“America was very classist and racist... It is difficult to imagine it that way
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Title couldn’t say it all.
“America was very classist and racist...
It is difficult to imagine it that way now...
But transport yourself back yo the seventeenth hundreds and it was very much the way it was... (and still is...)”
~ Katherine Louisa Ryan (born 30 June 1983) is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actress based in the United Kingdom
Katherine Ryan Stand-Up | The Problem With Hamilton | Netflix
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpL8C9r_G…
“America was very classist and racist...
It is difficult to imagine it that way now...
But transport yourself back yo the seventeenth hundreds and it was very much the way it was... (and still is...)”
~ Katherine Louisa Ryan (born 30 June 1983) is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actress based in the United Kingdom
Katherine Ryan Stand-Up | The Problem With Hamilton | Netflix
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpL8C9r_G…
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FYI
“The United States of America traces its political roots to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, but by then, democracy was old news in the so-called “New World.”
During the American Revolution, thousands of Native Americans already lived under a system of governance that embodied many of the same ideals espoused in Philadelphia at the time.
As the founding fathers began crafting a more perfect union from scratch, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of what is now upstate New York carried on with the one it had been perfecting for centuries, grounded in an oral constitution known as the Great Law of Peace.
Dating to perhaps as early as 1142, this charter is based on notions of unity, liberty and equality. It even provides for the separation of powers and outlines impeachment procedures.
Is it a coincidence that American democracy emerged in a land so long imbued with such principles?
Some scholars see these similarities to the U.S. Constitution as evidence that the Haudenosaunee — more commonly, but improperly, called the Iroquois — helped to mold the nascent American nation.
Two hundred years later, in 1988, Congress itself passed a resolution acknowledging as much. "The confederation of the original 13 colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy,” it reads, “as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the Constitution itself."
@Did Native Americans Shape U.S. Democracy?
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-…
“Haters are angry, because the truth contradicts the lie they live...”
“Haters are angry, because the truth contradicts the lie they live...”
You say democracy was old news in the "New World" in 1776. Are you aware that the word "democracy" itself comes from Ancient Greek and the Greeks had democracy over two thousand years ago? The Founders were well read in the Ancient Greek and Roman classics and didn't need to learn about democracy from Native Americans.
I am not the one saying it,
“in 1988, Congress itself passed a resolution acknowledging as much.”
"The confederation of the original 13 colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy,”
it reads, “as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the Constitution itself."
You should also know that;
The so-called founding fathers were British paranoid hypocrites and ungrateful malcontents. What was their cherished Declaration of Independence but empty political posturing?
The separation from Great Britain was done to justify the genocide committed against Native Americans and preserve slavery of African Americans.
Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
“Haters are angry, because the truth contradicts the lie they live...”
And then you know you’re winning!”
“The world is waking up...
And change is coming whether you like it or not.”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
“In spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.”
“We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself.
We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts.”
“Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy’s point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves.
For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.”
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
It is a sword that heals...”
~ Mark Twain
Chill Tetradon, docsavage & skibum609, Chill!"
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 , Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
:D
She is not rong...
Autism / Apspergers is a hoax
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Autism-Medic…
SJG
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=4946
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2022/…
SJG
Thelonious Monk - Live In Paris 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sswp02n…
https://mobile.twitter.com/softwarnet/st…
The term is also applied to the cultural, political, economic, or legal institutions and systems in the USA that engage in or perpetuate discrimination on the basis of race (color) and reinforce racial inequalities in wealth and income, education, health care, civil rights, and other areas.”
The two institutions that most blatantly treat people differently based on race are the US government and universities.
It is even more irrational to believe that it is whites who are at the receiving end of discrimination.
Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.”
~ Robin DiAngelo
You work hard maintaining and denying your racism...
Okay boomer
She (Greta) is not rong...
You should decide whether something said, written or quoted makes sense by its content, not by the person who writes or says it...
regardless of the letters after his or her name, title or position in society, age, nationality, physical or mental disabilities...
no matter when or where it was said or written...
Robin DiAngelo is a white woman in the business of taking racial penance from corporations.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something like his White Privilege and status in society when his White Privileged and his status in society depends upon his not understanding it."
Try again, sweetcheeks ;-)
“nothing someone says before the word “but” really counts”...
There is that better?
“If you don’t like America, then leave!”
Has been passed down to generation after generation of egotistical, racist hate groups considered right-wing extremist and terrorist.
It’s something they enjoy saying as much as they enjoy saying the N-word and other racist/ethnic slurs...
It gives them a feeling of power, as if they immediate draw all of the power of the person they are attacking and become powerful due to it.
This feeling is short-lived as it is only a state of mind, everyone knows that people that do this are only doing it because they feel insecure and lack confidence often in their own intellect...
Like someone who only quotes other people (usually morons) shows he doesn't have anything to say himself?
But CJKent, like Icee, is primarily here to stir shit for his own giggles, and truth be told he's pretty good at it. Every single one of these threads gets exactly the reaction he wants, and his biggest effort is posting roughly the same quotes over and over again whenever anyone rises to the bait. I wish I had a lake nearby that was as easy to fish as TUSCL...
Also, for a guy who advocates so strongly against racism and in favor of diversity, his taste in women looks like the burlesque chorus line at a performance of "Springtime for Hitler." So, there's that.
These threads don't get the responses the op wants. They get the responses that can be expected from delusional right wing extremists
You wrote and I quote:
“This country was founded by people who lived here, disagreed with the status quo, and took action to change that status quo.”
You know that the undeniable truth is that this country was founded by British paranoid hypocrites and ungrateful malcontents slave owners, killers of natives, women and children..
What was their cherished Declaration of Independence but empty political posturing?
The separation from Great Britain was done to justify the genocide committed against Native Americans and preserve slavery of African Americans.
Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
There I fixed it for you all, you are welcome.
The undeniable truth by any other name is still undeniable truth...
They'd never talk like this openly coz they don't want people knowing how bavkward they are
Britain created the USA, one way or another, and the cotton plantations of the American south, British slavery also took place 3,000 miles away in the Caribbean.
The history of British slavery can still be seen in the wealth of descendants of the British families who grew rich on the slave trade, or from the sale of slave-produced sugar, in the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain tries however to brush those uncomfortable chapters of their dynastic stories under the carpet.
Despite being illegal, modern slavery still exists in Britain, the USA and their areas of influence, usually as a result of human trafficking from poorer countries.
~ US Department of Homeland Security
Slavery and Racism by any other name are still Slavery and Racism...
Wave of Bomb Threats Terrorizing Historically Black Colleges Continues During Black History Month (shows importance of Black Colleges)
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/18/s…
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Police Brutality, Black History & His First Oscar Nomination for “Attica” (has that surreal phone call between Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller)
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/18/s…
SJG