November 9, 2008
Moment of Pride
An African-American -- and extremely liberal -- relative of mine sends several cartoons by email. He got them from Slate. He lists this as his favorite:
This may not melt the bitter and disappointed hearts around ThreeSources, but to ignore it is to deny yourself some joy.
UPDATE: As an olive branch, perhaps, he included this as well:
2008
Posted by John Kranz at November 9, 2008 5:46 PM
"Ratified" says Toles, with the election of a mostly-black man as president. Yet it was the Constitution which required ratification, not the Declaration of Independence from which the hallowed phrase was actually borrowed. The Declaration was not ratified, but voluntarily and individually signed by 56 men (yes, men, and white ones at that) who "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
One wonders how, if all men are "created" equal, how it can be justified to take from one later in his life and give it to another. (I know the answer - this is a rhetorical question.)
Indulge me in one more borrowed phrase from "some Jefferson guy's" masterwork:
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
"Ratified" says Toles, with the election of a mostly-black man as president. Yet it was the Constitution which required ratification, not the Declaration of Independence from which the hallowed phrase was actually borrowed. The Declaration was not ratified, but voluntarily and individually signed by 56 men (yes, men, and white ones at that) who "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
One wonders how, if all men are "created" equal, how it can be justified to take from one later in his life and give it to another. (I know the answer - this is a rhetorical question.)
Indulge me in one more borrowed phrase from "some Jefferson guy's" masterwork:
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
Posted by: johngalt at November 12, 2008 5:06 PM | What do you think? [1]