Denmark Vesey: By The Content of His Character

Friday, December 30, 2011

By The Content of His Character

3 comments:

that dude said...: Great commercial. Smart response to the MOUNTING pile of evidence in his writings and defense of his writing where he makes racist and homophobic comments.

Can both realities co-exist? Of course they can. Even the poster child for white racism, George Wallace, only came to racist stances after he lost an election to a rabid racist. He vowed never to get "out-niggered" again.

So if Ron Paul is in his heart a good man and only race baits for political gain...he's still a race baiting asshole.; Dec 31, 2011, 11:55:00 AM
Denmark Vesey said...: "he's still a race baiting asshole." Dude

Let's say he is.

His policies will still do more good for Black people than the NAACP, Barack Obama, and the entire Congressional Black Caucus ... COMBINED.

It's time black people stop thinking "who" (savior) and start thinking "what" (action).; Dec 31, 2011, 12:06:00 PM
that dude said...: Agreed. I only care about my interests being served, doesn't matter by who.

For me, Ron Paul is like that chick who looks good from afar, but up close is far from good.; Dec 31, 2011, 5:51:00 PM

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.

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Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).

"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"