Posted on 06/28/2008 10:08:14 PM PDT by johnwcassell
This is in response to Jack Engelhard's blog posting "Rev.Wright/Al Campanis: Second Acts for Some..."
Jack's point is simple. We are told that we are to take the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's remarks such as "God Damn America" and Israel is "white racist" over the past twenty years Barack Hussein Obama has been a member of his church "in context with his achievements".
Jack then reviews the fate of Al Campanis, former General Manager of the Dodgers, who after one racist remark was banned [and later died] in disgrace despite the "context" of a lifetime of assisting with breaking Baseball's "color barrier" and making an integrated sport a reality. ******************* In my view, this is but another example of the way this nation is falling apart.... tearing itself down brick by brick. A double standard such as this sends the wrong message to "both sides". And that's how the liberal politicians want us to think. As a people divided by hate. One of the key points in my book DeVilliers County Blues: 1972 is that the four very different young people will never break out of the asylum unless they overcome what society has taught them to think about each other.
Martin Luther King's dream was that one day his "four little children would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." The nightmare that came true instead was exactly what he didn't want.
Very good points, Jack. You pointed out in The Bathsheba Deadline: An Original Novel how we are literally erasing our culture with political correctness [giving several horrifying examples]. Authors are silenced by the big publishing houses from even telling stories that don't send the politically correct message. Bathsheba Deadline could never be published by the big boys nowadays.
In Jim Kohl's book Noble Poverty: A Teacher's Life in Silicon Valley read how he was denied participation in an educational program because he couldn't think of Christopher Columbus as only a racist murderer... which is apparently California's official position. Of course growing up on the East Coast, I naturally wonder what the hell happened to the Italian American vote? No would would DARE demand such a one-sided view in Atlantic City of the early 60's, I can tell you that.
This is progress?
But bit by bit we have let the crackpots with their sinister agendas take our heritage away, replacing it with racist pablum satisfying only to dummies easily led by the people who remain in power by their votes.
I once wanted to move to Andorra where all this ersatz hate didn't exist. see Crossroads: 1969 but thanks to Danny Cole and some wonderful pictures he sent me, I learned to my horror that Andorra now has a McDonald's. That establishment and the pop culture that has grown up around it is likely the first step. Give the mob chairs bolted to the floor, plastic entertainment for the kids and pre-measured, prepackaged cuisine that would likely make lab rats die of malnutrition and maybe their minds start getting programmed easier.
It's a thought. The more the government and the faceless corporate entities that have reduced our economy from honorable occupations to minimum wage slave labor treat us like dummies who can't even be trusted to seat ourselves at tables, the more we will...and have...behave[d] down to their expectations.
Maybe there's nowhere to run after all. Maybe the Modern Racist Nihilism that indeed judges Dr. King's children..and mine...by the color of their skin and imposes chilling double standards, even as it steadily erases our culture book by book, and individual by individual with political correctness is so far advanced there is no point in fighting after all.
Maybe we've created the perfect climate for the jihadists spreading across the world to knock down the whole rotten edifice... They believe in their God. They have moral standards and set [severe] limits on disrespect. They honor their roots. They don't tolerate anything we would identify as "freedom".
The time is now America. Honor thyself or perish. It's that simple.
John W. Cassell
John W. Cassell is the author of six novels on the American Counterculture of the late 1960's, early 1970's and one politico-military adventure Uncertain Paradise: 1973 . he is a frequent contributor to the Amazon Connect blog and has published three guest editorials in Israel National News.
Cassell retired in 2006 after a career in law enforcement and criminal prosecution spanning from 1971.
My mom called me a racist because I said Martin Luther King, Jr. Day should be replaced with John Moses Browning Day.
I asked her “How many lives did, MLK save, and how many lives did Browning save?” She couldn’t answer me, so I said “MLK saved none, and Browning has saved millions.”
I heartily support John Moses Browning Day being put on the calender.
No argument from me. Isn’t it ironic that what we asked to swallow back then was really the opposite of what they wanted.
I am sure we will. I just meant we were the victims of a dishonest agenda ...maybe from the begining...with America the big time loser.
And even the son of a proud military family may grow up to become a hero of astonishing stature, yet go on to sponsor laws flouting the First Amendment or encouraging illegal invasion, as if he too, of all people! hadn't a firm grip on what it means to be an American.
(PS: I question your "horror" at the McD's in Andorra. Has a whiff of pop anti-capitalism to it. Isn't there a mosque in Andorra you could deplore? Sure there is.)
Don’t go blaming this crap on McDonalds... It’s the “thought” industries: the schools, the lamestream media, the trial lawyers, publishing houses, our elite universities (of which I’m a grad) that are producing this hatred for American values and core founding principles.
I don’t disagree...my comment was that the McD food and the ambience most likely make minds more susceptible to the drivel from the places you mention “thought industries”.
It’s along the lines of Clouseau’s immortal remark: “you can’t have a modern prison without modern furniture.” A well nourished populace would have taken the thought industries to task years ago.
Back when we ate mush and oatmeal for breakfast we were the strongest, most independent nation in the world.
I don’t know how old you are but there used to be the best eating in America out on the highways at the old truck stops. In 2006 I returned to this country after ten years on an isolated South Pacific island and was devastated to find all the old truck stop restaurants replaced with Mc Ds.
I like the term “pop-capitalism” coined by another poster here. It is definitely that. Poor Andorra.
I’m 60, and I grew up within 5 miles of the first McDonald’s “restaurant” in Des Plains, IL (in 1955, I believe, it opened and it ran the nearby Howard Johnson’s out of business in about 6 weeks). Ray Krok’s vision of fast, friendly, high quality, good value service in a clean environment was revolutionary — and they remain the dominant force in their industry today. When asked (probably 2 decades ago) what the key to their continual success was, the president of the company at the time said simply, “We’re Midwestern”. Today, with Barack Obama and the corruption of Chicago politics surrounding the presidential race, I suspect they’d have a different answer.
Anyway, it didn’t matter that we grew up eating mush for breakfast back in the old days and now more people eat at fast food restaurants: our kids brains are full of mush and are being thoughts filled with mush — at school, on TV, at the movies, among their friends, and from their poltical “leaders”. I grew up in the 1950’s when families were more intact and we had a much greater appreciation of our country’s principles and founding ideals. There was moral absolutism: right and wrong.
You can still find the truckstops — just don’t go looking for the right “thinking” there or anywhere else. Our society (my generation) seems to have a death wish: all that was good about America has been trashed for too many years and is now viewed as bad. It’s an upside down world thanks to the thought police who were born out of the radicalization of the 1960s. JMHO.
we’re the same age then and sounds like we have seen the same things. couldn’t agree more with what you say.
Thank you for leading me to this site. I am still feeling my way around and have to get used to the navigation.
I agree with you article 100%. MLK must be looking at GOD right now and asking; How did a person like Wright ever pull the wool over the eyes of my people and twist my words so horribly. All I have heard from wright is Hatred and all I have heard from Obama are lies. I hate to say it but, America is headed for another revolution if this (terrorist in sheeps clothing)is elected and /or All out Nuclear War.
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