First, Liberals Demand Reparations for the Descendants of Slaves Then They Demand All to Be Enslaved by DEI?
by Garrett O'Brien - Critical thinking is never a Liberals' strong point, just being loud with their voice so to intimidate, but only if you let them.
During the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass [archive] served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln. Douglass played a crucial role in persuading Lincoln to arm enslaved people and prioritize abolition. During Reconstruction Douglass became the highest-ranking Black official of his time and advocated for full civil rights for Black people as well as for women. He had the President’s attention, if reparations were needed why didn’t he pursue them?
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First Reparations for Descendants of Slaves
We have seen the demands for reparations for something our country used to permit but was one of the first countries to stop doing so.
Slavery…
Ignorantly, those demanding tossed in indentured servants who were working off a debt for their voyage from Europe to the Colonies as though they could not pay for the voyage, someone else could, for which they earned their freedom once the cost of their voyage was paid.
Ignonrantly, those demanding reparations assumed Blacks were the dominant - or only - race to be enslaved; those that have drilled down into our history have found out otherwise.
In truth, there were either just as many white as black slaves - and well-to-do blacks were the first slave owners in the Colonies.
But that scenario doesn’t fit the narrative they want to promote so they can feel self-righteous about reparations, so they bury it.
Doing exactly what they are accusing others of doing - burying.
Then the Counter-Intuitive DEI
Now we are seeing the results of being enslaved into DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) where “gains” are made just because of the color of your skin.
Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave so much that he has to be digging a tunnel.
Whatever the hell happened to MERIT?
ANYONE who puts their soul, heart, mind, and efforts into a goal can achieve what they want - the protesters against all this are the very example of proving this principle correct, though they choose to do so in a very destructive, divisive, and negative way on oh-so-many-levels instead of rising above this situation and creating something good out of it all.
The fact that they have chosen to be destructive and why has not escaped our attention - starting with the Open Society Foundation of the Soros Family.
The antagonizers are so emotionally negatively charged they are mere puppets in the bigger picture, they can’t see as all they want to do is feel the rage.
Quite sure there many reading this can agree that if you are stuck on the 2nd, 3rd, or high floor of a burning building with nothing but smoke in front of you and a fire behind you, once you see that ladder arrive the first thing on your mind is the person coming up that ladder has merit to be doing what they are doing by having the highest score of all firefighters, not someone who won the race straw and had a lower score.
That phrase, ‘feel the rage’… means it’s all about feelings…
You know, that most fickle of all human traits that never results in anything positive, only destroys everything and anything in its path.
Yet they feel self-righteous in doing all this because there was a wrong that needed to be, in their eyes, corrected.
And all while they wrong others in the process???
Uh NO…
Given the title of this post, are we not substituting one slavemaster for another?
Raising Your Character Above The Occasion Is Needed, Not Lowering It
They lower themselves to the level they believe others have been doing wrong, failing to realize the ONLY way to correct a wrong is to rise in character ABOVE those they are accusing of doing wrong.
Riley Gains is a perfect example of rising about a bad situation that she never saw coming never mind didn’t want.
Rising above is THE only way anything gets accomplished - unless the enemy is so inept at learning then they have to be annihilated, like Hamas is experiencing this very moment.
You may not get everything that needs to be done yourself, most of the time people don’t - but it draws attention to a situation that warrants assistance elsewhere as well as empowers others to stand up as well.
Three college Presidents have displayed just what DEI will do to our colleges - and in the interim have inadvertently made themselves free advertisements on why those considering higher education as well as those already attending those institutions should very seriously consider a private college that focuses on merit and not DEI as the ways and means to get ahead, justifying the means anyway they can.
"The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced." ~ Aldous Huxley
Those that don’t will eventually face the same embarrassing charade the 3 college Presidents faced - and most likely will be too burnt from their ideology to realize who is truly at fault.
Life Is Full of Options - Our Actions Determine Our Consequences
Life is full of choices - and those choices have consequences, whether that choice was wise or unwise.
Those consequences can be good and full of blessings - or they can be very negative and full of curses; or somewhere in between but leaning toward one or the other.
