tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post6057533165030977239..comments2023-12-03T02:23:12.272-06:00Comments on BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com: A Refresher Course on Racism's Horrors for Haley BarbourMarc McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-62445008975757764382010-12-28T00:55:23.200-06:002010-12-28T00:55:23.200-06:00Hi Cletis, thanks for the comment and your tip.
W...Hi Cletis, thanks for the comment and your tip.<br /><br />Would you like to do a link trade between our blogs? One thing I suggest you do is either get a new template or adjust the one you have to make it to where you can have a list of blog links along the side of your blog (like I have on BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com).<br /><br />Then, I recommend you start blog link trades. It's the best way to increase traffic on one's blog. I've been doing this a long time (since 1995!) and I've found that nothing beats link trades for building traffic.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-17052927152465753502010-12-27T07:14:34.641-06:002010-12-27T07:14:34.641-06:00Marc, I'm sure all you guys need is another bo...Marc, I'm sure all you guys need is another book recommendation, but here you are. "The Gifts of the Jews" by Thomas Cahill is the finest non-fiction book I've ever read. Cahill also wrote, "How the Irish Saved Civilization" which is also brilliant. thebookofcletis.blogspot.com/ has a fairly recent post regarding the prophet Amos as seen through Cahill's eyes. I am now a major fan of Amos. Regards, CletisCletis https://www.blogger.com/profile/01865557276496148455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-84727595746621722412010-12-26T21:29:05.391-06:002010-12-26T21:29:05.391-06:00Hi Cletis, thanks for your comment and kind words....Hi Cletis, thanks for your comment and kind words. I've read about Luther's antisemitism. However, the Bible itself has a lot of very disturbing, frankly creepy positions. As the "Jobs Anger" blog points out: the Bible condemns homosexuality, the eating of shellfish,and the mixing of fibers in a fabric while condoning hebephilia, genocide, and slavery.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-81426561230079333632010-12-26T05:15:15.559-06:002010-12-26T05:15:15.559-06:00It all begins with words. This allows prejudice wh...It all begins with words. This allows prejudice which then moves to persecution. It festers for centuries. Take the writings of Martin Luther. His hate-filled, anti-semitic book which called for the burning out and expulsion of Jews from the Germanic region of his time led eventually to the Nazis who cited Luther's work on a regular basis. Read up on Luther. His writings are illustrative of this whole issue Marc so elegantly details. Warning, you'll lose all respect for Luther and then some. I'm working on a post regarding this and hope to have it up soon. thebookofcletis.blogspot.com/<br /><br />CletisCletis https://www.blogger.com/profile/01865557276496148455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-41444680987866490972010-12-24T23:57:59.178-06:002010-12-24T23:57:59.178-06:00re:
>>There's a picture of this
>>...re:<br />>>There's a picture of this<br />>>horrific incident in a book<br />>>called "American Violence<br /><br />BTW, that photo can be seen at the Wikipedia article about this atrocity. You can read about it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Washington_lynching" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-9314873138671197802010-12-24T23:55:15.261-06:002010-12-24T23:55:15.261-06:00Hi, Peerless Cynic, Sharon and Green Eagle, thanks...Hi, Peerless Cynic, Sharon and Green Eagle, thanks for stopping by. Great points!Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-84997513851663358952010-12-24T23:47:19.944-06:002010-12-24T23:47:19.944-06:00Hi Manifesto Joe, thanks for your comment.
