[Borges]

[rogue yam]

Leftists lie about everything.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

It’s always bothered me no end that Uncle Tom has such a bad connotation to it, when he was such a very good character. Also makes me nuts that everyone says “Scrooge” like it’s a bad thing; we should all be as lucky as him and no one kept Christmas better.

[Genoa]

Uncle Tom was the Christ figure, who loved his persecutors, returned good for evil, and forgave freely.

[Servant of the Cross]

Indeed, during the civil rights era recent times, it was those who most closely resembled Uncle Tom — Stowe’s Tom, not the sheepish one of popular myth — who proved most effective in promoting progress.

"And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree."

[don-o]

ping and read later
“Uncle Tom” as a term of derision exposes one thing - ignorance.

I would bet money that not one in a hundred who use it ever read the book.

[whitedog57]

Uncle Tom is a term used by blacks to slander anyone not on the Democrat Party gravy train. If they listen to the NYTimes, they would come up with some other slander like Oreo.

Its about demeaning your opposition, nothing else.

[cashless]

Quick, someone check to see if Rupert Murdock bought the NYT and replaced it’s editorial staff overnight. This article CONDEMNS the race baiters and hucksters that have labeled black conservatives erroneously for years as liars. But be sure those same baiters and hucksters will be swift to continue the false labeling as long as it serves the liberal progressive playbook. Don’t want anything to upset the apple cart or affirmative action quotas and set asides, which is racist on it’s face.

[Red Badger]

And yet, driven by a passionate hatred of slavery, she found time to write “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which became the most influential novel in American history and a catalyst for radical change both at home and abroad.

Let's hope that Atlas Shrugged becomes the same................

[Publius]

Influential? Yes. Well written? No.

[Genoa]

Stowe was one of hundreds of Christian opinion leaders who provided momentum for social improvement in nineteenth-century America. They studied their Bibles and sought to implement the truth they learned there.

[Persevero]

“who suffered from various obscure illnesses worsened by her persistent hypochondria.”

I hate aside comments like this. How do they know she was pretending any of her ailments? She is not here to defend herself.

[Genoa]

born 200 years ago today

Not on Google's radar for graphic commemoration, apparently.

[PzLdr]

Kind of like the way liberals have made “swiftboating” a synonym for “lying” when it’s the exact opposite.

[Prince of Space]

Mr. Prince of Space’s aunt did some genealogy on their family and found they were related to HBS...as well as Warren Gamaliel Harding, lol.

Mrs. Prince of Space