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Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote these tales, spent time living with freed black people. And Mark Twain's tale of Tom Sawyer and how he convinced his friends to whitewash his fence for him is reminiscent of Brer Rabbit convincing Brer Fox to put him in the briar patch!!

Truth in the well, now emerging with her whip!

Ghana was the last nation in the world to outlaw slavery, in 1998. For some, though, it is not comprehensible that black people could own other black people as slaves.

A great study done during Reconstruction in the South, by a northern reporter who had at one time been an abolitionist is "The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government", by James Shepherd Pike, 1874. Corruption and debt grew exponentially. (Some have said that South Carolina caught the brunt of the North's fury, as the 'rebellion' began in that state. I don't know.)

A more recent book, a study on IQ, that has been concealed, is "The Bell Curve" by Herrnstein and Murray, 1990's sometime. A chapter has been given over to the findings, statistically and conclusively, that the average IQ of American blacks is one standard deviation---fifteen points---below the average for all other Americans.

My son's high school in California had a post up of Mao. There's the source of the problem...

I enjoy mangling English routinely just to have fun. "Give me a bite of that sammich." "None of yre bizzzznaaaaz." On and on...my kids crack up when I do it.

What a lot of cops who do this believe is that they can abuse an old man, or child, or woman like this and there isn't a grown man in the victim's family who might find that cop coming out of a bar or restaurant later and smash his face in with a 2X4. They believe they are completely getting off scott-free. Most of the time, they're right, of course. But, if a cop did something like this to my family member I'd make sure they'd at the very least lose their pension...at the very least.

A lot of cops like beating people up. It's fun for them. That's why a lot of them became cops. Almost all cops like a high-speed chase, making criminals drive fast and recklessly through town right past your loves ones. That's fun too, I understand.

I tell my son and his buddies, "Stay out of the system. Don't get arrested for anything. Always be syrupy sweet in your interactions with a police officer. Because, they can kill you if you piss them off and get away with it."

That'd be a hoot!

I enjoyed "Song of The South" as well, but it is a distant memory. I wouldn't be surprised if Disney eradicated all the originals.

"Gone With The Wind" is a wonderful classic movie. The wokies tried to have it relegated to the Orwellian memory hole along with Aunt Jemima and Uncles Ben and Remus.

When I was young I read the original "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" and can see right away the versions allowed now have been heavily sanitized.

Another interesting book you may want to check out is "Black Slave Owners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790 - 1860" by Larry Koger. I guess when the author was in college he asked the question, "Did any free blacks in the south own slaves of their own?" The professor didn't know and suggested he research the topic and the results is the book.

Hoping your next book might be on how non-thinkers change cultures (the devolution of culture) around the world. Well, I guess you actually did with this book of Talking Heads.

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I consider that a very astute observation of teenagers, and life in general!

Thanks for clearing that up. No problem.

On my X-mas list now!

Motorcycle one is precious!

Zelensky.

A couple of years ago there was a video of the great Voice of America transmitter towers being dynamited and destroyed, farewell, amen.
They should do the same thing with that filthy Commie squawkbox, NPR.

Seriously doubt David Byrne shares many of our political convictions.

What could get it shut down forever faster than this? All Lib-D support G O N E.

Either that or Press Secretary.

👍 Thank you, DOB!
Loved the un-tracked $$.
I hope that plane is shot down over Cuba.
Is that true about Pelosi and Feinstein, DOB?

(I do wish creative people used spell check though: conceived, not concieved.)

Hear ye! Hear ye!
Me dino herewith recalls one smug as hell El Presidente Barry Obamanation once stating, "Elections have consequences."
To that I say~~Well, hardee-har-har! Every dog has his day.

Yes, I heard of the band, but the phrase "Talking Heads," of course, has been around a long time.

Excellent, SpiritWoman, and thanks for your comments and for giving the book a try. I recently published a quite comprehensive book on the Age of Enlightenment and some 45 of its greatest names, but I also discussed the Age of Science and added an appendix on postmodernism. Title is "How Philosophers Change Civilizations: The Age of Enlightenment." Thanks again for taking an interest!

Let Elon and Vivek have a crack at it.