RE HOW TO FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE DON'T JUST TRY TO LOOK INWARD

 I did not read this mierda. 

Farcical to do so.

Brooks, unitarian universalist minister, "centrist" Jew bozo.

BIG

 

YOU'VE HAD YOUR SIX

 

Friday, January 22, 2021

THAT'S A SMITH & WESSON AND YOU'VE HAD YOUR PIVOTS

THE DUMB IDEOLOGY

 

Sunday, May 21, 2017

THE DUMB MONEY IDEOLOGY

Watched Lewis, again, last night, with laGarde.

What brought him back to following Wall Street he said was the sub prime debacle, and the extent, as I reiterated recently here, that the big banks themselves had been what he calls the dumb money, and had lost their ass too, rather than taking someone else's ass for a profit, which they are accustomed to do (they do not, of course, really want to be bailed out, they want to make money.)

Western liberalism has been and continues to be the dumb money ideology, and this sad fact is only now really being brought home to the average person in the West. 

There are so many reasons for this late awakening, analogously to the late awakening of big bank executives to the realities of the sub prime debacle. 

For example, in 89 (1989), the West actually still thought they had 'won'.

Tragically, it symbolized a huge sign of a loss for the West in general, against the Rest, and not just for the West's Europhile Soviet elite.

Lewis is himself ironically, of course, one of the liberals who fail to see what is coming. He discusses the big problem, with LaGarde, inequality, rather in the fashion that Piketty addresses it, as the really big roadblock to further good globalization.

What he fails to see, apparently, and what Piketty certainly has seen but refuses to mention or discuss, is not inequality at all, which is not really a new thing as such (the so called problem of the top 1%), which will neither shake your windows nor rattle your walls.

The 800 pound gorilla in the room of economic globalization, oh the times they are a changin, is income and wealth convergence, converging average or median income of a world population, amid gathering environmental degradation and vanishing natural resources.

For relatively wealthy Westerners, it is rather like having a freight train bearing down on you in the dark with its lights off.

BEYOND TITTYTAINMENT

 

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

WHEN 80% OF GLOBAL POPULATION IS FRANKLY ECONOMICALLY SUPERFLUOUS AND PERNICIOUS IT GOES A LITTLE BEYOND TITTYTAINMENT

FLAT AND FLATTER

 

Saturday, May 27, 2017

FLAT AND FLATTER WHO NEEDS AN INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

when you can build a new concrete and steel silk road, from China to Europe and Africa, in a flat world?

 

What matter, this or that virtual, IT, WWW innovation, when you can coopt them, and, moreover, when you can physically take over the flat world, between Europe Africa and Asia?

I don't intend to flatter Friedman by suggesting that there are flatter things than are dreamed of in his philosophy.

JUST ORDERED TOLAND'S THE LAST 100 DAYS I ALREADY MOSTLY READ IT!

In my ideal world, we would have given Stalin only enough Lend Lease, through the Soviet American traitor asset Harry Hopkins, to get screwed in a Holocaust with Hitler, within Russia, and then we come in later and finish the survivors of both regimes off, summarily, with esxtreme prejudice.

As long as Putin wants to get rid of his Asiatic and Islamic Hillary deplorables, reprehensibles, undesirables, and all others he wants to jettison, we should send as many shipments of ammo and equipment, to the Ukrainians, as they ask for, to finish all these bitches, both Ukrainians and their adversaries,  off, as humanly possible, for as long as possible, decades if necessary.

STALIN HAD ALREADY DOUBLE CROSSED THESE PUSSIES AND HAD AMPLY PROVED HE WOULD STOMP THEM WHENEVER IT SUITED HIM

 Churchill was the only Brit who stood up!

Patton stood up.

Certainly not Marshall, Truman, or Eisenhower.

Certainly not Gerhard Weinberg, see A World At Arms, p. 830, text, fns. 128-132.

PUTIN PROBABLY HAS THIS PARAGRAPH AS A POSTER IN HIS BATHROOM

Terms search this blog: Patton Eisenhower

Weinberg praises Eisenhower for bypassing Berlin, then calls Stalin a liar when he advised Eisenhower that Berlin was not important.....

