireland at a time in which it was expedient for the Crown to get rid of those rabble rousers and treasonous souls. And the Crown did so, by the boat load. So, many of those poor, white subjects with no country, no home, prisoners of the Crown really had no choice. Be hanged or be banished to live in a savage, untamed land across the Atlantic. But, they too, had made their choices (however badly – or justly – depending on varied points of view). Their lives probably fared a little better than most indentured servants. The final set of new emigres to this New World were Africans. The Portuguese actually were continuing a tradition begun by early African and Mid-Eastern (Islamic) tribes. The Spanish needed strong backs to mine and to work open field to replace captured and enslaved Native Americans who were dying in droves due to disease and the harsh work conditions. Africans proved hardy enough to endure the heat and dangerous conditions better than the Indian. Lastly it was the Dutch that first brought Africans to these shores in 1619, ironically, not as slaves, but as indentured servants. In fact, in the early to mid-sixteen-hundreds, many Africans could be freed either by working out those same terms as a white indentured servant, converting to Christianity or both. Those laws were soon to change and an increase in the trade would explode. Also, it is a known fact that other Blacks owned slaves and were working in the slaving trade. One such Black American was named Anthony Johnson. Slavery, as such, was a societal norm and an integrated way of life for nearly two hundred and fifty years. Slavery laws were written so that the African brought over from Africa on a slave ship had no more human rights than cattle. They were actually referred to as Chattel. They were to be owned, bred and worked unto death, nothing more, nothing less. Even from the church pulpits of the time, slavery justifications were expounded upon. The laws forbade teaching reading and writing to Blacks. Families were torn asunder at the very plantations where they were encouraged to marry and procreate. At the master’s death, a poorly written will or no will at all or a settlement of debt, could sentence entire black families to an irrevocable distance and a separation for all time. An entire culture of a people and the histories of their families were erased on a whim of their masters. This is the legacy of “That So-Called Great Experiment.” This is the lens through which Black America sees their legacy. No numbers of apologies from whites, no amount of reparations, no presentations of medals (in War and in Track and Field) and no possible human outreach can undo this legacy. This was a fact and still is a wound on America’s psyche.
And this is my point. Many whites, of which I am also, misunderstand at best, justify at worst the situation in which most blacks are placed in today’s society. I have heard so many of my white brethren speak negatively of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, Reparations, Civil Rights, Education Rights, Property Rights… stating as being unfair to them and creating a society where one race is being given unequal treatment in the competition for the American Dream. These are the people with blinders on. No amount of giving at this level can give back what was taken. The family structure (that even today is so prevalent and important in Africa) was damaged almost beyond repair during the slave era. Had it not been for the Churches and strong community leaders (in free states) extolling the strengths of community, many African Americans would have found themselves in freefall, both societal and within their respective communities. Is it any wonder, that in that Great War of 1918, that blacks proved their mettle in battle? “That Great Experiment” you write of? No, your facts are all wrong. For one, the experiment has lasted almost one hundred and fifty years. African Americans have been here for four hundred years. Can people be taken from the jungles of Africa and made slaves be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population? Well, for one, it’s a trick question. Second, do they really want to be? I seriously doubt you’ll find many Black Americans who have a polka record collection or eagerly await Garth Brooks next album release. The beauty of America (in my view) is the melting together of cultures from around the world and the blending of people who rise and come together to make this nation what it is. America is not just one culture and never has been. It is myopic to even think so.
But it is the next statement that could not be any more false and I’ve seen it time and time again in this blog by different commenters. Here and now, I want to set the record straight. First of all, negating the majestic civilization of Africa is a plain falsehood. There have been literately hundreds, possibly thousands of kingdoms and cities. Beginning with the Kingdom of Kush and the parallel rise of Ancient Egypt, of which it was incorporated. In the region of Sahel, you had some of earliest known outgrowths of agriculture and multiple kingdoms rose and fell at the same time of Ur and Mesopotamia. That time period would roughly be about the time Europeans were crawling out of caves and still hunting and gathering. During Europe’s Dark Ages, Islamic Kingdoms of great wealth and power rose and fell. They were Songhai Empire, Benin Empire, Ghana Empire, Ancient Carthage, Aksumite Empire, to name but a few. To claim that Africans have been stuck living in the early Holocene epoch for all this time, with little to no cultural growth is laughable. It also shows a great misunderstanding of the African heritage and historical lineage that is their noble history. One more aspect that white cultural has denied their African brethren, hidden and buried in lies and misinformation.
