And your point, if it exists, is...what? Man-up and make it.
The thirty-sixth U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson, loftily referenced for his signing of the Civil Rights Bill loved the word nigger. I am not allowed to write his exact quotes because white editorial sensibilities (sanctimony, if you will) preclude these truths though they are…
And your point, if it exists, is...what? Man-up and make it.
The thirty-sixth U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson, loftily referenced for his signing of the Civil Rights Bill loved the word nigger. I am not allowed to write his exact quotes because white editorial sensibilities (sanctimony, if you will) preclude these truths though they are matters of historical record. How weird is that? It is a term invented by the very people that claim to be so offended by it and, furthermore, regularly use it towards a group that I am part of. I suppose some folks do not like the smell of their own excrement.
Most unfortunate.
President Johnson once said to a black chauffeur who requested that the president not refer to him as “boy”, “nigger” or “chief” the following: “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
President Johnson was known to, in an irony of ironies, when discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, call the Civil Rights Bill “the Nigger Bill.” Johnson, in reference to his appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme court stated: “Son, when I appoint a nigger to the court, I want everyone to know he’s a nigger.” Most notoriously, Johnson said: “I’ll have those Niggers voting Democratic for 200 years.” Frighteningly prescient. Though there are some Democrats that say this particular statement is a Republican propaganda plant, they do not dispute the others. Very, very, odd.
It is typical of many European-Americans, to refuse acknowledgement of their apartheid system, which perpetuates it; and, thusly, where white supremacy comes into play. The "Blackwell School" was just that, a school. The only people, in the history of planet Earth, that it was a crime, punishable by death, to teach to read and write ( a foreign language) were Black People in the United States. And, it could be saliently argued, that is still the de facto case. Furthermore, "Texas" was part of Mexico (as was California, Arizona and NEW Mexico) and, as far as I am concerned, still is. Mexicans have their ancestral names, Black People in the United States do not. Mexicans were not kidnapped and forced to come to North America as they were already here; they are at home. That is not the case for Black People in the United States. A huge and monumental difference. In fact, a Mexican, Latino, Hispanic, Jew, Arab Asian, or whatever, will call a Black Person in the United States a "nigger" in a heartbeat (oddly enough, I have found that my Original American ancestors rarely do so). A people so damaged, lost and devalued, that even some of them call each other that because, unlike the other "people of color"... they don't know their names.
I am aware of your inference regarding Uncle Thomas. However, what I am most interested in, again, is what is your point (if you have one)?
Here is my sad anecdote about names. My mother made a "grand tour" of the US 1940. She was born in San Francisco, her father from Winston Salem, NC, with interesting roots in the Moravian colony, plantation whites. She asked a local about looking up possible relatives named S............. The guy looked at her kind of funny, and in a warning tone, said anybody of that name was likely "colored."
And your point, if it exists, is...what? Man-up and make it.
The thirty-sixth U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson, loftily referenced for his signing of the Civil Rights Bill loved the word nigger. I am not allowed to write his exact quotes because white editorial sensibilities (sanctimony, if you will) preclude these truths though they are matters of historical record. How weird is that? It is a term invented by the very people that claim to be so offended by it and, furthermore, regularly use it towards a group that I am part of. I suppose some folks do not like the smell of their own excrement.
Most unfortunate.
President Johnson once said to a black chauffeur who requested that the president not refer to him as “boy”, “nigger” or “chief” the following: “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
President Johnson was known to, in an irony of ironies, when discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, call the Civil Rights Bill “the Nigger Bill.” Johnson, in reference to his appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme court stated: “Son, when I appoint a nigger to the court, I want everyone to know he’s a nigger.” Most notoriously, Johnson said: “I’ll have those Niggers voting Democratic for 200 years.” Frighteningly prescient. Though there are some Democrats that say this particular statement is a Republican propaganda plant, they do not dispute the others. Very, very, odd.
It is typical of many European-Americans, to refuse acknowledgement of their apartheid system, which perpetuates it; and, thusly, where white supremacy comes into play. The "Blackwell School" was just that, a school. The only people, in the history of planet Earth, that it was a crime, punishable by death, to teach to read and write ( a foreign language) were Black People in the United States. And, it could be saliently argued, that is still the de facto case. Furthermore, "Texas" was part of Mexico (as was California, Arizona and NEW Mexico) and, as far as I am concerned, still is. Mexicans have their ancestral names, Black People in the United States do not. Mexicans were not kidnapped and forced to come to North America as they were already here; they are at home. That is not the case for Black People in the United States. A huge and monumental difference. In fact, a Mexican, Latino, Hispanic, Jew, Arab Asian, or whatever, will call a Black Person in the United States a "nigger" in a heartbeat (oddly enough, I have found that my Original American ancestors rarely do so). A people so damaged, lost and devalued, that even some of them call each other that because, unlike the other "people of color"... they don't know their names.
I am aware of your inference regarding Uncle Thomas. However, what I am most interested in, again, is what is your point (if you have one)?
Ironically, on a scale from 1 to 46, it's a toss up whether LBJ or Lincoln did more for civil rights than any other president.
Here is my sad anecdote about names. My mother made a "grand tour" of the US 1940. She was born in San Francisco, her father from Winston Salem, NC, with interesting roots in the Moravian colony, plantation whites. She asked a local about looking up possible relatives named S............. The guy looked at her kind of funny, and in a warning tone, said anybody of that name was likely "colored."