The poem criticizes the injustice and oppression of white people against other races throughout history. It describes how white people have stolen lands, enslaved people, and imposed their rule through violence while claiming moral superiority. It calls on people of color to unite and stand up for their rights and liberties in the face of continued white domination.
The document is an excerpt from the epic poem Beowulf describing the monster Grendel's attacks on King Hrothgar's mead hall Heorot, where Grendel kills and eats thirty of Hrothgar's warriors. Beowulf, a great warrior from Geatland, hears of Hrothgar's troubles and arrives by ship with a group of warriors to offer their help against Grendel. A guard sees their ship arrive and questions them, and Beowulf explains their mission to help King Hrothgar and rid him of Grendel.
Tariq ibn Ziyad gave a speech to his soldiers before attacking Spain in the 8th century. He told them they had no escape but victory since they were surrounded by the enemy and the sea. He urged them to seize this opportunity to defeat the monarch and establish Islam in Spain. Tariq promised to lead the charge himself and seek out King Roderick, challenging him to combat. He said if he fell in battle, the soldiers should redouble their efforts and achieve conquest by killing Roderick.
1) Grendel, a troll-like monster, begins attacking the great hall of King Hrothgar, called Heorot, killing Hrothgar's warriors every night.
2) For twelve years Grendel terrorizes the Danes, emptying Heorot as none can stand against him.
3) The Danes are distressed by Grendel's attacks and discuss how to defend against the monster, though as pagans they do not pray to the Christian God for help.
A verse by verse commentary on Jeremiah 49 dealing with the prophecy about judgment coming upon Ammon, and then Edom, and then Damascus, and then Kedar and Hazor, and finally Edom.
1) The armies of Israel and the Philistines were camped on opposite mountains ready for battle, with the Philistines challenging Israel to send out their champion to fight the Philistine champion, Goliath.
2) When the shepherd boy David arrives with food for his brothers, he volunteers to fight Goliath, confident that God will deliver him from the giant as God delivered him from a lion and bear.
3) In their one-on-one fight, David defeats Goliath with a stone from his sling, turning the tides of battle and routing the Philistine army.
The rich man believed that money was more important than knowledge, as it could buy anything needed. However, when war destroyed their town, the rich man lost all his money and possessions, leaving him with only his ignorance. In contrast, the wise poor man's knowledge and wisdom could not be taken from him, and he was received with honor wherever he went.
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This document provides an analysis of Deuteronomy chapter 28, which outlines blessings for obeying God's commands, and curses for disobeying them. The author argues that the curses described match the experiences of Black Americans, such as living in poverty in cities and rural areas, experiencing disease, violence, and oppression at the hands of enemies. In contrast, the author claims Jews have prospered despite also facing oppression, indicating Black Americans must be the biblical Israelites experiencing the curses for disobedience. The analysis seeks to connect the biblical curses to aspects of Black American history and condition.
The document is an excerpt from the epic poem Beowulf describing the monster Grendel's attacks on King Hrothgar's mead hall Heorot, where Grendel kills and eats thirty of Hrothgar's warriors. Beowulf, a great warrior from Geatland, hears of Hrothgar's troubles and arrives by ship with a group of warriors to offer their help against Grendel. A guard sees their ship arrive and questions them, and Beowulf explains their mission to help King Hrothgar and rid him of Grendel.
Tariq ibn Ziyad gave a speech to his soldiers before attacking Spain in the 8th century. He told them they had no escape but victory since they were surrounded by the enemy and the sea. He urged them to seize this opportunity to defeat the monarch and establish Islam in Spain. Tariq promised to lead the charge himself and seek out King Roderick, challenging him to combat. He said if he fell in battle, the soldiers should redouble their efforts and achieve conquest by killing Roderick.
1) Grendel, a troll-like monster, begins attacking the great hall of King Hrothgar, called Heorot, killing Hrothgar's warriors every night.
2) For twelve years Grendel terrorizes the Danes, emptying Heorot as none can stand against him.
3) The Danes are distressed by Grendel's attacks and discuss how to defend against the monster, though as pagans they do not pray to the Christian God for help.
A verse by verse commentary on Jeremiah 49 dealing with the prophecy about judgment coming upon Ammon, and then Edom, and then Damascus, and then Kedar and Hazor, and finally Edom.
1) The armies of Israel and the Philistines were camped on opposite mountains ready for battle, with the Philistines challenging Israel to send out their champion to fight the Philistine champion, Goliath.
2) When the shepherd boy David arrives with food for his brothers, he volunteers to fight Goliath, confident that God will deliver him from the giant as God delivered him from a lion and bear.
3) In their one-on-one fight, David defeats Goliath with a stone from his sling, turning the tides of battle and routing the Philistine army.
