Thank you for presenting the historical elements that should make us think hard about what is happening in politics today and where this propaganda could lead us. Love your writing.
Chris Andrews: That means a lot coming from a writer and friend whom I admire.
I actually feel deep sorrow. I saw some kindly Haitians speak out about how they are trying to be good diplomats for their community. They reminded me of the tradition from Henry David Thoreau through Lev Tolstoy through Mahatma Gandhi through Martin Luther King of nonviolence, through John Lewis, making good trouble.
We have a mixed heritage. We have the worst of racist heritage through the slaughter of native Americans through the genocidal lynching under the Post-Reconstruction KKK to the race-baiting of Trump/Vance.
But we have the most noble heritage from Polybius through Montesquieu through Alexander Hamilton-James Madison through Abraham Lincoln the two Roosevelt Presidencies (Theodore Roosevelt and FDR) through the greatest, Eleanor Roosevelt, through the Civil Rights Movement and the heritage, aforementioned, of Henry David Thoreau and through Frederick Douglass.
We need badly for Americans to feel the preciousness of the Diamond that is this history of liberty and human dignity.
It utterly breaks the heart that race-baiting is afoot in our nation.
I grew up in a home of a war-torn Belgian Mom (Francophone from near Charleroi), and I knew from my Mom's lap as a little child forward the horrors of Third Reich Tyranny and I do not like its imitators today.
Chris Andrews: I recommend "Men on Pause" to everyone!
Great article.
Gale Wheat: Thank you for your gracious thought.
Thank you for this.
Jeannine: You and I share core values, and I love reading your work, not least, the Luna moth visitor:
https://substack.com/@jeannine1/p-147601238
After Kamala Harris is elected President, we still have Jim Crow in Florida and Texas. Hard work ahead.
Thank you, that is very kind for you to say. There are three folks living in this house and we're all voting for Ms. Harris! 😎
Brilliant, Armand💙🇺🇸💙👍
Diane K24: This race-baiting is really scary.
Even a Kamala Harris victory leaves these guys in Texas and Florida.
The racist movement has to be crushed into the ground.
We need a revival of the Civil Rights Movement.
Thank you for presenting the historical elements that should make us think hard about what is happening in politics today and where this propaganda could lead us. Love your writing.
Chris Andrews: That means a lot coming from a writer and friend whom I admire.
I actually feel deep sorrow. I saw some kindly Haitians speak out about how they are trying to be good diplomats for their community. They reminded me of the tradition from Henry David Thoreau through Lev Tolstoy through Mahatma Gandhi through Martin Luther King of nonviolence, through John Lewis, making good trouble.
We have a mixed heritage. We have the worst of racist heritage through the slaughter of native Americans through the genocidal lynching under the Post-Reconstruction KKK to the race-baiting of Trump/Vance.
But we have the most noble heritage from Polybius through Montesquieu through Alexander Hamilton-James Madison through Abraham Lincoln the two Roosevelt Presidencies (Theodore Roosevelt and FDR) through the greatest, Eleanor Roosevelt, through the Civil Rights Movement and the heritage, aforementioned, of Henry David Thoreau and through Frederick Douglass.
We need badly for Americans to feel the preciousness of the Diamond that is this history of liberty and human dignity.
It utterly breaks the heart that race-baiting is afoot in our nation.
I grew up in a home of a war-torn Belgian Mom (Francophone from near Charleroi), and I knew from my Mom's lap as a little child forward the horrors of Third Reich Tyranny and I do not like its imitators today.
Chris Andrews: I recommend "Men on Pause" to everyone!