Tag: history
I’ll never be at a loss for material
at least until the second Biden term at which point the news will be … limited.
DEMOCRATS CRUCIFIED NIXON FOR 18 MISSING MINUTES BUT THEY DELETED TWO TERABYTES: Republicans Recovered More Than 100 Encrypted Jan. 6 Files, but There’s a Catch
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE BUT FACEBOOK WANTS TO MEDDLE: ‘A Starting Point’: Meta Oversight Board Member Says 2020 Election Interference Was ‘Not Enough.’
Reminder that none of us is safe: AT THIS POINT, ANYTHING IS BELIEVABLE: FBI charged with Jan. 6 ‘cover-up’ in Ashli Babbitt shooting case.
It Ain’t Paranoia if It’s Happening — ‘Undocumented’ Voting Edition. “It’s disturbing to think about how many illegal voters might be making their way to the polls in November now that their numbers are growing so rapidly during the Joe Biden Border Crush.”
RIGGED: CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say.
REQUIRED READING: Kruiser’s Handy Election Year Guide to Topics the Democrats’ Media Hacks Will Be Censoring.
and since tomorrow is Millard Fillmore Day: David Frum Announces Misguided Quest to Rehabilitate the Reputation of One of America’s Worst Presidents.
Happy COLUMBUS DAY
Some thoughts on Juneteenth
For starters: what are “we” celebrating? Really? I mean who celebrates the LAST person to learn something? Rosebud was the sled. Let’s have a national holiday.
Nor is it “the day slavery ended.” There are more slaves on the planet to day than there were on this date in 1865. Today, according to the World Population Review, there are more than 10 times as many slaves as were enslaved by Americans at the start of the War of Northern Aggression around the world and they encompass multiple ethnicities:
“Slavery is a system in which principles of property law are applied to people, enabling individuals to own, buy, and sell other individuals—designated “slaves”—as a form of property. Slaves are unable to withdraw from this arrangement and are typically forced to work for little to no pay. Slavery has played a role in the history of nearly every country on Earth and remains a massive problem in many places around the globe.
“Today, 167 countries still have some form of modern slavery, which affects an estimated 46 million people worldwide. Modern slavery can be difficult to detect and recognize in many cases. This is because slavery has moved underground in most countries and because the definition of slavery has expanded and evolved over the past several decades.”
How about the ending of slavery in the US?
Nope. Misses the mark on that one too. As the London Daily Mail notes, the last slaves were not legally freed until “six months later,” when “the 13th Amendment fully prohibited the owning of slaves, spurring states such as Kentucky and (Joe Biden’s) Delaware – where it had still been legal – to cease the practice.” Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation only declared slaves free if they were held in areas that had been controlled by Confederate rebels, not in slave states that remained loyal to the union, such as Delaware and Kentucky. Slaves in those two states were not freed until ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865.
Strike two.
Is it a good, positive day worthy of celebration. Damned skippy! Juneteenth isn’t ‘woke.’ It’s as American as apple pie
But rather than celebrate the reality some celebrate the cheese: Meaningless Political Speech and Juneteenth
And then there’s this: AUTHENTIC AMERICAN BLACKNESS
enjoy the day your way.
The arts are pressing in on my brain
The early steps in directing Tommy have NOT been as positive as I’d like. Things are starting to pile up, crashing into and over each other. Something’s gotta give soon.
Maybe PART of this is because of some of my recent readings. Disquiet on the Western Front covers many topics not the least of which is how much reality is needed to achieve verisimilitude. Good read.
Bastardizing Beethoven deals with, among other things, the Presentism that is over-running history is also over-running the arts. And with Tommy I’m dealing with quite a bit of this. I’m still not convinced that I’ll even get enough people to CAST this things. what with the sexual abuse of a deaf, dumb and blind kid … and all.
Maybe I should throw some other things in here to pad it out.
Multisport american athletes best all time. No MJ but I think I’m OK with that.
A short one
for Columbus/”Indigenous Persons” Day
added for giggles: Highlights From The Comments On Columbus Day
Annual reading
Just finished Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Suggest you go read it now too. The last graph is a tour de force of the written word.
