Tag: slavery

Dear MAGA: 20250918 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W

So – what is happening on YouTube? Four samples!

(1) Check this out and let us know what you think. Yeah, it’s clickbait, with a clickbait thumbnail image.

SO – is this AI-generated anti-human propaganda – or nasty truth – or both? You can read the comments on the video, too.

(2) Chicks With Tats – How to Deal With Them

(3) Chick with XY blueprints and XX construction – in other words, transed by nature, so to speak.

I had heard of this genetic anomaly – rare but real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis

The TRANS-pusher left uses the existence of such people to justify their ideology, but the clear truth is that leftists are using medical sympathy to normalize sterilization of kids, and the medicalization of human sexuality.

I also have a theory about why “they” are pushing TRANS in Utah – and why the CIA basically set up camp there. I believe that they are trying to push the “right side” of the Overton Window on TRANS. The left is already stretched so far, as to have reached a breaking point. They need CONSERVATIVE buy-in on their “progress” agenda. The Mormons are a captive institution now, and can be used like a giant Charlie Manson or Jim Jones cult to lead the way on the CONTROLLED RIGHT. Much CIA research on converting conservatives goes on in Utah, IMO.

If this is correct, there should be other examples of this strategy, to say nothing of the “fake conservatives” on CNN.

(4) Big asteroid flyby today – with room to spare – so no need to be worried. Still, I’m glad they’re keeping an eye out for these things!

Have a great weekend!

W

Reparations for Slavery – Should Kamala Harris Pay?

I have commented here before about Kamala Harris’ supposed ancestor, a well-known slave owner in Jamaica named Hamilton Brown. Kamala’s paternal great-grandmother was Brown’s daughter, according to the listings on Findagrave. She was called “Miss Chrishy.” Her full name was Christiana Brown. She was born in 1888, and died in 1952:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272680546/christiana_brown

Hamilton Brown owned an enormous number of human beings, close to 500, scattered across multiple plantations.

Over the period 1815-1843, Hamilton Brown was recorded as owning the following plantations:

  • Grier Park Estate (1815-1832) 124 slaves 
  • Antrim Estate (1816-1832) 159 slaves
  • Minard Estate (1819-1839) 128 slaves 
  • Colliston (1825-1839) 108 slaves 

He also leased a number of other plantations (Beverly, Little River, Retirement, Runaway Bay and Unity Valley) and was an attorney (agent) to several others including Queenhithe. 

https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database/hamilton-brown-esq

Who knows how many slaves worked on the plantations he leased. There might have been 1000 or more in total. Brown was such an influential figure in Jamaica that a town, Brown’s Town, was named for him. It remains so today.

Speculation about this line of descent is not hard to find. But I was shocked by one source in particular, Kamala Harris’ father, Donald J. Harris. He wrote an article, still online as of this writing at Jamaica Global Online. I challenge each of you to go and read it. The astonishing part to me is the pride in the tone of the writing:

https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-jamaican-heritage/

I find no sense whatsoever of shame or sadness for the family’s possible slave-owning past. There are slave owners in my own ancestry, to my dismay. I can never speak of them without expressing my regret. Times were very different, of course, but to be proud of their “plantations” would never cross my mind.

In the article he wrote, Donald Harris’ proclaimed his father to have been known as “Maas Oscar,” clearly a colloquialism meaning “Master.” This illustrious character lived until 1974:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272680343/oscar_joseph_harris

Much has been made of the fact that the genealogical evidence for the claim that Kamala Harris’ family descends from Hamilton Brown is thin, and that is true. As a professional genealogist, I must agree. There is, however, enough evidence that PolitiFact included this quote from a British professor of slavery and emancipation in an article about the issue:

“[Trevor] Burnard, who wrote a book about Jamaican slave overseer Thomas Thistlewood, told us that if Kamala Harris’ father says he’s a descendant of Hamilton Brown, “I would be inclined to believe him.”

It wouldn’t be unusual for Harris to have “some slave owner heritage,” Burnard said. “That would be extremely normal for members of Jamaica’s middle class, especially the educated elite, which is where Kamala Harris comes from.””

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/14/looking-claims-kamala-harris-descendant-slave-owne

This is the part of this story that disturbs me. The fact that Harris’ father Donald was proud of his belief that his family traced back to this man, Hamilton Brown. The casual assumption that people would be impressed that Donald’s father was called “Maas Oscar.” That a town was named for his ancestor, the slave owner, was supposed to be cool.

That was what struck me. That to be “elite” in Jamaica for the Harris family meant being proud of slave owning heritage. This says a lot about Kamala Harris’ background that she might rather we didn’t know.