NIKKI HALEY SHOULD HAVE USED A CIVIL RIGHTS PRESIDENT'S EXPLANATION OF WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR

  Former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley recently got into trouble after she discussed the cause of the American Civil War but did not mention slavery.  Democrats, Republicans, the press, all criticized her for her ignorance on the topic, and some implied that her immigrant background did not make her fully aware of American history.  Perhaps, Haley should have studied the words of the first civil rights President of the 20th century, the first since Pres. Grant.  Had she made a slight effort, Haley could have discovered the cause of the civil war as maintained by Harry Truman, the first civil rights President of the 20th century, the first President to address the NAACP, the first to order the racial integration of the American armed services and Truman also ordered desegregation of the federal civil service, reversing the separation policy instituted by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, a few years prior to his leading the nation into the war to save democracy.  Most of the implementation for integrating the armed services would not occur until after Truman left office and Gen. Eisenhower, a Republican replaced him.  Truman also appointed a committee to study the race problems in America, and it produced, "To Secure These Rights," a short, easy to understand presentation of problems Negroes faced.  True, not all were impressed; Dr. W, E. B. Du Bois indicated he would not support Democrat Truman for President in 1948, but instead favored another FDR VP, Henry Wallace, who was running as the left-wing Progressive Party candidate. The NAACP then promptly fired Du Bois.  A few years later, Truman got his revenge when his Justice Department arrested Du Bois as a foreign agent.  At a time when many Americans worried about Commie fronts, by firing those who rejected Truman, the NAACP became a Democratic Party front group.

     So, what caused the Civil War?

      In mid-September 1963 former Pres. Truman was invited to be a speaker at a fundraiser for Ohio's Dem. Senator Stephen Young.  He was the last person to speak., after a glowing introduction..  As the Baltimore Sun (16 Sept. 1963, p.5) reported, "We are living in a very troubled age of world history.  The argument on civil rights has been stirred up by Boston and New England demagogues just as the War Between the States was brought about by Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Lloyd Garrison."  So Northern Abolitionists caused the American Civil War.  Slavery was  not the cause of the war; those who objected to slavery were the trouble-makers.  In the 1960s, when Truman no longer required black votes, he made his views explicit on current events too.  He denounced Northern Freedom Riders as trouble-makers who should stay home.  He called the March on Selma, "silly."  He asserted that if any sit-in protestors came to his store, he would physically throw them out.  And he denounced Martin Luther King, Jr. as a liar, etc.  To place Truman's speech in context, he made it one month after the massive March on Washington (in which King presented his "I Have a Dream" address), and Truman's speech was two months before Pres. Kennedy would be murdered in Dallas.

  

      To shore up Truman's reputation, liberal Republican historian William Leuchtenberg wrote and article for American Heritage, "The Conversion of Harry Truman," (Nov. 1991) in which he cites Truman's early racist comments.  For example, in 1911 he wrote his girl friend, soon to become his wife, that he could get along with most people, so long as they were white.  He elaborated on the creation, that God made the whites out of the dust, the n*****s out of the mud, and the Chinese out of what was left over. He added, God hates Chinese and Japs, and so does Mr. Truman. Truman was no child when he wrote this; he was an adult, 27, and a few years later, would volunteer to join American forces in the Great War; Truman would be promoted as an officer in the artillery.  The liberal Leuchtenberg sees Truman's conversion on race after WWII when he learns of a black soldier who returns from war and has both eyes gouged out by racists in America.  And so Truman embraces a more liberal view on race, and as President, tries to implement more sympathetic policies.

   

      For the first Presidential election after victory in WWII, many found Truman a weak candidate, certainly no Franklin Roosevelt.  Truman's Democratic Party had been in power since 1933, but the party of FDR had now split 3 ways.  The left, including many CIO unions, supported Henry Wallace, who had been FDR;s VP in the early 1940s.  Had Roosevelt died a year prior, Wallace would have become an American President.  Wallace was liked by the left and endorsed by the American Communists.  Meanwhile, many Southern Democrats, disgusted by Truman's sudden conversion on the race issue, chose to vote against the official Democratic ticket, hoping to throw the election into the House of Representatives, where they would make a deal with one of the candidates to not interfere with the Southern way of life.  Confident, they made sure Truman was not on the ballot in Alabama - if you voted Democrat there, you voted for Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats.  It would make no difference, for all the polls showed that Gov. Tom Dewey, who had signed the nation's first state civil rights act of the century, would easily glide to election victory over Truman.  To the surprise of most Americans, Truman won the election (and with the help of the black vote in many crucial Northern states).  Both Wallace and Thurmond had about the same % of the vote, 2.4% each, Truman 49.6%, Dewey 45.1.  Dewey had received a higher popular vote and percentage in his 1944 race against FDR, 45.9%  The opinion polls had been proven wrong.  Truman won even though he was not on the ballot in Alabama.

