James Polk – Self Equanimity http://selfequanimity.com Current Affairs Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:11:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://i0.wp.com/selfequanimity.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SE-Copy.png?fit=32%2C32 James Polk – Self Equanimity http://selfequanimity.com 32 32 176655959 Blind Forgiveness!!!!!! http://selfequanimity.com/blind-forgiveness/ http://selfequanimity.com/blind-forgiveness/#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2021 05:18:51 +0000 https://selfequanimity.com/?p=1341 This is to my black brothers and sisters…. I would like to ask this question, is Trump really the worst president, a lot of my black brothers and sisters seem to think so ……. I was surprised at how much “we” think    Trump might just be the worst president in US history, I asked why would “we” ever think so ????? I went to a  place where all of today’s great men go for knowledge, GOOGLE!!  A lot of articles came up that confirm this, ( someone’s opinion). This confirmed to me how much we make decisions, based on slogans and emotions.

I’m going to bring a subject that is sensitive to us black people which is reparations for slavery, not to mention slavery itself, the question is do we really “feel” the way we claim we “feel” about slavery? if so then Trump would be far from the worse presidents.  What is the biggest “wrong” that was done to black people in this country? most black people will say SLAVERY!!!!!!!!!! not only will slavery come to mind but most people will put slavery at the top of the list. Then Jim Crow, followed by discrimination, Police Brutality, racism etc, the interesting thing is that most people will agree with me that everything can be traced to slavery. One must stop to ask the question, arent’ we being told what to feel at any moment? As someone who studied most of the presidents, ( if not all of them) I would hardly rank Trump as the worst president in history. Let’s take a look at why I said that. These are presidents who owned slaves, ( legally, picture of them on the featured  image)

  1. George Washington
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. James Madison
  4. James Monroe
  5. Andrew Jackson
  6. Martin Van Burren
  7. William Henry Harrison
  8. John Tyler
  9. James Polk
  10. Zachary Taylor
  11. Ulysses S Grant.

 

All these presidents owned slaves, in fact, George Washington received his first slave at age 11, kids want toys or a  bike for their birthday, well young George Washington got a slave, that should tell us how he viewed black people, etc….. he got a slave on his eleventh birthday…

Yet we are being told that Trump is the worst president in history?   but if we claim what we claim about slavery, Trump should be the last person on the worst president list, are we so forgiving that we are willing to forgive all these presidents, for their role in slavery just to put Trump on that list ??? This is insane!!!!

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Worse President in History???? http://selfequanimity.com/worse-president-in-history/ http://selfequanimity.com/worse-president-in-history/#respond Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:57:53 +0000 http://selfequanimity.com/?p=1064 2020 has certainly been an interesting year, dealing with shut down’s, the pandemic, among others,  but for the last 4 years we have had a very rocky presidency, the most interesting thing about all this is that people seem to forget a lot, and forget it quick to the convenience of the media, that can easily spin things around to make it look any way they want. I do remember when I ask people about  President Obama and what he has done, what is legacy is, ( Usually from black people), the answer I  usually receive is, “Oh president Obama’s hands were tied, he couldn’t do too much because he had distractions and was blocked from congress to the senate, yet the same people have conveniently overlooked the fact that over $30 Million dollars were spent for an investigation that wasn’t even true on president Trump. (Talk about tied hands huh, Mind you this is money that could have been used for better things) Today the media has projected a win for Joe Biden,  and to this day I’m amazed at how many people don’t know about his 47-year history in public office and who his friends were. Then when I tell them his record which are facts, by the way, most say Oh, he might have changed, etc, so then I ask, is it hate for Trump or love for Biden, which is it? because I cannot believe that people can be so forgiving,  there are people in prison right now who were put there because of the 1994 crime Bill, even his own Vice president (ELECT) had a problem with him and his history of hanging out with white supremacists. Mind you these were known White supremacists. Some of who freely used the N-Word on TV and some of who he eulogized.  Some of these people are,

John C Stennis,

George Wallace,

Herman Talmage,

James Eastland,

Jesse Helms,

Robert Byrd,

Strom Thurmond

 Very interesting to note that, though Donald Trump has said a few things that may seem to be racist, we have undeniable proof that Joe Biden actually hangs out with racist and actually worked on a few bills with them these bills goes against the interest of Black people.  Somehow we can be so forgiving about this just because we don’t like the other guy. The architect of systemic racism is the one telling us he is going to solve that problem. Everyone should be able to research these men,  it may interest people to know that Strom Thurmond,  was openly against the Civil rights act of 1957, and he filibustered the passage of the ACT, this man hated civil rights so much that he holds the record of the longest filibuster by a single person in US history,a record that still stands today, (17 years after his death). This is Joe Biden’s friend, when asked by Charlamagne the god, what he had done for black people, he said he voted to extend acts rights, no one asked why the voting rights act is not permanent?????

The same media machine that got into full gear during the 4-year term of Donald Trump has handpicked a few politicians who repeated the talking point of Trump being the most dangerous and worst president this country has ever had. When I personally heard this I was sure no black person would support such a statement, boy was I wrong, I was amazed and appalled at the same time that black people actually supported this statement when 12 presidents actually owned slaves, some of who got their first slave when they were less than 15 years old. (Value they put on a black life) what could be worse than this, but we forgive easily don’t we?

Some of these presidents were

William Henry Harrison,

John Tyler,  

George Washington,

James Madison,

James Monroe,

Andrew Jackson,

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S Grant,

Zachary Taylor,

 Martin Van Buren,

 James Polk,

Thomas Jefferson

These facts can easily be researched, The political system however can count on the fact that most people won’t do this thing we call research. If anyone believes that the media is not into the business of telling people what to think, they need not go far, all they have to do is look at the year 2020.

 

 

 

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