From CGI member oldmaninthedesert:

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The more you surround yourself with honesty,the more you are able to see the charade they have painted as the nation's history.Time and time again you come up upon the hard truth of reality.It appears this country had a habit of naming it's prestigious schools after shall we say nefarious characters,with very sketchy backgrounds like John Hopkins.Today we will add the Brown clan from Rhode Island,to the hall of shame,as they were one of the biggest profiteers from the slave trade.The last 10 years has seen a big push by those who want to see part of the countries history erased via,making teams and schools lose their mascots and names etc because they might offend people.Well if that is the case I am all in for changing the name of this so called institution of Higher learning.Call it whatever you like but lets stop honoring a family of slave traders....

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[...The Cushings represented the American aristocracy. Thomas Cushing was an active merchant and a political ally of Sam Adams's father. Cushing, whose nickname was Death's Head,12 saw no need to separate politics from profit. As a businessman he attempted to serve both "gods." He gathered intelligence information on the Tories but was sometimes reluctant to share it. He was equally reluctant to elevate the conflict, and checking the "violent designs of others" was his goal before the war.

The men in charge of supplying the military might today be accused of allowing themselves excessive commissions and profits. In the eighteenth century it was almost expected that these men and their friends would use their posts for personal gain. While Cushing and Gerry made fortunes in the war effort, those who supplied them thought nothing of marking up goods 500 percent. The smaller merchants saw little wrong in selling to the British as well, and in overcharging the French, who had entered the war to save the colonists' efforts.13

The Cushing clan raised self-interest to the most treasonous levels. After making profits during the war, the Cushings, led by Caleb Cushing, acted in a step-by-step method to defeat the interest of the United States and to enrich themselves. Caleb Cushings mentor was John Lowell, who served as an agent for many of the wealthy British forced out of Boston. He would go on to play a leading role in New England's Essex Junto, which attempted to incite the region to secede from the newly formed United States because the merchants did not like the policies of Jefferson. Shortly after going to work for Lowell, Cushing married the daughter of a leading member of the secessionist movement.

Cushing became a power broker and apparently would stop at nothing to turn a profit. He was a one-man Masonic conspiracy. As a thirty-third-degree Mason of the Scottish Rite, he used his influence to enrich himself, bring his country to war against China and Mexico, and finally lead the United States to the breakup of the Union....]

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/01/part-4secret-societies-of-americas.html