Posted on 03/15/2023 8:40:44 AM PDT by devane617
The National Audubon Society, one of the country’s best-known bird conservation organizations, decided in a closed-door vote this week to retain the name of John James Audubon, famed 19th-century naturalist and wildlife illustrator who was also an unabashed enslaver.
The move comes even as about half-a-dozen of the organization’s regional chapters have pledged to scrub his name from their titles, part of a broader reckoning over the U.S. environmental movement’s history of entrenched racism.
The National Audubon Society’s 27-person board of directors voted to retain its current name during a Zoom meeting on Monday after more than a year of deliberating and gathering feedback from both members and outsiders. Susan Bell, chair of the board, declined to provide a breakdown of the final vote.
“The name has come to represent not one person, but a broader love of birds and nature,” Bell said in a phone interview. “And yet we must reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon, the man.”
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Please name the city, for us foreigners.
Amein!
We should have eradicated the marxists who agitate on these things. McCarthy was correct.
Yup!
Next to be cancelled....
I went on down to the Audubon Zoo
And they all asked for you
They all asked for you
(For who?)
Well, they even inquired about you
I went on down to the Audubon Zoo
And they all asked for you
The monkeys asked
The tigers asked
And the elephant asked me too
Until recently, I didn't know that Audubon owned slaves (although considering it was legal and common at the time), but I always associated him with nature and paintings.
It amazes me that people will use history to promote their own agenda, but completely ignore it when it doesn't. Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex comes to mind-
“And yet we must reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon, the man.”
No, you really don’t. Anyone who has an issue with it can go trek down to the graveyard and register their protest with the man’s bones. You really don’t need to get involved.
The Jaguars need to rename themselves.
(right - got it! Jacksonville. Andrew Jackson - founder of the Democratic party.)
The nfl team here can move the hell out as far as I’m concerned......as I personally have very little use for them......OBTW just for the record, the owner is muslim.
Enjoy your private reply 👍
Thank you! Appreciate it!
My pleasure.....like I said, considering they tore down all the monuments in town (and some had absolutely ZERO to do with anything racial or slavery) it’s amazing some radical left wing organization hasn’t seized on who Jackson was. 😏
The correct term which modern professional and reputable historians use for this supposed “reckoning” of past cultural norms to current ideology— the term is presentism.
This was presented in the original answer by major groups of proper credentialed historians to the “1619 Project” hoax “history” created by Hannah Jones at the NYTimes who could NOT get a professorship in North Carolina as a result and now she is at Howard University in DC. Yeah, Howard. uh huh.
The Civil War as I see it, was not some crackpot dictator of
the South going against the United States. These were men
who held a different view, and were willing to fight for it.
I don’t agree with the South, but they fought a valiant fight
and lost. Disagreeing with their actions, I’m not compelled
to expunge them from the history books. We learn more from
having the Civil War in front of us, knowing these man for
who they were.
After the war, the North made what I think was a sound
decision. We had achieved freedom, which I’m still not
convinced was the core of our fight. They decided not to
create hard feelings by going after the Southern leaders.
I think that was wise. It was okay for the South to have
their statues. It was okay if they thought their men
fought valiantly.
It’s shocking to me to see people trying to remake this
nation in a purist form. They not only want to knock over
some of our greatest men, they want to totally destroy our
history, our customs, what it is that contributed to what
we are. Further, they want to corrupt even sexual identity,
our men women marriage, and parenting.
That is very shortsighted, and the only reason it is
taking place is because these people are getting their
marching orders, and they are following them.
These people are paid and funded to do what they are
doing. They are everywhere. Charlie once again had
to face them last night, in part because they are ready
at a moment’s notice.
If we had an FBI and a Justice Department, they would
have put an end of this years ago. Instead they front
for them and sanitize their very actions.
The idea is to destroy this nation, so it will topple
from within.
We either get with it and start fighting back, or this
nation will be North Korea in ten years.
Better yet, not imported the slaves. Just imagine...
Before the invention of the cotton gin, it was hoped that slavery would die a natural death as much for economic reasons as moral ones. But the cotton gin meant that great wealth could be acquired with the use of slave labor.
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