tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post2840955159845419106..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: A civil rights milestoneDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-72397347208301303982017-06-18T04:42:17.565-04:002017-06-18T04:42:17.565-04:00The United Daughters of the Confederacy formed the...The United Daughters of the Confederacy formed the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association at their Chattanooga convention in 1917. They tried to fund a Confederate memorial carving on Stone Mountain, but they couldn't get it done. Then in 1958 (right at the height of the Civil Rights Movement--surprise, surprise) the state legislature finally gained access to the property and decided to finish the carving which was completed in 1972. Not going to be so easy to remove, but I suppose it could be done.<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-stone-mountain-georgia-naacp-20150714-story.htmlGloucon Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05218027862578514587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-51119923624988197242017-06-16T22:18:19.318-04:002017-06-16T22:18:19.318-04:00Professor
Thanks for this post.
The twilight of...Professor<br /><br />Thanks for this post. <br /><br />The twilight of the idols, so to speak.<br /><br />Tearing down images has a long history.<br /><br />It seems to me that we are in a sort of endgame of the age of the democratic revolution, an age which has devolved, at least in terms of Western cultural thinking, into a global multicultural melting pot motif such as Mayor Laddrieu describes, and an accompanying market culture ideology, for lack of anything else into which it can or could turn, frankly. <br /><br />Multiculturalism is not a new culture, or a higher culture, unfortunately. <br /><br />It is a sort of end to prior cultures, an unculture, if you will. <br /><br />So called pop culture, everywhere, seems now to epitomize this devolution.<br /><br />All the best<br />Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-33379758900688408592017-06-16T12:04:14.800-04:002017-06-16T12:04:14.800-04:00I am surprised you focus on such an event. Moving ...I am surprised you focus on such an event. Moving past the past is difficult. We see this in Europe. When countries fall apart simmering grievances come to the fore. Cultural differences are emphasized, linguistic, food traditions. Essentially in a world without mass transport and instant communications smalller nations with own cultures make more sense as in Europe. Russia has a very flexible attitude to chechenia for example which is allowed practically full autonomy. This is like our attitude to indian reservations. If history were linear I could agree with your analysis. However we see that for every inch of progress blacks acheive yards of barriers are put in their way(redlining, mass incarceration, gerrymandering, vigilante type private justice). Rationalism makes up a very small part of human nature. We mostoy justify with logic that which we sucked up with mother's milk. We are quite primitive despite the name homo sapiens sapiens. Take last week's shooting of a congressman by a Trump hater. Your column last week fell perfectly in line with the standard party line of the MSM that Trump is a dictator. I did not attack that straight on as being a hopeless undertaking, like with russophobes, southern racists, etc. The MSM has a mission to sow discord,, create atmosphere for a new civil war. Obama expanded security state after Bush. Trump's staef wish for peace dividend, isolationism, detente is being sabotaged as unpatriotic. It is clear that permanent war serves the owners of the press who are in bed with military and financial elite and want continued global military/ financiall/cultural domination by USA. The destruction of the middle cllass, of basic freedoms has destroyed what it means to be an American. Why support the oligarchy? Their goals are to subjugate other people just like they have Americans. This is similar to aliens who hop from planet to planet destroying them one after the other. Divide et impera. Use racial/cultural differences between blue/red zones, dems/repubs to maintain control. It seems this will lead to a civil war as people are getting whipped up beyond control internally against one another and foreign enemies refuse to play bad guy, giving easy target. So it seems WWIII will be called off as Russia/China are too sophisticated and an American civil conflict will ensue, possibly parallel to a realignment of Europe, with or without America. America is not one country but lots of regions and regions within regions, with minorities ethnically, racially, ideologically in danger of ethnic cleansing. Most of this has already occurred as people fled wrong zip codes over decades but who knows how it will end.Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-73615799668193500282017-06-16T11:50:12.692-04:002017-06-16T11:50:12.692-04:00Thank you for this post.
At a time when truth i...Thank you for this post. <br /><br />At a time when truth is equated to innuendo and lies (Time Magazine) and therefore does not represent what is right, even "as God gives us to see the right", this Southern mayor's words are both truthful and right in the traditional sense. If his words are a turning point, let them lead to a full appreciation of the contributions of African Americans and other people of color to the growth of this country, and recognition of the equal intelligence, talent and great wisdom of them by all white Americans.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629116622092214120noreply@blogger.com