Re: Just musings, is all
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:40 p
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 12, 2020 at 5:57 pm
Paul Plante says:
As we track the history of this nation in this series of essays courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, which history indeed is far from perfect, as the people who made and still make that history are and were in many cases quite far from perfect themselves, from the first Fourth of July in 1776, and the circumstances surrounding that event, this in the light Hearst Publishing’s former star political correspondent Amy Biancolli’s TWEET to her multitude of TWITTERATI on TWITTER on June 23, 2020 that “For too many people, History = What They Learned As Kids and that’s it; no room for the voices of people of color,” by taking a look at the actual history taught to us as children, we can see just how ridiculous her comment about “no room for the voices of people of color” really is.
By way of background, when we American people today speak of the first Fourth of July in 1776, if we talk about it at all as other than a holiday in July where we get to drink a lot of beer, and eat a lot of hot dogs and hamburgers, and blow off a lot of fireworks, we speak of it as if that date had any real significance in our lives today other than as the date the British colonists in this country declared to the world that those people of this fledgling nation who were to become the first Americans were freeing themselves from the tyranny of a despotic English king who had abdicated Government here and declared those people out of his Protection and was at that time waging War against them while plundering their seas, ravaging their coasts, burning their towns, and destroying the lives of those people while at that same time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny he had already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation, exciting domestic insurrections amongst those people while endeavouring to bring on the inhabitants of their frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Now, when Amy Biancolli TWEETS “History = What They Learned As Kids and that’s it,” that above is the history she is referring to, especially the part about “exciting domestic insurrections amongst those people while endeavouring to bring on the inhabitants of their frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
With regard to her ridiculous assertion about that history we learned as children having “no room for the voices of people of color,” which anyone who actually bothered to crack the covers of a book to learn something, as opposed to being taught to merely parrot some lines of limp drivel, knows is patent hogwash, according to that same schoolboy history we once were required to know as young American citizens, regardless of skin color, since we were all created equal according to the Declaration of Independence, by November 14, 1775, eight months before the first Fourth of July, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his famous proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join the royal forces was already well underway.
So much for the slaves being considered “not human.”
Staying with that history, because it is quite relevant to what has to follow if we are to truly understand the threat today this BLACK LIVES MATTER movement is to our civilized, multi-cultural society in this nation which is being divided by the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, as we will clearly see, Dunmore understood that such an act would have a wide-ranging effect, which brings us back to Democrat mayor Kathy Sheehan talking about the consequences of 400 years of “white superiority” we all have to “own,” as if we today bear responsibility for acts committed by somebody with white skin like Lord Dunmore in 1775.
As to those consequences, not only would it disrupt production in this nation, which had not yet formally rebelled; it would also feed the growing fear among the colonists of armed slave insurrections, a form of instigating terrorism on the part of Lord Dunmore.
Planters would be distracted from waging war against Britain by the necessity of protecting their families and property from an internal threat.
At the same time, Dunmore’s own force of 300 soldiers, seamen and loyalist recruits, cut off from the support of British troops in Boston, would be reinforced by black fighting men and laborers.
Word of Dunmore’s plan was known as early as April, when a group of slaves presented themselves to him to volunteer their services.
He delayed the decision by ordering them away, but the Virginia slaveholders’ suspicions were not allayed.
On June 8, 1775, Dunmore left Williamsburg, taking refuge aboard the man-of-war Fowey at Yorktown.
Over the next five months, he reinforced his troops by engaging in a series of raids and inviting slaves aboard the ship.
On November 7, Dunmore drafted a proclamation, and a week later he ordered its publication.
It declared martial law and adjudged the patriots as traitors to the Crown; more importantly, it declared “all indented servants, Negroes, or others…free that are able and willing to bear arms…”
Response from the colonists was immediate.
Newspapers published the proclamation in full, and patrols on land and water were intensified.
Throughout the colonies, restrictions on slave meetings were tightened.
The Virginia Gazette warned slaves to “Be not then…tempted by the proclamation to ruin your selves” and urged them to “cling to their kind masters,” citing the fact that Dunmore himself was a slave holder.
In December, the Virginia Convention issued its own proclamation as a broadside, declaring that runaways to the British would be pardoned if they returned in ten days, but would be severely punished if they did not.
