Tag: racism
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Frederick Douglass’s Travels to Italy and Egypt (1886-1887)
Reflections tying classical worlds to Black American history and Douglass’s rhetorical strategy in engaging with classical antiquity and critiquing aspects of Catholic ceremonial from a republican, Protestant perspective. In the waning days of September 1886, Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and statesman set sail from New York aboard the steamer City of Rome, beginning an extended…
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Classical Republicanism and Stoicism refutes Racial Hierarchies
Classical Republicanism, as articulated in ancient Greek and Roman political philosophy emphasizes the pursuit of the common good for the CIVITAS through civic virtue, balanced governance, and participation in public life, without grounding these ideals in biological or racial hierarchies as understood in modern terms. Far from being inherently racist, its foundational texts reveal a…
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The Lost Meaning of Republicanism in Modern America
Americans often appear indifferent to “Republicanism” (meaning the classical republican tradition) because the word has been almost completely hijacked in everyday language by the Republican Party. When most people hear “republicanism” today, they think of the Grand Old Party, Trump, culture-war talking points, or at best vague slogans about “limited government.” The deeper philosophical tradition…
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Abolitionist David Walker turns Fire into Radical Revolution against Slaveholding Republic
David Walker turns ancient philosophy of Fire into radical revolutionary resistance against the slaveholding Republic. DAVID WALKER’S APPEAL AS THE FULLEST AMERICAN EMBODIMENT OF THE ARCHAIC PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE David Walker’s Appeal (1829) is indeed the fullest and single most American embodiment of the ancient tradition of FIRE come down to us through the philosophy…
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Cornell Professor Robert Sternberg debunks race-based IQ Statistics
There is no debate about Black-White gaps or sub-Saharan Africa estimates of 70-80 IQ. The entire so-called debating of the issue is used to justify the world envisioned by proponents of White ethno-states and ethno-nationalist ideology and done by individuals in bad faith and bot armies. In truth, all we find are White people, who…
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The Conflicted Albert Pike, and a Wounded Union: Early Years 1830s to 1880s
INTRODUCTION: ECLECTIC MASONIC PHILOSOPHER IN CONFLICT Albert Pike’s editorial career exhibits a philosopher highly in conflict with himself, and I hope his inner conflicts alongside his philosophical legacy may provide us the chance for reflection about similar men of our day. People fixate on Albert Pike’s pro-slavery stance (and often exaggerate or distort it) for…
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Anti-Blackness as World Norm
Thoughts on Anti-Blackness as the norm in the world, asks “Do I Live in Your World?” DO I LIVE IN YOUR WORLD We do not live in “a White man’s world,” and certainly not in the world of the racists and anti-blackness far and wide across this planet. Is this not what we are taught…
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The “Divine Spark” in White Racist Biopolitics
If you have kept up, this has a relation to Theosophy in its global context, particularly when addressing the teachings of ancestral and ancient Native American and African philosophical religious traditions. In the midst of researching the life and ideas of Scottish-Rite Freemason Albert Pike based on Manly P. Hall’s lecture, because his toppled statue…
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Influence of Tsarist and Nazi Propaganda Tactics on Modern Normalization of Racism
The interesting pattern in the proliferation of political and religious conspiracies in the twentieth to twenty-first century is that many of their sources are rooted in Nazi era propaganda and older anti-Jew tactics. Many of these tactics and conspiracies emerge particularly in that era of pamphleteers and the technological advancements in the twentieth-century of the…
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The “Racial Karma” of the White Conquerors
Helena Blavatsky and her teachers (defending India’s civilization and history) wrote about the “racial karma” of “the White conquerors” (after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire), i.e., colonialism, and her teachers explained that “civilization is an inheritance.” There were very important things stated in the letter with that statement. Sometimes, it was stated that no degree of patriotism or nationalism can stem the tide of…
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What should be the role of Black people in this time of political despair?
Just because the world puts empathy for Black people at the bottom of the rung, does not mean we ought to expect the world to put empathy for us at the middle-point or highest rung. No doubt, empathy everywhere by everyone is needed. Just because empathy for Black people is at the bottom of the…
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Racism, Freemasonry and fighting degeneration of American Politics
A situation I have absolutely no patience for is the condition esotericists everywhere find themselves in. What has been the main obstacle to simple propagation of Theosophy, without any elaborate spiritual explanation? This is gossip, instigation, inner conflict, mass paranoia (an intrinsic feature to American politics), pre-established religious conditioning, hoaxes and the flaws of human…
The American Minervan 