The “Talented Tenth” was also taken out of context of its original meaning. The statement in the comment read…” There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.” First of all, the author’s quote was misleading. Because that is not what the Talented Tenth was defining, according to W.E.B. Du Bois. Secondly, the Talented Tenth was not originated by Du Bois, it was coined by Northern Philanthropists, specifically the American Baptists Home Mission Society with the goal of establishing black colleges in the South to train black teachers. Du Bois went on to use the phrase in his writings and was quoted…” The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst.” The key phrase the commenter uses that rankles is this.” For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability.” Not at all what the Talented Tenth intended or promoted. And on one final note, the falsehood of the author’s statement lies in its outcome. America is safer, America is stronger, America is greater, not in spite of her Black population, but, Because Of. (I refer you to the thirteen names on the plaque engraved under the title, Colored. You, Mr. Parks want to find the negative, find the fault in these people. Well, I want to find the positive that is why I am shining the light on the positive aspects of these people. They died in the very first instigation of our nation’s awaking (Crispus Attucks – March 5, 1770 – Boston Massacre). They have fought in every field of action inside this nation and out alongside their white brethren. They built bridges, churches, schools, homes, buildings in towns and entire towns. They contributed to the science and business of this nation. They’ve brought children into this world and they have buried those that came before us. They were/are teachers, preachers, housewives, mothers, fathers, children, grand-parents and the man who mended your fence and fixed your car. They are police officers, deacons of churches, doctors, lawyers, judges and the bulwarks of our communities. They were and will always be, an American citizen. And despite the odds and the backlash and the hatred and the countless unlevel and unfair legislations and laws passed to shackle them, they do their very best to promote social stability. As you quote Mr. Parks, “For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.” No, that is not what is missing. That’s never been missing. Black American’s have always been on board for the well being of America. The truth is, White America has not always been on board for the well being of Black Americans. If you want to call it a “Great Experiment” that’s your prerogative. But just make sure, that at the end of your experimentation, you double, triple check your results. Double, triple check your ingredients you’ve added as well. Because you and I do not see eye to eye on race relations in this great nation of ours. And you and I surely don’t see eye to eye why the problems are such as they are. And lastly, this experiment of yours, you call a failure, I call a resounding success. Yes, it needs tweaking and revamping in some quarters. But, that is on ALL of us. So, you better hike up your big boy pants, catch your second wind, put that “White Frustration” in a corner and look to the real reasons for your frustrations. The truth of the matter is, we’re all in this together and we’ve a lot of work ahead of us. Freedom isn’t free, ask any African American. They can tell you, pretty much, how high the costs.
Paul Plante says
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
“Obama African Union Speech In Ethiopia Transcript From Historic Address”
By Morgan Winsor @MorganWinsor
IBT on July 28 2015 12:32 PM EDT
U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a keynote speech Tuesday at African Union headquarters in Mandela Hall in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa.
It was the first time a sitting American president addressed the 54-member continental bloc, and the historic speech marked the end of Obama’s five-day, two-nation tour of East Africa.
The full text of Tuesday’s remarks, provided by the U.S. Embassy, follows below:
OBAMA: Thank you.
(Applause.)
Thank you so much.
Madam Chairwoman, thank you so much for your kind words and your leadership.
To Prime Minister Hailemariam, and the people of Ethiopia — once again, thank you for your wonderful hospitality and for hosting this pan-African institution.
(Applause.)
To members of the African Union, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen — thank you for welcoming me here today.
It is a great honor to be the first President of the United States to address the African Union.
(Applause.)
I’m grateful for this opportunity to speak to the representatives of more than one billion people of the great African continent.
I stand before you as a proud American.
I also stand before you as the son of an African.
(Applause.)
Africa and its people helped to shape America and allowed it to become the great nation that it is.
And Africa and its people have helped shape who I am and how I see the world.
In the villages in Kenya where my father was born, I learned of my ancestors, and the life of my grandfather, the dreams of my father, the bonds of family that connect us all as Africans and Americans.
As parents, Michelle and I want to make sure that our two daughters know their heritage — European and African, in all of its strengths and all of its struggle.
So we’ve taken our daughters and stood with them on the shores of West Africa, in those doors of no return, mindful that their ancestors were both slaves and slave owners.
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So at least Obama has stepped up to the plate and taken responsibility to let his family know that their own ancestors in Africa were slave owners, and hence were as much a part of the problem as anyone else in the world, which is a good start.
The question is, how many more centuries are we going to be having this same conversation, which should have ended with the CIVIL WAR.
Slide Easy says
– Dr. Jack Wheeler wrote in 2008 –
The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no guts, nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.
He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo great-great-grandmother,
which he pretends he is exclusively.
What he isn’t, not a genetic drop of, is ‘African-American,’ the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn’t a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.
Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.
It’s something Hillary doesn’t understand – how some complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obama mania is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of being human to the evil of being white.
Thus Obama has become the white liberals’ Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make of any kind can be effective against it. The absurdity of Hypocrisy Clothed In Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for
liberals to worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.
Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remain Christian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.
His candidacy is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking American. Pass this on to every thinking American you know!
Hambone says
Speaking of Blacks, 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.
Renegade Tribune: Destroying the Anti-White Arguments
IHR: Tony Martin
tokenny says
Renegade Tribune is an anti-Semitic, white separatist, holocaust denying, historical revisionist[2], white nationalist[3], and neo-Nazi[4] website established in 2012 by Kyle Hunt. The website, which is part of a larger brand known as Renegade Broadcasting, primarily focuses on white separatism and antisemitism[5]. In addition to white separatist and anti-Semitic ideology being posted on the website, it also offers content based on volkisch paganism and harsh criticism of other pagans for “wanting to ruin their bloodlines”.
Paul Plante says
Nonetheless, tokenny:
Crito
Samuel Hopkins
Providence Gazette and Country Journal
October 06, 1787
When the public, or any part of the community, are taking those measures or going into that practice, which may issue in ruin, and most certainly will, unless reformed; he who foresees the approaching evil cannot act a benevolent or faithful part, unless he gives warning of the danger, and does his utmost to reform and save his fellow-citizens, even though he should hereby incur the displeasure and resentment of a number of individuals.
