Our Sixth President, John X Adams
Posted on 07/31/2018 12:56:47 PM PDT by C19fan
Activists are planning to boycott Boston's Faneuil Hall after their calls for a name change to the historic site, which is named after a slave owner, have went unanswered.
The hall has served as a home for civic rhetoric from the time colonists congregated to talk about freedom from the British.
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Time to start going after any monuments related to the civil war or racial oppression. That includes anything touting “civil rights” which is just a reminder of civil strife and leads to mental harm to black men and women who think themselves inferior.
Remove all the history.
We have heard talk of how Washington and Jefferson were slave owners. Their names will.have to be deleted from many places, if we are to be consistent with these criteria.
Carried to conclusion, since no historic figure will have had a 21st century politically correct conscience or worldview, we won’t be able to honor any historic figures in any way.
My husbands ancestors donated the land where Harvard currently resides. I’m sure many in the family would appreciate payment especially after many ancestors were killed in the witch trials and Concord.
Our Sixth President, John X Adams
G.B.Shaw's Pygmalion (adapted into the movie "My Fair Lady") was a pointed needle at the class distinctions found in the British use of language and grammar. Now, Mr Shaw, as an antagonist of almost everything English except for the language, is probably as apoplectic about the current state of English usage as any ghost I know of!
Ah English, your two hard four sew many!
What up, dog?
ISIS and Boko Haram have slaves today. Boko Haram has AFRICAN slaves today.
At that time, being taken somewhat aback, I fell silent but with misgivings about the overall trend that this effort was taking. Now I'd like to, in a very polite way, return to them and ask if they still felt the same about the overall movement. Faneuil Hall AND Austin Texas are just the latest places in the cross-hairs. These 'activists', feeling empowered by their easy publicity and low initial resistance, keep looking for more targets with ever thinner associations to their overly sensitized victimhood. We saw and laughed at how the Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of China would change historical photos to remove un-persons. We read George Orwell's "1984" and said that the "memory hole" could not happen here, right?
Well Chuckie, guess what, they're here!
What the hell is going on?
You and I both know what is going on.
This is the part and parcel of attack on Western Civilization.
Jacques Derrida's deconstruction.
The Faneul clan appear to real Americans with the bark on , not some PC social justice warrior such as Charles Sumner.
Peter Faneuil entered Boston’s commission and shipping business and soon proved a competent trader, assisting his uncle in running a lucrative mercantile establishment that traded with Antigua, Barbados, Spain, the Canary Islands, and England, only a few of the places from which Faneuil’s correspondence survives.
Prominent in the Triangular trade, Peter shipped enslaved people to the West Indies and brought molasses and sugar to the Colonies. He handled merchandise from Europe and the Caribbean, exported rum, fish, and produce, and engaged in shipbuilding. When he ventured both ship and cargo in transatlantic or coastal commerce, he customarily shared the risk with others. Charging 5% for handling consignments, he used advanced business methods and kept careful records. Fishing-grounds agents kept him informed of market prices and furthered his commercial connections. Not all of his trade was legal. When in 1736 his ship Providence was seized for exchanging fish and oil for French gold, he complained that only the “caprice” of the admiralty judge, a “Vile” man, was responsible for “Impositions” on a “fair trader” that was “in no way founded on law and justice.”
A childless widower, Andrew Faneuil for some reason threatened to disinherit either of his two nephews if they married. Benjamin Jr. preferred wedlock to a share of the enormous Faneuil fortune, which in addition to ships, shops, and a mansion in Tremont Street included £14,000 in East India Company stock. During his uncle’s final illness Peter managed Andrew’s business as well as his own. Peter, who was swarthy, stocky, and disabled since childhood, remained single, inheriting most of the fortune. Peter became—despite handsome bequests to his sisters—one of America’s wealthiest men, living sumptuously in a Beacon Street mansion. For the five brief years of life that remained to him after his uncle’s death in February 1738 he lived up to the name of one of his best ships: The Jolly Batchelor. Writing to his London partners to inform them of his uncle’s death, he also requested five pipes of Madeira wine: “As this wine is for the use of my house, I hope you will be careful that I have the best.” Soon thereafter, he requested a “handsome chariot” emblazoned with the family crest, accompanied by a coachman unlikely “to be debauched with strong drink, rum, etc.” as were most European servants. He also asked for “the latest, best book of the several sorts of cookery, which pray let be of the largest characters, for the benefit of the maid’s reading.”
Not just Washington and Jefferson, Madison, Mason, Patrick Henry, Monroe, Taylor, Tyler, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Gadsden, John Laurens, richard Henry Lee all were slave holders , and the list could be extended on and on.
Good to know. A nice place to visit with no libs around to spoil the atmosphere.
Oh goody
Yankees living like southerners have now for decades
I told you guys they wouldn’t stop with what Mark Levin and and Dinesh DSouza and Ben Shapiro and Jonah Goldberg call neoconfederates
Pass the popcorn
Next stop Newport RI I’d reckon
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