If Washington & Jefferson Knew Slavery Was Wrong (& Did It Anyway) What Hope Is There For Their Admirers?

It's especially disheartening - and revealing - to wake up remembering the men and women who understood, at the time, the ugliness the American Founders were engaged in with slavery.

Much like their white admirers, today, the Founders didn't give a damn about right and wrong - or friends with ethically-correct perceptions of the world around them.

They cared, mostly, about their wallets, and if grinding up people's lives to fatten themselves was the price to be paid, then so be it.

This is hardly admirable.

And trying to make it so is also not an education - which is about truth - but propaganda, which is concerned with indoctrination.

America's a racist cult - deadly as sin - and it's been going on for hundreds of years now.

Americans, continually told to look up to those we should be looking down upon, and kept too stupid to know the difference - because white's self-imposed ignorance keeps them happy.

This is the reality of black lives.

And why so many others feel like ending theirs.

I figure I've got about 10-12 years of this horror, left, tops.

But, if I don't make it, believe me - it's totally cool,…

 

How The Founding Fathers Found Us & Put Us To Work

8 US Presidents You May Not Have Known Bought and Sold Enslaved Africans

Timeline: If The Civil War Solved Race Why'd MLK Die?

It's becoming very apparent, to me, that whites are using a very different social measuring stick than blacks are, with whites starting from the Civil War, and blacks starting from yesterday:

My grandfather is 87yrs old; the same age our country was when we had the  Civil War. (Lincoln's "Four score &seven years" Gettysburg speech). That's very young for a nation; in fact it's still within a person's lifespan. Just think, Abraham Lincoln was born while George Washington was still our first president! [Black people were slaves]. 

To that point, America was a violent, gluttonous land that had only known two years of peace in its short existence. The indigenous Central Americans (Aztecs & Incas) were extinct. The Native Americans were on the brink of extinction. The buffalo would soon be extinct too. American men killed & stole everything they desired. 

The next 87 years brought forth the extinction of many species of plants & animals, the destruction of most natural resources, the decimation of farming as crops & cattle were cultivated to the brink of extinction, and the explosion of industry.  [Black people were still slaves, reclassified as "indentured servants", and still picking cotton as late as the 1940's]

I mention these timelines only to give you perspective into the minds of modern-day Negros. Black folks have only been true "Americans" for less than 50 years, which is historically an infancy. The lawless "Wild Wild West" occurred when our nation was only 60yrs old itself; so Black folks are par for the course developmentally as a culture.

Add in the words "shut-up" and that sounds about right,…

 

Hanging From A Family Tree Is Nothing Like Having One

Somebody better contact Red State because, I'm positive, I've been told this isn't so:

"It is often said, fairly and correctly, that America’s Original Sin is slavery. The atrocity that was chattel slavery, like most atrocities, had its contours, its highs and lows — George Washington, a slaveholder, spent a large sum of his wife’s fortune maintaining the elderly, the crippled, and the sick among his slaves — but any system that renders humans to the same legal status as objects, who can be sold or bought or killed or beaten or abandoned or traded away without legal consequence, is undeniably an atrocity, a grave mortal sin with few peers. It is a sin that echoes to this day, we paid a terrible price in blood and hatred to end it, and despite that, we live in its awful wake." 

Some of us more than others, but yeah - I hear ya,…

 

George Washington Was A Man, Thomas Jefferson's A Punk & The History Of This Country's A Fucking Joke II

There's more to life - and an American - than turning out as a, grinning, everybody-broke-be-happy, go-along-to-get-along fool:

  "In the 1790s, as Jefferson was mortgaging his slaves to build Monticello, George Washington was trying to scrape together financing for an emancipation at Mount Vernon, which he finally ordered in his will. He proved that emancipation was not only possible, but practical, and he overturned all the Jeffersonian rationalizations. Jefferson insisted that a multiracial society with free black people was impossible, but Washington did not think so. Never did Washington suggest that blacks were inferior or that they should be exiled.

It is curious that we accept Jefferson as the moral standard of the founders’ era, not Washington. Perhaps it is because the Father of his Country left a somewhat troubling legacy: His emancipation of his slaves stands as not a tribute but a rebuke to his era, and to the prevaricators and profiteers of the future, and declares that if you claim to have principles, you must live by them."

Jefferson reminds me of Althouse and Reynolds - whites, trapped in the wrong time, not sure which way is up. 

And this, "we accept Jefferson as the moral standard" bit, presents another great opportunity to ask, "Who's 'We', Kemosabi?"

Good Americans don't "rebuke" the rest of these punk-assed, no-morality-having cocksuckers, do we? Why, to do so is greeted as practically treason.

Fucking jackasses,...

 

George Washington Was A Man, Thomas Jefferson's A Punk & The History Of This Country's A Fucking Joke

Cash Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M.) Get the money - dollar-dollar bill, y'all:

"From the early 1790s, Jefferson quite bluntly advances the notion that slavery presented an investment strategy for the future. He writes that an acquaintance who had suffered financial reverses 'should have been invested in negroes.'

The irony is that Jefferson sent his 4 percent formula to George Washington, who freed his slaves, precisely because slavery had made human beings into money, like 'Cattle in the market,' and this disgusted him.

And this world was crueler than we have been led to believe. A letter has recently come to light describing how Monticello’s young black boys, 'the small ones,' age 10, 11 or 12, were whipped to get them to work in Jefferson’s nail factory, whose profits paid the mansion’s grocery bills. This passage about children being lashed had been suppressed—deliberately deleted from the published record,..."

I bet it was - my favorite quote about J:

“Never did a man achieve more fame for what he did not do.”