The document began with a reminder of the penalty for slave insurrection — death without benefit of clergy — though in practice, it was used sparingly during the war.
By then, 300 black men had been inducted into “Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment,” armed, and outfitted in military uniforms inscribed with the words “Liberty to Slaves.”
By early June, however, Dunmore’s forces had been decimated by smallpox and the patriot’s defenses.
In August, the British destroyed over half of their own ships and sailed out of the Potomac, taking the 300 healthiest blacks with them.
Although probably no more than 800 slaves actually succeeded in reaching Dunmore’s lines, word of the proclamation inspired as many as 100,000 to risk everything in an effort to be free.
end quotes
That, people, is American history as it happened, and as we can clearly see, there was plenty of room therein for the voices of people of color.
So why are we then being told otherwise?
And that question brings us back to the present moment, and mayor Kathy of the lawless, violent sanctuary city of Albany, New York telling us that “because of our history,” which includes Lord Dunmore and his proclamation and those Black folks bearing arms in support of the tyrant King in England, we have to “embrace” the Black Lives Matter movement, which as a loyal, law-abiding American citizen I openly refuse to do, precisely because that movement, as we can clearly see from what follows from “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the three founders of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, is based on not only outright lies, but a perversion and distortion of our history by a confused and hate-filled young woman, to wit:
“We know that if we can get the nation to see, say and understand the Black Lives Matter, then every life would stand a chance.”
“Black people are the only humans in this nation ever legally designated, after all, as not human.”
“Which is not to erase any group’s harm to ongoing pain in particular the genocide carried out against the First Nations peoples.”
“But it is to say that there is something quite basic that has to be addressed in the culture, in the hearts and minds of people who have benefited from, and were raised up on, the notion that Black people are not fully human.”
end quotes
Who in this nation besides Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the confused founder of BLACK LIVES MATTER, was “raised up” on the “notion” that Black people are not fully human?
I certainly wasn’t, and so I am not going to embrace a movement that asks me to be ignorant of reality and to lie to myself.
Plain and simple!
So, how about you?
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/p ... ent-281393
Paul Plante says:
As we track the history of this nation in this series of essays courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, which history indeed is far from perfect, as the people who made and still make that history are and were in many cases quite far from perfect themselves, from the first Fourth of July in 1776, and the circumstances surrounding that event, this in the light Hearst Publishing’s former star political correspondent Amy Biancolli’s TWEET to her multitude of TWITTERATI on TWITTER on June 23, 2020 that “For too many people, History = What They Learned As Kids and that’s it; no room for the voices of people of color,” by taking a look at the actual history taught to us as children, we can see just how ridiculous her comment about “no room for the voices of people of color” really is.
By way of background, when we American people today speak of the first Fourth of July in 1776, if we talk about it at all as other than a holiday in July where we get to drink a lot of beer, and eat a lot of hot dogs and hamburgers, and blow off a lot of fireworks, we speak of it as if that date had any real significance in our lives today other than as the date the British colonists in this country declared to the world that those people of this fledgling nation who were to become the first Americans were freeing themselves from the tyranny of a despotic English king who had abdicated Government here and declared those people out of his Protection and was at that time waging War against them while plundering their seas, ravaging their coasts, burning their towns, and destroying the lives of those people while at that same time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny he had already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation, exciting domestic insurrections amongst those people while endeavouring to bring on the inhabitants of their frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Now, when Amy Biancolli TWEETS “History = What They Learned As Kids and that’s it,” that above is the history she is referring to, especially the part about “exciting domestic insurrections amongst those people while endeavouring to bring on the inhabitants of their frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
With regard to her ridiculous assertion about that history we learned as children having “no room for the voices of people of color,” which anyone who actually bothered to crack the covers of a book to learn something, as opposed to being taught to merely parrot some lines of limp drivel, knows is patent hogwash, according to that same schoolboy history we once were required to know as young American citizens, regardless of skin color, since we were all created equal according to the Declaration of Independence, by November 14, 1775, eight months before the first Fourth of July, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his famous proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join the royal forces was already well underway.
So much for the slaves being considered “not human.”