Yalta, which Churchill now wanted to repudiate, had given Stalin the Eastern Zone within which Berlin was deep....

Weinberg cannot have it both ways.

INDIA WOMEN ARE THEYS LIKE FARHAD MANJOO NYT

 

THE NEW DEAL WAS TOPPED BY A BIGGER FAILURE: THE STALIN DEAL,

 LETTING COMMUNISTS STAY IN POWER IN RUSSIA,

AND GIVING THEM EASTERN EUROPE BY AGREEMENT.

IDIOT TRIED SWIMMING IN BLASTED PARCHED ISRAEL! HE GOT SUCKED TO HELL!

 

RE REIMAGINING SUNDAY OPINION WHY NOT REPRISE REIMAGINING THE NYT WEDGIED ON ISRAEL!

 

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

RE BACEVICH LIAR RE SAUDI ARABIA NO FRIEND OR TRUMP NOT HELPING ISRAEL

Saturday, August 17, 2019

NYT TLF TRUMP IS NOT HELPING ISRAEL, PART I

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

TLF GETS HARD HANGING WEDGIE HE DESERVES FROM REPUBLICANS

Friday, August 23, 2019

MICHIGAN MUST BE A STRONGHOLD OF ANTI JEWISH PALESTINIAN REFUGEES

Saturday, August 17, 2019

Saturday, August 17, 2019 NYT TLF TRUMP IS NOT HELPING ISRAEL, PART II

Saturday, August 17, 2019

NYT TLF TRUMP IS NOT HELPING ISRAEL, PART III

Sunday, September 15, 2019

LIBERAL JEWS HATE IRAN TOO: THIS IS A WAY OUT OF THE TRUMP JEWISH WEDGIE

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

PIG'S BREAKFAST ISRAEL TRUMP GIVING NYT LIBERAL JEW DEMS AN ISRAEL WEDGIE

 

Saturday, May 22, 2021

AS LISA LERER THAT HELLCAT MAKES CLEAR AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE TODAY

Monday, November 11, 2019

THE OTHER POLITICIAN WHO GAVE ALL AMERICANS A HARD HANGING WEDGIE WAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Sunday, June 28, 2020

GORDON J DAVIS VENGEFUL NOT GRATEFUL TO ANYONE BUT HIMSELF AND HIS HALF RACE

Monday, May 18, 2020

STOOGEFACE

TAKE A SHOT.   EITHER WAY NEITHER ARE NEGROES.

The NYT left, liberal, or Orthodox Jewish anti racism stooges are as white as their left Liberal or Right Evangelical Christian pro Israel; and also left, liberal Christian or Unitarian or atheist or right pro globalism stooges.

Take a shot. Either way, neither are negroes.

Samuel Johnson type Stooges, really. See The 1619 Project reference.

Dylan in whiteface,  NYT Stoogefaces. 

Nothing made the NYT madder than having Trump try to insert a fringe REPUBLICAN wedgie into the derriere of NYT'S BIPARTISAN ISRAEL STOOGEDOM!

THE NEW YORK TIMES IS A LOCUS CLASSICUS OF THE ACTIVITIES AND EFFECTS OF THOMAS SOWELL'S MIDDLEMAN MINORITIES

These liberal, left, and centrist "middleman minority" Jews typically make their middleman journalistic living, and promote their Jew minority political minority agendas, by fanning the flames of non-Jew racial animosity, most notably regarding negro and white race hatred, mistrust, and so called white original sin oppression of all negroes globally.

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE IDEA OF A MIDDLEMAN MINORITY WAS HUBERT M BLALOCK JR

 This idiot was not only a sociologist, a low form of life usually, but he specialized in social statistics.

Sowell obviously got his idea from this idiot and his partner Edna Bonanich.

Here's his air head race and white oppressor oriented sociology partner, and her grotesque summation, writing about how California, especially, is now getting screwed royally by rich Chink billionaires:

Edna Bonacich is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the coauthor of Behind the Label, The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring, and Global Production. 

Place of birth: Conn.

Affiliation: University of California, Riverside

Research interests: Sociology, Race Relations

TIME TO TAKE UP DIRECTLY SOWELL'S MIDDLEMAN MINORITIES IDEAS

 Trust me, I am not going to candy coat my views on his horse shit ideas here!