Either way, our own free will is the element behind those consequences - not the will of the government, not the pressure of our peers, not any lamebrain college President who can’t write anything of their own doing without plagiarizing.
You - and only you - are responsible for your life whether it be a predicament, blessing, or transition from one to the other.
Or do you need to be reminded that the hand you used to point one finger at others for the blame has 3 fingers pointing back at you?
Not you personally, but anyone not getting what we are getting at…
What Happened When There Was Nothing Left To Lose
Our country was founded by a group of people who were being intimidated by a tyrannical King - who even went as far as demanding all armament be confiscated by the British military.
The Colonists were in a corner and the only way out was by fighting for what they believed - it was beyond words, it was time for action.
Yet, for all the brain power that was behind our Declaration of Independence as well as our Constitution, most of the participants in our revolution were not very old.
Below is a list of key American Revolution participants, as of July 1776 and their ages…
Thank God they didn’t use DEI as an excuse otherwise we’d all still be under the rule of England - and save for those in the British Parliament, we all can see just how lovely things are turning out for the Brits at the moment…
In essence, having a tyrannical King abolishes slavery as then ALL are ensalved to a tyranny.
Thank God they didn’t demand reparations from England, or they would have found themselves with more enemies than the King of England.
Signers of our Declaration of Independence - they knew signing this document could mean losing all their wealth, their own life, and even the lives of their family members; they had to win…
NOTE: if any of these names are unfamiliar to you, it would be worth your while to research who they are. After all, you are here as a result of their actions to form a new nation and your kids as well. Given the sad state our education system is in, it is up to all parents to correct what the education system messed up or didn’t even bother with in the first place. We recommend using the Britannica online encyclopedia for starters.
Thomas Lynch, Jr., 26
Edward Rutledge, 26
George Walton, 27*
Thomas Heyward, Jr., 29
Benjamin Rush, 30
Elbridge Gerry, 31
Thomas Jefferson, 33
Thomas Stone, 33*
William Hooper, 34
Arthur Middleton, 34
James Wilson, 34*
Samuel Chase, 35
William Paca, 35
John Penn, 35
George Clymer, 37
Charles Cornwallis, 37
Thomas Nelson, Jr., 37
Charles Carroll, 38
Francis Hopkinson, 38
Carter Braxton, 39
John Hancock, 39
John Adams, 40
William Floyd, 41
Button Gwinnett, 41*
Francis Lightfoot Lee, 41
Robert Morris, 42
Thomas McKean, 42
George Read, 42
Samuel Huntington, 44
Richard Henry Lee, 44
Robert Treat Paine, 45
Richard Stockton, 45
William Williams, 45
Josiah Bartlett, 46
Joseph Hewes, 46
George Ross, 46
William Whipple, 46
Caesar Rodney, 47
William Ellery, 48
Oliver Wolcott, 49
Abraham Clark, 50
Benjamin Harrison, 50
Lewis Morris, 50
George Wythe, 50*
John Morton, 51*
Lyman Hall, 52
Samuel Adams, 53
John Witherspoon, 53
Roger Sherman, 55
James Smith, 56
Philip Livingston, 60
George Taylor, 60*
Matthew Thornton, 62
Francis Lewis, 63
John Hart, 65*
Stephen Hopkins, 69
Benjamin Franklin, 70
Other ke American Reolution participants, either side of the ocean…
Andrew Jackson, 9
(Major) Thomas Young, 12
Deborah Sampson, 15
James Armistead, 15
Sybil Ludington, 15
Joseph Plumb Martin, 15
Peter Salem, 16*
Peggy Shippen, 16
Marquis de Lafayette, 18
James Monroe, 18
Charles Pinckney, 18
Henry Lee III, 20
Gilbert Stuart, 20
John Trumbull, 20
Aaron Burr, 20
John Marshall, 20
Nathan Hale, 21
Banastre Tarleton, 21
Alexander Hamilton, 21*
John Laurens, 21
Benjamin Tallmadge, 22
Robert Townsend, 22
George Rogers Clark, 23
David Humphreys, 23
Gouveneur Morris, 24
Betsy Ross, 24
William Washington, 24
James Madison, 25
Henry Knox, 25
John Andre, 26
Abraham Woodhull, 26
Isaiah Thomas, 27
John Paul Jones, 28
Bernardo de Galvez, 29
Robert R. Livingston, 29
John Jay, 30
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30
Abigail Adams, 31
John Barry, 31
Casimir Pulaski, 31
Anthony Wayne, 31