      During the campaign, Truman publicly sounded like a liberal on race.  Leuchtenberg's conversion?  But when he no longer required black votes, Truman blamed Northern abolitionists for the Civil War, and denounced sit-ins, Freedom Riders, and Martin Luther King.  Either a short "conversion," or no conversion at all, simply a cynical politician seeking to win elections.  But academia will always seek to make the liberal look good.

      HUGH MURRAY

AMERICAN FEDERAL AGENCIES CHOSE NOT TO WARN ABOUT DANGERS OF THE VAX

 This story is most damning in the final paragraph.  This comes from RT, a Russian source, but there are American researchers who have similar stories, but they receive smaller headlines.  Hugh Murray

US health agency hushed Covid vax myocarditis warning - media

The officials promoted the vaccines even after drafting a memo about the deadly associated heart condition

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The US Centers for Disease Control never sent an urgent health alert it had drafted in May 2021 regarding a potentially fatal side-effect linked to the Covid-19 vaccinations it was promoting, and continued to push the shots without warning the public, according to a document obtained by Epoch Times on Wednesday. 

In an inter-agency email titled “draft alert on myocarditis and mRNA vaccines” obtained by the Times, CDC official Dr. Demetre Daskalakis informed two high-ranking colleagues that he had attached “the most recent draft of an alert as discussed.” 

The agency disseminates what it describes as “vital health information” to doctors and public health officials at federal, state and local levels through a system called the Health Alert Network. The warning was reportedly prepared for release via this network; Daskalakis’ email was dated May 21, 2021, but never saw publication. 

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 US ‘failing’ at life expectancy – WaPo

While the exact text of the warning has not been made public, the CDC had been tracking cases of myocarditis - a potentially deadly heart condition - in individuals vaccinated with Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines for months, witnessing what it internally acknowledged was an alarming spike in cases, even as it continued to urge all Americans to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. 

Two days before the email was sent, the CDC told state officials it was “closely monitoring” post-vaccination cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, a similar condition, and acknowledged that such cases “can be serious.” However, the public was not notified until weeks later - and the CDC continued to promote the jabs to all Americans, even after the risk was made public.

Instead of the never-released draft alert, the CDC later chose to inform healthcare providers about the danger in a document headed “clinical considerations” that lacked the forceful language or widespread distribution a Health Alert Network bulletin would have received. While it acknowledged the increased risk of myocarditis, it placed equivalent emphasis on the need to vaccinate everyone over age 11.

Last year, it emerged that both the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration had been made aware of a myocarditis “safety signal” triggered by an unusually large number of adverse event reports as far back as February 2021 - just two months after the mRNA-based vaccines received regulatory approval. 

Despite international news reports that vaccination with Pfizer and Moderna’s shots was associated with an elevated risk of myocarditis, the US regulatory agencies did not inform the public about the risk until after the jabs had been approved for patients between 12 and 15 years old - one of the age groups most susceptible to their deadly side effects.

HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING (Jr) DAY - 2024

 To All,   Happy Martin Luther King Day.  This is a holiday in the US, and his name is known throughout the world.  When growing up in New Orleans in the American South, I recall listening to the radio.  Sometimes they called him by all three names, plus, junior, Martin Luther King, Jr.  But some called him by a slightly different name, Martin Lucifer King, or simply Lucifer King.  Lucifer is another name of the devil, - so Martin, king of the devils.  He was not too popular in parts of the South (and not too popular is parts of the North either).

    Today, there is the attempt to make him into a saint, or even a god.  King was a man, with virtues and faults of men.  He certainly was not perfect.  He plagiarized some of his doctoral dissertation.  He had many encounters with women outside of marriage.  And I am sure other weaknesses and faults can be found.

    But there was great oppression of blacks in the South in those days.  In Alabama over 20 young blacks were murdered over a 2 year period by authorities or racists.  This occurred when the blacks sought to protest some injustices in that state.  When King came to Alabama as a minister, he was soon thrust into a leadership role of a bus boycott.  Threats against him and his family, and against all involved in the growing organization trying to get people to work without using the regular buses.  Union organizers know this kind of organizing is not easy, but add the racial element in the South, and it can be deadly dangerous.  Rosa Parks and her husband had been active two decades before she sat on the bus, and in the 1930s, their meetings had a look-out, and weapons on the table in case of a raid by sheriffs.  Now, they were using non-violence - but that did not mean the other side would be non-violent.

