The problem is that individual responsibility means nothing unless it accompanies, as a sine qua non, a fierce insistence on collective responsibility. That's why democracy can rock the world, if it ever comes to pass. Only individual choice can conjoin to yield collective strength. Otherwise, no authority is possible without responsibility: no responsibility signifies anything real without the authority to bring it to pass.
And authority starts with, or at the very least includes as an irreplaceable attribute, a high degree of historical consciousness. The present springs from the past. Ignore this core notion and vicious idiocy as the policy-flavor of the day becomes unavoidable. This concept is the basic undergirding of the work of Reverend Wright and many others, this humble correspondent included.
That's why this essay starts by listing cases of USG terror that have occurred as self-serving expressions of ruling-class interests:
Documenting and developing these facts reveals a complexity and multi-sidedness, however, that allow both a few rude reactionaries and many slippery liberals to slither away from owning-up to the inescapable conclusion: as the Reverend Dr. Wright exclaimed, 'God might very well damn America.'
In fact, not only do backers of business-as-usual slink away from criticisms, but they also spit in the face of the critics. The SOP reply to any such an idea of deconstruction of American pretense is loud and angry. The response is also uniform: 'Such anti-American views ought to be exterminated.' Any inclination to espouse a dialog is out of the question among such boosters, who so passionately decry the naysayers.
In response, Anderson Cooper has quoted, contextually (click here), from Wright's Spring, 2008, sermon, "Confusing God and Government," in which the President's one-time pastor uttered the fiery line, "God Damn America!" Wright's imprecation is not without foundation, Cooper finds.
The CNN correspondent quoted the pugnacious pastor. "'We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism. We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.'"
But restating these historical truisms, while such elocution is important, is not the primary purpose of this little narration. After all, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Chief Red Cloud, Geronimo, Eugene Debs, Mary Harris ('Mother') Jones, Joe Hill, Malcolm Little, and tens of millions of others fought for human rights and social justice for salt-of-the-earth working folks.
These little-heralded toilers (such as Reverend Wright's family, for instance) built this country, brick by brick, rail-tie by rail-tie, spot-weld by spot-weld. Even if such of their social struggles for equality as union and civil rights campaigns barely counterbalanced the routine extraction of lucre from the backs and bellies of slaves and from the looting of Native peoples and so on and so forth, these battles for social justice have provided a powerful counterpoint to capital's ruling ruthless brutality.
Instead of repeating either a general litany of complaint or an overall paean to triumphant resistance, however, this essay attempts to establish a stage on which to observe America, or to put in place a lens with which to examine the gringo conscience and consciousness. The rationale for this is that such an effort allows an observer to consider specific cases of past ignominy more intelligibly and intelligently.
Such re-visioning of the 'mainstream' annals of America has led, inevitably, to the already-mentioned labels of revisionism or worse. Such monikers are tantamount to insult among the denizens of establishment points of view. Thus, even having the temerity to advance such contentions has elicited regular condemnation of anyone who would reveal the sorts of relationships and missteps that Jeremiah Wright has depicted.
A LITTLE-KNOWN MEMO THAT OUGHT TO BE REQUIRED READING FOR CITIZEN-DISCUSSION
Overview
Michael Cort, for example, has been prominent in 'damning' revisionists and other finger-pointers (click here) in relation to the nuclear matters that have so fascinated the author of the essay now in front of readers. Cort propounds an overturning of those interpretations, like the good Reverend Wright's, which, so to say, hold America's feet to the fire about the history and development of the Nuclear Fool Cycle, precisely the area of concern that this humble correspondent intends to explore at this time.
The general context of this microscopic slice is the nuclear dawn that arguably began with Leo Szilard's 1934-patenting of processes for sustaining Uranium chain reactions, or with the 1939 FDR letter (click here) that he drafted for Albert Einstein's signature.
This brief communiqu???? served to inaugurate first the Uranium Committee and eventually the Manhattan Project. From those eventualities onward, in revisionist thinking, a particularly egregious and ugly version of American administrative viciousness has unfolded.