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

GRADY MCWHINEY THOMAS SOWELL'S AUTHORITY IN BLACK REDNECKS AND WHITE LIBERALS CH 1 WAS A KNOWN IDIOT

 But a lot of liberals, not just ignorant conservatives, apparently hang on Sowell's pathetic account nonetheless, eg Professor Kaiser, who especially likes to follow Tocqueville....

The account they retail is that Southern whites are a lower order European white from those found in the colonial and postcolonial North. 

They are actually considered by these white Stokely liberals to be racially and spiritually inferior to the Africa negro slaves, and free negroes, in their Southern white degenerate midst.

"...However, McWhiney's theories do not address large-scale Irish immigration to New York, Boston, and other northern cities. They also ignore the degree to which the Southern planter class resembled the English gentry in lineage, religion, and social structure. Furthermore his work avoids mentioning or acknowledging the fact that the largest group of pre-Revolution immigrants to the Southern colonies were English indentured servants who vastly outnumbered the "Celtic" settlers both in numbers and in cultural influence..." Wikipedia

I follow Wikipedia blindly here, given the alternatives.

I suggest taking a look at Bailyn's great work on British isles migration, Voyagers To The West.

THEY LOVE THIS MIERDA

 

Sunday, December 16, 2018

TERMS SEARCH ROUSSEAU

Friday, February 23, 2018

KRUGMAN'S ENLIGHTENMENT DEMOCRACY STATE OF NATURE MAINSTREAM AMERICA NOT THE RIGHT FRINGE

Re Krugman's Nasty, Brutish and Trump

Let's just quote Hobbes' whole state of nature phrase: solitary poor nasty brutish and short.

The Enlightenment state of nature, Krugman's, that of Locke, Diderot, and Rousseau, and of course Adam Smith, etc, was really a state of benign Godless anarchy, where isolated individuals, basically good but stupid by nature dwelt mostly in peace, plenty, and accidental harmony, pursuing their natural appetites. See eg: Catholics and Unbelievers in 18th Century France, Index Locke, Diderot, Rousseau. See especially p 133:

"Paradoxically, the men who trusted so highly in the powers of intelligence regarded the mind as essentially vacant and inert; the idea of the passive mind was indispensable to their system.  it was the guarantee that the truths of nature might be perceived without distortion.  It was the basis for the distinction, then so important and so clear, between enlightenment and prejudice.  It was the metaphysical groundwork for the belief that men were equal, and that they possessed the quality of perfectibility, that is, susceptibility to progress.  Minimizing the effects of will, denying original predisposition, refusing to see any inevitability in human nature, the doctrine was flatly contrary to the Christian idea of sin; and by representing man as a passive child of circumstances, easily abused by his environment, it slipped sometimes into a notion that human nature, when crude, is good; and that order, restraint, discipline, and suppression are affronts to man's dignity and freedom."  Palmer, p 133, 134

For the Enlightenment thinkers, government was part of the problem, not the solution, and so it was with the colonists.

So when Krugman says something like this, claiming to criticize only the American right, he shows himself to be truly a Whig pundit idiot:

"It is, on the part of much of today’s right, a war on the very concept of community, of a society that uses the institution we call government to offer certain basic protections to all its members."

The founding fathers did not trust government, and refused to rely heavily on it, especially the federal one, even for protection.

They were mostly yoeman jacobin anarchists like Jefferson, or religious protestant radicals.

What Krugman attributes accusingly to Trump is actually, as Palmer shows in great detail, Krugman's own time honored Enlightenment Ideal itself: "... it slipped sometimes into a notion that human nature, when crude, is good; and that order, restraint, discipline, and suppression are affronts to man's dignity and freedom." RRP

Krugman's Enlightenment is the same as Trump's, the same as Rousseau's. 

Krugman just doesn't realize it yet, nor do you:

"How, in speaking of men whom he calls null, brutish, stupid, imbecile, can he exalt with enthusiasm their antique simplicity, their original goodness, their primitive innocence?"  

"Has anyone ever said of an orang-outang that it was naturally good and happy wise and simple? or spoken of its antique simplicity, primitive innocence, and original goodness?"