A bunch of stuff that happened
The past is what happened. History is is what we decide to pass on about what happens. That includes deciding what was important (Martin Luther) and what wasn’t (the 1321 Leper’s Plot.) Now that Leper’s plot is fascinating and the would make a pretty good movie these days but it’s just not worth 15 minutes in a middle or high school survey class. That’s where we should be hitting the high points, the prime movers, they things that lead to the next things. It’s why we discuss Archduke Franz Ferdinand but most people can’t tell you crap about the Black Hand.
And then there’s this 1619 thing. In one sentence: It is nothing short of preposterous to claim that an obscure (if admittedly heinous) one-day commercial transaction — involving two or three white males in a tiny Virginia hamlet a century and a half before (!) the founding of a nation — is more reflective of said nation and of an entire people than the 15-to-20-year era of strife and quarrels including a continent-wide war (the American Revolution along with its attendant historical documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), which concerned every single one of its (then) two and a half million inhabitants, as well as the power structure of the entire Western world.
So someone explain this to me: “Biden Administration Offers Grants to Teach Children ‘1619 Project,’ Inherent Racism Central to U.S.“ It’s already become muddled enough. I spent two weeks in a MS history classroom in the Before Times. They were studying the beginnings of the American war for Independence. Intolerable Acts, Tea Party, Sons of Liberty, Paul Revere, Battles of Lexington and Concord (Shot heard ’round the world?)? One paragraph. And then there were pages of “check the box” stuff. Sybil Ludington gets a ‘graph. “Indians” get a page. As did slaves. Fort Ticonderoga? Valley Forge? Mentioned in passing. An attempt to delve into the military strategy behind the war in the Acela corridor but nothing about Francis Marion or the Green Mountain Boys. Imagine taking a HUGE list of people, places and topics pertaining to the subject, writing each on a marble, throwing ALL the marbles into a bucket, drawing out a fistful, giving them each equal treatment, then moving on to the War of 1812.
And it’s not getting any better. Stanley Kurtz at National Review puts a new Biden administration proposed rule under the microscope and finds a new variant of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) cancer – public school civics classes.
Mary Grabar: American History Is Being Falsified to Sow Political Division.
The version of history the left/academia are serving up is the kind of history you’d impose on a conquered people whose will you were trying to break.
Parents ARE beginning to push back. Parents Revolt After Texas’s No. 1 School District Tries To Institutionalize Racism It just needs to be in more places than Texas, because the coastal elites view them as bitter clingers anyway. New York is getting some of it. Those who can are voting with their feet. Black Parent Compares Critical Race Theory to KKK Intimidation Tactics.
Districts are not taking this laying down however: School District Tells Principals To Create Fake Curriculum To Send Parents After Complaints Of Indoctrination. Here’s a good starting point for those who oppose. How to Fight Critical Race Theory | City Journal.
Virginia School Board Shuts Down Parent’s Objections To Racist Indoctrination
Other stuff:
Agitators Get Dirty To Push Institutional Racism In Texas’s No. 1 School District
Parents organizing across US against ‘dangerous’ critical race theory in classrooms: Former professor. “What they are doing with the critical race theory is pure indoctrination.”
THIS one was fun, albeit non-binding: Arizona School Board Flees from Concerned Parents, Parents Elect New Board.
He wasn’t a viking!
Y’all know I can occasionally get a wild hair up my @$$ about some silly little thing just because it starts down a slippery slope. And so it is with the “Viking” who led “the insurrection” earlier this month. So here’s a quick fact-check and some questions and insinuations which may flow therefrom.
- He wasn’t dressed as a Viking. Obvious to a LOT of us for several reasons. First, the horned head-dress. Vikings didn’t wear them. I know. I know. The Geats wore them. Beowolf was a Geat. The whole horned helmet wearing Viking thing came from costume designer Carl Emil Doepler who included them in the 1870’s era production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
- So why did the media insist on referring to him as “a guy dressed as a viking?” See that reference to Wagner above? Ring cycle? Y’all know about the Nazi/white supremacist connection there right? It’s a VERY short step from “Viking” to “Nazi” to “White Supremacist.”
- So what WAS he dressed as? Why don’t you ASK him? Multiple YouTube video interviews exist. He’s from Arizona. He self-identifies as a shaman (a word typically associated with Asian and North American so-called indigenous persons) who might also be termed a Medicine Man. Dude was LARPING as an American Indian.
But we can’t call him THAT, now can we? Doesn’t fit the narrative. And might tend to impugn the integrity of a protected minority group.
Gonna be a long four years.
Checking the Fridge for Leftovers 