I know you know better than to include Alabama and Mississippi in the Louisiana Purchase. Those lands had been part of the US since the Treat of Paris in 1783.
The parallels with Jan. 6 - indeed the "Brooks Brothers Riot" of 2000 in Florida - are just impossible to miss. Makes me realize how much we assume about the honesty of elections or the right of the majority to decide. The foundations are not so solid as all that.
"In short, Missourians supported popular sovereignty in Kansas from the start. They just didn’t think that popular sovereignty was the same thing as a majority vote."
How many on Trump's team are direct descendants of that crowd - by blood or philosophy?
You might say that, Don, I couldn't possibly comment. Seriously, this made me think of an interview from at least twenty years ago with a blue blooded journo who said there were people in his class who thought democracy had gone too far. He didn't focus on one party. It was interesting.
Wow Annette, I wasn't quite prepared this morning to be reminded of how history repeats itself but couldn't help but connect dots to '20 election where the same groups that "guarded" ballot boxes also attacked the Capitol to prevent the certification of the election they lost (contested, audited, lost by more) and the sign holders paid to impersonate union workers at a scab shop.
'Nicknamed “border ruffians”, or “pukes”, they planned to go to Kansas only to interfere in elections, to prevent Kansas from becoming a free state. Why would poor guys do that? Simple: They were paid. Proslavery organizations offered compensation to “border ruffians”: Return ferry fares to Kansas, a booze allowance, and a dollar a day, all for voting. A great deal.'
Don't know if you saw this already (I don't care if its not PC to say how handsome they are 🤗) but how often can you say you've been "introduced" to relatives of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson?
Ah, the Jeffersons.. That's a story! Although I suspect most of TJ's black descendants might prefer a cut of the inherited money to warm fuzzy photo opps (not speaking for them, just a hunch!) As for comparisons with today: You might say that, but I couldn't possibly comment. 😁 How cool it is that Dr. Etcheson's book was published in 2004, so not with one eye on recent events! Thanks, Shire!
OK, so I'm only a fraction of the way through this article but I had to comment. When I read, "Free reader? To see how NBH posts connect, upgrade from free today" my head went straight to the Fugitive Slave Act, but using today's vernacular.
Bounty hunters nab random black guy off the streets of New York. A witness protests, saying, "That's Mr. Williams! He's a 6th generation freeman!" To which the bounty hunter replies, "It's OK. He's being upgraded from free today!"
I know you know better than to include Alabama and Mississippi in the Louisiana Purchase. Those lands had been part of the US since the Treat of Paris in 1783.
Already corrected, John! Yup, brain fart.
The parallels with Jan. 6 - indeed the "Brooks Brothers Riot" of 2000 in Florida - are just impossible to miss. Makes me realize how much we assume about the honesty of elections or the right of the majority to decide. The foundations are not so solid as all that.
"In short, Missourians supported popular sovereignty in Kansas from the start. They just didn’t think that popular sovereignty was the same thing as a majority vote."
How many on Trump's team are direct descendants of that crowd - by blood or philosophy?
You might say that, Don, I couldn't possibly comment. Seriously, this made me think of an interview from at least twenty years ago with a blue blooded journo who said there were people in his class who thought democracy had gone too far. He didn't focus on one party. It was interesting.
Wow Annette, I wasn't quite prepared this morning to be reminded of how history repeats itself but couldn't help but connect dots to '20 election where the same groups that "guarded" ballot boxes also attacked the Capitol to prevent the certification of the election they lost (contested, audited, lost by more) and the sign holders paid to impersonate union workers at a scab shop.
'Nicknamed “border ruffians”, or “pukes”, they planned to go to Kansas only to interfere in elections, to prevent Kansas from becoming a free state. Why would poor guys do that? Simple: They were paid. Proslavery organizations offered compensation to “border ruffians”: Return ferry fares to Kansas, a booze allowance, and a dollar a day, all for voting. A great deal.'
Don't know if you saw this already (I don't care if its not PC to say how handsome they are 🤗) but how often can you say you've been "introduced" to relatives of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-140251739
Ah, the Jeffersons.. That's a story! Although I suspect most of TJ's black descendants might prefer a cut of the inherited money to warm fuzzy photo opps (not speaking for them, just a hunch!) As for comparisons with today: You might say that, but I couldn't possibly comment. 😁 How cool it is that Dr. Etcheson's book was published in 2004, so not with one eye on recent events! Thanks, Shire!
OK, so I'm only a fraction of the way through this article but I had to comment. When I read, "Free reader? To see how NBH posts connect, upgrade from free today" my head went straight to the Fugitive Slave Act, but using today's vernacular.
Bounty hunters nab random black guy off the streets of New York. A witness protests, saying, "That's Mr. Williams! He's a 6th generation freeman!" To which the bounty hunter replies, "It's OK. He's being upgraded from free today!"
Tim, that's in extraordinarily bad taste, and also brilliant and hilarious. Wish I'd thought of it!