Non-Violence: Great Idea When A Gun's Pointed At YOU (So Is Being Humble, But I Hear You Knew That Already)

Poor white people - they've really dug an intellectual hole for themselves - and rarely miss an opportunity to crawl in it:

"That people are shocked that South Africa, almost 20 years out of apartheid, is struggling with fairness and democracy, reflects a particular ignorance, a particular blindness, and a peculiar lack of humility, about our own struggles. 

On the great issue of the day, the generations that followed George Washington offered not just disappointment but betrayal. 'The unfortunate condition of the people whose labors I in part employed,' Washington wrote, 'has been the only unavoidable subject of regret.' Americans did not simply tolerate this 'unfortunate condition,' they turned it into the cornerstone of the American economic system. By 1860, 60 percent of all American exports came from cotton produced by slave labor. 'Property in man' was, according to Yale historian David Blight, worth some $3.5 billion more than 'all of America's manufacturing, all of the railroads, all of the productive capacity of the United States put together.'

In short order, Washington's slaveholding descendants went from evincing skepticism about slavery to calling it 'a positive good' and 'a great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.' And they did this while plundering and raiding this continent's aboriginal population. For at least its first 100 years, or perhaps longer, this country was a disappointment, an experiment which—by its own standards of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness—failed miserably. America is not unique. It is the product of imperfect humans. As is South Africa. That people turn to the country of Nelson Mandela and wonder why it hasn't magically transformed itself into a perpetual font of milk and honey is a symptom of our blindness to our common humanity." 

And these constant reminders, that racist whites understand animals better than the humans they've treated as such - here and overseas - ain't a good sign that intellectual hole is escapable,...

Newt Crushes NeoCon Critics Of Mandela's Communism

That racist idiot, Michael Haz, is now posting at Lem's Comment Home (more like The Racist Resting Home) trying to drum up sympathy for the unfortunate whites who ruthlessly dominated South African blacks since the 1600s. After being amazed at how much sympathy Lem's crew can regularly muster for the world's bad actors, I remembered Haz's charge, that Nelson Mandela's ties to communism - not the white's own actions - have brought them to this pass, has been answered by none other than Newt Gingrich: 

"To those conservatives who don’t want to honor Nelson Mandela, what would you have done?

...Some conservatives say, ah, but he was a communist.

Actually Mandela was raised in a Methodist school, was a devout Christian, turned to communism in desperation only after South Africa was taken over by an extraordinarily racist government determined to eliminate all rights for blacks.

I would ask of his critics: where were some of these conservatives as allies against tyranny? Where were the masses of conservatives opposing Apartheid? In a desperate struggle against an overpowering government, you accept the allies you have just as Washington was grateful for a French monarchy helping him defeat the British."

Michael Haz, Sixty Grit, Shouting Thomas, and all the others who think blacks should choose death over going against white domination, can't see anything. And that includes themselves, over there at white-assed Lem's, talking only to their white-assed selves, about how wonderful their white outlook is, even though no one who isn't white agrees it's even a little practical when it comes to being used against them. 

They were never a part of this and, personally, I'm glad:

Nothing would happen with 'em.

It's time to face the music:

Democracy Sucks,...

I'll Drink To This

"Barack Obama began his Election Night victory speech with a phrase that may have stopped short anyone educated with history textbooks written anytime in the past 30 years. "If there is anyone out there who still . . . wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time . . . tonight is your answer," he said.

"The dream of the founders"? Which founders could Obama have been talking about? Thomas Jefferson, the drafter of the Declaration of Independence, was a slaveholder. George Washington, our first President, was a slaveholder, though his will dictated that his slaves would be freed upon his death. James Madison, the drafter of the Constitution, was a third slaveholding founder. He believed that freed slaves should be sent back to Africa.

The Constitution with which these founders created America counted slaves as three-fifths of a person and included a 20-year prohibition on Congress banning the slave trade. The only dream these founders would have had of a black President would have been a nightmare.

There's no record of Samuel Adams dreaming of a black President, either. But of all our founding fathers, he is the one perhaps most likely to have done so. In researching my biography of Adams, I discovered that Adams refused to accept a slave he had been offered as a gift - and never himself held a slave.

Slaves in Massachusetts petitioned Adams for liberation, using some of the same arguments Adams was using against the British. The Massachusetts House of Representatives that Adams helped lead approved an act banning the slave trade; the British-appointed governor refused to sign it into law. Later, Adams helped draft and win passage of the Massachusetts state Constitution that led judges to outlaw slavery in the state in 1781.

The federal Constitution prohibited until 1808 a federal ban on the importation of slaves. Adams reacted by rejoicing "that a door was now to be opened, for the annihilation of this odious, abhorrent practice, in a certain time." As governor of Massachusetts, he signed a "certificate of freedom" for a black man, William Newton, who he described as being of good character.

Adams has been falsely accused of racism for supposedly discounting the testimony of a Boston Massacre witness because the witness was black. But he was citing the testimony of another witness who was also black, and who he thought was more reliable.

Like many other now-underappreciated whites who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the abolition of slavery, Adams' conception of the human capability for freedom was universal (at least in respect to men). He outlined his philosophy in his 1772 statement of the "Rights of the Colonists" as men, as Christians and as British subjects. He wrote of the rights of all men to life and liberty and property. It was these ideas that made their way into the Declaration of Independence in the statement that "all men are created equal."

It was that statement to which President-elect Obama must have been alluding in his victory speech, and its power testifies to the way the dream of the founders really is alive in our time."

-- Ira Stoll, author of "Samuel Adams: A Life", showing how Barack Obama will warp history to his own ends, in New York's Daily News.

If you never had a doubt there would be a black president in our time - especially because the Republicans had already attempted it with stupid-assed Colin Powell - then you're smart enough to lend your support to: