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Progressives have transformed Martin Luther King Junior’s dream into a phantasmagorical nightmare

Posted: January 18, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Martin Luther King Junior’s I Have a Dream speech is one of the most iconic moments in American history.  That inspirational speech should have been treasured by all Americans, for so many reasons.  If  Martin Luther King Junior were alive he would be most disappointed in the manner American progressives have turned his truly influential speech completely on his head.

Based on this excerpt, how do think MLK Jr. would react to the violence caused by Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA?

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.

Martin Luther King Junior would not approve of the absolute obsession with race that the American Political Left has demonstrated for the past several decades.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Contrast Martin Luther King Junior’s I have a Dream speech with this: Systemic racism: What does it mean and how can you help dismantle it (usatoday.com)

Glenn Harris, president of Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines, defined it as “the complex interaction of culture, policy and institutions that holds in place the outcomes we see in our lives.”

“Systemic racism is naming the process of white supremacy,” Harris said.

Harris said systemic racism creates disparities in many “success indicators” including wealth, the criminal justice system, employment, housing, health care, politics and education. He said that although the concept dates back to work done by scholar and civil rights pioneer W. E. B. Du Bois, the concept was first named during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and was further refined in the 1980s.

Even worse is all racial hate included with this entry on a supposed dictionary website: White privilege Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

the set of social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race in a culture characterized by racial inequality.

by discussing the reality of white privilege, we’re not negating or invalidating other hardships that may come with each individual’s circumstances. Rather, we intend to shed light on the reality that white people are granted rights (whether they’re subtle or obvious), mmunities, and opportunities by their skin color, regardless of whether they asked for that privilege or not.—Mehak Anwar

And here, in white racism, was a shame of truly epic proportions—the shame of white supremacy that for centuries so squeezed the world with violence and oppression that white privilege was made a natural law.—Shelby Steele

Pam and Robert Proved Right Again

Posted: January 17, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I’m old enough to remember when Pam Geller and Robert Spencer were voices crying out in the wilderness warning of what Radical Islam and their allies in the left had in store and they were attacked on all sides as beyond the pale.

And now we have this in New York City:

This is what the left is, this is what it’s always been. There are those who tried to warn us, but they were ignored and now we are paying the price for our indifference to reality.

As we get closer to election day what the left go further and further in this direction to keep the Muslim vote on their side.

Crusading for cursive writing

Posted: January 16, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

Pennsylvania—like 28 other states—does not require students to write in cursive lettering.

Fortunately, at least one Pennsylvania politician is mounting a campaign to force students to learn how to write in cursive.

State Rep. Joe Adams, a Republican representing an area near Scranton, thinks it should be mandated and has proposed legislation to do so.

A former school superintendent, Adams said he believes it is important enough to find time to teach it, and he said so do experts in education, neurology, and psychology who offer up brain science and historical reasons to support the idea. He also gave some practical reasons.

“You can’t open a bank account without signing your name. You can’t buy a property or get a credit card without having to be able to sign your name,” Adams said. He added that a person’s signature can be a unique identifier that could be one thing artificial intelligence cannot reproduce.
“All those things pointed me to saying, this makes great sense,” Adams said.

Pennsylvania’s Education Secretary Khalid Mumin doesn’t consider cursive instruction to be vital.

“Secretary Mumin encourages schools to determine the best paths for their students to learn to communicate effectively in writing and achieve success, regardless of the mode of writing used to get there,” Education Department spokesman Taj Magruder Adams told PennLive.com.

Cumberland Valley, located in southern Pennsylvania near the Maryland border, decided to reintroduce cursive writing into the curriculum.

Robyn Euker, Cumberland Valley’s director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, said the district chose to require cursive instruction after noticing an increasing number of students with poor handwriting in the upper grades.

When the district was looking to adopt a new literacy curriculum, she said, it decided to buy the cursive writing supplement to address the handwriting concern.

Two years later, Euker said the feedback she had received was positive.

“I think it’s a little bit of a creative outlet for students,” she said.
Euker also said it seems beneficial for students with reading and writing issues. Writing in cursive has fewer starts and stops than in print. Words appear as one block instead of a series of separate letters, which can help students with dyslexia.

Given the benefits, including allowing students to read handwritten cards from older relatives, Euker said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more states require it.”

After all, it’s not an instruction that needs to be taught repeatedly. Once students learn it, the neuropathways allow them to associate a manuscript letter with how it looks in cursive and understand what is written, said Lynn Baynum, chair of Shippensburg University’s Teacher Education Department.

“When we first began teaching cursive a hundred years ago, we didn’t understand it was a pattern of associations we were doing to create a literate society,” Baynum said. “It’s also why keyboarding is important to teach, too, because we don’t want students slowing down their ability to communicate because they have to find a letter on the keyboard.”

Teaching cursive is a no-brainer to me.

Is this why the Biden Regime tried to cancel William Penn?

Posted: January 11, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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The cancel culture has become bolder and more asinine since this historically illiterate mob first declared war on the history and founding principles of the United States.  This rabble of brainwashed Marxists is operating under the direction of the leadership of the Democratic party.  

Statue after statue featuring our founding fathers have been torn down by either mobs of leftists, or progressive politicians, all under the guise of stamping out racism.  This supposed racism is only a smoke screen for disguising the true motive behind their reign of terror waged against statues.  Like all leftists, the cancel culture mobs here in the United States despise individual liberty.

At first I was perplexed at the latest victim of the cancel culture, William Penn.

The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors. Welcome Park was designed by the internationally acclaimed design firm Venturi & Scott Brown Associates. The park is located on the site of William Penn’s home, the Slate Roof House, and is named for the ship, Welcome, which transported Penn to Philadelphia. The design and construction of Welcome Park was funded by the Independence Historical Trust and was completed in 1982.

The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. The reimagined Welcome Park maintains certain aspects of the original design such as the street grid, the rivers and the east wall while adding a new planted buffer on three sides, and a ceremonial gathering space with circular benches. The Penn statue and Slate Roof house model will be removed and not reinstalled. In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will be installed on the south site wall to replace the Penn timeline.

It is unconscionable that the National Park Service under Joe Biden was responsible for this outrage.  There is some good news though: Biden Admin Retracts ‘Inclusive’ Proposal to Remove Statue from Park After Major Backlash (westernjournal.com)

Independence National Historical Park has withdrawn the review of a draft proposal to rehabilitate Welcome Park and closed the public comment period,” the National Park Service said in a statement.

“The preliminary draft proposal, which was released prematurely and had not been subject to a complete internal agency review, is being retracted,” it said. “No changes to the William Penn statue are planned.

It became abundantly clear why The Statue of William Penn was targeted by the Biden regime when the following quote by William Penn appeared in my Facebook Newsfeed in the form of a meme:

If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.

I was so impressed by this quote that I did a Google search for others.  Here is what I found on this website: Quotations from William Penn (ushistory.org)

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we do evil, that good may come of it…To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, … when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.”

No people can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyments of civil liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Conscience as to their Religious Profession and Worship.

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