Today, July 10, 2021, is a great day in the history of this country. This morning, the statues of the traitors Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were removed from their places of public display in Charlottesville, Virginia. Protection of these statues were the stated reasons for the White Supremacist attempted insurrection in that city four years ago. Today, that cause is again publicly vanquished.
That you can trace your family's history back so far, culminating in where we are as it relates to "The Lost Cause," is awesome. I especially like your documenting what the individual states' were saying as they one-by-one seceded from the Union. Great job!
P.S. I read about yesterday's take-down of Lee and Jackson (and Lewis&Clark, too!) There was video footage of the event. As far as I could tell, no one was protesting.
Thanks for pulling all these varied yet same articles of secession together into one hell of a piece of writing! I don't know about you TCinLA but it seems to me there has always been a great deal of attention paid to the business model of getting all you can from the person creating the wealth the guy (mostly) at the top with his family will enjoy. I read several years ago about the concept of "wage slavery". That is, being so tied to a job that even the thought of leaving to try to find something else that is more life giving, in pay as well as a sense of purpose that is a good purpose, has been the bane of all wage earners for too long here in the US and certainly worldwide. That makes President Biden's executive order yesterday so fascinating - monopoly rents. What a term. Figuring out what it means is highly significant. There is a business model that is enshrined in the economic system of the day, and the sooner the average person understands how that model works and who it works for AND against the better. If you have not taken a moment to watch High on the Hog on Netflix, I commend it, as it does not hesitate to look squarely at all the peoples and entities that were up to their necks in the slave trade no matter where they were located in Africa or in the United States. It was and still is a business model. And this model is not being addressed either in law schools or in MBA programs.
That you can trace your family's history back so far, culminating in where we are as it relates to "The Lost Cause," is awesome. I especially like your documenting what the individual states' were saying as they one-by-one seceded from the Union. Great job!
P.S. I read about yesterday's take-down of Lee and Jackson (and Lewis&Clark, too!) There was video footage of the event. As far as I could tell, no one was protesting.
Excellent history lesson, thanks.
Thanks for pulling all these varied yet same articles of secession together into one hell of a piece of writing! I don't know about you TCinLA but it seems to me there has always been a great deal of attention paid to the business model of getting all you can from the person creating the wealth the guy (mostly) at the top with his family will enjoy. I read several years ago about the concept of "wage slavery". That is, being so tied to a job that even the thought of leaving to try to find something else that is more life giving, in pay as well as a sense of purpose that is a good purpose, has been the bane of all wage earners for too long here in the US and certainly worldwide. That makes President Biden's executive order yesterday so fascinating - monopoly rents. What a term. Figuring out what it means is highly significant. There is a business model that is enshrined in the economic system of the day, and the sooner the average person understands how that model works and who it works for AND against the better. If you have not taken a moment to watch High on the Hog on Netflix, I commend it, as it does not hesitate to look squarely at all the peoples and entities that were up to their necks in the slave trade no matter where they were located in Africa or in the United States. It was and still is a business model. And this model is not being addressed either in law schools or in MBA programs.
Brevity, obviously, is not your strong suit...we've heard all this before, TC.
Actually I have not heard any of this before. Thanks for the detail TC.
Yes. Thanks for complete and hidden explanations. No thank you to “brevity”.