Dead-eyed failed "Democratic" presidential candidate Jim Webb, who killed a guy one time , is very upset about the way kids today are treading all over President Andrew Jackson, just because he genocided a bunch of Native Americans one time. In a treacly
you know, the last week has been so shitty, i can't comment on anything for fear of being banhammered. it's hard to be snarky, when all you feel is stabbity.
i got a tooth that needs pulled, and i don't have $1200 for the oral surgeon. i don't deal well with pain. it usually turns into anger. i'll be better when the infection is gone, and with it, the pain. thanx for the concern. prince dying didn't help. too many memories tied up with his music.
And add to that: how many women are referred to admiringly as "self-made and aggressive"? Lots of variations of "selfish and pushy" will be tossed about sometime between now and November; I have no idea why. Just a psychic hunch.
There's a point in the quote about judging people by the standards of their own time; we can disapprove of 19th century attitudes and policies but most people in that era would disapprove of our era as well. But our currency is being used in our time, not theirs and future generations will have to pass their own judgements.
It also doesn't take into account that "ancestral relations" have broadened over the past few generations in terms of geography.
My own extended family had been based in the Midwest for several generations and New England before that. Our branch of it moved to south Florida in the mid-1950s and to Georgia a few years after that; I now have nieces and nephews who have ancestors on both sides of the Civil War, not to mention a few 18th century ancestors that were an embarrassment to my DAR aunts. And that's probably more typical than not by now.
That said, my first hearing of words like n****r and k**e came from certain Chicago connections. The North and South disagreed on slavery enough to go to war over it but there was little to no disagreement when it came to race and religion.
There we were, all sitting around talking about how all the money since who-knows-when has been flowing away from the 99% to the 1% and Jim Webb starts railing about the little picture that's ON the money and just like that we all forgot what we were talking about in the first place. So I guess we'll just argue with ol' Jim about little pictures on the $20s. The stuff we were talking about probably wasn't that important anyway.
As one of the last living Dixiecrats, Jim Webb poses an interesting moral conundrum: Should we hope for his survival, because, you know, endangered species, or should we look forward to his demise because he's terrible? I'm leaning towards the latter, because there are some things in the natural world that just don't contribute anything positive to this planet, like smallpox and Jim Webb. But maybe I'm just not a very good environmentalist.
I'm sorry, but under DNC rules for the 2016 nominating process, all Sanders supporters have to be derisively referred to as "Bernie Bros." I don't like it either, but Debbie Wasserman Schultz...what can you do?
Local mores can be unique. My family in Kentucky were part of the Melungeon (tri-racial) group. Because Kentucky disapproved of slavery, you had black farmers living next to white farmers. At least one of my now-dead relatives was chumming it up with a group of poor white folk, when some strangers suggested that some KKK were needed up here, because some of the n*** were uppity round there--"like that yaller woman in the hollow". *yaller being a term for a mixed race person Whereupon my relative pulled out his gun, said, "That's my aunt!", and shot him. Family lore said the sheriff didn't even bother to come out. It was decided the man died of natural causes.
When Arnold asked what the Americans would do if they got him back, they said "We'd cut off the leg you got your war wound in, and bury it with full military honors. Then we'd hang the rest of you."
you know, the last week has been so shitty, i can't comment on anything for fear of being banhammered. it's hard to be snarky, when all you feel is stabbity.
i'll second that. if i had a brother that looked like you, family reunions would take on an entirely different tone.
Irrelevant loser says what?
Dude, what's up? Don't let it fester...
i got a tooth that needs pulled, and i don't have $1200 for the oral surgeon. i don't deal well with pain. it usually turns into anger. i'll be better when the infection is gone, and with it, the pain. thanx for the concern. prince dying didn't help. too many memories tied up with his music.
Wow! Did I choose a wrong term. I wish there was something I could do. Are you on antibiotics?
And add to that: how many women are referred to admiringly as "self-made and aggressive"? Lots of variations of "selfish and pushy" will be tossed about sometime between now and November; I have no idea why. Just a psychic hunch.
There's a point in the quote about judging people by the standards of their own time; we can disapprove of 19th century attitudes and policies but most people in that era would disapprove of our era as well. But our currency is being used in our time, not theirs and future generations will have to pass their own judgements.
It also doesn't take into account that "ancestral relations" have broadened over the past few generations in terms of geography.
My own extended family had been based in the Midwest for several generations and New England before that. Our branch of it moved to south Florida in the mid-1950s and to Georgia a few years after that; I now have nieces and nephews who have ancestors on both sides of the Civil War, not to mention a few 18th century ancestors that were an embarrassment to my DAR aunts. And that's probably more typical than not by now.
That said, my first hearing of words like n****r and k**e came from certain Chicago connections. The North and South disagreed on slavery enough to go to war over it but there was little to no disagreement when it came to race and religion.
“Far too many of our most important discussions are being debated emotionally, without full regard for historical facts."
Says the guy whining about people suggesting that, hey, maybe we shouldn't honor genocidal asshats on our currency.
There we were, all sitting around talking about how all the money since who-knows-when has been flowing away from the 99% to the 1% and Jim Webb starts railing about the little picture that's ON the money and just like that we all forgot what we were talking about in the first place. So I guess we'll just argue with ol' Jim about little pictures on the $20s. The stuff we were talking about probably wasn't that important anyway.
No, no, I got it... it was good!
Andrew Jackson was a goldbug that actively demolished the federal banking system.
Andrew Jackson is, was, and forever will be unfit to be on our currency and that doesn't even factor the Indian Removal Act.
As one of the last living Dixiecrats, Jim Webb poses an interesting moral conundrum: Should we hope for his survival, because, you know, endangered species, or should we look forward to his demise because he's terrible? I'm leaning towards the latter, because there are some things in the natural world that just don't contribute anything positive to this planet, like smallpox and Jim Webb. But maybe I'm just not a very good environmentalist.
I'm sorry, but under DNC rules for the 2016 nominating process, all Sanders supporters have to be derisively referred to as "Bernie Bros." I don't like it either, but Debbie Wasserman Schultz...what can you do?
Local mores can be unique. My family in Kentucky were part of the Melungeon (tri-racial) group. Because Kentucky disapproved of slavery, you had black farmers living next to white farmers. At least one of my now-dead relatives was chumming it up with a group of poor white folk, when some strangers suggested that some KKK were needed up here, because some of the n*** were uppity round there--"like that yaller woman in the hollow". *yaller being a term for a mixed race person Whereupon my relative pulled out his gun, said, "That's my aunt!", and shot him. Family lore said the sheriff didn't even bother to come out. It was decided the man died of natural causes.
When Arnold asked what the Americans would do if they got him back, they said "We'd cut off the leg you got your war wound in, and bury it with full military honors. Then we'd hang the rest of you."