Very good article, I enjoyed reading about your life perspective.
So this is where Reagan got the idea of referring black man as bucks.
I’m interested in seeing an aerial photo of lady liberty with the chains.
I never knew there was such an age difference between Thomas Jefferson and the slave he had children with. Which I’m sure was not consensual.
I was in a hotel one time with nothing to read except the bible. I opened it at random and started reading about king David, when he was old and near death. His followers had a 15 year old girl get in bed with him. Which I’m sure was against her wishes.
The next day, after reading this. I was driving my truck and a man on the CB was repeating an anti Islamic talking point, about how the prophet Mohamed married young woman. I then told him about what I read. And he had no rebuttal.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, originally envisioned Liberty holding broken chains in her left hand to symbolize the recent end of slavery in the United States. However, the chains were ultimately placed at her feet, and are partially hidden by her robes. Operative word: "hidden".
This should satiate your query. The first is the statue as it is. The second is the actual proposal/sketch from Bartholdi. Obviously, due to its age and quality, you will need to zoom in on the image, but the chains are clearly visible.
I just read that the artist stated that he was inspired by the guardian of Nubian tombs , for the Liberty sculpture. He must have had a black woman in mind.
don't know if I will conclude this by tomorrow...but to reply to this requires a post of my own...but simply put...learning in America is not to teach the truth of identity but to modify behavior to maintain the divinity of those who have set themselves up to be the masters so there will be no more Stono's to rebel (that led to the 1740 South Carolina Negro Acts), which, I believe you forgot to mention, also included a provisional requirement for all white people to carry arms when they attended church on Sundays. That could have been another law and not part of the Negro Acts, but they came about simultaneously anyway, and why I pluralized Act because I am not completely sure if I was one bill or several.
Were I to "mention" in detail all of the horrendous acts, legal and otherwise, that the European has perpetrated upon my people, both Alkebulanian and Original American, I would spend several lifetimes doing so. The reality is that something is genetically wrong with Europeans in terms of bloodlust and human cruelty. That is history's indictment, not mine.
I don't "forget" anything and could tell you some things about Europeans that YOU don't even know.
Oh no, I never forget: I edit at my executive and editorial pleasure.
and of course you are right...and what holds me back in reaching others...I think I have to tell everything I know.
For some reason, and it might because I am white, and therefore have focused on how whites have maintained the injustices they perpetrate, taking guns to church so they could get into action earlier to suppress the slaves, neither African or Alkebulan, but, as you wrote...more animal than man...not because these slaves were more animal than man but because we can shoot animals with less justification for our actions, can't we?
Here is where our racial differences bring us to come to the podium in our minds from distinct experiences, you of being lesser because of who you have been defined to be, me being lesser because I want to tear down the definitions my race justifies itself..and ultimately might be what bring us together..you've experienced the blasphemy of being defined and I have not...or at least not in the same way...I am a traitor because I'm ignorant...you are black and supposed to be ignorant.
Maybe that is not expressed well...but I guess the Negro Acts told me to carry a gun to church so I could rush out prepared to gun you down...they told you that you could be gunned down, and that's what we were both supposed to learn.
As recently as 1996, less than three decades ago, AFTER my two oldest children were born, this: The Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996 and its connection to black people stems from the act's focus on protecting religious property, including churches, from hate crimes motivated by racial or ethnic characteristics. The Act was a response to a surge in arsons targeting Black churches, particularly in the South. It made intentional damage to religious property a federal hate crime, emphasizing the racial and ethnic motivations behind such acts.
Ruhn ,this is very thought provoking! I am forwarding it to all my kids and family members.
THAT is the greatest of gifts that give my life purpose.
Empower my little Alkebulanian brothers, sisters, sons and daughters with KNOW-ledge...
Of self.
Great brief statement of what your calling is all about.
Verily, for heavy lies the head...
Very good article, I enjoyed reading about your life perspective.
So this is where Reagan got the idea of referring black man as bucks.
I’m interested in seeing an aerial photo of lady liberty with the chains.
I never knew there was such an age difference between Thomas Jefferson and the slave he had children with. Which I’m sure was not consensual.
I was in a hotel one time with nothing to read except the bible. I opened it at random and started reading about king David, when he was old and near death. His followers had a 15 year old girl get in bed with him. Which I’m sure was against her wishes.
The next day, after reading this. I was driving my truck and a man on the CB was repeating an anti Islamic talking point, about how the prophet Mohamed married young woman. I then told him about what I read. And he had no rebuttal.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, originally envisioned Liberty holding broken chains in her left hand to symbolize the recent end of slavery in the United States. However, the chains were ultimately placed at her feet, and are partially hidden by her robes. Operative word: "hidden".
This should satiate your query. The first is the statue as it is. The second is the actual proposal/sketch from Bartholdi. Obviously, due to its age and quality, you will need to zoom in on the image, but the chains are clearly visible.
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/presentation-drawing-of-%E2%80%9Cthe-statue-of-liberty-illuminating-the-world/lwHFX_gfx4Ha-Q?hl=en
I just read that the artist stated that he was inspired by the guardian of Nubian tombs , for the Liberty sculpture. He must have had a black woman in mind.
don't know if I will conclude this by tomorrow...but to reply to this requires a post of my own...but simply put...learning in America is not to teach the truth of identity but to modify behavior to maintain the divinity of those who have set themselves up to be the masters so there will be no more Stono's to rebel (that led to the 1740 South Carolina Negro Acts), which, I believe you forgot to mention, also included a provisional requirement for all white people to carry arms when they attended church on Sundays. That could have been another law and not part of the Negro Acts, but they came about simultaneously anyway, and why I pluralized Act because I am not completely sure if I was one bill or several.
"...I believe you forgot to mention."
Were I to "mention" in detail all of the horrendous acts, legal and otherwise, that the European has perpetrated upon my people, both Alkebulanian and Original American, I would spend several lifetimes doing so. The reality is that something is genetically wrong with Europeans in terms of bloodlust and human cruelty. That is history's indictment, not mine.
I don't "forget" anything and could tell you some things about Europeans that YOU don't even know.
Oh no, I never forget: I edit at my executive and editorial pleasure.
and of course you are right...and what holds me back in reaching others...I think I have to tell everything I know.
For some reason, and it might because I am white, and therefore have focused on how whites have maintained the injustices they perpetrate, taking guns to church so they could get into action earlier to suppress the slaves, neither African or Alkebulan, but, as you wrote...more animal than man...not because these slaves were more animal than man but because we can shoot animals with less justification for our actions, can't we?
Here is where our racial differences bring us to come to the podium in our minds from distinct experiences, you of being lesser because of who you have been defined to be, me being lesser because I want to tear down the definitions my race justifies itself..and ultimately might be what bring us together..you've experienced the blasphemy of being defined and I have not...or at least not in the same way...I am a traitor because I'm ignorant...you are black and supposed to be ignorant.
Maybe that is not expressed well...but I guess the Negro Acts told me to carry a gun to church so I could rush out prepared to gun you down...they told you that you could be gunned down, and that's what we were both supposed to learn.
As recently as 1996, less than three decades ago, AFTER my two oldest children were born, this: The Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996 and its connection to black people stems from the act's focus on protecting religious property, including churches, from hate crimes motivated by racial or ethnic characteristics. The Act was a response to a surge in arsons targeting Black churches, particularly in the South. It made intentional damage to religious property a federal hate crime, emphasizing the racial and ethnic motivations behind such acts.
Goddamned right I am "unapologetic."
I shall remain unapologetic.
I was born unapologetic.
I will die unapologetic.