"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." That or the many variations of the same thoughts that have flowed over the tongues of many different Americans and others worldwide are credited to the Spanish born, Americanized George Santayana, philosopher, poet and writer.
Though raised and educated in the United States, he never renounced his birthright or his Spanish passport and in 1911 at the age of forty-eight he left his position at Harvard University and returned to his native country never to return to America. But his authorship of the above saying will most likely be that for which he will be most remembered. Life is replete with such trivia over substance.
But the references made regarding learning from history do play important roles in all of our daily ventures and adventures. Americans, never ones to downplay trivias, bathe in the game; just as those who are guilty of actively participating in proving the merit of that long-ago saying that has endured the ages.
Just moments ago it seems, I read an article in "The Patriot Update" penned by David L. Goetsch on September 03, 2012, titled "Democrats Are Still Exploiting Blacks" and my first thoughts were that there are some cases in life where we just never learn from the experience.
Goetsch wrote on his "growing up in the South at a time when blacks were exploited by the Democrat Party. To these Democrats of old, blacks were not viewed as human beings to be treated with dignity and respect. Rather, they were viewed as a commodity to be exploited for cheap labor."
Ah the indignity of it all; the pompous and fatuous Democrats living high off the hog in their elected splendiferousness, patting their black subjects, er, constituents on their heads while reminding them of all the nice things that those same condescending dolts have gotten for them just for their simple vote to keep them in office.
Problem was, the con artist pols didn't recognize that those same people were beginning to identify that they were being humbled and degraded and maintained in a state of servitude and debt in a modern day style of slavery. And many were finding education sources to help enlighten them.
Little was said in those days, but just as sure as Reverend Jesse Jackson is much more of a racist than I am (Hymie-town anyone?), the abusive treatment both verbal and physical inflicted by the Democrat politicos against the African Americans, who were not then known by that appellation, was racism at its worst.
The reason why Democrats and their minority followers think that racism is found only in white Caucasians is because they believe that only whites 'benefit' from the use of that bit of nastiness. How do they benefit? That is the question I would like them to answer which I doubt they could logically do without resorting to lies of a ponderous nature. And I don't really believe that they actually know what racism is, except for what the Democrat Party leadership tells them it is to be.
They should all step back and examine the question, 'just what is racism, and how does it affect me?'?
Dr. David Goetsch writes the following which simplifies the understanding of this question:
"Blacks of today are no longer being beaten or lynched, but they are still being slapped down. And it is still Democrats who are doing the slapping. Blacks who stray from the plantation of government entitlements and object to the nanny mentality of Democrats are quickly labeled "Uncle Toms," "Oreos," or worse. They are attacked mercilessly and unrelentingly by Democrats who thought they had bought their loyalty by meting out government entitlements."
You all have probably either read of heard the pejoratives coming from not only Democrats but other black Democrats that are far worse than the "Uncle Toms" or "Oreos" mentioned above and in fact are so offensive that I will not list them here out of deference to the sensitivities of the people affected.
Goetsch also makes a key statement linking his feelings of his childhood recollections and the happenings of today, here:
"Just as there was nothing worse in the eyes of the Democrats of my childhood than a self-reliant, enterprising black man who could stand on his own two feet and face the world on his own terms, there is nothing worse to today's Democrats than a black man who refuses to be held in bondage by hypocritical liberals who fear nothing more than his independence and success."
Like beauty, racism is in the eye of the beholder. It's Democrat 'hate speech.'
Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.
Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.
He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.
