As of early July 9, 2020, police don’t know who tore a statue of Frederick Douglass from its base in a Rochester, NY, park and abandoned against a chain-link fence on the anniversary of his most famous anti-slavery speech. It wouldn’t make much sense if it were the same kind of protestors who vandalize statues of Confederate figures. When a statue of the greatest abolitionist of the 19th century comes down, is this the end of history?
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16 replies on “Statue of Former Slave Frederick Douglass Torn Down: Is this the End of History?”
That was especially good, guys. Thank you.
I note the headline uses the now illegal term “slave”.
All I can say is that my ancestors were slaves in Egypt, not enslaved persons.
A point to ponder: If a person is the actual descendant of enslaved ancestors, and I suspect that all of us actually are, then that descendant owes their very existence to the slavery that they are descended from. Had their ancestors never been captured by neighboring tribesmen and traded or sold into slavery, so that their ancestors had to go through the years, decades, generations of slavery, they simply would not exist today. Their very existence is, without a doubt, wholly the direct product of that enslavement experience, and without it they, and the several generations since original capture, simply would never have been born. Other people would almost certainly have been born, but not any of the people that make up the lineage since the enslavement. We are all the inheritors of an especially thin and improbable thread of lineage, any deviation from which would preclude our very own existence!!!
As I am retired and as a resident of Washington State, I’m still under martial law… lock down… or what ever they wish to call it… anyway, the point I wish to make, though not so much a point as a forwarding of an opinion that was expressed by Dan Bongino on his podcast… I’m paraphrasing, for the actual wording you can look up today’s podcast… Dan was describing the psychological makeup, of the various components of the cancel culture mob… he nailed it… when speaking about the teen-twentys those on social media in their mom’s basement and the ones acting out their revolution by destroying things…. the best explanation of the source for their rage is that they are aware that there is a complete absence of purpose or meaning and a soul destroying understanding that they are completely without any useful life skills and that the higher education that they have indebted themselves for is for the most part meaningless drivel…. 50k to 150k or more in unforgivable loans and no realistic employment opportunities paying them those fabulous salaries they were promised… Solution: I believe that either the parents of these losers can either reign them in or the rest of the people who make up our society will address their negligence. ( I propose Bare A_s Public Spankings delivered with a cricket bat, televised globally)
Excellently stated, by all three. Thank you, gentlemen, for being my voice when I cannot find the words to express myself.
They are my voice, too.
Small point: I will, henceforth, use “every black life matters” instead of “black lives matter.” In fact, I will refuse to say “black lives matter” precisely because the organization, Black Lives Matter, is the evil thing that it is. Let’s see how the left handles that.
They’re actually saying out loud now that it’s not about “all” black lives, only about the ones that are subjected to police brutality. And so therefore it’s racist (or something) to point out that there are facts involved like the number of black people dying at the hands of other black people, or the number of cops being killed by black men.
Yes they are. And they can, to use the mildest language that comes to mind, go straight to hell.
I actually hope I get a chance to “talk” to people who support BLM so that I can refuse to say that phrase. I wonder if they’ll be intelligent enough to pick up on the subtle difference.
Aw, who am I kidding, of course they won’t. But if by some miracle they do, I wonder how far they’ll be willing to take their “disagreement.” Because I will *not* give in.
I forget what show, what network or which black heads were talking but one mentioned “blacks shooting other blacks” and the host brought up the “we only care about police victims” and told the black guest to start his own movement.
So, I guess maybe we will see an ABLM at some point.
It is interesting how BLM has tried to fence in white people. You can’t speak on race–you’re a racist. If you say you are colorblind, then you are ignoring the problem. If you push back, that’s evidence of your racism and white supremacy. Silence is evidence of agreement with white supremacy. The only option they “leave” open is agreement, and this mob will never be satisfied because it cannot create, it can only destroy.
Brian: They leave you nowhere to go but where they want to put you. It’s an invalid argument. In fact, it’s not an *argument* at all. There are no facts, no logic, no reasoning in it. It’s nothing but attempted intimidation.
I, for one, refuse to give in to it. No one should.
Yes, as Bill and others have mentioned, during the French, Chinese and Russian revolutions, the first one to stop clapping, crying, or shouting their agreement with the slogan of the day tended to get killed. With this movement there are no limiting principles, no overall goal really and as witnessed with the cancel culture letter that has people cancelling their agreement when cancelled people sign it, there doesn’t even seem to be any agreement on anything.
So anything that isn’t full throated, unqualified agreement with the speaker is considered a crime and there is only one punishment.
Excellent points all.
Once the mob starts destroying it is very difficult to rein it in. Very easy to believe that they have no idea whose statues they are pulling down. Even easier to believe that if they knew the name they would not know why there was a statue in the first place.
I currently live approximately 30 minutes from Booker T Washington National Monument which preserves some of the farm on which he was born into slavery. Amazingly, it is not a regular field trip for the local schools.
“After the reading we were all free, and could go when and where we pleased. My mother, who was standing by my side leaned over and kissed her children, while tears of joy ran down her cheeks.” She explained what it all meant to them. This was the “moment she had been praying for.”
Washington wrote “For some minutes there was great rejoicing, and thanksgiving and wild scenes of ecstasy.” This feeling lasted for only a brief period and then there was some change in feelings upon return to their cabins. “The great responsibility of being free, of having charge of themselves, of having to think and plan for themselves and their children, seemed to take possession of them…These are the questions of a home, a living the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches.”
Year Zero.
the generation of… history begins with me…