Posted on 05/19/2020 10:02:13 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
When he got out the new judge said he was a-going to make a man of him. So he took him to his own house, and dressed him up clean and nice, and had him to breakfast and dinner and supper with the family, and was just old pie to him, so to speak. And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he’d been a fool, and fooled away his life; but now he was a-going to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn’t be ashamed of, and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him. The judge said he could hug him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she cried again; pap said he’d been a man that had always been misunderstood before, and the judge said he believed it. The old man said that what a man wanted that was down was sympathy, and the judge said it was so; so they cried again. And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says:
“Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. There’s a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain’t so no more; it’s the hand of a man that’s started in on a new life, and’ll die before he’ll go back. You mark them words—don’t forget I said them. It’s a clean hand now; shake it—don’t be afeard.”
So they shook it, one after the other, all around, and cried. The judge’s wife she kissed it. Then the old man he signed a pledge—made his mark. The judge said it was the holiest time on record, or something like that. Then they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up. And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.
The judge he felt kind of sore. He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn’t know no other way.
Thank you for that.
Mark Twain was no dummy.
The writer of this article is correct and incredibly racist
One can be both at the same time in some instances
God knows I go off sometimes with my emotions filled and say racist things
I’m not a writer.
Who should be proofreading is work to make sure he just doesn’t come across as a hateful vengeful racist
I wonder if he is a Christian. Or just one of those part-time ones
I myself am guilty of being a part-time one. I am trying
He is 100% percent correct about the transplant being wasted. I never said he wasn’t
Daaaamn......this just made me go down a David Cole/Stein rabbit hole. What a long strange trip he’s had.
Thanks for posting.
No, I didn’t get that impression at all. He is saying that some people, institutions, nationalities and ideologies are beyond redemption, not that race itself contributes to the condition. It’s a classic error to believe that if (for example) you criticize a black man, your criticism is founded on his being black. And it’s more often than not true that once a person reaches a certain level of badness, and the badness becomes ingrained within him, that person is beyond any viable attempt to redeem him.
Facts are not racist. Some people are unsalvageable. The color of their skin has nothing to do with it.
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the author is not racist at all
This sentence is unintelligible. Perhaps some words are missing in it?
Me thinks your work could also use some proofreading.
Regards,
I don’t see anything racist about it.
Any racism was in the thug’s champions suggesting folks were racist for not immediately giving him a new heart and perhaps an ass kissing.
Sadly, Ahmaud Arbery was unsalvageable and that led to his confrontation and death
I have always maintained the every city needs a slum area actually fenced off. Where prostitution and drugs are mostly ignored and the governments main job is to pickup the garbage and the bodies. But, any thug or whore that tries to ply their trade outside of those boundaries find themselves on a chain gang.
We exported our jobs and imported crime and poverty. For example Baltimore, it was a hard working productive industrial city, that is until globalists Free Traitors™ gutted it and ruined it. But they got a nice aquarium in the deal...
I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re going there. Sort of like “Pleasure Island” in Pinocchio. If that sort of thing is what someone considers pleasure, then they can move into the fenced off area until they die. But keep that stuff away from normal people who wish to live according to higher standards.
I don’t understand why you contend the author is racist. To my eyes, he is pointing out the facts surrounding two disparate transplant situations, where the cry of racism was used in one to overcome the clear pattern of criminal behavior by the recipient.
As Christians, we are not called to ignore racism and hatred - we are called to combat it. Acknowledging the reality of someone’s ongoing behavior is not racist at all - it is knowing the person by their fruit.
American society is plagued by a well-trained Pavlovian response to the word “racist” combined with an extremely racist definition of the word, where only certain ethnicities can be adjudged to harbor racist thoughts because of a supposed “imbalance of power”. The Pavlovian response ingrained into us is to cower in fear, and to hurl ourselves against the spikes protruding from the shield of the word “racist” as if in bleeding we absolve the “sin” our accusers proclaim.
Racism is real, but it is not what American society proclaims it to be. Racism is the inherent belief in superiority or inferiority of one or more races (or ethnic groups).
Highlighting the weaponized use of the word “racism” cannot be, in and of itself, racist, IMO.
Racist how? Quote from the article.
The mind was the disease that should have been transplanted, yes the heart was wasted on this cretan
Hood rat for starters. This one’s so easy don’t bother me with it again
And yeah I say some pretty bad stuff sometimes so I know it when I see it.
I’m trying
It was completely wrong to get this person a perfectly good kidney knowing they were going to waste it and look what they did.
But there was no reason to use other names.
If it was an Italian neighborhood like mine I would have cared quite a bit if he used the word wop.
Hood rat is not a compliment :-)
The transplant system is corrupted by money unfortunately. My sister has had 2 kidney transplants. The first was my mom’s kidney. This they can’t stop - a parent donating an organ to their child. My sister was only 3. At the time she was the youngest child ever to have an adult kidney transplanted. It was a pioneering surgery that took place in Boston’s Children’s hospital in the early 1970’s.
This kidney lasted 9 years before he body rejected it. She then went on the transplant waiting list and dialysis for the next 8 years. While on the list waiting saw at least 5 kids from Saudi Arabia have transplants done in Boston. All from the extended royal family. The nurses and doctors told us what they could, but bottom line - millions of Saudi dollars talked.
Any reason you left out the additional paragraphs (Kurt Schleichter, international problem of unsalvageables, etc)? Just curious.
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