A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
New York has an undeserved reputation of being free, of being liberal, when compared to other American cities in the South.
That key Reconstruction-ending plotters and financiers, were also from New York, seems to have been lost upon our people, if it were ever known, as New York City is regaled as "The Big Apple," its supposed attributes are haled in song, dance, drama, and literature.
This year, 2016, the eyes of the nation of the world are again upon New York, as New Yorkers, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battle for President of the United States.
To place New York in true context, I look back upon the so-called "Civil War Draft Riots," of July 1863, where hundreds of rioting white men in mobs, shocked the nation's war/time conscience by committing unspeakable acts of brutality against untold numbers of innocent, largely defenseless black people: men, women, children!
New Yorkers who burned down that Negro orphanage while rioting against the draft in July 1863, showed themselves to be every bit as evil, as callous--nay, worst--than more notorious Confederate cohorts, to whom these babies, at least, had monetary value as slaves, but who were valueless to the murderous mob, who refused to fight in a war that might free them or their dusky-colored kin.
Three hundred (300) Negro babies, orphans, were allegedly incinerated by these racist white men, mostly Irish immigrants, before their riotous felonies upon purposefully-aimed fellow "citizens" abated. Acts included Negro lynchings from lamp poles, robbing, burning, bombing, killing, maiming, rapine.
If these racially rabid white men would burn down an orphanage and helpless its Negro babies, because of their unpatriotic anger at being subjected to a draft to fight for the survival of their native or adopted country , then, such persons plainly had no regard for God, for innocent life, or for the country, but only for themselves!
Needless to say say, no federal, or state prosecutions ensued against the dozens of arsonists, anarchists, rioters, who committed these acts. The only persons prosecuted at law were Negroes who were fighting back to defend themselves, family, property , against these roving gangs, whose incendiary acts spanned several days and nights.
New York states of mind span the human ideological spectrum from keen to corrupt, bright to banal.
Monday, November 7, 2016
A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
New York has an undeserved reputation of being free, of being liberal, when compared to other American cities in the South.
That key Reconstruction-ending plotters and financiers, were also from New York, seems to have been lost upon our people, if it were ever known, as New York City is regaled as "The Big Apple," its supposed attributes are haled in song, dance, drama, and literature.
This year, 2016, the eyes of the nation of the world are again upon New York, as New Yorkers, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battle for President of the United States.
To place New York in true context, I look back upon the so-called "Civil War Draft Riots," of July 1863, where hundreds of rioting white men in mobs, shocked the nation's war/time conscience by committing unspeakable acts of brutality against untold numbers of innocent, largely defenseless black people: men, women, children!
New Yorkers who burned down that Negro orphanage while rioting against the draft in July 1863, showed themselves to be every bit as evil, as callous--nay, worst--than more notorious Confederate cohorts, to whom these babies, at least, had monetary value as slaves, but who were valueless to the murderous mob, who refused to fight in a war that might free them or their dusky-colored kin.
Three hundred (300) Negro babies, orphans, were allegedly incinerated by these racist white men, mostly Irish immigrants, before their riotous felonies upon purposefully-aimed fellow "citizens" abated. Acts included Negro lynchings from lamp poles, robbing, burning, bombing, killing, maiming, rapine.
If these racially rabid white men would burn down an orphanage and helpless its Negro babies, because of their unpatriotic anger at being subjected to a draft to fight for the survival of their native or adopted country , then, such persons plainly had no regard for God, for innocent life, or for the country, but only for themselves!
Needless to say say, no federal, or state prosecutions ensued against the dozens of arsonists, anarchists, rioters, who committed these acts. The only persons prosecuted at law were Negroes who were fighting back to defend themselves, family, property , against these roving gangs, whose incendiary acts spanned several days and nights.
New York states of mind span the human ideological spectrum from keen to corrupt, bright to banal.