“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.”
- Frederick Nietzsche
"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Monday, April 13, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Word of the Day
dispirit –
To lower ones morale; make despondent; dishearten.
Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dispirit
I choose this word because of the fact that I feel that a lot of Americans have become, or are becoming more-and-more dispirited with our current social construct as well as with the direction that “our” country is headed. A lot of people are losing hope for the future of America and the “American Way”.
To lower ones morale; make despondent; dishearten.
Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dispirit
I choose this word because of the fact that I feel that a lot of Americans have become, or are becoming more-and-more dispirited with our current social construct as well as with the direction that “our” country is headed. A lot of people are losing hope for the future of America and the “American Way”.
Quote of the Day
"There is nothing more painful to me, at this stage of my life, than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."
- The Reverend Jesse Jackson, as quoted in US News, 3/10/96
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Quote of the Day
In his book, "Days of Grace", Arthur Ashe writes concerning the brutality of the Los Angeles riots:
"I felt sick. That's not us, I thought. That's just not us. It was as if spirits from another planet had come to earth and invaded black bodies. We were once a people of dignity and morality; we wanted the world to be fair to us, and we tried, on the whole, to be fair to the world. Now I was looking at the new order which is based squarely on revenge, not justice, with morality discarded. Instead of settling on what is right, or just, or moral, the idea is to get even."
I may not agree with Arthur Ash on everything he writes in this quote (we were once a people of dignity and morality); however, I do agree with what he says about how blacks want revenge. This is going to happen more-and-more as time goes on. Blacks do not want equality; they want revenge for something that is irrelevant to your everyday person. These were not "spirits from another planet", as Ash writes; they are ever-intensifying, always-present spirits that are surfacing more-and-more among blacks. Again, it is only going to get more intense as their agenda "snowballs".
"I felt sick. That's not us, I thought. That's just not us. It was as if spirits from another planet had come to earth and invaded black bodies. We were once a people of dignity and morality; we wanted the world to be fair to us, and we tried, on the whole, to be fair to the world. Now I was looking at the new order which is based squarely on revenge, not justice, with morality discarded. Instead of settling on what is right, or just, or moral, the idea is to get even."
I may not agree with Arthur Ash on everything he writes in this quote (we were once a people of dignity and morality); however, I do agree with what he says about how blacks want revenge. This is going to happen more-and-more as time goes on. Blacks do not want equality; they want revenge for something that is irrelevant to your everyday person. These were not "spirits from another planet", as Ash writes; they are ever-intensifying, always-present spirits that are surfacing more-and-more among blacks. Again, it is only going to get more intense as their agenda "snowballs".
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