"No, Jean-Jacques, I shall not treat you as a bad man for having dared to maintain that man is born good.  Everyone knows that man comes from his creator good, happy, wise, and perfect; no one disputes this truth.  What you are blamed for is your making man come from his creator in a state of stupidity, and yet maintain that in this state men are good, happy, wise, and simple.  What you are blamed for is making their goodness depend on their imbecility, their happiness on their stupidity.  What you are blamed for is your having been guilty in all your writings of an enormous abuse of language, and having offered us, as the true road to happiness, the ignorance, imbecility, and stupidity that you have not blushed to attribute to our first parents."

Le Gros, Examen des ouvrages de J.-J. Rousseau et de Court de Gobelin (Geneve, 1786), pp 62 -66.

READING WIKIPEDIA YOU COME AWAY THINKING AFRICA WAS A MIDDLE AGES MUSLIM NEGRO CAMELOT OF PROSPEROUS KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES

WHEN 80% OF GLOBAL POPULATION IS FRANKLY ECONOMICALLY SUPERFLUOUS AND PERNICIOUS IT GOES A LITTLE BEYOND TITTYTAINMENT

THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY

 Professor

"The Contagion of Liberty"

Liberty without end, liberty ever anew, without let or hindrance, liberty of conscience, liberty of every single individual conscience on the planet, fettered only by the operation of individual thought and action, change for the sake of more change, progress eating itself, that is the opiate of the masses, now, and forever, and ever shall be, world without end.

All the best

Category:Countries in medieval Africa WIKIPEDIA CONTINENT SHAMING

 Let's just start going down this pre white colonial list, 

one by fucking one.

Adal Sultanate. 

Who were these Semitic Muslim Swahili mulatto fucks? 

Take a look:

The Walashma dynasty of the Ifat and Adal sultanates possessed Somali genealogical traditions.^[44]

During Adal's early period, when it was centred on the city of Zeila in the present-day northwestern Awdal region, the kingdom was primarily composed of Somalis, Afars, Hararis, and Arabs.^{[45][5][46][47][48][49]} Ethiopian historian Bahru Zewde and others however state the Walasma led sultanate primarily included the Ethiopian Semitic speaking Argobba and Harari people, it later expanded to comprise Afar and Somali peoples.^[50][51] Between the late 1400s to mid 1500s there was a large scale migration of Hadhrami people into Adal.^[52]

Among the earliest mentions of the Somali by name has come through a victory poem written by Emperor Yeshaq I of Abyssinia against the king of Adal, as the Simur are said to have submitted and paid tribute. As Taddesse Tamrat writes: "Dr Enrico Cerulli has shown that Simur was an old Harari name for the Somali, who are still known by them as Tumur. Hence, it is most probable that the mention of the Somali and the Simur in relation to Yishaq refers to the king's military campaigns against Adal, where the Somali seem to have constituted a major section of the population."^[53]

On his background:

Of the early history of the Imam Ahmad but little is known. He was the son of one Ibrahim el Ghazi, and both he and his father were common soldiers in the troop of Garad Aboun. Nothing even is said as to his nationality. He was certainly not an Arab : probably he was a Somali, for we find him closely connected with many who were Somalis.^[54]

According to Leo Africanus (1526) and George Sale (1760), the Adelites were of a tawny brown or olive complexion on the northern littoral, and grew swarthier towards the southern interior. They generally had long, lank hair. Most wore a cotton sarong but no headpiece or sandals, with many glass and amber trinkets around their necks, wrists, arms and ankles. The king and other aristocrats often donned instead a body-length garment topped with a headdress. All were Muslims.^[29][55] In the southern hinterland, the Adelites lived beside pagan "Negroes", with whom they bartered various commodities.^[56][57]

Ajuran Sultanate

Their most complex structure was the portable nomadic tent.

The Ajurans developed a very rich culture with various forms of Somali culture such as architecture, astronomy, festivals, music and art evolving and flourishing during this period. The majority of the inhabitants were ethnic Somali, but there were also Yemeni, Persian, and Turkish minorities. The vast majority of the population adhered to Sunni Islam with a Shia minority (mostly those of Persian descent)^{[citation needed]}. Somali was the most commonly used language of government and social life while Arabic was most prominently used for religious studies.

