Glenn, you are a national treasure. The notion that you, or any Black or “of color” scholar must justify himself with such care and at such length, is concerning to say the least.
The illiberal forces gaining strength in the West, abetted by weak leaders who see only an opportunity to cower and pander for votes, is quite possibly a canary…
Glenn, you are a national treasure. The notion that you, or any Black or “of color” scholar must justify himself with such care and at such length, is concerning to say the least.
The illiberal forces gaining strength in the West, abetted by weak leaders who see only an opportunity to cower and pander for votes, is quite possibly a canary in our coal mine which we all seek to deny. Maybe too many are simply clueless or in denial.
We admire, when we are not calling them racist misogynists, that our Founders were created in a crucible far different than our current decadence. If the timidity of moderate Americans does not find its voice, or its spine, we will get a crash course in what it means to live a life without liberty.
And that hammer will fall on the anti-racist and woke quite harshly.
Meritorious Manumision negroes have always been great assets for white supremacists. During theJim Crow era, segregationist whites payed black informant preachers for delivering intelligence information to the white citizens councils in the South concerning black civil rghts activism. Lol!!!!
Meritorious Manumision is still alive and well. The Virginia legislature enacted the Meritorious Manumission Act in 1710 to better control/managel negro slaves. Negro slaves were rewarded for turning on each other to preserve the peculiar institution of slavery. Negro slaves were rewarded freedom if they went out out of their way to save massa's life, invented something to increase massa's wealth and snitched on other slaves who planned escapes or rebellions.
Clarence Thomas was rewarded with prestige/power and access to a white women (an Anglo-Saxon throw away who supported the racist John Birch Society). Glenn Loury thinks Clarence Thomas should be immortalized in "The National African of Hustory and Culture in Washington D.C." and elsewhere. There's talk about white conservatives (former Dixiecrats) wanting to build a monument for him in Georgia. Lol!!!!
I disagree with Clarence Thomas on abortion, and I think religion should be totally separate from government, so he is not one of my heroes. However, if he was “rewarded with...access to a white women...) that makes her a slave. He married her.
His wife is an out of control lunatic! He's the [codependent slave]. Different flavors? Different textures and colors, but the same. I'm an experienced past swirler.Lol!
Your founding fathers? Lol!!!! Thomas Jefferson, the religious pessimist --- "Like many other 18th-century intellectuals in Europe and North America, Jefferson believed blacks were inferior to whites. In his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Jefferson expressed racist views of blacks’ abilities, though he questioned whether the differences he observed were due to inherent inferiority or to decades of degrading enslavement. He also believed that white Americans and enslaved blacks constituted two “separate nations” who could not live together peacefully in the same country. Of this inevitable rift, he wrote:
“Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained ... will divide us into parties and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race.”
Not really sure what your long posts are seeking either to refute or to reinforce. Strongly-held opinions, but I cannot discern where they point. My apologies.
My two points: Glenn has a great deal of courage in a time of conformity and signaling; also, enough with the counter-factual judgments on people who lived hundreds of years ago. These self-flattering narratives of our greater wisdom fall apart when you consider that these historical figures actually staked their lives on their beliefs and most alive today merely serve as hubristic critics.
Long-held opinions/beliefs about white supremacy? Meritorious manumission negroes like the very ignorant and repulsive modern-day bed winch, Candance Owens?
Glenn, you are a national treasure. The notion that you, or any Black or “of color” scholar must justify himself with such care and at such length, is concerning to say the least.
The illiberal forces gaining strength in the West, abetted by weak leaders who see only an opportunity to cower and pander for votes, is quite possibly a canary in our coal mine which we all seek to deny. Maybe too many are simply clueless or in denial.
We admire, when we are not calling them racist misogynists, that our Founders were created in a crucible far different than our current decadence. If the timidity of moderate Americans does not find its voice, or its spine, we will get a crash course in what it means to live a life without liberty.
And that hammer will fall on the anti-racist and woke quite harshly.
Meritorious Manumision negroes have always been great assets for white supremacists. During theJim Crow era, segregationist whites payed black informant preachers for delivering intelligence information to the white citizens councils in the South concerning black civil rghts activism. Lol!!!!
Meritorious Manumision is still alive and well. The Virginia legislature enacted the Meritorious Manumission Act in 1710 to better control/managel negro slaves. Negro slaves were rewarded for turning on each other to preserve the peculiar institution of slavery. Negro slaves were rewarded freedom if they went out out of their way to save massa's life, invented something to increase massa's wealth and snitched on other slaves who planned escapes or rebellions.
Clarence Thomas was rewarded with prestige/power and access to a white women (an Anglo-Saxon throw away who supported the racist John Birch Society). Glenn Loury thinks Clarence Thomas should be immortalized in "The National African of Hustory and Culture in Washington D.C." and elsewhere. There's talk about white conservatives (former Dixiecrats) wanting to build a monument for him in Georgia. Lol!!!!
I disagree with Clarence Thomas on abortion, and I think religion should be totally separate from government, so he is not one of my heroes. However, if he was “rewarded with...access to a white women...) that makes her a slave. He married her.
His wife is an out of control lunatic! He's the [codependent slave]. Different flavors? Different textures and colors, but the same. I'm an experienced past swirler.Lol!
Your founding fathers? Lol!!!! Thomas Jefferson, the religious pessimist --- "Like many other 18th-century intellectuals in Europe and North America, Jefferson believed blacks were inferior to whites. In his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Jefferson expressed racist views of blacks’ abilities, though he questioned whether the differences he observed were due to inherent inferiority or to decades of degrading enslavement. He also believed that white Americans and enslaved blacks constituted two “separate nations” who could not live together peacefully in the same country. Of this inevitable rift, he wrote:
“Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained ... will divide us into parties and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race.”
Not really sure what your long posts are seeking either to refute or to reinforce. Strongly-held opinions, but I cannot discern where they point. My apologies.
My two points: Glenn has a great deal of courage in a time of conformity and signaling; also, enough with the counter-factual judgments on people who lived hundreds of years ago. These self-flattering narratives of our greater wisdom fall apart when you consider that these historical figures actually staked their lives on their beliefs and most alive today merely serve as hubristic critics.
Long-held opinions/beliefs about white supremacy? Meritorious manumission negroes like the very ignorant and repulsive modern-day bed winch, Candance Owens?