I am not ready to chisel either Thomas Jefferson or George Washington off Mount Rushmore. We are all prisoners of our time and experience. Do I applaud that they were slaveholders, no. Do I recognize that both were important in the history of America. Yes they were. Without a doubt. We shouldn’t discount their contributions because history proved them horribly wrong somewhere else.
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For you emiliano:
McKinney is so GOP the mayor refused to follow the county guidelines on shutting down and wearing masks at first.
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I enjoyed The Glass Castle, am always impressed and awed by women who make it out of that childhood intact, but I’m also going to reject this number. Satire about the prez? He’s a walking satire. Nothing funny here.
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I am.
Actually, I would prefer to give the entire lot back to the Lakota who legally own the Black Hills so that they can dynamite the hell out of the “monument” to exorcise the demons that were induced when the treaty was broken.
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Sorry about the duplicate, posted at the same time I think.
Good to see that even some die hard Goobers are seeing the light. That trump is an abject failure.
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You would be better to give them money to complete the mountain sized monument to Crazy Horse.
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Already have, although they are not unanimous about that project either. Crazy Horse would have apparently objected since the sacredness of the area demands that no man be elevated there. I say give them back their land and let them do whatever the hell they want with it.
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Thanks, Tena.
One of the reasons that my tejana/boricua wife and I watch Westerns is the Morality Play aspect of the genre. The extent that she shares a Texas culture with Texans who are not caribena is one of the things I have used to hope that TX will one day soon become blue.
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History as we’ve been taught since we were little kids can and should be revisited now that we’re in the 21st century and know what we do about the treatment of people of color and the history of enslaved people going back to the 17th century.
Not saying they should be blasted off Mount Rushmore or even the DC monuments to both Washington and Jefferson should be taken down, but a more critical look at them would be in order.
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“The White House has condemned the book as a money-grubbing move.”
Because if there is one thing this WH knows plenty about is money-grubbing.
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“Mary Trump and her book’s publisher may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author’s own financial self-interest,” the White House said in a statement obtained by ABC News.
Gee, Mr. president*, maybe Mary wouldn’t have to be concerned about her financial self-interest if you and your siblings hadn’t stiffed her out of a fair share of Fred’s estate.
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Where do you stop giving indigenous people “their” land back. Personally I favor making sure every indigenous person has the education and job opportunities we give to Donald Trump’s children.
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I have to give Mary a hand. Yes she’s going to make a tidy little bundle of money but speaking this way, outright on national TV takes some courage too. The man is president and because of that alone he has power to hurt her badly, and we all know he’ll try to hurt her in any way he can, yet she’s speaking out. Money aside, there’s a whiff of patriotic spine here that I can’t but admire. There are many who haven’t been this clear and they should have been, from long ago.
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The only problem with Donnie Benadick resigning is simply that the GOP will find a new candidate much like Donnie. He is their perfect symbol of what they want:
- “money stood in” for acts of love --check, all about the money
- to view people as “expendable,”–check, hurray more guns, boo health insurance
- pawns to be used to his own ends,”–check, political power is everything
- allowing someone to act “without accountability.” a BIG check check when that someone is a GOP politician
- “He is utterly incapable of leading this country, and it’s dangerous to allow him to do so,”–Proven by many GOP politicians across the country during the COVID crisis, except a notable few
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Not diparaging General Grant, but he was ably assisted in the editing by a Mr. Samuel Clemons.
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Everybody doesn’t have to read it.
But that dynamic in The Glass Castle - a sociopathic father (he was likely schizophrenic) and the completely feckless mother - same thing. I was surprised at how fecklessTrump’s mother was.
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Before we talk of how Biden would prevail in a debate, we have to ask ourselves would we watch? We’ve seen how PP ducks and evades and goes off on tangents and nothing will be gained. Besides, the moderators’ questions become more and more lame with each debate and the 90 seconds or so each participant is given to explain future plans is totally inadequate.
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He’s not going to resign (or at least he’s not going to be made any more likely to resign by liberals calling for him to do so.) But lots of people openly calling for his resignation will change the dynamic of the election, and of policy between now and the election. It will make it harder for anyone to pretend with a straight face that he’s being presidential. It will change the conversation and give mainstream reporters a different horserace to report on rather than pretending he ought to be a legitimate candidate against Biden.
And that, in turn, is more likely to lead to electoral destruction of the trump party.
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I find it interesting (and perhaps an acknowledgement of a real artifact) that some films of Ancient Rome featuring individuals from Africa have posited interracial relations with Europeans** far more egalitarian than a 1930s Hollywood film.
For me, the question has always been the assumed equality of the person one speaks to.
And this is why the film Dances with Wolves featured a man like Ten Bears, who topped every person I grew up with with racial sophistication.
Paraphrase:
“You are the only white man I have every known. I have thought about you a lot, more than you know. But I believe that the man the Cavalrymen are looking for does not exist…that in his place is a Lakota Warrior named Dances with Wolves.”
Character over “race”
** in a similar status, like Gladiator
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