Example of an historic Somali figurehead from Mogadishu

The Somali martial art Istunka, also known as Dabshid, was born during their reign. An annual tournament is held every year for it in Afgooye.^[35] Carving, known in Somali as qoris, was practiced in the coastal cities of the state. Many wealthy urbanites in the medieval period regularly employed the finest wood and marble carvers in Somalia to work on their interiors and houses. The carvings on the mihrabs and pillars of ancient Somali mosques are some of the oldest on the continent, with Masjid Fakhr al-Din being the 7th oldest mosque in Africa.^[36] Artistic carving was considered the craft of men similar to how the Somali textile industry was mainly a women's business. Amongst the nomads, carving, especially woodwork, was widespread and could be found on the most basic objects such as spoons, combs and bowls, but it also included more complex structures such as the portable nomadic tent, the aqal.^[37]

During its tenure, the Empire left an extensive architectural legacy, being one of the major medieval Somali powers engaged in castle and fortress building. Many of the ruined fortifications dotting the landscapes of southern Somalia today are attributed to the Ajuran Empire's engineers.^[7] These structures include a number of pillar tomb fields, necropolises, castles, fortresses and ruined cities built in that era.^[1] In the Marca area, various pillar tombs exist, which local tradition holds were built in the 16th century, when the Ajuran Empire's naa'ibs governed the district.^[38]

Sultanate of Bale

The Sultanate of Bale was a Sidama Muslim sultanate founded in the Bale Mountains of the southern Ethiopian Highlands and Horn of Africa. It corresponds roughly to the modern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region in Ethiopia.

The Bale Sultanate was founded in the 13th century by Sheikh Hussein who came from Merca one of the commercial and Islamic centers in the Indian Ocean^[2] He is credited for introducing Islam to the Sidamo people living in the area at the time.^[3] Despite the Sultanate being founded by a Somali saint and ruled by his descendants, the kingdom was mostly inhabited by the Sidama people. Ajuran merchants began settling in the region, thus linking the two kingdoms economically as Bale had trade with other Ethiopian kingdoms and would serve as the gateway for the Ajuran Sultanate

WHY NOT JUST CALL THESE GOOD MUSLIM MIGRANTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST MIDDLEMAN MINORITIES, JUST HELPFUL VERY EARLY BOURGEOIS, IN THE DARK AGES, WHO CAME TO AFRICA IN ITS HAY DAY, BEFORE WHITE COLONIALISM, TO BE BENEFICIAL AND TO MIX WHOLESOMELY AND PEACEFULLY, DAVID REICH STYLE, WITH ITS INDIGENOUS ALREADY VERY MIXED MOSTLY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS INHABITANTS, AN ARGUMENT THOMAS SOWELL MAKES SO WELL! 

WIKIPEDIA WANTS TO MAKE IT ALL SEEM LIKE PART OF ONE LONG MARCH OF PROGRESS TOWARD AMERICA.

SOWELL CALLS CAPITALISM'S CAPITALISTS MIDDLEMAN MINORITIES PERSECUTED BY THEIR HOST POPULATIONS

Let's unpack some of Sowell's verbiage here. What do you say?

'Middleman minorities are middlemen not only in a purely economic sense but also in social and political senses.  Where a ruling class or race collects money from a large class of poorer people whom they do not wish to deal with directly, middleman minorities may take on the role of collecting rents or feudal dues for landlords, or taxes for government-- all roles virtually guaranteeing unpopularity.' TS

One point to note here, in passing, is that a middleman minority is substituted in these instances for an actual or potential indigenous middleman group which is either nonexistent, competitively or mandatorily unnaturally ousted, or partially or wholly supplanted from a role or position within the middle ranks of the host imperial or host colonial society by the ruling class or race in favor of an alien minority having allegiances of its own either within its own ranks or to a third foreign ruling class or race. 

If the ruling class or race is also itself foreign, this further complicates a situation where the ruling class or race declines to use its own foreign ethnic or national group or groups to accomplish middleman minority tasks, while bringing in a third minority for the purpose. 

This will tend to create animosities that are triangulated, more or less complicated, and seldom merely bilateral. 

