Posted on 10/09/2017 10:55:22 AM PDT by Twotone
On this Columbus Day weekend, Christopher Columbus is close to being entirely obliterated from American life, and the barbarians have galloped on to newer targets for their rage. I mentioned yesterday how sad I was to see that in his home town a memorial to America's first great songwriter is to be dismantled and removed. Stephen Foster's songs were uniquely popular on both sides of the Civil War, but he seems less likely to survive the cold Civil War of 21st century America. And so the cultural vandals, who cannot create but can only destroy, scent another victory.
In my book The [Un]documented Mark Steyn, there's an entire section called "Mystic Chords" - that's an allusion to Lincoln, for all you know-nothing safe-spacers out there. It begins with an appreciation of Foster titled "Sounds of the Rude World", from which what follows is drawn. In Pittsburgh, the rude world has all but throttled his "soft melody", but, for the moment, not here:
A century and a half ago, living in a cheap hotel on the Bowery in New York's Lower East Side, a young man laid low by a fever tried to rise from his sick bed. He slipped and fell against the wash basin, shattering it and thereby gashing his throat and gouging his head. It was some time before he was found and taken to the Welfare Island hospital, the same hospital to which Jerome Kern (composer of "The Way You Look Tonight", "Ol' Man River" and many more) was taken when he collapsed on a New York street in 1945 with no identification on him. And, like Kern all those decades later, Stephen Foster died there, on January 13th 1864, three days after his fall. He was only 37...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Love Steyn...nails it every time.
Cris C was an immigrant. Leftys want to let all immigrants in now but now denounce our 1st and foremost immigrant.
Libs are such idiots
All hail the Town of Oyster Bay!
You have stirred up a “volcano”. To accept that Christopher Columbus was, in reality, an “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT” brings into question our own right to be here.
This all could have been avoided if only the Native Americans had instituted a sensible Immigration Policy with well established methods of control.
Instead, they sold out for the almighty dollar (or wampum in this case), and lost everything they had worked for. Short term gain, long term loss.
Columbus was an illegal immigrant.
So most supporters of current illegal immigrants think current illegals are great. But that original illegal immigrant is not. A double standard?
Thanksgiving is next. those evil Pilgrims exploited those innocent Indians. After that, then Christmas.
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