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Monday, November 20, 2023

Review of The LAST CALL: RISE and FALL of PROHIBITION--1870 to 1933 by Daniel Okrent

A meticiulous, highly detailed accounting of how PROHIBITION came about along with other Reform movements in during that dramatic, controversial, and tragic period of time. What odd bedfellows though.

The huge effort to ban the importation, making, and using of acoholic beverages in the U.S. came about along with the Progressive era efforts at Moral Uplift by government force, for the restricing of immigration of eastern Europeans (Italians, Poles, Slavs, etc.), and Asians, Jews, and so on, many efforts to 'clean-up' corrupt government, attacks against other modern reform movements...

And, weirdly, a very strong support for the Ku Klux Klan (since it also was against alcoholic drinks, Roman Catholics, Jews, Blacks... The 1920's beginning in about 1914, there was an incredible 20thc century rise of that racist organization! The KKK was strongly
supported by Methodists, Baptists, even some Quakers (such as a large Quaker meeting in Indiana, where the lead pastor, a woman, invited about 30 white-robed KLANSMEN to the front of the meeting house!)

Of course, even President Woodrow Wilson supported Jim Crow laws! As a southener, when he came to power, he quickly SEGREGATED the Federal Government and soon violated 'freedom of speech' rights, etc.

Very strange. If you want to understand how all of this could happen, read this tragic very suspenseful 60-year history, The Last Call by Daniel Okrent.

Photos:

Will You Back Me Or Booze?” Propaganda Poster; with a photo of New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of Prohibition
Women’s Holy War, published by Currier & Ives, 1874, via Library of Congress, Washington D.


Before settinly into weeks of intense reading, I had already known quite a bit about Prohibition.
But I very quickly learned how little I actully knew of the specifics--how it came about, of why it happened, and of why it so woefully failed--the only time an admendment to the Constitution was later repealed!


Another shocking

Monday, August 21, 2023

In honor of the 60th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech--but caution

The FALSEHOODS of some Extremist Blacks’ Ideological Claims that All Whites are Guilty of Whiteness and White Supremacy
---Heck, some of these famous ANTI-RACIST ideologues criticize Martin Luther King and other Civil Rights leaders of the 1950-60’s as being guilty of some racism!!

For example, "anti-racist" Ibram X. Kendi's book, Stamped from the Beginning contains many historical falsehoods and is driven by immoral ideology.
Instead, Kendi actually claims that the only anti-racist leader was a pro-Soviet communist! Even worse, she refused to condemn the horrific evils of the Soviet Union!
MLK Book Image--Amazon

And ANTI-RACIST ideologues claim that NO Blacks can be racist--None, and that even criminals if they are Black have been imprisoned because of--not their crimes--but police racism and America's systemic racism!

The doctrine of ANTI-RACISM is one of the worst FALSE claims ever! It opposes reconciliation, integration, and condemns whole classes of people just like the Germans and the Soviets did in the 20th century. This unjust doctrine is Orwellian:_(
1. CAUTION! It is horrifically true that for several hundred years Europeans invaded, settled, dominated, and enslaved People of Color in the Americas (multi-millions of Native Americans, Black Africans, Asians, Mulattos,) etc.

Though keep in mind, that many of the Blacks sold into slavery were sold to White Slave Ships by Other Black Africans! That in America, many Native Americans, freed Blacks, etc. also owned slaves!!
And it is very immoral and bad that President Woodrow Wilson and other former presidents were guilty of Segregation, prejudice, and discrimination, etc.

And it is true that into the 20th century cities in the North of the U.S. had racist Sundown Towns, that Segregation lasted in the South until about 1970’s, etc.
And that SOME Americans of European descent are still racist even in the 21th century:_( I've met a few. HOWEVER
The general claim that all Whites in America, all police officers are guilty of racism and America is white supremacist is completely wrong.

IF in doubt of what I state, read objective histories of the Americas, check out millions of actual real Whites, MLK's emphasis upon reconciliation (not the color of people's skin!), Langston Hughes' Daybreak in Alabama, etc.

Heck, I know a family who has been condemned as racist! YET THEY ARE ACTUALLY A UNITED NATIONS--of various racial, ethnic groups including Black!
Or watch Black country singer Coffee Anderson's satire against these ANTI-RACIST IDEOLOGUES.

Also, this wondrous poem, "Daybreak in Alabama", by Langston Hughes, which carries the same Light-centered truths as MLK's speech.

Daybreak in Alabama

When I get to be a colored composer
I'm gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama

And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it
Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist
And falling out of heaven like soft dew

I'm gonna put some tall tall trees in it
And the scent of pine needles
And the smell of red clay after rain
And long red necks
And poppy colored faces
And big brown arms
And the field daisy eyes
Of black and white black white black people
And I'm gonna put white hands
And black hands and brown and yellow hands
And red clay earth hands in it

Touching everybody with kind fingers
Touching each other natural as dew
In that dawn of music when I
Get to be a colored composer
And write about daybreak
In Alabama.

Langston Hughes, "Daybreak in Alabama" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
-- Haiku Deck image


In the LIGHT,

Dan Wilcox

8/21/23

Saturday, November 7, 2015

The Horror of God Belief


Sometimes, days are from Hell. This week seems to be the case.

Christians and Muslims are saying some basically obscene things about God.

Think about this blasphemous statement:"But it is going exactly the way God planned it."

WHAT?!

God planned for millions of little children to be raped, abused, murdered...

God planned for the countless slaughters going on now around the world, for the beheading, burning, torturing, raping...

God planned the Jewish Holocaust and the other 4 million non-Jews who died in the Concentration Camps...

The Great War, 10 million dead in the trenches alone...

The U.S.and English Civil Wars...

The Taiping Rebellion...

The 30 Years War...

The Black Death...

The Crusades...

The prophet Muhammad at 50 years of age marrying a 9-year-old girl and beheading 500-900 Jewish young men...


Oh but life "is going exactly the way God planned it."

God planned the tsunami that slaughtered 250,000 Asians in only a few hours a few years ago?

God planned the killing of the little Jewish infant by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem several months ago?

God planned every cancer?

God planned every infant born with anencephaly?

God planned every elderly person suffering from severe alzheimer's?


TO HELL WITH THIS VIEW OF THINKING.





Hoping for the Light in this religious world of darkness,

Daniel Wilcox