Garry Trudeau’s take on Mississippi finally getting around to ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment brings it right around to the civil rights of today’s slaves, immigrant fieldworkers. Good twist, one that should be brought to light more often in that context.
And the “We were never told we were free” line hits on such an important point. In many ways, African Americans are still not free. See: Suppression, voter… among other things.
Trudeau covered a lot of bases in eight panels, more than many news outlets do in their 24/7 programming. And as is so often the case, humor makes vital points and communicates better and to a broader audience than serious commentary can.
The racist “White Student Union’s” president is none other than “white nationalist” (as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center) Matthew Heimbach, a lovely young man who goes by the title “Commander Heimbach” and who is associated with neo-Confederate hate groups.
The frequent robberies, sexual assaults, and acts of vandalism at Towson University are not often reported in the local media. For those who are not Towson students it seems hard to fathom that every single day black predators prey upon the majority white Towson University student body. White Southern men have long been called to defend their communities when law enforcement and the State seem unwilling to protect our people.
So that’s the story.
But there’s another story here, and this one is about the comments at the Daily Caller link. I am dedicating them to anyone who claims we are a “post-racist society” or belittles anyone who claims conservatives don’t have a racist bone in their body, it’s we liberals who do. These are verbatim:
REALLY, WHITES ARE BORN THAT WAY, WELL THEN THAT EXPLAINS WHY 76% OF VIOLENT CRIMES AND RAPE; ARE COMMITED BY BLACK MEN, HMMM MAYBE YOUR KIND ARE BORN THAT WAY. YOUR JUST AS SICK AS BROWN UNIVERSITY, WHO WAS LARGLEY FUNDED BY AARON LOPEZ OF NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND.WHO WAS THE LARGEST JEWISH SLAVE TRADER IN THE SLAVE TRADE HISTORY. SO PLEASE RACISTS DROP DEAD!!!!
Right on!!! Get down!!! Do the boogaloo!!! White people all around the country should take notice and duplicate this!!! Time to erect the backbone and STAND UP for our fellow citizens, who would otherwise be victims!!! DO IT NOW!
You have a point bob. White men have won enough Medals of Honor, enough presidencies, and enough generalships. White men have had their turn, now it is time for some diversity. So the next war, let us send only women and blacks to the combat zones. Let’s see if they can bleed and die as good as white men have for our country.
According to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, equal opportunity is so important that when it comes to their children’s education, parents need a choice! Just like slaves did back in the day! Because, see, slavery was a choice. Umwhat?
[U]nder Jindal’s guidance, Louisiana is encouraging voucher schools to open up and teach that slavery was just a choice, and not an entirely bad one.
“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.”—United States History for Christian Schools, 2nd ed., Bob Jones University Press
This is just one of the “facts” being taught in voucher schools supported by taxes paid by everyone. Jindal seems to believe the greater sin is to curtail choice, than it is to allow the promotion of the idea that slavery wasn’t really that big of a deal, that if not for the actions of a few slave holders that beat and mistreated their slaves, slavery was generally a good thing.
Jindal’s voucher school supporters believe that owning people, another ace of people, was actually much ado about nothing. Sure, many slaves were raped, tortured, murdered and forced to work under in the burning sun every day until they died, their children sold and traded like pieces of furniture, and adults bred like animals to produce good livestock to be enslaved or sold to others. . . but for the most part it was a good deal and if not for a few miscreants that mistreated their slaves it might well be a great idea to employ today.
Poor slavery! Always getting dissed as if it were a bad thing! What’s a parent to do?
Easy peasy! Just send the kiddies to places that teach otherwise and tell everyone else to stop messing with all those nice, wholesome, private voucher schools that you choose to choose. Public school with those icky unionized teachers who stick to– ew!– truth and accuracy are clearly inferior to the fine educators at the let-us-count-the-ways more desirable private institutions.
So make sure our young ‘uns learn from the best (and by best he means unregulated). Tell them they should be proud of our history of humans owning other humans! Life was so much better back then! After all, slaves were only beaten and raped once in awhile, and being separated from their families and moved around like chess pieces couldn’t have been all that bad. Hey, they got room and board, didn’t they?
And don’t get me started on their freedom to teach how swell the KKK is.
How libertyish and patriotic of them to allow kids to be pro-choice haters.
“Little did Madison realize that one day in the future, weapons manufacturing corporations, newly defined as ‘persons’ by a dysfunctional Supreme Court, would use his Slave Patrol Militia Amendment to protect their right to manufacture and sell assault weapons to be used to murder school children.”
What an unfortunate name for someone who appears to have a lot of credibility. His resume includes being a professor of law at Roger William University School of Law and visiting professor at Earl Mack School of Law at Drexel University. In fact:
Professor Bogus has testified before Congress and spoken about these topics across the country. In addition to books and law reviews, his writings appear in opinion journals and newspapers, including The Nation, American Prospect, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Times, and the Providence Journal. He blogs at http://www.carltbogus.com/edmund-a-blog.
James Madison wrote the Second Amendment to assure the southern states that Congress would not undermine the slave system by disarming the militia, which were then the principal instruments of slave control throughout the South. [...]
Slavery was becoming increasingly obnoxious to the North, and southern delegates to the Philadelphia convention demanded and got an agreement, somewhat cryptically written into the Constitution, that deprived the federal government of authority to abolish slavery. Mason and Henry raised the specter of Congress using its authority over the militia to do indirectly what it could not do directly. They suggested that Congress might refuse to call forth the militia to suppress an insurrection, send southern militia to New Hampshire, and on this they harped repeatedly disarm the militia. For Virginia and the South, these were chilling prospects. [...]
Madison won the election, and he went to Congress politically committed to supporting a bill of rights. When he drafted that document, he included a provision that with minor modifications became what is now the Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
In his 99-page article, Professor Bogus argues that the evidence including an analysis of Madison’s original language, and an understanding of how he and other founders drew on England’s Declaration of Rights strongly suggests that Madison wrote this provision for the specific purpose of assuring his constituency that Congress could not use its newly acquired power to deprive the states of an armed militia. Madison’s concern, Professor Bogus argues, was not hunting, self-defense, national defense, or resistance to governmental tyranny, but slave control.
The “hidden history” of the Second Amendment is important for two reasons. First, it supports the view that the amendment does not grant individuals a right to keep and bear arms for their own purposes; rather it only protects the right to bear arms within the militia, as defined within the main body of the Constitution, under the joint control of the federal and state governments. At the time, the southern states extensively regulated their militias and prescribed their slave control responsibilities. Second, the hidden history is important because it fundamentally changes how we think about the right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment takes on an entirely different complexion when instead of being symbolized by a musket in the hands of the minutemen, it is associated with a musket in the hands of the slave holder.
So much for that tyranny thing so many gun zealots insist on bringing up all the time. And how ironic that there is evidence that suggests the person they believe to be such a commie Marxist French gay Kenyan tyrant who is coming for their guns is a descendant of the first African documented slave.
Nearly as ironic as Professor Bogus’s name, in fact.
[T]he Republican value of minimizing government dependence is particularly beneficial to the poorest among us,” he continued. “Conversely, the Democratic appetite for ever-increasing redistributionary handouts is in fact the most insidious form of slavery remaining in the world today, and it does not promote economic freedom.”
But it’s okay with those on the right, see, because he’s an African American Republican. Had a black Democrat said the same thing about West, well, you know what would have happened.
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