BREST-LITOVSK

 

ENLIGHTENMENT WITH A VENGEANCE

 

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

ONCE WHITE BLM THE 1619 PROJECT NYT GUILTY WESTERN LIBERALS REALIZE WHAT IS BEARING DOWN ON THEM IT WILL HAVE BEEN LONG TOO LATE

CLARK PAINE

This book offers reinterpretations of prevalent 18th century discourses. It adds that the most influential activists and reformers tended to have their impact by focusing attention on narrow bands of the available spectrum of discourse rather than by assembling rainbow alliances (an assumption that present-day accounts of  'the Enlightenment' have promoted): reform did not sweep all before it, even in America and France.

RE THE FREE MARKET RE DK POST

 Professor

Wonderful post.

I like to refer to other deleterious aspects of the free and global market also.

My own personal preferences for improvement, in many ways, harken back to what was once called mercantilism, and latterly, imperial preferences, or even, liberals and God forbid, frank one sided agrarianizationistic colonialism, as ways to limit the ill effects of an unfettered global market for drugs pornography and either free or unfree migrant and salelable humans.

All the best

CRIMO IS A THEY IN DRAG COMPLETE WITH NECKLACE FARHAD MANJOO LOOKALIKE: THIS LOOKS LIKE A LGBTQ STATEMENT!

 

HE SETS A WHOLE WONDERFUL 

NEW STANDARD

 IN MASS KILLING FASHION STATEMENTS

LET'S FACE IT

GOOD COLOR COORDINATION

RED WHITE AND BLUE 

CONSERVATIVE AND TRADITIONAL

CHOICE OF DESIGN

HE LOOKS GOOD!

ONCE WHITE BLM THE 1619 PROJECT NYT GUILTY WESTERN LIBERALS REALIZE WHAT IS BEARING DOWN ON THEM IT WILL HAVE BEEN LONG TOO LATE

First:

You have 1.3 BILLION AFRICA NEGROES, most of whom are vengeful, starving, ungovernable, unemployable, factional, disorderly, illiterate, hateful of whites in general as one of the authors of their colonaial and enslavement indignities along with the equally if not even more hated Muslims. Ironically, many of these Africa negro fucks are themselves Muslims! By far the most genetically diverse continent-wide racial population on the planet: look where racial genetic and ethnic diversity in history and prehistory, out the wazoo baby, has gotten these fucks!

Second, Let's move on to Hindus, Baby!:

You have....by far the most highly mutually endogamous, ie hundreds of micro racist ethnically distinguishable xenophobic populations on Earth, highly suspicious of even the next tiny village over!  These fucks are genetically the opposite of highly genetically diverse continent wide negroes of every stripe.

Third, let's just turn to Chinkland!

Americans have always thought that they loved them with passion. The truth is another evil dark story.  FDR fully intended, and acted very heavily heavily on,  making Chinks one of the Four Horsemen of the future world governance he envisioned in his pea brain. He thought Chinks love whites like him, and would be eternallyn grateful to be given such an opportunity by the king of the free world!

CRIMO WORE WOMENS' CLOTHING! I THINK THAT INDICATES ORIENTATION IF NOT MOTIVE TRANS BABY!

 TRANSVESTITE SERIAL KILLER!

RE JULY 4 1776

 Professor

I like to cite this article, from Smithsonian Magazine, 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/

regarding Jefferson's actual views, rather than his high flown and misleading rhetoric.

I like to cite Lincoln's meeting with free negroes in the White House, recorded below, by analogy, and comparison, to see the real Lincoln.

All the best

Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes [1]

August 14, 1862

This afternoon the President of the United States gave audience to a Committee of colored men at the White House. They were introducedPage  371 by the Rev. J. Mitchell, Commissioner of Emigration. E. M. Thomas, the Chairman, remarked that they were there by invitation to hear what the Executive had to say to them. Having all been seated, the President, after a few preliminary observations, informed them that a sum of money had been appropriated by Congress, and placed at his disposition for the purpose of aiding the colonization in some country of the people, or a portion of them, of African descent, thereby making it his duty, as it had for a long time been his inclination, to favor that cause; and why, he asked, should the people of your race be colonized, and where? Why should they leave this country? This is, perhaps, the first question for proper consideration. You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated. You here are freemen I suppose.

