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kpete's JournalJim Carrey: Mississippi you are BETTER than these hate-mongers.
Mississippi you are BETTER than these hate-mongers.
Show the world.
Vote for Mike Espy this Tuesday, November 27th.
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1066789012864520193
America was never white, and it never will be.
A historian exposes the one poisonous myth at the heart of white nationalist ideology
Events in Charlottesville in 2017 cascaded into domestic terrorism. Three dead and dozens wounded as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other “alt-right” members descended upon the university that Thomas Jefferson built; their purpose, it is alleged, to defend a statue – a monument – to the Confederate Civil War soldier, General Robert E. Lee. These radical rightists arrived from all across the United States upon the college town of Charlottesville to protect, in their words, their “white” heritage. Among the many problems I have with so-called “white supremacists” is their purposeful mixing of “heritage” with “history,” rhetorically pining for a once proud “white” America.
But history proves that America was never white.
That I need to make this statement, and worse, that some may take offense from it, shows the blurring rhetoric between what is Heritage and what is History. I’ll return to this later. For now, some History.
The first successful colonial holding in these current United States was Spanish, at St. Augustine, Florida, established 1565, four decades plus prior to Virginia’s Jamestown.
America was never white.
Speaking of Jamestown, the first Africans were brought into Virginia on a Dutch trading ship in 1619, a year before Pilgrims landed in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
America was never white.
And nearly half of those Pilgrims could not speak English. Of the near half that couldn’t, most spoke Dutch, with a scattering of German and French. America from the get go was not an English-speaking nation. When the Puritan, William Bradford, arranged the first Indian Treaty signing in 1621, it was with Massasoit, a Pokanoket of the Wampanoag Confederacy. At this time, depending on which archeologist you ask, the native population of North America was anywhere between 8 to 20 million. English speakers? Less than a thousand.
America was never white.
And it was the Dutch who seemed ascendant, as they settled New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley beginning in 1625. English-speaking America was in the minority of the European languages spoken by 1670. The French were firmly in place along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes region, and it may come as some surprise to many Americans, but Green Bay, Wisconsin was once “La Baye des Puants” which is what the French called it when they founded “The Bay of Stinks” in 1634. Spain still reigned in Florida and along the Gulf Coast. Even the Swedes set up shop along the Delaware River taking up large swaths of what is today Delaware and Pennsylvania.
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America was never white.
Which brings us to the topic of heritage and history. For this I’ll quote famed historian David Lowenthal. Author of The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History, Lowenthal remarks that heritage is not history at all: “it is not an inquiry into the past, but a celebration of it … a profession of faith in a past tailored to present-day purposes.”
Monuments, under this definition, are not history. Monuments are memory-makers, celebratory edifices erected to hide History’s complexity, drown curiosity, and feed the simple in the present and in the future.
If we dig past the monuments of the Robert E. Lee’s and the Stonewall Jackson’s erected in the 1920s (Jim Crow era) or the 1950s (Civil Rights era), some in far away Arizona (Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, the Civil War ended in 1865), what we get to is a place called the past where easily traceable demographics prove a country filled with ethnicities from all over the world. What the alt-right desires is an America where whites maintain some semblance of power over anyone of color if not outright ethnic cleansing. Their rhetoric of Heritage is pure myth, a fabrication of a false past, creating memory where none existed.
Author Joe Krulder, Ph.D., teaches history at Butte College.
The rest:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/historian-exposes-one-poisonous-myth-heart-white-nationalist-ideology/
Where can I get a nice steam powered vibrator?
Where can I get a nice steam powered vibrator? You have to be a real Einstein to work these electromagnetic ones, it’s just too much.
https://twitter.com/MariyaAlexander/status/1065809354492788737
Sen Mike Lee to NBC: Saudi Crown Prince DID Order Khashoggi's Murder
Important. Republican Senator Mike Lee tells NBC that the intelligence he's seen suggests that the Saudi crown prince did order Khashoggi's murder, contradicting Trump:
GOP @SenMikeLee contradicts Trump on Khashoggi intel: “I disagree with the president’s assessment. It is inconsistent with the intel I’ve seen..I don’t have access to everything that the president sees. The intelligence I’ve seen suggests this was ordered by the crown prince”-NBC
VIDEO:
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-lee-interview-congress-has-to-take-some-ownership-in-u-s-foreign-policy-1379852355694?v=railb&
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1066720042589581317
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1066713070087675905
"America Last"
Our President is stupid. His trade policies are stupid. His approach to Russia, Saudi Arabia, Europe, climate change, immigration, the economy are all stupid. His Presidency could not be a greater betrayal to the interests of US and its people. It is very much America Last.
https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1066707638354882560
Hey Donald...Look here:
https://twitter.com/KerryBirdWhite1/status/1066570238014107648
Republican class has twice as many white dudes named "Mark" as it does women.
Now that almost all the races have been called, I decided to lineup both the Dem and GOP freshmen. The results were not surprising, but the contrasts were... acute.
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1066345314293071873
If Trump is cornered, the judges he disdains may finally bring him down - by Walter Shapiro
The president thinks justice only matters as it affects him. As his defenders fall away, he may find this all too painfully true................
...........Trump appears incapable of handling patriotic abstractions. It is why the ceremonial aspects of the presidency, like visiting Arlington Cemetery on Veteran’s Day and bearing witness to the first world war dead in France, seem so baffling to him. The best he can do on such solemn occasions is to woodenly read someone else’s words off a teleprompter as he flashes the thumbs-up sign.
Concepts like democracy, a free press, due process, an independent judiciary and the rule of law are lost on Trump. As far as his understanding goes, the constitution might just as well be carved in cuneiform characters on stone tablets.
Up to now, many of Trump’s worst impulses have been resisted by the saner members of his entourage, like the former White House counsel Donald McGahn, who told the president he had no authority to prosecute Clinton and Comey. Other aides in The Perils of Pauline melodrama that is playing on a constant loop in the White House have intervened to save the Mueller investigation.
But as Trump’s arrogance of power grows along with his political peril from the newly elected Democratic House, we may be close to the moment when no one is left with the power or the willingness to constrain a cornered president.
The final line of defense of democratic values are judges and top law enforcement officials who answer to a higher loyalty than fealty to Trump. It would be both bracing and ironic if the president were ultimately thwarted by black-robed figures whom he denounces as “Trump judges”.
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The Rest:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/23/donald-trump-judges-walter-shapiro?CMP=twt_gu
NY Supreme Court throws out Trump's motion to dismiss NY AG Underwood's Trump Foundation lawsuit
#BREAKING: NY Supreme Court throws out Trump’s motion to dismiss @NewYorkStateAG Underwood’s Trump Foundation lawsuit: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=5gpi0UXWZTG2BxZsqSlyBA==&system=prod …
As the AG’s lawsuit detailed, the Trump Foundation functioned as a personal piggy bank to serve Trump's business & political interests
https://twitter.com/amyspitalnick/status/1066025352554795008
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=5gpi0UXWZTG2BxZsqSlyBA==&system=prod
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