In this view, Crito asks the candid attention of the public to what he has to say on the following interesting and important subject.
Some, perhaps, will not chuse to read any farther; but drop this paper with a degree of uneasy disgust, when they are told the subject to which their attention is asked is, The AFRICA SLAVE TRADE, which has been practiced and in which numbers in these United States are now actually engaged.
So much has been published within a few years past on this subject, describing the fertile country of Africa, and the ease and happiness which the natives of that land enjoy, and might enjoy to a yet greater degree, were it not for their own ignorance and folly, and the unhappy influence which the Europeans and Americans have had among them, inducing them to make war upon each other, and by various methods to captivate and kidnap their brethren and neighbours, and sell them into the most abject and perpetual slavery; and at the same time giving a well-authenticated history of this commerce in the human species, pointing out the injustice, inhumanity and barbarous cruelty of this trade, from beginning to end, until the poor Africans, are fixed in a state of the most cruel bondage, in which, without hope, they linger out a wretched life; and then leave their posterity, if they are so unhappy as to have any, in the same miserable state.
So much has been lately published, I say, on these subjects, that it is needless particularly to discuss them here.
It is sufficient to refer the inquisitive to the following books, viz.; Several tracts collected and published by the late Anthony Benezet, of Philadelphia; A Dialogue concerning the Slavery of the Africans, lately reprinted at New York, by order of the society here, for promoting the admission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated; and especially, An Essay on the Slaves and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the Africans, by Thomas Clarkson, which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785.
If the African slave trade, and the consequent slavery of the Negroes in the West-Indies, and in the United States of America, be an open and gross violation of the rights of mankind, a most unrighteous, inhuman and cruel practice, which has been the occasion of the death of millions, and of violently forcing millions of others from their dear native country, and their most tender and desirable connexions, and of bringing them to a land of slavery, where they have not a friend to pity and relieve them, but are doomed to cruel bondage, without hope of redress, till kind death shall release them, as is represented, and seems to be abundantly proved in the above mentioned publications, and many others, a conviction of which is fast spreading among all ranks of men in Europe and America; then the following terrible consequence, which may well make all shudder and tremble who realize it, forces itself upon us, viz. all who have had any hand in this iniquitous business, whether more directly or indirectly, have used their influence to promote it, or have consented to it, or ever connived at it, and have not opposed it, by all proper exertions of which they have been capable; All these are, in a greater or less degree, chargeable with the injuries and miseries which millions have suffered, and are suffering, in consequence of this trade; and are guilty of the blood of millions who have lost their lives by this traffic of the human species!
Not only the merchants who have been engaged in this trade, and for the sake of gain have sacrificed the liberty and happiness, yea the lives of millions of their fellow men, and the captains and men who have been tempted by the love of money to engage in this cruel work, to buy and sell and butcher men; and the slave holders of every description, are guilty of shedding rivers of blood.
But all the Legislatures who have authorized, encouraged, or even neglected to suppress it, to the utmost of their power; and all the individuals in private stations, who have any way aided in this business, consented to it, or have not opposed it to the utmost of their ability, have a share in this guilt.
It is therefore become a national sin, and a sin of the first magnitude; a sin which righteous Heaven has never suffered to pass unpunished in this world.
For the truth of this assertion we may appeal to history, both sacred and profane.
We will leave the inhabitants of Britain, and other European nations, who have been and still are concerned in the slave trade, to answer for themselves; and consider this subject as it more immediately concerns the United States of America.
Hundreds of thousands of slaves have been imported into these States, many thousands are now in slavery here, and many more thousands have been brought from Africa by the inhabitants of these States, and sold in the West-Indies, where slavery is attended with cruelty and horrors beyond description.
And who can reckon upon the numbers who have lost their lives, and been really murdered, by this trade, or have a full conception of the suffering and distressed of body and mind, which have been the attendants and effects of it.
All this blood which has been shed, constantly cries to Heaven; and all the bitter sighs, groans, and tears, of these injured, distressed, helpless poor, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts, and are calling and waiting for a day of vengeance.
he inhabitants of Rhode-Island, especially those of Newport, have had by far the greatest share in this traffic of all these United States.
This trade in the human species has been the first wheel of commerce in Newport, on which every other movement in business has chiefly depended.
That town has been built up and flourished, in times past, at the expence of the blood, the liberty and happiness, of the poor Africans; and the inhabitants have lived on this, and by it have gotten most of their wealth and riches.
If a bitter woe is pronounced on “him who buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong,” (Jer.xxii.13) “to him who buildeth a town by blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity” (Heb.ii.12) “to the bloody city,” (Ezek.xxiv.6) what a heavy, dreadful woe hangs over the heads of all those, whose hands are defiled by the blood of the Africans, especially the inhabitants of that State, and of that town, who have had a distinguished share in this unrighteous, bloody commerce!
All this, and more, follows as a necessary consequence, which, it is presumed, none will dispute, on supposition the before mentioned publications give in any measure a just representation of the slave trade, and the consequent slavery of the Africans; and unless thousands and millions of all ranks, and of the most disinterested, and many of them men of the best abilities and character for knowledge, uprightness, and benevolence, and who are under the greatest advantages to know the truth, and judge right of this matter, both in Europe and America; unless all those are grossly deluded.
But if all these may be fairly confuted, and the African slave trade, and the consequent treatment of those who are by means of this reduced to slavery, can be justified and shown to be confident with justice, humanity and universal benevolence, then the whole of this consequence will be obviated, and all the supposed guilt of injuring our fellow men in the highest degree, and of shedding rivers of innocent blood, will be wiped away as a mere phantom, and vanish as the baseless fabric of a night vision.
It is earnestly to be desired therefore, if this be possible, that some able, disinterested advocate for the slave trade, if such an one can be found, would step forth, and do it.
But if there be no such man, let the interested, and those who are in this traffic, and the slavery of the Africans, arise, and shew it to be just and benevolent if they can.
We will promise you a candid and patient hearing; for we desire to justify you, if it were possible.
If this can be done to the satisfaction of all, it would remove from our minds a sett of painful feelings, which cannot be easily described, and dissipate a gloom which now hangs heavy upon us, in the view of the exceeding depravity, uprighteousness and cruelty of men, who, for a little gain, will deluge millions in slavery, and blood, with an unfeeling heart, and their eyes fast shut against the floating light which condemns their horrid deeds; and in the painful prospect of the dreadful vengeance of Heaven, for such daring outrage against our fellow-men, our brethren!
But until this be done, this business must be unavoidably viewed in the most disagreeable, odious, horrible light, by us.
And we must be suffered to consider, and lay before the public some of the great aggravations which attend the continuation of this practice by us in these American States.
When the inhabitants of these States found themselves necessarily involved in convention with Britain, in order to continue a free people, and had the distrusting prospect of a civil war, they, being assembled in Congress, in October 1774, did agree and resolve in the following words: “We will neither import nor purchase any slave imported, after the first day of December next: After which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade; and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures, to those who are concerned in it.”
This reasonable, noble and important resolution, was approved by the people in general, and they adhered to it through the war; during which time there was much publicly said and done, which was, at least, an implicit and practical declaration of the unreasonableness and injustice of the slave trade, and of the slavery in general.
It was repeatedly declared in Congress, as the language and sentiment of all these States, and by other public bodies of men, “that 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:“
“That all men are born, equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, among which are the defending and enjoying life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.”
“By the immutable laws of nature, all men are entitled to life and liberty.” etc. etc.
The Africans, and the blacks in servitude among us, were really as much included in these assertions as ourselves; and their right, unalienable right to liberty, and to procure and possess property, is as much asserted as ours, if they be men.
And if we have not allowed them to enjoy these unalienable rights, but violently deprive them of liberty and property, and are still taking, as far as in our power, all liberty, and property from the nations in Africa, we are guilty of a ridiculous wicked contradiction and inconsistence: and practically authorize any nation or people, who have power to do it, to make us their slaves.
The whole of our war with Britain was a contest for Liberty: By which we, when brought to the severest test, practically adhered to the above assertions, so far as they concerned ourselves, at least, and we declared, in words and actions, that we chose rather to die than to be slaves, or have our liberty and property taken from us.
We viewed the British in an odious and contemptible light, purely because they were attempting, by violence, to deprive us, in some measure, of those our unalienable rights.
But if at the same time, or since we have taken or withheld these same rights from the Africans, or any of our fellow men, we have justified the inhabitant of Britain in all they have done against us, and declared that all the blood which has been shed in consequence of our opposition to them, is chargeable on us.
If we do not allow this, and abide by the above declarations, we charge ourselves with the guilty of all the blood which has been shed by means of the slave trade; and of an unprovoked and most injurious conduct in depriving innumerable Africans of their just, unalienable rights, in violently taking and withholding from them all liberty and property; holding them as our own property, and buying and selling them, as we do our horses, and cattle; reducing them to the most vile, humiliating, and painful situation.
This whole contest, it must be again observed, was suited to bring and keep in our view, and impress on our minds, a deep and lasting sense of the worth of liberty, and the unrighteousness of taking it from any man; and consequently of our unrighteousness and cruelty towards the Africans.
If it were known, that the wise Governor of the world had determined to take some method to convince us of the injustice of the slave trade, and of the slavery of the Africans, had manifest his displeasure with us for it, and use means suited to reform us, could we conceive of any measures which might be better suited to answer this end, than those which have actually taken place in this war considered in all the circumstances of it.
It would be thought impossible that every one who then was, or had been, active in reducing the Africans to the abject and suffering state in which they are in the West Indies, and been among us, should not reflect upon it with self-condemnation, regret and horror, had not experiment proved the contrary.
And while we execrated the British for taking our men, and ordering them to be transported to the East Indies, and for crowding so many of our people into prisons, and prisonships, where they died by the thousands, without any relief or pity from them, was it possible for us not to reflect upon our treatment of the Africans, in transporting so many thousands of them from their native country, to a land of slavery, while multitudes, being crowded and shackled in our ships, have died on their passage, without one to help or pity them?
Could any avoid seeing the righteous hand of GOD stretched out against us and retaliating our unrighteous, cruel treatment of them, in a way suited to strike conviction into our minds of our guilt, and of the righteous displeasure of Heaven with us for these horrid deeds which had been done by us?
Surely we had good reason to espouse the language of the brethren, of Joseph in a similar case: “We are verily guilty concerning our brethren, the Africans, in that we saw the anguish of their souls, under our cruel bards, and they besought us, and cried for pity; but we would not hear: Therefore is this distress come upon us.”
Is it possible that the Americans should, after all this, and in the face of all this light and conviction, and after they had obtained liberty and independence for themselves, continue to hold hundreds of thousands of their fellow men in the most abject slavery?
And not only so, but notwithstanding their resolutions and declarations, renew and carry on the slave trade; and from year to year convey thousands of their fellow-men from the native country, to a state of the most severe and perpetual bondage:
This would have been thought impossible was it not known to be true in fact.
And who can describe the aggravated guilt which the Americans have brought upon themselves by this?
If this was an Heaven daring crime, of the first magnitude, before the war with Britain, how much more criminal must we be now, when, instead of regarding the admonitions of Heaven, and the light and conviction set before us, and repenting and reforming, we persist in this evil practice:
What name shall be given to their daring presumption and hardiness, who, from a thirst for gold, have renewed this trade in slaves, in the bodies and souls of men, and of those whom they employ in this unhuman horrid business!
“Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder, in the stores of Heaven,
Red with wrath, to blast these men.”
who owe their riches to such aggravated, detestable crimes, now necessarily involved in carrying on this trade!
Boot Daddy says
Blacks are the oldest race, they had a huge head-start so they should be the most advanced race; but they are the least advanced race. And in fact they never did develop until they were domesticated by Whites.
19 of the 20 poorest countries are sub-Saharan African (Haiti). There has never been a successful Black country. No modern creations or civilization exists in sub-Saharan Africa that was not brought there by Whites.
There are no White Third-World nations, but all Black ones are.
Put Whites on an island and you get England; put Asians on an island and you get Japan; put Blacks on an island and you get Haiti.
Nowhere Blacks live are they considered achievers. In fact they are universally viewed as unproductive and disruptive to society.
Simply, life is an IQ test.
Pat Parks says
After reading and re-reading your liberal diatribe, I do not recognize you as a fellow american.
Sad.
Harry James says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6p1Ck0ab80
Paul Plante says
My dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, let me say that when you choose to let loose with a blast of vitriol, you don’t scrimp, but instead use both barrels, point blank range, KA BAM! as you did above here with what has rapidly become known across at least America, if not the whole candid world, and yes, Chas, that would include Russia and the Russians, who are always looking in and trying to find a way to dismantle our democracy by dividing us, as Hillary Clinton did, into her perfect people and the rest being a “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES,” a sound bite Putin himself is alleged to have given her to help her divide America to the benefit of Putin and Russia, who want us to turn COMMIE, as the combination Chas Cornweller Sermon On The Mount and Epistle to the Basket of Deplorables of America, of whom Hillary Clinton says are many, and when I read it through, dear friend Chas, as I always do when you post something in the Mirror as a public service to us benighted souls wandering about out here in the wilderness, it was truly as if I was hearing the raised voices of all the multitudes of outraged angels in heaven excoriating us heathens down here on earth from on high and berating us in a wrathful voice for not being as perfect as they are, or as perfect as Hillary Clinton is, which takes me back in time, dear friend Chas, to 1866, right after the Civil War, or War of Northern Aggression was concluded, to “The American Republic,” by Orestes Brownson, who was alive before and during the Civil War, and so knows at least as much about what was happening back then as does yourself, and these words from CHAPTER XIV, POLITICAL TENDENCIES, as follows:
The tendency to individualism has been sufficiently checked by the failure of the rebellion, and no danger from the disintegrating element, either in the particular State or in the United States, is henceforth to be apprehended.
But the tendency in the opposite direction may give the American state some trouble.
The tendency now is, as to the Union, consolidation, and as to the particular state, humanitarianism, socialism, or centralized democracy.
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There, 153 years later, my dear friend Chas, is where we are today, and you, my friend, are a harbinger of that tendency, which is very apparent in your Sermon on the Mount and Epistle to the Basket of Deplorables, which takes us back to Brownson, as follows:
The humanitarians will fail for the want of a good social grievance against which they can declaim.
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And you, my dear friend Chas, are doing your utmost 153 years late, to prove him dead wrong!
Getting back to Brownson:
Philanthropy seldom works in private against private vices and evils: it is effective only against public grievances, and the farther they are from home and the less its right to interfere with them, the more in earnest and the more effective for evil does it become.
Its nature is to mind every one’s business but its own.
But now that slavery is abolished, there is nowhere in the United States a social grievance of magnitude enough to enlist any considerable number of the people, even of Massachusetts, in a movement to redress it.
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And 153 years later, my dear friend Chas Cornweller, you have used the Cape Charles Mirror quite successfully in your effort to prove him wrong by your valiant attempt in here to create a social grievance, now that slavery is abolished, of magnitude enough to enlist any considerable number of the people, even of Massachusetts, in a movement to redress it, and time will tell how well you succeed in that endeavor.
Getting back to Brownson, my dear friend Chas, we have thusly:
Negro enfranchisement is a question of which the humanitarians can make something, and they will make the most of it; but as it is a question that each State will soon settle for itself, it will not serve their purpose of prolonged agitation.
They could not and never did carry away the nation, even on the question of slavery itself, and abolitionism had comparatively little direct influence in abolishing slavery; and the exclusion of negro suffrage can never be made to appear to the American people as any thing like so great a grievance as was slavery.
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And again, my dear friend Chas, how wrong you have proved him to be, for to you, it is everything, and then some!
And seriously, Chas – when you tell us, as if we were all drooling idiots, that black Africa had great civilizations at a time when Europeans were crawling out of caves and still hunting and gathering, as if you had a clue as to when Europeans actually crawled out of caves, you are channeling that hate-filled little sack of virulent and toxic pus the Right Reverend Alvin “Peanuts” Sharpton, which takes us to an article written by an educated black man named Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University, in the Jackson Sun entitled “Al Sharpton’s racial slurs get overlooked” published Jan. 7, 2015, where we have as follows, to wit:
Last week’s column focused on the ways liberals use blacks in pursuit of their leftist agenda, plus their demeaning attitudes toward black people.
Most demeaning are their double standards.
Hardly anyone blinks an eye at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racist statements, such as: “White folks was in the caves while we (blacks) was building empires.”
“… We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was.”
“… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
Despite such racism, President Barack Obama has made Sharpton his go-to guy on matters of race.
But not to worry. Obama himself spent 20 years listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s anti-Semitic and racist sermons.
The news media and intellectual elite don’t condemn Sharpton or Obama, because they have two standards of behavior: one for whites and a lower one for blacks.
The news media people and their liberal allies know the facts, but they need to promote the appearance of injustice to keep black people in a state of grievance.
Multiethnic societies are inherently unstable, and how we handle matters of race is contributing to that instability.
Decent Americans should see the dangers posed by America’s race hustlers, who are stacking up piles of combustible racial kindling, ready for a racial arsonist to set it ablaze.
Paul Plante says
My dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, I am a slow thinker and a slow reader, so I am still making my way all the way through your masterful combination Sermon On The Mount and Epistle to the Basket of Deplorables, so much is there in there to absorb, but I cam across this, and felt it needed some commentary back on the record, to wit:
“This is the lens through which Black America sees their legacy.”
“No numbers of apologies from whites, no amount of reparations, no presentations of medals (in War and in Track and Field) and no possible human outreach can undo this legacy.”
“This was a fact and still is a wound on America’s psyche.”
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That is hogwash and balderdash, my dear friend Chas for many reasons, one of which was that anything that happened before July 4, 1776 was not a blot on America’s psyche, but in stead, a blot on the psyche of Britain.
The second thing is that no, Chas, black people do not walk around with their mind constantly four hundred years in the past, thin king about the Middle Passage, and all of that.
No, Chas, the well-adjusted black folks get up in the morning, like everybody else, and they go to work, and they interact with fellow members of the community, regardless of skin color and they act like human beings who are part of society, and your opinion to the contrary is worthless, because these are people I know who are a part of the community up here.
The only one I ever hear going on and on and on about stuff that happened four hundred years ago is your own self, and you are a white dude.
And then you provide us with this to ponder, to wit:
“First of all, negating the majestic civilization of Africa is a plain falsehood.”
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My dear friend Chas, assuming that you are correct, WHERE is that “majestic” civilization of Africa today?
WHAT happened to it?
You would not perhaps be referring to Uganda under its famous “world leader” Idi Amin Dada https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Idi_Amin_caricature2.jpg would you?
Certainly you remember Idi Amin, for who could forget that dude, who was a cannibal who kept his enemies, and they were many, in his freezer, and for state dinners, he would serve them as the meat course, and if you were an honored guest, you got the choice bits to eat.
During his “majestic civilization,” Amin’s rule was characterized by rampant human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption, and gross economic mismanagement.
International observers and human rights groups estimate that between 100,000 and 500,000 people were killed under his regime.
It earned him the nickname “The Butcher of Uganda.”
Now, there is a dude we should hero worship, right Chas, and his is a majestic civilization that we should all wish for over here, to replace this crappy “racist” system those WHITE BOYS like Tommy Jefferson and Jemmy Madison gave us back in the beginning?
And what of Timbuktu, my dear friend Chas?
Surely you must recall Timbuktu from your earlier studies of majestic civilizations in Africa.
For those too young to remember Timbuktu, it was an ancient city in Mali, situated 20 km (12 mi) north of the Niger River.
Starting out as a seasonal settlement, Timbuktu became a permanent settlement early in the 12th century.
After a shift in trading routes, Timbuktu flourished from the trade in salt, gold, ivory, and slaves.
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Ah, yes, that’s right, my dear friend Chas, that majestic civilization was based on the slave trade, and those were black Africans who owned Timbuktu, not Whitey.
Getting back to Timbuktu, it became part of the Mali Empire early in the 14th century, and then,
in the first half of the 15th century, the Tuareg tribes took control of the city for a short period until the expanding Songhai Empire absorbed the city in 1468.
As to the Songhai Empire. my dear friend Chas, which empire no longer exists, long live the Songhai Empire, it was a state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century.