Joseph Brant, 33
Nathanael Greene, 33
Benedict Arnold, 35
Thomas Knowlton, 35
Hercules Mulligan, 36
Andrew Pickens, 36
Haym Salomon, 36
John Sullivan, 36
Ethan Allen, 38
King George III, 38
George Clinton, 39
Daniel Morgan, 39
Thomas Paine, 39
Patrick Henry, 40
Enoch Poor, 40
Daniel Boone, 41
John Lamb, 41*
Paul Revere, 41
Thomas Sumter, 41
John Dickinson, 43
John Glover, 43
Benjamin Edes, 43
Charles Lee, 44
Francis Marion, 44
Lord North, 44
George Washington, 44
Joseph Galloway, 45
Friedrich von Steuben, 45
Martha Washington, 45
(Dr.) Thomas Young, 45*
Henry Clinton, 46
William Howe, 46
John Stark, 47
Mercy Otis Warren, 47
Horatio Gates, 48
Artemas Ward, 48
George Mason, 50
Lord Stirling, 50
Guy Carleton, 51
Comte de Rochambeau, 51
James Rivington, 52*
Comte de Grasse, 53
John Burgoyne, 54
Johann de Kalb, 55
Thomas Gage, 56
Israel Putnam, 58
Comte de Vergennes, 58
Lewis Nicola, 59*
George Germain, 60
Samuel Whittemore, 81
*Estimated age as only their birth year is known
Our Education System Is an Indoctrination Mechanism And This Must Change
Our education system needs to be taken over by the parents - let the whiners kick, scream, and seek their lawyers, the education system has proven - like any government - that once they have too much power they abuse it in their own self-righteous ways.
Colleges, universities, and any higher learning institute need to be taken off of federal assistance and learn how to either make it on their own or simply shut their doors.
Harsh? What do you call what they have done to at least the last 3 generations - enlightenment?
My own experience and observations -
my high school did not require SAT and ACT tests as the curriculum was that rigorous, no high school today can come even close to that rigor
I debated rising stars in economics to the point they either were totally beside themselves or finally decided to give me - and my classmates’ - points a consideration (most agreed later on), at Harvard University nonetheless (try that today and you most likely would be expelled)
the OECD percentiles for our education system have gone from the top 3 to the mid-30 percentile in less than two generations
our total student population is surpassed by India's and China’s student population - our student population equals 33% of India’s and 25% of China’s - meaning they have more top students than we have in total students. Discipline is rigorous in both countries while our education system prefers buttercups for students (some of whom aren’t having that, good for them!)
As of late, it is a challenge to know where a country stands in Reading and Science as the OECD now measures only mathematics rationally while Reading and Science have been dropped in favor of 'equity’ and ‘well-being’ - can someone tell us where the competitiveness is in those muddy waters?
We are failing our children miserably - they have
NO means to learn how to survive beyond school
NO means to the benefits of discipline
NO means to compete on a level playing field, or any field for that matter
They only know that their feelings are hurt and someone else needs to make their feelings better.
To quote Candace Owens when she was confronted by a whining college student on insulting others, “Put a helmet on! I’m too pregnant for this shit.”
We’ll add the term ‘buttercup’ at the end of her ‘Put a helmet on!’ response.
What to Do About the Whiners?
Let.
Them.
Whine.
But stay in their face, not literally, figuratively speaking - they need our assistance and we should never do that by enabling them, you need to learn to empower people.
The whiners have had way more than enough enabling and it is how we ended up with an army of buttercups in the first place.
NEVER hold their hands, they need to learn to pick their butts up off the ground, stand up on their own, and learn they have the power to overcome hurt feelings.
Some will come around, sooner or later - some will not.
Just empower them and move on - you‘re not their parents, you’re not responsible for them only for yourself, but you are someone who is supposed to guide them in the right direction.
Why do all this?
If we had been doing all this in the first place, would we have all this to contend with in the first place?
That makes it our responsibility to take a stand NOW…
