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Saturday, October 17, 2015
Saturday, September 26, 2015
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Mantons At Dawn: I've Been Slandered, Insulted, Possibly Libeled, Ridiculed, Slapped Across The Cheek .... ......
Yes, yours truly has been put through the storm. As I have the right of choice of weapons, I choose Mantons (of course, I need to get a pristine 18th century set from England) as well as a refresher course (I was qualified on the 45 caliber revolver when I was in the Air Force). We have many Revolutionary re-enactors here who would probably be happy to teach me. One does not look at the North Korean border every day for a year as well as live with Def-Con 4/5 and not develop courage. One does NOT step on my honour and get away with it!
Now, what was this "slug-fest", you might say. I never thought it would devolve into that. First, I would like to say that there are indeed words describing different human groups which are degrading. I DO NOT approve of these at all. However, we are not speaking about that. What I am asking is when does wearing ashes and sack-cloth come to an end and a people can be honoured for their bravery and courage as the titular mascot of athletic teams.
The person who slandered me is not even wholly Amerindian. I knew the late Chief Tantaquidgeon of the Mohegan Tribe and his sister Gladys, who was an anthropologist. They were wonderful people. The Tribe was honoured when the town wished to honour them by calling their athletic teams The Indians. This was back in 1964. Why did she NOT want to hear this?
Then, I came to find out that another major part of her ancestry is Norse. She has lied to herself about the amount of stereotyping that particular branch has also gone through and its suffering at the hands of Christianizers. Did she want to hear it? No. She just called them raiders and pirates, forgetting that they were primarily farmers and fisherfolk. Most of the gold gotten from raids went to get land. Many also settled in the places where they raided. Somehow, she sees these ancestors as being less than her others. Her Amerindian ancestors fought against each other, sometimes to almost the point of genocide. Of course, she would really rather have myth. Of course, what the Europeans did was utterly inexcusable -- and I said so. However, she hurled insults at me after I told her my bona fides ( high honors in History first). She slung that I only probably had an AP course in high school. Immediately, I stated where the High Honors was from a college in the top 100 of small colleges and that I was also a member of Phi Alpha Theta. I also stated that I keep up with my field, the Christianization of Europe (and that it was not pretty but ugly and brutal) and the pre-existing religions. She thought the Norse rolled over like dogs. Then she hurls the worst insult ever -- she says that I must be a Republican!
If all of this does not deserve Mantons at dawn, I just do not know how many more insults a person must take.
Now, what was this "slug-fest", you might say. I never thought it would devolve into that. First, I would like to say that there are indeed words describing different human groups which are degrading. I DO NOT approve of these at all. However, we are not speaking about that. What I am asking is when does wearing ashes and sack-cloth come to an end and a people can be honoured for their bravery and courage as the titular mascot of athletic teams.
The person who slandered me is not even wholly Amerindian. I knew the late Chief Tantaquidgeon of the Mohegan Tribe and his sister Gladys, who was an anthropologist. They were wonderful people. The Tribe was honoured when the town wished to honour them by calling their athletic teams The Indians. This was back in 1964. Why did she NOT want to hear this?
Then, I came to find out that another major part of her ancestry is Norse. She has lied to herself about the amount of stereotyping that particular branch has also gone through and its suffering at the hands of Christianizers. Did she want to hear it? No. She just called them raiders and pirates, forgetting that they were primarily farmers and fisherfolk. Most of the gold gotten from raids went to get land. Many also settled in the places where they raided. Somehow, she sees these ancestors as being less than her others. Her Amerindian ancestors fought against each other, sometimes to almost the point of genocide. Of course, she would really rather have myth. Of course, what the Europeans did was utterly inexcusable -- and I said so. However, she hurled insults at me after I told her my bona fides ( high honors in History first). She slung that I only probably had an AP course in high school. Immediately, I stated where the High Honors was from a college in the top 100 of small colleges and that I was also a member of Phi Alpha Theta. I also stated that I keep up with my field, the Christianization of Europe (and that it was not pretty but ugly and brutal) and the pre-existing religions. She thought the Norse rolled over like dogs. Then she hurls the worst insult ever -- she says that I must be a Republican!