At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history.
During the second half of the 13th century, Gao and the surrounding region had grown into an important trading center and attracted the interest of the expanding Mali Empire.
Mali conquered Gao towards the end of the 13th century.
Gao would remain under Malian hegemony until the late 14th century.
As the Mali Empire started to disintegrate, the Songhai reasserted control of Gao.
Songhai rulers subsequently took advantage of the weakened Mali Empire to expand Songhai rule.
A Moroccan army defeated the Songhai in 1591 and made Timbuktu, rather than Gao, their capital.
The invaders established a new ruling class, the Arma, who after 1612 became virtually independent of Morocco.
However, the golden age of the city, during which it was a major learning and cultural centre of the Mali Empire, was over, and it entered a long period of decline.
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WHY, Chas?
Why are these majestic civilizations of Africa no longer there?
Paul Plante says
And getting back to you in here, my dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, there was a time in America, and I remember it well, this before you were born to appreciate it, for a multitude of reasons, the words of the prophets were largely written on either subway walls, or tenement halls, and that being before people had hand-held devices to communicate across time and space as we are doing in here right now, that was the way back then to reach the greatest number of people with the least effort, although if you were out in the countryside and the right cosmic confluences of events were transpiring at the time you were passing through, you could also see the words of the prophets written on a series of Burma-Shave signs, and if you weren’t in any of those places, it would be possible to go through a lifetime without even knowing the prophets themselves existed, let alone what their words might have been, so we are indeed lucky today, dear friend Chas, to have the Cape Charles Mirror where the words of a prophet of our times like yourself has his words right before our eyes, where we can read them at leisure in the safety of our own “zone,” wherever that might happen to be at any given time.
And that takes us, my dear friend Chas, to a WASHINGTON POST article (for those who don’t know him, Chas likes and trusts and respects the Washington Post, which is why I quote from it for him in here) entitled “Pelosi defends handling of 4 House women as Democrats fume about Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide” by Mike DeBonis, Paul Kane, Rachael Bade on 12 July 2019, where we have the following very incredible scene playing out not only before our eyes, but before the eyes of the whole candid world and let us face it, dear friend Chas, the universe is watching, as well, and don’t think they aren’t, to wit:
Several African American and Latino Democrats rallied around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused her of targeting “newly elected women of color” through a series of public remarks dismissing their political influence inside the House.
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When I read that, dear friend Chas, I thought to myself, “my God, this is exactly what Chas Cornweller was talking about in here” in his combination sermon on the mount, and a very eloquent one at that, coupled with an epistle to the BASKET OF DEPLORABLES – this race war that is being fomented and agitated by a young generation in America that is filled with hate and is at war with an older generation in America, which is exactly what we are seeing there, and it was if you had predicted exactly what would happen as a way of telling us the water was rising and the dam was going to break, as it now has – that this racial hysteria that is now sweeping America with yourself as its herald would engulf and consume none other than Nancy Pelosi herself, who is being cast into the same trash barrel that Tommy Jefferson recently got tossed into, him being accused of being a racist rapist as he was, with nobody stepping up to the plate to utter one word in his defense.
Getting back to that Washington Post article:
The suggestion from the outspoken liberal freshman, made in a Washington Post article published Wednesday, stunned those Democrats, and it compounded their lingering anger after Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide publicly accused some colleagues last month of racist actions for supporting a compromise border spending bill.
“What a weak argument, because you can’t get your way?”
“And because you are getting pushback, you resort to use the race card?”
“Unbelievable.”
“Unbelievable to me,” Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said of Ocasio-Cortez’s remark.
I thought that as one who is very sensitive of and attuned to these “racial” things, that you might find that to be of interest, especially coming on the heels of your own prediction that it was on the way.
And this is just getting started, so I think this is a show that is going to be on the air for a bit longer, as this AOC accused people with black skin of being racists as she has done and remains doing.
Next thing we know, AOC will be TWEETING about Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, being an UNCLE TOM or OREO COOKIE, black on the outside, white on the inside, as she tries to whip up a TWITTER MOB against him, which is her tactic when people don’t agree with her.
So the race war you predicted seems to be on, dear friend Chas, despite your best efforts to have it be otherwise, and this time, the revolution will not only be televised, but will be covered live on TWITTER, as well, so regardless of where you might be in the world that day, you can join in on-line, which is the next best thing to being there, especially if you are one of those lucky ones in America who own a virtual reality helmet, and then it will be surreal.
Paul Plante says
Well, my dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, nobody in America can honestly say that you did not try to warn us of this race war that is now engulfing America, as we can clearly see from an article in your favorite news publicationm, the Washington Post, entitled “House Democrats’ racially charged infighting escalates” by Colby Itkowitz, David Weigel, and Mike DeBonis on 14 July 2019, which brings out everything you have been trying to tell us, if only America had the ability to listen to you, as follows:
An all-out racially charged fight within the House Democratic Caucus escalated Saturday when an African American freshman lawmaker said the party doesn’t need “any more black voices that don’t want to be a black voice.”
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In other words, as you have said, Chas Cornweller, the Democrat party does not want OREO COOKIES or UNCLE TOMS in its ranks – black people on the outside who really think like white people.