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&g...Hi Manifesto Joe, thanks for your comment.<br /><br />re:<br />>>My grandfather saw a black man<br />>>lynched, and then his body<br />>>burned, in Waco, Texas, in 1916.<br /><br />This is the Jesse Washington lynching correct?. I have a book about it, "The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP," by Patricia Bernstein. Washington was a 17-year-old mentally retarded youth. He was seized by a mob while he was still in the courtroom. He was dragged to the town square and tortured with shovels and castrated. He was hoisted on a chain and a fire was built underneath him. His fingers were cut off, to prevent him from climbing the chain. He was raised and lowered into the flames repeatedly until he died, while a crowd of over 15,000 cheered. Among the spectators was the mayor and other city officials.<br />An infamous day for a city that pompously calls itself, "The Buckle of the Bible Belt."Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-12933714594976025512010-12-24T23:21:02.496-06:002010-12-24T23:21:02.496-06:00Hi Anon,
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>>"Progressives" shou...Hi Anon,<br />re:<br />>>"Progressives" should stop<br />>>yammering on about slavery and<br />>>lynchings and all of the things<br />>>that are in the PAST <br /><br />You missed the point of my article, which was: Republicans are trying to RE-WRITE the past.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-70900960948424263112010-12-24T23:17:29.562-06:002010-12-24T23:17:29.562-06:00Hi Jack, thanks for your comment and your kind wor...Hi Jack, thanks for your comment and your kind words. I hope you and a great holiday season.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-28981553666316860172010-12-24T14:17:30.066-06:002010-12-24T14:17:30.066-06:00I want to disagree with the notion that Barbour...I want to disagree with the notion that Barbour's statement was ridiculous. It was a deliberate message to the kind of people who are Republicans today, that if they elect leaders like Barbour, it is perfectly fine to be racist, greedy jerks. Sad to say, that's enough to get most of them to vote for him. And as for the rest of us, we aren't going to support him, so he doesn't give a damn how we feel.<br /><br />Talk like this works, whether we like it or not, and that makes it anything but ridiculous.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-58254019320098536322010-12-24T13:19:13.940-06:002010-12-24T13:19:13.940-06:00Thanks for some truth-telling.
The mere idea tha...Thanks for some truth-telling. <br /><br />The mere idea that someone like Boss Hawg holds high office in the US is proof that the days of black oppression are far from over.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11827236343578670299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-91014022674542120882010-12-24T09:37:43.394-06:002010-12-24T09:37:43.394-06:00Keep saying it and keep it out there because the r...Keep saying it and keep it out there because the republicans plan on this clown running for the office - it is the way they counter the election of what will be known as one of the greatest presidents - the republicans want to take us back with the tea party leading the way to when there were no civil rights laws<br />By the way they just played into the hands of the democrats with the lame duck session. <br />rogerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-15962755585305776142010-12-24T08:05:06.927-06:002010-12-24T08:05:06.927-06:00This is a great reminder for people to remember th...This is a great reminder for people to remember the past in order to make sense of the here and now. In fact, if you look at incarceration rates and prison demographics throughout the 20th century it’s clear that African Americans have been the focus of those in authority. It’s as if the process of the Civil War is still unofficially being played out.Peerless Cynichttp://peerlesscynic.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-57215341296766225042010-12-24T05:17:50.703-06:002010-12-24T05:17:50.703-06:00My grandfather saw a black man lynched, and then h...My grandfather saw a black man lynched, and then his body burned, in Waco, Texas, in 1916. The black man was accused of raping a white woman. Yeah, right -- he gets no trial, is just dragged out of the jail by a mob for KKK vigilante justice.<br /><br />There's a picture of this horrific incident in a book called "American Violence: A Documentary History." I think the author was Richard Hoffstader. It shows a black man who has been burned to a crisp.<br /><br />My grandfather said that he realized that this was a grave injustice. But he also realized that he was just one more rube farmer standing in the middle of a mob that was lusting for this black man's blood. What could he do?<br /><br />I guess not much. He was 26 years old and didn't want to die himself.<br /><br />But when I look back, there was plenty of guilt to go around. My grandfather was a decent sort, but very, very much a product of his time. He was all right with black people as long as they called him "Mister John." I remember very well that in my youth, when I would argue that MLK and others like him were just fighting for equal rights, he would reply, "They want more. They want to be better than us." He DRANK THE KOOLAID!<br /><br />We must not drink it again!Manifesto Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-76125446734983952532010-12-23T08:54:15.026-06:002010-12-23T08:54:15.026-06:00Excellent response to Barbour's utterly ridicu...Excellent response to Barbour's utterly ridiculous statement, Marc! He is indeed a typical Republican who can't see beyond the end of his own nose. This needed to be said, and I thank you for it!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.com