Regarding the front page article on Thomas Jefferson: First of all, please tell me how it is a 'bad thing' for Thomas Jefferson to have fallen in love with a woman who happened to be his slave? The egregious act would seem to me to be that he HAD slaves; not that he fell in love with one of them!
Indeed, this charming story did not sully the great man's reputation but rather seemed to confirm the nature of his extraordinary spirit which was very much against slavery. Indeed he tried with much effort to have its abolition made part of the original Constitution. But he quickly realized that there would be no New Nation if there were no slavery. He told the 'founding fathers' that they were leaving the problem to be revisited by their ancestors and that it would likely not be a pretty sight.
I do not know who authored these comments and because there are many RM Agents whose opinions and ideas I greatly respect, I hesitate to bare the full brunt of anger stirred by the article. (But to find it showcased on the frontpage...?) However, having said that, I suspect that whoever wrote it was either 1) having a bad day or 2) was testing to see how much we still cry for the old straight-jacketed constraints of the same (chaste-anglo-saxon-catholic-protestant-jewish-greedy) society that brought us to this mess in the first place. A bit of puppy nostalgia, perhaps? "Why, Scarlet, my dear...Let us pine for the old days when our daughters were pure and those lusting young bucks were hung from the Sycamore limb while their black sisters were regularly blessed by the seed of their white masters." (Now THAT is HIS Story!) Oh, my, did I spill a dirty, little secret?
Your comments smacked of racism and the old 'Glory-to-the-Daughters-of-the-Old-South' kind of Plantation bigotry that has always twisted the britches of the Daughters of the North.
I, for one, will have none of it. Thomas Jefferson was a man; Sally Hemmings was a woman. They may have had a relationship to rival the likes of Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde or Fred and Ethel. As long as we make it into a beautiful story of great Spirit, what does it matter? To those blacks who may claim Jefferson as their patriarch, why do you object if such a story brings joy to a people who deserve it as no other...except for perhaps the Native Americans...
And in fact, where is your indignation about the enslavement of Sally Hemmings? Instead of being so indignant about a great man who fell in love with a great woman (how are we to know any different? Maybe that was why he loved her...because she was the true spirit of greatness in her own right?), why don't you use some of that indignation to go after the REAL criminals in this country: Those men who have used their power to defile FREEDOM?
Making love is part of what makes life wonderful. It is a fact that the Churchmongers have come along and sought to control Society by shaming LOVE right out of us. Now look at the mess we are in: We are a loveless, self-centered, self-destructive, prurient herd of non-thinking slaves whose idea of 'freedom' is having enough money to buy what you want. Sad. Very sad.
Now it may be that your concern has to do with the idea that Jefferson's actions may be confused with Clinton's descent into the lacivious, heartless behavior of a madman. Sadly, the Clintons of the world are pathetic bodies without Souls. Anyone who cannot 'see' the difference between such salacious criminal intent, the strings of which, were (and are) being pulled by his NWO handlers, and the pure Spirit of a man (and myth) like Thomas Jefferson is simply ignorin'-it. The chasm is so big the World itself could fall into it!
In fact, History is part fact and part myth. Our entire society is built on this mix. Sometimes the stew is spiced with more myth than fact; sometimes more fact than myth, such as now when they are telling us that our burgeoning Minds are only size 3 but we can clearly see they are size 10 and will no longer fit their old social 'mays' and 'can'ts'. Didn't you ever wonder WHO made the rules in the first place? Who ever said that it was okay to kill all the Indians, take their land and rape the earth of its minerals? Gee, a two year old can make better rules than that!
The History that you are so determined to protect, is just a story: HIS Story. A story that has LONG been "subverted for profit and propaganda"! I, for one, am bored to tears of it. Indeed, I think it is high time we heard HER Story: Who was Sally Hemming? What kind of exciting, interesting woman might catch the attention of one of the Greatest Men of all time? What Spirit must have flowed through ebony limbs that would be strong enough to burble forth after 200 years and create this controversy?
What we must remember through all of this is that there is a BIG difference between Story and Spirit. ...AND Story WITH Spirit and Story without it... The AMERICAN SPIRIT IS AGELESS AND ABSOLUTE. The AMERICAN SPIRIT is THE SPIRIT OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL OUT OF BONDAGE of the powermongers who suck the remnants of soul like a weasel sucks an egg.
What better example could we have to understand the difference: William Jefferson Clinton 'sucked'; Thomas Jefferson LOVED Sally Hemmings. What better icon for freedom could there be than a Man who hated slavery and fell in love with his slave? Joseph Campbell would love this story!
The climate of 'fostered ignorance' of which you speak has been 'ruling' us for eons. It is clearly the legacy from the 'spawn of a lower star'. It is time the American Spirit (worldwide!) served notice on that 'spawn' that its 'lease' was up and that we are evicting it. Not in the physical warmongering sense, but evicting it and its Roof Brain Chatter control from our MINDS! Since it exists ONLY because we think it part of our landscape, the moment we 'tune it out' it is gone! Poof. Just like that. (Dorothy pulled back the curtain and the Wizard's Story (HIStory) CHANGED forever!)
You are correct about one thing: We are in danger of losing our unique heritage to the forces of manipulated conformity and political correctness. But it is that same 'manipulated conformity and political correctness' that would condemn Thomas Jefferson falling in love with a young woman who happened to be a black slave!! Let's not throw the 'baby' out with the bathwater here, okay?
Thanks for the opportunity,
Esclarmonde
P.S. Hobie, thanks for caring. Been to 'school'. (Rather suspect you and many of our fellow agents have been as well?) Will share more of it as it bubbles forth.
E.
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