    The Montgomery boycott led to victory against the bus company, and against racism.  But there was much to do.  And many enemies had been made.  The daily struggle to continue a somewhat normal schedule when you know you might be beaten or shot, or your family hurt or killed, and still continue recruiting folks to strengthen the boycott.  Pressures most people seldom or never face.  Does he crumble, or stumble on?  Or stand up bravely, openly?  Sometimes one, sometimes two, but most importantly, sometimes the third.

    I attended a CORE training institute in Miami in August 1960 in Miami.  I joked, it was my first trip North.  Actually, Miami was further south than New Orleans. but, many Yanks had moved south to retire in Florida, so its political atmosphere then was more liberal, less racist, than most of the South.  We had various teachers during that 3-week institute.  One day, Jackie Robinson, the great baseball player spoke to us in the cocktail lounge of the black motel where we all stayed.  It was a lounge at night, but we used it during the day for our training sessions, without liquor.  It was an election year and Robison was openly for Nixon and the Republicans.  We were only about 40 participants, so we could ask questions and it was quite informal.  A few days later Martin Luther King spoke to us in the same lounge, but to a smaller group as half of our institute had been arrested when we sought to integrate the restaurant inside Shell's City super market.  King was, off the record, for John Kennedy and the Democrats - though his father, a prominent minister in Atlanta, was at that time for Nixon.  Like many Protestants in the South at that time, there was still much worry about having a Roman Catholic in the White House.  Interestingly, almost no one complains about Pres. Biden being America's 2nd Catholic President today.

     For the conference, we were given 2 books: the Bhagavad Gita and a biography of Gandhi to learn about non-violence elsewhere.  I speak too much and scribble too much.  Anyway,  Have a great day.

    King continued his activities to free black people even after the victory in the Montgomery bus boycott.   King was a very courageous man.  He could have sold out to the Establishment, and had a really cushy life.  Instead he pushed on.  Sometimes mistakes, sometimes defeats, but he struggled on in a general fight for freedom.  Martin Luther King was a hero; one who deserves the honor of a federal holiday.

    Hugh Murray

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HARVARD'S DR. GAY RESIGNS AMID COMPLAINTS OVER SHORTCOMINGS IN HER RESEARCH AND HER POLICY TOWARD JEWS

 We all make mistakes.  Should they cost us our jobs?  Of course it depends on what mistakes, and other pertinent information.  If a bank teller just forgets and walks out of the bank carrying a sack of dollar bills, and no record of taking them, surely that is grounds for being fired.  Soon, I will have an open confession on this blog about one or 2 of my mistakes in writing.  A few days ago Newser ran a short article on the resignation of Dr. Gay, and I made a comment, which I repeat below.

Newser had an article on the resignation of Harvard's first black, woman president, and there were many who commented on the case, including me.  Here is my short take on that case, and many similar ones.

Hugh Murray

 

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The war is for basic civil rights, rights that have been denied in the name of diversity,, equity, and inclusion. The civil rights movement never used the term equity; the word was equality, to treat people equally. Some picket signs of the 60s simply had an equals sign. But the EEOC rejected that approach and pushed a quota-diriven - polixy instead. The role of the affirmative action officer was never to get the best qualified person hired, but instead a person to fill a quota (considering race, ethnicity, sex, etc.) The Affirmative action office would promote a quota person and force negative action against the best qualified person. In most cases these policies created systemic racism against white men in our society. Later the negative action extended to Asians, and now Jews.

Hire the best qualified, not by quotas, and Gay would probably never have been promoted as Pres. of Harvard. Moreover, if Prof. Carol Swain (who is black) is correct, Dr. Gay does not even deserve her doctorate. She cheated her way to the top, asserted Dr. Swain.  We all make mistakes, most of which are minor and inconsequential.  But if some mistakes are repeated and become a pattern, then problems do arise.

Ignore the quotas, hire and promote the best qualified, and America will begin to be America again, with civil rights, equal rights for all.

I am presently working on finishing the final chapter of a book on this very topic of hiring an promoting by quotas, whether it be called affirmative action (and its twin of negative action against the non-favored group). goals and timetables, disparate impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion, these are all cover terms for quotas and racial and other forms of discrimination.