The rich man believed that money was more important than knowledge, as it could buy anything needed. However, when war destroyed their town, the rich man lost all his money and possessions, leaving him with only his ignorance. In contrast, the wise poor man's knowledge and wisdom could not be taken from him, and he was received with honor wherever he went.
HISTORY UNFOLD (shared using http://VisualBee.com).VisualBee.com
This document provides an analysis of Deuteronomy chapter 28, which outlines blessings for obeying God's commands, and curses for disobeying them. The author argues that the curses described match the experiences of Black Americans, such as living in poverty in cities and rural areas, experiencing disease, violence, and oppression at the hands of enemies. In contrast, the author claims Jews have prospered despite also facing oppression, indicating Black Americans must be the biblical Israelites experiencing the curses for disobedience. The analysis seeks to connect the biblical curses to aspects of Black American history and condition.
This document discusses several curses from Deuteronomy chapter 28 that were placed on the Israelites if they disobeyed God's commandments. It argues that these curses apply to Black/African Americans today based on the conditions they experienced during slavery and continue to face. Some key points made:
- Blacks have been cursed in cities and rural areas as shown by poor living conditions and high death rates historically and currently.
- Disease, lynching, burning, and violence described in the curses match what Blacks experienced through slavery and beyond.
- Blacks were removed and scattered across kingdoms of the earth through the slave trade, fulfilling another curse.
- In contrast, Jews and other groups came voluntarily and were not subjected
HISTORY UNFOLD (shared using http://VisualBee.com).VisualBee.com
This document provides an analysis of Deuteronomy chapter 28, which outlines blessings for obeying God's commands, and curses for disobeying them. The author argues that the curses described match the experiences of Black Americans, such as living in poverty in cities and rural areas, experiencing disease, violence, and oppression at the hands of enemies. In contrast, the author claims Jews have prospered despite also facing oppression, indicating Black Americans must be the biblical Israelites experiencing the curses for disobedience. The analysis seeks to connect the plight and identity of Black Americans to the biblical curses and promises tied to obedience to God.
This document provides an analysis of Deuteronomy chapter 28, which outlines blessings for obeying God's commands, and curses for disobeying them. The author argues that the curses described match the experiences of Black Americans, such as living in poverty in cities and rural areas, experiencing disease, violence, and oppression at the hands of enemies. In contrast, the author claims Jews have prospered despite also facing oppression, indicating Black Americans must be the biblical Israelites experiencing the curses for disobedience. The analysis seeks to connect the plight and identity of Black Americans to the biblical curses and promises tied to obedience to God.
Chivalry refers to the medieval system of knighthood and the ideals of bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry towards women. The word chivalry derives from the Latin word "caballus" meaning horse, as horses were prominently featured during the Age of Chivalry. A knight's code of chivalry included defending the church, protecting the weak, and engaging in warfare against non-Christian lands in a disciplined manner according to their vows. The code of chivalry can be summarized as consisting of 10 commandments governing a knight's faith, defense of the church, treatment of weaknesses, love of country, and engagement in just wars without mercy against enemies.
Caitlyn is known as the Sheriff of Piltover who has kept crime rates low through her sharpshooting skills and relentless pursuit of criminals. Her arch-nemesis is an unidentified thief known only as "C" who has always evaded her capture. Caitlyn joined the League of Legends to gain more influence and resources to track down "C" across Valoran.
1) Nineveh is condemned as a "bloody city" that is full of lies, plunder, and victims. It is accused of being a city built on bloodshed and murder.
2) The city is described as being completely full of lies and robbery. Its people are untrustworthy and deceptive, and the city is full of stolen goods acquired through violence.
3) Nineveh will face destruction for its crimes. God will bring terror and slaughter upon the city as punishment for the terror and destruction it inflicted upon others through its cruelty and oppression.
In his 1961 inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy pledged to defend freedom around the world, pay any price and bear any burden to ensure liberty's survival. He promised support for allies, new independent states, and developing nations, as well as a renewed commitment to the United Nations. Kennedy called for both sides in the Cold War to begin negotiations in good faith to reduce nuclear arms and prevent their proliferation.
The document summarizes a class discussion on William Shakespeare's play Richard III. It includes an agenda with topics like recitations of Shakespearean sonnets, a discussion of Richard's wooing scene and whether he is a trickster character. There are also questions posed about dramatic irony in certain scenes and the impact of ghosts visiting Richard in a dream. Students are asked to discuss their answers and homework in groups.