If all of this does not deserve Mantons at dawn, I just do not know how many more insults a person must take.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Robert E. Lee ~~ TRAITOR
As some of my readers are aware, I am a former History major; and, though my speciality was pre-Classical through early Modern (pre-1825) European history, I still do have a decent background in American history and government.
This country was founded during the 18th Century and its immediate starting was NOT sanguine. The Articles of Confederation was a document that only provided a very loose sort of alliance to the former British colonies that would later form the United States of America. Yes, we were NOT the USA at the end of the Revolution. It seems as though the South in particular never forgot that older part of our history. This was probably because of the fact that the "alliance" was just that, an alliance, something that could be abandoned at a whim. The Articles lasted about 4-5 years, failing horribly. The Constitutional Convention was called in Philadelphia in order to draw up a better document. This document which starts with the ringing words WE THE PEOPLE... created the country which we know as the United States of America, a country entire of itself.
Of course, there were problems with this original document. Human beings make mistakes, even mistakes of grievous moral turpitude (slavery). To call a human being who happens to have a different colour skin a mere percentage of human is disgusting and evil. Personally, I do not believe in the biological concept of race. Everyone on this planet is within 3% of each other genetically. This is why documents can and should be revised. The Bill of Rights is one such way that such revisions can occur in the Constitution. The Supreme Court is another. Of course, we sometimes have to wait for the stupidity level to go down enough in order to make these most needed changes because of the cupidity of many of our politicians.
Now, to go back to Robert E. Lee. We can say that he was an educated man. Yet, he had a streak of Southern stupidity which can be traced to The Articles of Confederation. The State of Virginia is NOT above the country to which it holds its allegiance. The state proclaimed rebellion against that allegiance. The fact that they named themselves the "CONFEDERATE States of America" specifically hearkens back to that old document which did not work the first time. They KNEW what they were doing. Some may claim it was for economic reasons. However, every state that went into rebellion SPECIFICALLY stated that it was to keep their institution of slavery alive and thriving. So, in the long run, it was not only treasonous of Lee; it was also for the most immoral and evil reasons possible that he took up arms against the United States of America. He was lucky that General Grant did not have him summarily executed at Appomattox.
In my opinion, there should be no hero worship of these Southern fighters and their commanders. Their flags, like the Nazi flags, belong in museums, because they are banners in a call to hate.
This country was founded during the 18th Century and its immediate starting was NOT sanguine. The Articles of Confederation was a document that only provided a very loose sort of alliance to the former British colonies that would later form the United States of America. Yes, we were NOT the USA at the end of the Revolution. It seems as though the South in particular never forgot that older part of our history. This was probably because of the fact that the "alliance" was just that, an alliance, something that could be abandoned at a whim. The Articles lasted about 4-5 years, failing horribly. The Constitutional Convention was called in Philadelphia in order to draw up a better document. This document which starts with the ringing words WE THE PEOPLE... created the country which we know as the United States of America, a country entire of itself.
Of course, there were problems with this original document. Human beings make mistakes, even mistakes of grievous moral turpitude (slavery). To call a human being who happens to have a different colour skin a mere percentage of human is disgusting and evil. Personally, I do not believe in the biological concept of race. Everyone on this planet is within 3% of each other genetically. This is why documents can and should be revised. The Bill of Rights is one such way that such revisions can occur in the Constitution. The Supreme Court is another. Of course, we sometimes have to wait for the stupidity level to go down enough in order to make these most needed changes because of the cupidity of many of our politicians.
Now, to go back to Robert E. Lee. We can say that he was an educated man. Yet, he had a streak of Southern stupidity which can be traced to The Articles of Confederation. The State of Virginia is NOT above the country to which it holds its allegiance. The state proclaimed rebellion against that allegiance. The fact that they named themselves the "CONFEDERATE States of America" specifically hearkens back to that old document which did not work the first time. They KNEW what they were doing. Some may claim it was for economic reasons. However, every state that went into rebellion SPECIFICALLY stated that it was to keep their institution of slavery alive and thriving. So, in the long run, it was not only treasonous of Lee; it was also for the most immoral and evil reasons possible that he took up arms against the United States of America. He was lucky that General Grant did not have him summarily executed at Appomattox.
In my opinion, there should be no hero worship of these Southern fighters and their commanders. Their flags, like the Nazi flags, belong in museums, because they are banners in a call to hate.
Monday, May 25, 2015
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