Posted on 02/13/2021 6:30:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Poet W.B. Yeats came to recognize something precious and profound at center of his this-worldly identity during family vacations in County Sligo: his Irishness. In 1923, at the age of 58, Yeats accepted the Nobel Prize the only way he could — as an Irishman on behalf of Ireland. What motivated the committee was "[Yeats's] always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."
Symbols That Shame And Save
But what about that black preacher poet across the Atlantic, that slave-descendent Baptist of that land where so many Irish found refuge in the time of the great famine? Was such a patriotism to him also vouchsafed? Amazingly yes. The unjust, humiliating, and murderous degradations dealt out by the Jim Crow South notwithstanding, Martin Luther King, Jr. refused to relinquish his claim upon either the flag flown by the nation of his birth or the Bible it placed in his hands. His words penned in a Birmingham jail cell record the miracle:
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage,
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Geographic center of the USA is in western South Dakota, north of Belle Fourche, SD. Near Sturgis and Mount Rushmore!
They are all missing Alaska and Hawaii.
Lebanon, KS is the center or the 48 continuous states.
If you go there you will find a old drunk creep driving an old jeep with New Jersey tags. Tell him I said FOAD.
This call for unity is really nonsense. How can decent rational people unify with neo pagan decadents? There is no reasonable consensus of commonly held values to form the basis of real unity. Using the divisive, hateful, debased Springsteen as the focus of this article underscores its absudity. Much painful transformation must occur before there is real unity in America. America Thinker has been a bit erratic since it grovelled before Dominion.
He said “lower 48” in the ad.
On the map it looks like the middle of USA is N Kansas. In the very center of USA.
The ad was designed to shame conservatives and guilt them into accepting filthy alinsky progressive ideas. Screw Jeep, PedoJoe and Sprinsteen!
The symbols of America's Judeo-Christian values as the absolute standard of the nation is what will bring unity. Not the subjectivism and relativism of lefturd loonism.
I second the motion.
That is just what I was thinking! S D is way up north, we are in S Texas...
-Tyrelle F
They were specific about saying the 48 states.
I thought this was the most insulting, condescending piece of crap I have ever seen. For four years this guy has been insulting Trump and us and then the Super Bowl gives him the opportunity now tell us to come together screw off Bruce Springsteen. What CHUTZPAH
So sick of MLK being held up as some saintly icon. I could give him a pass for drinking, doing dope, or even his adultery, but not for woman-beating. “Non-violence” my azz.
That was a very belittling slam commercial
They don’t mean “unity”, that’s their Orwellian word for “conform-or else”. Don’t forget, these are the people who say they won’t “tolerate the intolerant”-ie, if we won’t just accept but also celebrate grown hairy-azz men going into bathrooms with little girls, we are persona non grata and can expect to be canceled.
I’m for unity. That means the POC have to stop hating and blaming Whitey for all their failures. The Indians have to accept reality and make the best of their situation. The feminazis have to shut up. The jihadis have to get out. The violent blm crowd has to disband. The marxists have to stop trying to change the country.
And companies have to stop making expensive commercials that try to shame me. I’m not the problem.
The only Americans that will come together are facists.
A Jeep would be nice if you can overlook the junk drivetrain in the newer ones. Now I have two reasons to not buy one.
F*ck Springsteen - total left wing hypocrite
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM;
AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
“Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,” says the Lord.
“AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN;
"Be separate," and "do not touch" mean NO UNITY WITH UNBELIEVERS.
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