Staying with that history, because it is quite relevant to what has to follow if we are to truly understand the threat today this BLACK LIVES MATTER movement is to our civilized, multi-cultural society in this nation which is being divided by the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, as we will clearly see, Dunmore understood that such an act would have a wide-ranging effect, which brings us back to Democrat mayor Kathy Sheehan talking about the consequences of 400 years of “white superiority” we all have to “own,” as if we today bear responsibility for acts committed by somebody with white skin like Lord Dunmore in 1775.
As to those consequences, not only would it disrupt production in this nation, which had not yet formally rebelled; it would also feed the growing fear among the colonists of armed slave insurrections, a form of instigating terrorism on the part of Lord Dunmore.
Planters would be distracted from waging war against Britain by the necessity of protecting their families and property from an internal threat.
At the same time, Dunmore’s own force of 300 soldiers, seamen and loyalist recruits, cut off from the support of British troops in Boston, would be reinforced by black fighting men and laborers.
Word of Dunmore’s plan was known as early as April, when a group of slaves presented themselves to him to volunteer their services.
He delayed the decision by ordering them away, but the Virginia slaveholders’ suspicions were not allayed.
On June 8, 1775, Dunmore left Williamsburg, taking refuge aboard the man-of-war Fowey at Yorktown.
Over the next five months, he reinforced his troops by engaging in a series of raids and inviting slaves aboard the ship.
On November 7, Dunmore drafted a proclamation, and a week later he ordered its publication.
It declared martial law and adjudged the patriots as traitors to the Crown; more importantly, it declared “all indented servants, Negroes, or others…free that are able and willing to bear arms…”
Response from the colonists was immediate.
Newspapers published the proclamation in full, and patrols on land and water were intensified.
Throughout the colonies, restrictions on slave meetings were tightened.
The Virginia Gazette warned slaves to “Be not then…tempted by the proclamation to ruin your selves” and urged them to “cling to their kind masters,” citing the fact that Dunmore himself was a slave holder.
In December, the Virginia Convention issued its own proclamation as a broadside, declaring that runaways to the British would be pardoned if they returned in ten days, but would be severely punished if they did not.
The document began with a reminder of the penalty for slave insurrection — death without benefit of clergy — though in practice, it was used sparingly during the war.
By then, 300 black men had been inducted into “Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment,” armed, and outfitted in military uniforms inscribed with the words “Liberty to Slaves.”
By early June, however, Dunmore’s forces had been decimated by smallpox and the patriot’s defenses.
In August, the British destroyed over half of their own ships and sailed out of the Potomac, taking the 300 healthiest blacks with them.
Although probably no more than 800 slaves actually succeeded in reaching Dunmore’s lines, word of the proclamation inspired as many as 100,000 to risk everything in an effort to be free.
end quotes
That, people, is American history as it happened, and as we can clearly see, there was plenty of room therein for the voices of people of color.
So why are we then being told otherwise?
And that question brings us back to the present moment, and mayor Kathy of the lawless, violent sanctuary city of Albany, New York telling us that “because of our history,” which includes Lord Dunmore and his proclamation and those Black folks bearing arms in support of the tyrant King in England, we have to “embrace” the Black Lives Matter movement, which as a loyal, law-abiding American citizen I openly refuse to do, precisely because that movement, as we can clearly see from what follows from “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the three founders of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, is based on not only outright lies, but a perversion and distortion of our history by a confused and hate-filled young woman, to wit:
“We know that if we can get the nation to see, say and understand the Black Lives Matter, then every life would stand a chance.”
“Black people are the only humans in this nation ever legally designated, after all, as not human.”
“Which is not to erase any group’s harm to ongoing pain in particular the genocide carried out against the First Nations peoples.”
“But it is to say that there is something quite basic that has to be addressed in the culture, in the hearts and minds of people who have benefited from, and were raised up on, the notion that Black people are not fully human.”
end quotes
Who in this nation besides Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the confused founder of BLACK LIVES MATTER, was “raised up” on the “notion” that Black people are not fully human?
I certainly wasn’t, and so I am not going to embrace a movement that asks me to be ignorant of reality and to lie to myself.
Plain and simple!
So, how about you?
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/p ... ent-281393