tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8184411927904811872..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: A rapist and slaver who did other thingsNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68137873544209790522021-05-28T18:57:54.042-05:002021-05-28T18:57:54.042-05:00Two types of people? If only it were that simple, ...Two types of people? If only it were that simple, but the truth is that good people do bad things and vice versa. And circumstances are important. As the Inspector in Crime and Punishment put it, "Men can get used to anything, the scoundrels." Or in the words of Herr Kant, "out of the crocked timber of mankind nothing straight was ever made."<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-75931518858541063572021-05-28T17:10:15.931-05:002021-05-28T17:10:15.931-05:00A quibble, but readers of your sentence on Crispus...A quibble, but readers of your sentence on Crispus Attucks might mistakenly assume that John Brown was African American Robert Pruternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-89979745138958182772021-05-28T16:06:16.810-05:002021-05-28T16:06:16.810-05:00I'm sure that there are more than two types of...I'm sure that there are more than two types of people in the world but there are two types those who treat everyone equally and those that would treat some people like they're less than human even to the point of owning them or killing them for running away when told to stop.<br /><br />Jefferson and other owners of human beings owned their children. <br /><br />Some of us rever these men. <br /><br /><br />FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-8332527818151699032021-05-28T12:28:30.319-05:002021-05-28T12:28:30.319-05:00I went to a supposedly elite prep school that prid...I went to a supposedly elite prep school that prided itself on its history department. But looking back, Black Americans were as absent from my historical education as from Neil's. And the Civil Rights movement was a good 10 years in the rearview -- no reason not to consider it as part of modern history.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-17332663415985849752021-05-28T08:15:48.265-05:002021-05-28T08:15:48.265-05:00Are there really only 2 kinds of people in this wo...Are there really only 2 kinds of people in this world: those who would for the sport of it shoot down helpless natives as shown in Conrad's Heart of Darkness; and those who like his narrator are appalled by that behavior? The unmasking of Jefferson and his ilk demonstrates, to me at least, that the best of us are not that much better than the worst of us and in some cases, such as this one, it's difficult to tell them apart.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-42757731674303390392021-05-28T06:55:09.655-05:002021-05-28T06:55:09.655-05:00their aren't any enslaved people to prefer a t...their aren't any enslaved people to prefer a term . its many of the currently alive people who have thankfully finally begun to use a descriptive that acknowledges the humanity of the millions of people who's lives were stolen from them for profit by whites. not a trivial matter.<br /><br />living in a nation founded on the premise of liberty and justice for all,,, white men. its not hard to see how many , many people, republican and democrat alike can have a problem with the Black Lives Matter movement. as you well know there are bigots in every walk of life. then there are people who believe we have a finite pie and that if someone move from crumbs to a slice there slice gets smaller. these people are selfish and greedy. just like Thomas Jefferson. Im grateful he did other things too but owning people and raping them should be an equally prominent part of the narrative. <br /><br />the slave diaries should be required reading in high school. <br />FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.com