Biographical, Conceptual Background to the S-1 Uranium Subcommittee
And authority starts with, or at the very least includes as an irreplaceable attribute, a high degree of historical consciousness. The present springs from the past. Ignore this core notion and vicious idiocy as the policy-flavor of the day becomes unavoidable. This concept is the basic undergirding of the work of Reverend Wright and many others, this humble correspondent included.
That's why this essay starts by listing cases of USG terror that have occurred as self-serving expressions of ruling-class interests:
- Ten million plus Africans fed into the maw of slavery, and then treated as sub-human servants of a superior 'race' when an opportunistic end to the 'peculiar institution' transpired;
- Ten million plus native-Americans butchered, cheated, and battered, the survivors shunted off to concentration camps, until the resources there beckon ruling interests to further broken promises;
- Tens of millions of children counted as chattel for capital's greedy accumulation of profit, any pretense of human-rights be damned, by the Supreme Court and the Chamber of Commerce, until my mother and father were kids;
- Tens of millions of Mexicans, Central Americans, Cubans, Filipinos, South Americans, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghans, and more, and more, and more, cut to pieces, starved, immolated, and otherwise decimated in the service of the empire that denies its existence.
Documenting and developing these facts reveals a complexity and multi-sidedness, however, that allow both a few rude reactionaries and many slippery liberals to slither away from owning-up to the inescapable conclusion: as the Reverend Dr. Wright exclaimed, 'God might very well damn America.'
In fact, not only do backers of business-as-usual slink away from criticisms, but they also spit in the face of the critics. The SOP reply to any such an idea of deconstruction of American pretense is loud and angry. The response is also uniform: 'Such anti-American views ought to be exterminated.' Any inclination to espouse a dialog is out of the question among such boosters, who so passionately decry the naysayers.
The CNN correspondent quoted the pugnacious pastor. "'We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism. We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.'"
But restating these historical truisms, while such elocution is important, is not the primary purpose of this little narration. After all, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Chief Red Cloud, Geronimo, Eugene Debs, Mary Harris ('Mother') Jones, Joe Hill, Malcolm Little, and tens of millions of others fought for human rights and social justice for salt-of-the-earth working folks.
These little-heralded toilers (such as Reverend Wright's family, for instance) built this country, brick by brick, rail-tie by rail-tie, spot-weld by spot-weld. Even if such of their social struggles for equality as union and civil rights campaigns barely counterbalanced the routine extraction of lucre from the backs and bellies of slaves and from the looting of Native peoples and so on and so forth, these battles for social justice have provided a powerful counterpoint to capital's ruling ruthless brutality.
Instead of repeating either a general litany of complaint or an overall paean to triumphant resistance, however, this essay attempts to establish a stage on which to observe America, or to put in place a lens with which to examine the gringo conscience and consciousness. The rationale for this is that such an effort allows an observer to consider specific cases of past ignominy more intelligibly and intelligently.
Such re-visioning of the 'mainstream' annals of America has led, inevitably, to the already-mentioned labels of revisionism or worse. Such monikers are tantamount to insult among the denizens of establishment points of view. Thus, even having the temerity to advance such contentions has elicited regular condemnation of anyone who would reveal the sorts of relationships and missteps that Jeremiah Wright has depicted.
A LITTLE-KNOWN MEMO THAT OUGHT TO BE REQUIRED READING FOR CITIZEN-DISCUSSION
Overview
Michael Cort, for example, has been prominent in 'damning' revisionists and other finger-pointers (click here) in relation to the nuclear matters that have so fascinated the author of the essay now in front of readers. Cort propounds an overturning of those interpretations, like the good Reverend Wright's, which, so to say, hold America's feet to the fire about the history and development of the Nuclear Fool Cycle, precisely the area of concern that this humble correspondent intends to explore at this time.
The general context of this microscopic slice is the nuclear dawn that arguably began with Leo Szilard's 1934-patenting of processes for sustaining Uranium chain reactions, or with the 1939 FDR letter (click here) that he drafted for Albert Einstein's signature.
This brief communiqu???? served to inaugurate first the Uranium Committee and eventually the Manhattan Project. From those eventualities onward, in revisionist thinking, a particularly egregious and ugly version of American administrative viciousness has unfolded.
Biographical, Conceptual Background to the S-1 Uranium Subcommittee
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