Uhhh, Now turn to page 57 in The Post-American World, kids, and uh, one of you should read aloud from it.
Posted on 10/18/2017 4:29:54 PM PDT by NRx
A school in Mississippi is dropping its connection to the American Confederacy's only president, Jefferson Davis, and renaming itself after President Barack Obama.
Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary School in Jackson will be renamed Barack Obama Magnet IB following a vote.
The move, which when approved will come into force in the next academic year, was proposed by parents and approved by a majority of students, parents, faculty and staff members.
Ninety-eight percent of the students who attend the school are African-American.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The South Houston Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T) is already named after Obama.
There are countless great black Americans they could have named the school after. Picking a sick, hateful, racist communist is a mistake.
“Ninety-eight percent of the students who attend the school are African-American.”
This is irrelevant; what percentage of the school’s operating budget is funded by “African-Americans”?
Among the many segments into which this country is that between the whites footing the bills for much of this stuff and the non-whites receiving the benefits. Here in NJ this is really coming to a head - and driving out Americans and their employers - as they are taxed to death providing everything for people who refuse to lift a finger or contribute anything themselves.
“we want to know why he has not released his college records. What does he have to hide?”
I always thought it was because his grades were crap, but what if he never even went, or never graduated?
I guess if schools can rename themselves then it must be true that guns kill . . .
Uhhh, Now turn to page 57 in The Post-American World, kids, and uh, one of you should read aloud from it.
As others have said on here, for your safety avoid Jackson, MS, at all cost. Sad, it once was a great city.
#17. Re your escape from a Jackson, Miss. gas station. Were you, like the robbers, “gunnin’ it” to get away?
How apropo. Switch the name of one treasonous SOB for the name of another treasonous SOB.
The Planters did not want to secede...the middle class did.
Whatever. Took up arms against the United States. Made common cause with United States’ enemies; i.e., POTCSA. Treason is treason. But history is also history. It can’t be erased, and it’s foolish to try. So long as they’re erasing Jeff Davis’ name, they might as well replace it with another treasonous SOB, one more egregious and more recent.
Now we have a heterogeneous quagmire, .....a homogeneous society is a natural one via an uniform rule of naturalization.
Jefferson Davis was part of the Posterity in the Preamble....Obama isn’t.
The North unnaturalized the country after WBTS violating Article 1, Section 8. That was truly treasonous.
Sure glad this district has plenty of money laying around to do the change. I would love to see the final bill for the whole stupid idea. Got to be a few thousand at best.
Schools on the coast are good enough these days - we all have our big city liberal bastions....
The Confederacy’s problem was that it was heterogeneous. That’s why they found Lincoln so egregious. They could not conceive of emancipating their slaves, and could not sell them to the western states if slavery were contained only in those states where it was already established. So they felt they would be forever held back economically and socially by the agrarian policies that in their view slavery required; i.e., pre-capitalist and semi-feudal, and at the same time in the midst of the industrial revolution, thanks to Eli Whitney.
The North was also heterogeneous, and free-born and freed blacks in the North did socially and economically quite well, according to Thomas Sowell. They were assimilated and prosperous, despite being segregated in public accommodations. See Frederick Douglas’ rant on the subject. But the North was heterogeneous in other respects, having immigrants from Ireland and the Netherlands, as well.
Not necessarily related was the Northern economy, which was purely capitalistic. In the South, a planter bought land, kept cheap agricultural tools, and slaves. If he wanted to make more money, he bought more land, more cheap agricultural tools, and more slaves. The ratio of land, slave and yield remained pretty constant. In the North, the prosperous farmer bought the latest agricultural tools, began using horses instead of oxen to plow and till, and used the latest agricultural methods. The result was that Northern farmers had less land, less expense and higher yields, while Southern planters had vast expanses of land that were used to grow cotton and tobacco only, large numbers of slaves for the labor-intensive work, and bought the food for their slaves from small farms nearby, or from the North.
Now about Article 1, Section 8, it empowers Congress to institute uniform laws of naturalization, without specifying the nature of those laws. You can disagree with the laws instituted, you can believe that those laws will lead to disaster, but that doesn’t mean that North committed treason by “unnaturalizing” the country, or exclude Obama from being a naturalized Kenyan immigrant, or whatever he really was. It just means that if you were in Congress, you would push for a different law.
Treason is defined in Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution, as follows:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Nowhere in that definition is it defined to mean enacting laws that a freeper believes are disastrous.
But back to the South and Jeff Davis, the Declaration was an act of treason against the King of England. The Revolutionary War was an act of treason. So was the secession of the South and the WBTS (nice acronym). That does not mean that the South didn’t have grievances that might justify their secession. But if they had the best reasons in the world, it would still be treason. If you win a revolt, you are a hero. If you lose, you are a treasonous SOB.
Let me guess what their GPA is......
Here we go again. It wasn’t treason. If it were, why were the Confederate Leaders not tried for it? Because the US Government knew if a trial was actually held, that the Defense would present evidence that secession was the right of the state and therefore legal.
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