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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain (Albion) to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the modern United States.[1] Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture."[2] Fischer describes Albion's Seed as a modified Teutonic germ theory within the framework of the Frontier Thesis and the migration model.
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: theantediluvian
Do we have a WET? White Entertainment Television? Does our Congress have a WCC, White Congressional Caucus? How about a WCF, White College Fund?
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: theantediluvian
Do we have a WET? White Entertainment Television? Does our Congress have a WCC, White Congressional Caucus? How about a WCF, White College Fund?
Everything that's not BET, etc.
Do we have a WET? White Entertainment Television? Does our Congress have a WCC, White Congressional Caucus? How about a WCF, White College Fund?
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: seeker1963
Completely unfazed by your last argument being shot down, you just move on? Why can't you just admit that Unite the Right is a rally for a bunch of white supremacists and be done with it? You're not a white supremacist are you? You're not a white nationalist are you? You're not a neo-Nazi are you? I assume you find their ideologies reprehensible?
So why try to deflect and distract from what they are? I'm sure you wouldn't look at a Klan rally and try to claim they're a bunch of linen aficionados?
Do we have a WET? White Entertainment Television? Does our Congress have a WCC, White Congressional Caucus? How about a WCF, White College Fund?
It's like you just choose to ignore history. There's a reason all these things came into being. The UNCF started in the 40s, you know a generation before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 finally put an end to white discrimination against black people under the law. IIRC, it was started out of Tuskegee University.
Do you know how Tuskegee University came into being in the 1880s? Black civic leaders cut a deal with a former Confederate officer that if they would rally votes for him, he'd push for the establishment of a black university in Alabama... because... wait for it... black people weren't allowed in white universities and there was a need to have a university to educate black teachers so they could in turn teach in those black schools that the white conservatives had relegated black people to.
This is just simple objective reality stuff.
When the CBC was formed in 1969, there'd only been 7 black Representatives elected to the House in the 20th century (the first in the late 20s). Segregation had literally just ended. Of course the handful of black people in Congress were banding together to fight for equity.
You try to pass these things off as some sort of examples of black privilege but the reality is that only came into being in the first place because of white racism and the exclusion of black people from mainstream institutions.
Why can't you just admit that Unite the Right is a rally for a bunch of white supremacists and be done with it?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Sublimecraft
See!
If you allow for free speech, then people will eventually reveal themselves for the people they really are!
Ta-daaaa!
20 white supremacists?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Sublimecraft
The ultimate irony is that if they actually got their way, they wouldn't have the freedom to protest any more.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Sublimecraft
The ultimate irony is that if they actually got their way, they wouldn't have the freedom to protest any more.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Sublimecraft
The ultimate irony is that if they actually got their way, they wouldn't have the freedom to protest any more.
It's like they've been locked in a temporal propaganda bubble for 20 years and then unleashed on the public for 24 hours today - like a government experiment on social engineering and the planting of memes and ideas.