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Ecumenism is the Universal Solvent of Tradition .

Hey, Hey, Ho Ho. We don't wanna read yo books no more.

 


Jesse Jackson and students protest Western Culture program on Palm Drive, photograph, 1987

By the mid-1980s, increasing dissatisfaction with the introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture” that had begun in 1980 came to the fore. The program was criticized for its lack of diversity and its predominantly Eurocentric readings. Students advocated for a curriculum that included ethnic minority and women authors because America, as you well know, was formed by colonialists from England which then was teeming with Homos, Negroes, and Bossy Birds.


 On January 15, 1987, as many as 500 students, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, rallied down Palm Drive chanting, "Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go."   The Authorities were mostly stoned and unprepared to respond in kind - 

Hey. Hey, Ho Ho, you don't go to school no more.

 You done been expelled, you're all full of shit. 

Gather your belongings and hit the bricks.

Except for those who had jobs, those who had families and those who considered themselves Americans, the curriculum debate drew national attention, and in 1989 Western Culture was formally replaced with the Cultures, Ideas, & Values (CIV) program that included more inclusive works on race, class, and gender and other relatively worthless crap entirely inappropriate to college level studies  and the graduating students of those days went on to become the Tyrannical Assholes of today.


Yes, Let's teach college students about all of the negro founders of America. O, wait, hang on. There were no negro founders of America because those who funded America were White Christian Colonists from England.


Read all about the different races and religions of the colonists who started America. This is written by  John Jay, one of the men responsible for The Federalist Papers (Jessie Jackson prolly thought that was a special kind of paper for rolling joints).

Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence 
For the Independent Journal.

JAY


To the People of the State of New York: 


WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident. 

Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers. It is well worthy of consideration therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest of the people of America that they should, to all general purposes, be one nation, under one federal government, or that they should divide themselves into separate confederacies, and give to the head of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government. 

It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted opinion that the prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who insist that this opinion is erroneous, and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereignties. However extraordinary this new doctrine may appear, it nevertheless has its advocates; and certain characters who were much opposed to it formerly, are at present of the number. Whatever may be the arguments or inducements which have wrought this change in the sentiments and declarations of these gentlemen, it certainly would not be wise in the people at large to adopt these new political tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded in truth and sound policy. 

It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities. 

With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence...


But Jesse Jackson rejected historic America because it was founded by White English Christians andColleges used the money of mainly white Christians to substitute an anti0white, anti-christian ideology for history.


However, just for the hell of it,ABS did some research into what percentage of the English population was in the 16th & 17th century.


What he found was the percentage was so small he didn't think it worthy of mention but he did discover this:


Sambo's Grave

There is a poignant reminder of Lancashire's involvement in the slave trade at Sunderland Point - Sambo's Grave. 

Samboo's grave










Sambo's grave is a memorial to a young, black slave who is thought to have arrived in 1736 at the port with his master.

He was born in Africa and taken first to the West Indies as a slave before being brought to Lancaster by his master.

He was taken ill and died near a local inn at Sunderland Point.

He was buried in an unmarked grave but in 1795 a schoolteacher - Rev Watson - raised money to erect a memorial to Sambo and penned the elegy on the grave.


The epitaph reads:

Full sixty years the angry winter's wave
Has thundering dashed this bleak and barren shore
Since Sambo's head laid in this lonely grave
Lies still and ne'er will hear their turmoil more.

Full many a sandbird chirps upon the sod,
And many a moonlight elfin round him trips
Full many a summer's sunbeam warms the clod
And many a teeming cloud upon him drips.

But still he sleeps - till the awakening sounds,
Of the Archangel's trump new life impart,
Then the Great Judge his approbation founds,
Not on man's colour but his worth of heart.


After she had discharged her cargo, he was placed at the inn…with the intention of remaining there on board wages till the vessel was ready to sail; but supposing himself to be deserted by the master, without being able, probably from his ignorance of the language, to ascertain the cause, he fell into a complete state of stupefaction, even to such a degree that he secreted himself in the loft on the brewhouses and stretching himself out at full length on the bare boards refused all sustenance. He continued in this state only a few days, when death terminated the sufferings of poor Samboo. As soon as Samboo's exit was known to the sailors who happened to be there, they excavated him in a grave in a lonely dell in a rabbit warren behind the village, within twenty yards of the sea shore, whither they conveyed his remains without either coffin or bier, being covered only with the clothes in which he died.

— Lonsdale Magazine, 1822


Apparently, the first named slave of England was Sambo. That is funny.