http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHoWq2LmnBE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Duluth-lynching-postcard.jpg
Duluth, Minnesota 1920

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Smith
Marion, Indiana 1930

http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/images/event_omaha_courthouse_lynching.jpg
Omaha, Nebraska 1919

What makes the red states red? Poverty. Why? The Civil War.

What makes the red states red? Religion Why? Liberation Theology is a political weapon used as a result of the aftermath of the Civil War.

Why the Civil War? The red states were trading agricultural for manufactured goods at far more competitive prices with Europe than New England. New England industrialists sent troops into the red states to liberate gold, not blacks.

The rest is oligarchical collectivism (see newspeak).

Look, enough of the personal attacks. People disagree, so what? What’s the need in folks to try to kill, steal and destroy?

I don’t know Buddy; I’d like to meet him/her one day. My email is easy: Dennis@DennisMansfield.com

Come, let us have coffee and talk,

Dennis

thanx

Most lynchings occurred in and around the large industrial centers…the places where job competition among blacks and whites reached its peak. And it happened during the late 1920’s in places like NYC and Chicago…not the during ’50’s or in the agricultural South. The 20’s mark the era of lynchings…the 50’s and 60’s mark the era of extremist judicial activism and also the violent domestic terror campaign of The Weather Underground.

Where’s the author’s source regarding lynching statistics? He just assumes we’re supposed to rely upon a system of common knowledge fabricated by the radical reconstructionists still operating to this day. This system of knowledge that says the South is more racist and more lynch-prone is simply a cultural myth, like religion. It was created to control, dominate, and exploit the resources (military) of the red states.

Lynchings occurred during the Great Depression and in the industrial Northeast, and the disproportionately fewer in number that actually did happened in the South are the only ones ever mentioned by the dominate media forces. Ask yourself…who controlled the record-keeping processes? …who controlled the media…the banks…the police…the law…the entirety of the federal government? The same folks who won the Civil War. It is and always has been those people who tell you what you to believe. It’s all a radical propaganda machine operating via newspeak with the aim of economic exploitation of the red states. Why do so many accept on blind faith everything that is spoon-fed them with regard to American culture?

I am writing because you seem to care enough to ask the tough questions, and I would like to, as you say, greet you with conversation:

You are right to take a road trip to answer your questions about what is going on in American society…because it’s a long road back to the reality, I gather, you have witnessed. I mean, it is easy to be critical of people who are struggling and yet have as firm a grasp on the realities of this country’s hard-earned liberty, as they do their own bootstraps. Perhaps they’re just struggling. None the less, if they are the ones in touch (with the bricks-and-mortar world), you should be asking yourself and your fellows: Where does that leave me/us? You see, there is a correlation between ones distance from common experiences and ones distance from common sense. These are the people in the trenches. You, have essentially gone into the trenches to see what they see. The question that we in the trenches have of you, is: Have you come with an open mind (to say nothing of genuine compassion), or only to fuel your own crusade? You see, if your only intention is to step on those in the way of you getting what you want, then it is you who have become the problem.

Is it any wonder that those who have risen above the trench-level, should be baffled by what goes on in the bowels of the American machine? Be honest, have you not been thinking that they (the red states people) are all somehow beneath you? Certainly, it would be wrong for those whom only drink of the milk of our prosperity, to blame the milkers for the dilemma caused by their own disconnect position. I would hope that, like an inner city child on a fieldtrip to a farm, you have not decided that the answer is to sell the farm — but rather, to return and tell the others –to relax, that we need each other; that, in fact, you have learned that the one cannot exist without the other — and that to try and separate the two, would shut off the spigot from which you drink! Can music and the liberal arts exist alone? Do you not know that the one is the product of the other!

The one truth that you (we all) would do well to begin with, is that we all are where we are –because of those who went before us. Be grateful for those who made it possible for you to do what you do. Do you not understand that those in the red states, are bringing forth the next generation of your own kind? Did you learn (I hope) that their strife is the very thing that allows you to thrive? Honor them. Respect them, as with your elders, because only with their blessing — are you going anywhere!

And, do go far, drink up — or we shall have milked the cows –for nothing!

P.S. Micheal, thanks for your reply!

have you heard of Grigori Gongadze? He was a son-of-a-bitch journalist who got his head cut off (never found) and his body dumped, (found) in a wooded spot outside town because he figured he was smart enough to detail - and people were ready enough to listen to - the depth of corruption of the democratically-elected President here. That was five years ago. People are forgetting already. Friends suggest that this is the inevitable result of a hard-won survival mechanism. They dump enough purges and pogroms and Chernobyls on your head and the best thing to do is just figure a way to live through it, and then forget. And God save the one who attempts to open the dialogue or document the abuse.

But what about a place where all that shit is not supposed to happen?

Rant on, my friend. If all you accomplish is to make us stop - even for a minute - and think, you do a good thing and advance the species.

Praying for your head.