A VOICE: Yes, sir.

The President---Perhaps you have long been free, or all your lives. Your race are suffering, in my judgment, the greatest wrongPage  372 inflicted on any people. But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race. You are cut off from many of the advantages which the other race enjoy. The aspiration of men is to enjoy equality with the best when free, but on this broad continent, not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours. Go where you are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you.

I do not propose to discuss this, but to present it as a fact with which we have to deal. I cannot alter it if I would. It is a fact, about which we all think and feel alike, I and you. We look to our condition, owing to the existence of the two races on this continent. I need not recount to you the effects upon white men, growing out of the institution of Slavery. I believe in its general evil effects on the white race. See our present condition---the country engaged in war!---our white men cutting one another's throats, none knowing how far it will extend; and then consider what we know to be the truth. But for your race among us there could not be war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or the other. Nevertheless, I repeat, without the institution of Slavery and the colored race as a basis, the war could not have an existence.

It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated. I know that there are free men among you, who even if they could better their condition are not as much inclined to go out of the country as those, who being slaves could obtain their freedom on this condition. I suppose one of the principal difficulties in the way of colonization is that the free colored man cannot see that his comfort would be advanced by it. You may believe you can live in Washington or elsewhere in the United States the remainder of your life [as easily], perhaps more so than you can in any foreign country, and hence you may come to the conclusion that you have nothing to do with the idea of going to a foreign country. This is (I speak in no unkind sense) an extremely selfish view of the case.

But you ought to do something to help those who are not so fortunate as yourselves. There is an unwillingness on the part of our people, harsh as it may be, for you free colored people to remain with us. Now, if you could give a start to white people, you would open a wide door for many to be made free. If we deal with those who are not free at the beginning, and whose intellects are clouded by Slavery, we have very poor materials to start with. If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. It is exceedingly important thatPage  373 we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as white men, and not those who have been systematically oppressed.

There is much to encourage you. For the sake of your race you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people. It is a cheering thought throughout life that something can be done to ameliorate the condition of those who have been subject to the hard usage of the world. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself, and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it; but they were cheered by the future. Gen. Washington himself endured greater physical hardships than if he had remained a British subject. Yet he was a happy man, because he was engaged in benefiting his race---something for the children of his neighbors, having none of his own.

The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time. In a certain sense it is a success. The old President of Liberia, Roberts, has just been with me---the first time I ever saw him. He says they have within the bounds of that colony between 300,000 and 400,000 people, or more than in some of our old States, such as Rhode Island or Delaware, or in some of our newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists, or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have been sent thither from this country. Many of the original settlers have died, yet, like people elsewhere, their offspring outnumber those deceased.

The question is if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there? One reason for an unwillingness to do so is that some of you would rather remain within reach of the country of your nativity. I do not know how much attachment you may have toward our race. It does not strike me that you have the greatest reason to love them. But still you are attached to them at all events.

The place I am thinking about having for a colony is in Central America. It is nearer to us than Liberia---not much more than one-fourth as far as Liberia, and within seven days' run by steamers. Unlike Liberia it is on a great line of travel---it is a highway. The country is a very excellent one for any people, and with great natural resources and advantages, and especially because of the similarity of climate with your native land---thus being suited to your physical condition.

The particular place I have in view is to be a great highway from the Atlantic or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and thisPage  374 particular place has all the advantages for a colony. On both sides there are harbors among the finest in the world. Again, there is evidence of very rich coal mines. A certain amount of coal is valuable in any country, and there may be more than enough for the wants of the country. Why I attach so much importance to coal is, it will afford an opportunity to the inhabitants for immediate employment till they get ready to settle permanently in their homes.

If you take colonists where there is no good landing, there is a bad show; and so where there is nothing to cultivate, and of which to make a farm. But if something is started so that you can get your daily bread as soon as you reach there, it is a great advantage. Coal land is the best thing I know of with which to commence an enterprise.

To return, you have been talked to upon this subject, and told that a speculation is intended by gentlemen, who have an interest in the country, including the coal mines. We have been mistaken all our lives if we do not know whites as well as blacks look to their self-interest. Unless among those deficient of intellect everybody you trade with makes something. You meet with these things here as elsewhere.

