Tag: slavery
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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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Interview of Man and Woman with Family who owned Slaves
In the first interview with a man, he answers questions about how he personally viewed Black people in the United States, when Black people were slaves, and considered property. Black Interviewer: “What did you think we were, before you began to view us as human-beings?” White Man: “We thought of you almost as a very…
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Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander
Leslie Alexander examines slavery, the persistence of Racism, and how this challenged the American Revolution’s core ideals (July 2021)
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Normalization of Conspiracies: Jews, Khazar Myth and Israelism
Do Jews control the world? “Jews?” No. In an attempt to establish a position, that would implicate and thus persecute all Jews is usually the objective of the belief. As an exercise, how many of the chief executive officers of any of the major banking institutions are Jewish? Isn’t the banking system itself in Israel…
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The Psychology of “Gay Agenda” Conspiracy among Black People
I am not familiar with Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in this video, but he has an incredible resume and credentials. I am wary of other Black scholars, or ideologues, that propagate homophobic conspiratorial notions and outlooks like the “Gay Agenda,” because I have to hear similar nonsense from…
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Columbia (American Minerva) and the Fasces in Harper’s Weekly “Reconstruction” for Equal Rights (1868)
EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCACY “Reconstruction” by German-born American political cartoonist, Thomas Nast illustrates the Southern states being brought back into order with the North under the ancient symbol of collective power, authority and fraternity, the fasces and the nation’s motto, E Pluribus Unum (“Out of Many, One”). The symbolism of Columbia (America) depicted in Thomas Nast’s…
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James Madison on the ‘Divine Ideal’ in Republicanism
Federalist Papers No. 55 James Madison, lead drafter of the Constitution stated once, that Republicanism admits the existence of qualities in man in a higher degree, and is thus built on a spiritual Ideal of man’s nature. We recognize James Madison as a man who rejected the notion of racial superiority, although he failed to put…
The American Minervan 