The Democrat party of today wants black people who think like black people do, and as you have told us over and over and over again, that is markedly different than how white people think, which is why those modern Democrats are unable to assimilate and instead want their own closed society limited to those who are “people of color,” as we can clearly see by going back to that Washington Post article as follows:
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) made those comments during a speech at the liberal Netroots Nation conference where she, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) appeared after a week-long clash with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her allies.
The feud started last month, when the three freshman women of color and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized Democrats who supported an emergency funding bill to send more money to the border.
The measure passed, but liberal House Democrats said the bill didn’t do enough to protect migrant children held in federal detention centers amid reports of poor conditions.
Omar said a vote for it amounted to a vote “to keep kids in cages.”
In response, Pelosi tried to downplay their influence in an interview with the New York Times.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” she told columnist Maureen Dowd.
“But they didn’t have any following.”
“They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”
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Now, admittedly, a huge part of the problem here is that these four people Nancy Pelosi is talking about haven’t the slightest clue as to what America is and how are national government is supposed to function, so they don’t realize and actually do not care to realize that as members of the United States House of Representatives, they are a REPRESENTATIVE for a defined congressional district.
They think it is about TWITTER TWIBES, instead, so that the so-called GANG OF FOUR, or the “SOB SISTER SQUAD” consisting of America’s Jiang Qing, AOC, the ignorant and foul-mouthed Rashida Tlaib, the Somali Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, consider themselves TWIBAL LEADERS who should have influence in the House of Representatives based on the size of their TWIBES as compared to the TWIBES of other Democrats that are smaller.
Getting back to the Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez accused the speaker of “singling out” the four women of color, calling it “outright disrespectful.”
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And as is the usual case, AOC is acting like the DRAMA QUEEN she is there, and she is full of ****, because all Nancy Pelosi did was to call out AOC’s “GREEN NEW DEAL” as being stupid, which it is, and a scam.
And because of that, AOC is now accusing Pelosi of being a racist.
And what is this “women of color” horse****, Chas Cornweller?
Is that a new classification of citizens in this country, where everybody is equal, but some are more equal to others, those being the “women of color” like AOC, who is at best a light shade of brown.
And how superficial and immature is that, Chas Cornweller?
Getting back to the Washington Post:
Things escalated further on Friday night when the official Twitter account for the House Democratic Caucus highlighted a tweet Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, wrote on June 27 criticizing Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.), one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress, for supporting the border bill.
“I don’t think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system,” Chakrabarti wrote.
“And the same could even be said of the Southern Democrats.”
“I don’t believe Sharice is a racist person, but her voters are showing her to enable a racist system.”
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What is with this charge of “racist” being hurled like rocks at everybody this GANG OF FOUR does not like?
Who the **** do these people think they are, anyway?
Because their skin is not lily white, that makes them somehow special, so that their citizenship here in America is superior to the citizenship of the rest of us?
Getting back to the race war being started by the GANG OF FOUR, we have:
The House Democratic Caucus shared that two-week-old tweet Friday night and offered its own commentary.
“Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?”
“Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.”
“She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.”
“Keep Her Name Out Of Your Mouth,” the @HouseDemocrats account tweeted.
Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, retweeted it.
Pelosi has beat back demands from liberals on everything from Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal to impeachment, warning that creating friction is not going to help Democrats beat President Trump and keep their House majority.
Ocasio-Cortez famously beat high-ranking Democrat and Pelosi’s heir apparent, Joseph Crowley, in a stunning Democratic primary upset in 2018 and has said she’d use her considerable star power to help others do the same.
She has suggested Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who chairs the House Democratic Caucus that went after her chief of staff, as a target.
Rahm Emanuel, formerly the chief of staff for President Barack Obama, chastised Chakrabarti in a follow-up column by Dowd on Saturday, calling him a “snot-nosed punk.”
“What votes did you get?” Emanuel asked rhetorically.
“You really think weakening the speaker is the right strategy to try to get rid of Donald Trump and everything he stands for?”
At the Netroots Nation conference, some of Ocasio-Cortez’s core supporters were asked to weigh in on their fight with Pelosi and moderate Democrats.
“They’re more than four votes.”
“For millions of us, these women of color in Congress represent generations of blood, sweat and tears; of struggle for us to have representation,” said Netroots moderator Aimee Allison.
“They represent the best of American democracy.”
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The GANG OF FOUR represents the “best” of American democracy?
If that is the case, American “democracy” is a whole lot sicker than we thought it was, precisely because none of the GANG OF FOUR are for democracy, at all – they are for control and exclusion, which is very undemocratic, indeed, as we can clearly see by going back the the Washington Post, as follows:
Pressley said she didn’t want to discuss “palace intrigue,” but also said she’s not interested in bringing “a chair to an old table.”
“This is the time to shake that table. . . .”
“We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice,” Pressley said, seemingly taking a stab at the Congressional Black Caucus, which is allied with Pelosi.
“We don’t need any more black faces that don’t want to be a black voice.”
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So the voices of people with black skin who do not toe the line set for them by the dictatorial GANG OF FOUR are not welcome in the BRAVE NEW WORLD the GANG OF FOUR are trying to force on the rest of us here in OUR America.
Let us hope for the good of OUR America that they do not succeed.