If such persons have what will be an advantage to them, the question is whether it cannot be made of advantage to you. You are intelligent, and know that success does not as much depend on external help as on self-reliance. Much, therefore, depends upon yourselves. As to the coal mines, I think I see the means available for your self-reliance.

I shall, if I get a sufficient number of you engaged, have provisions made that you shall not be wronged. If you will engage in the enterprise I will spend some of the money intrusted to me. I am not sure you will succeed. The Government may lose the money, but we cannot succeed unless we try; but we think, with care, we can succeed.

The political affairs in Central America are not in quite as satisfactory condition as I wish. There are contending factions in that quarter; but it is true all the factions are agreed alike on the subject of colonization, and want it, and are more generous than we are here. To your colored race they have no objection. Besides, I would endeavor to have you made equals, and have the best assurance that you should be the equals of the best.

The practical thing I want to ascertain is whether I can get a number of able-bodied men, with their wives and children, who are willing to go, when I present evidence of encouragement andPage  375 protection. Could I get a hundred tolerably intelligent men, with their wives and children, to ``cut their own fodder,'' so to speak? Can I have fifty? If I could find twenty-five able-bodied men, with a mixture of women and children, good things in the family relation, I think I could make a successful commencement.

I want you to let me know whether this can be done or not. This is the practical part of my wish to see you. These are subjects of very great importance, worthy of a month's study, [instead] of a speech delivered in an hour. I ask you then to consider seriously not pertaining to yourselves merely, nor for your race, and ours, for the present time, but as one of the things, if successfully managed, for the good of mankind---not confined to the present generation, but as

``From age to age descends the lay,

To millions yet to be,

Till far its echoes roll away,

Into eternity.''

The above is merely given as the substance of the President's remarks.

The Chairman of the delegation briefly replied that ``they would hold a consultation and in a short time give an answer.'' The President said: ``Take your full time---no hurry at all.''

The delegation then withdrew.

Annotation

[1]   New York Tribune, August 15, 1862. An act ``releasing certain persons held to labor in the District of Columbia'' and providing $100,000 for colonization, became law on April 16, 1862, and an act approved on July 16, freed slaves in the hands of the army and granted $500,000 for colonization. Since October, 1861, the Chiriqui Project for colonization had been under cabinet consideration (see Lincoln to Smith October 23 and 24, 1861, supra). The appointment of Reverend James Mitchell of Indiana as agent of emigration is not listed in the Official Register, but contemporary records indicate that he operated in the Department of Interior as early as May 28, 1862, when he sent Lincoln his long letter on colonization printed by the Government Printing Office. His activity in July and August brought the matter of colonization to a head with the arrangement for an interview between Lincoln and the committee of Negroes headed by Edward M. Thomas on August 14. Thomas was president of the Anglo-African Institute for the Encouragement of Industry and Art. The committee's reception of Lincoln's views is indicated by a letter from Thomas written on August 16:

``We would respectfully suggest that it is necessary that we should confer with leading colored men in Phila New York and Boston upon the movement of emigration to the point recommended in your address.

``We were entirely hostile to the movement until all the advantages were so ably brought to our view by you and we believe that our friends and colaborers for our race in those cities will when the subject is explained by us to them join heartily in sustaining such a movement. . . .'' (DLC-RTL).

Subsequent developments, however, indicated that Negroes in the District of Columbia received the colonization proposal with hostility. A Negro meeting held at Union Bethel Church was reported in the Baltimore Sun on August 23 as protesting against the plan: ``Such dissatisfaction had been manifested in regard to the course of the committee who lately waited on the president . . . that they did not attend. It was hinted that they had exceeded their instructions.''

Plans were fully matured in August, however, to send Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy with ``500 able-bodied negroes as the first colony'' to be settled on a site on the Isthmus of Chiriqui to be selected by Pomeroy (New York Tribune, September 15, 1862). A letter of authority from Lincoln to Pomeroy was prepared for Lincoln's signature, probably by the State Department, under date of September 10, 1862, but remains unsigned in duplicate copies in the Lincoln Papers. The project was abandoned when first Honduras and later Nicaragua and Costa Rica protested the scheme and hinted that force might be used to prevent the settlement.