King Arthur and his illegitimate son Mordred have agreed to meet with a small party of men to negotiate, but mistrust remains high. When a knight's foot is stung by an adder and he draws his sword to kill it, both armies take this as a sign to attack. Arthur and Mordred lead their men in a bloody battle that lasts all day, leaving 100,000 dead. Only Lucan and Bedivere remain by Arthur's side as night falls. Arthur spots Mordred alone among the corpses and insists on confronting him personally, despite Lucan's warnings. Arthur mortally wounds Mordred with his spear, but Mordred is able to fatally strike Arthur with his
The document outlines the code of chivalry that governed knights' behavior during the medieval period. It lists the 10 commandments of chivalry, including defending the church, showing mercy to defeated enemies, and fighting against infidels without mercy or cessation. It also discusses the origins and development of chivalry over time, how knights were trained from a young age, and examples of famous knights that embodied the chivalric ideals of bravery, honor and service.
The document provides an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. It describes the setting of Paris in September 1792 during the French Revolution. Citizens are executing aristocrats daily via the guillotine. At the barricades, Sergeant Bibot enjoys catching aristocrats trying to escape disguised and sends them to their deaths. He brags about how he will catch the elusive English spy known as the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping many aristocrats escape France.
This document is an excerpt from Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities. It describes the setting of 18th century London and Paris before the French Revolution. Specifically, it summarizes the political and social unrest in both countries. In London, crime runs rampant on the streets. In Paris, the clergy and aristocracy oppress the people. The excerpt then follows three passengers traveling by coach from Dover to London. One passenger, Jarvis Lorry, receives a mysterious message to "wait at Dover for Mam'selle."
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
The document is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. It describes the scene at the West Barricade in Paris in September 1792 during the French Revolution, where Sergeant Bibot is overseeing the gates and ensuring no aristocrats attempt to flee the city to escape execution. Bibot recounts how another sergeant was sent to the guillotine for allowing a family of aristocrats to escape disguised in a cart, which was supposedly driven by the elusive English spy known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Bibot prepares to close the gates for the night as covered market carts prepare
Paige Abel witnesses the execution of King Louis XVI after he is found guilty of treason for his acts of tyranny against France. Paige feels no forgiveness for the king and believes he deserves death for inflicting so much pain on France. The crowds surround the scaffold chanting "off with his head" as the king is dragged to the platform. He proclaims his innocence to deafening boos from the crowd. Paige commands the blade to be raised, bringing justice to the former king and signaling a new era for France.
This document provides a summary of the plot of the novel "Farina" by George Meredith, published in 1857. It describes the main characters and setting in Cologne, Germany during the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The protagonist is Margarita, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant, who is admired from afar by many young men in the city, including members of the "White Rose Club". The summary outlines some of the early events and interactions between Margarita, the club members, and a young man named Farina who holds himself apart from the others.
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863 to dedicate a cemetery for Union soldiers who fell in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. In the address, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a struggle to determine whether the nation founded on the principles of equality, liberty and democracy as expressed in the Declaration of Independence could long endure. He called on Americans to resolve to fight for these principles and ensure that the soldiers who died did not do so in vain, but to establish a new birth of freedom in the United States.
I. The King is Dead . « .Il
THE RELIGION OF THE PATHERS
II. A Mummy on its Travels • • 21
III. Throwing Thîngs Overboard . . 31
IV. Cutting Down Fruit Trees . . 43
THE UNCHANGEABLE CHRIST
V. At the Wellsîde . . . -57
V3. Still Workîng Wonders . . «67
TWO UNCHANGEABLE BOOKS
VII. The Bible Dîsposed of , What Then? 8 1
VIII. Is the Bible Disposed of ? . , 95
THE UNCHANGEABLE PLAN OF SALVATION
IX. The Atonement in Modem Thought m
X. Justification by Faith . . ,125
TWO EDDIES OF ERROR
XI. Baalism, the Déniai of the Father . 13g
XII. Antichrist, the Déniai of the Son • 151
NOTE: This rare book by a very popular Bible scholar of the past is now a collectors item that you can purchase for 25 to 45 dollars. This free copy has a good many spelling errors, but the value is still here for those who want to know its content.
H114 Meeting 3: Why Do We Celebrate Columbus Day6500jmk4
We celebrate Columbus Day to commemorate Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492 that opened the Americas to permanent European colonization. However, Columbus's arrival also devastated indigenous populations through violence, disease, and enslavement. While textbooks often portray Columbus as a heroic explorer, historians emphasize the genocide and exploitation of native peoples that resulted from European colonization. There is a debate around whether Columbus Day should continue to be celebrated without also acknowledging these darker aspects of history.
William Bradford, from History of Plimouth POllieShoresna
William Bradford, from
History of Plimouth Plantation (written between 1630-51)
AFTER they had lived in this city [Leyden, in the Netherlands] about some 11 or 12 years… and sundry of them were taken away by death, and many others began to be well stricken in years…. those prudent governors with sundry of the sagest members began both deeply to apprehend their present dangers, and wisely to foresee the future, and think of timely remedy. In the agitation of their thoughts, and much discourse of things hear about, at length they began to incline to this conclusion, of removal to some other place. Not out of any newfangledness, or other such like giddy humor, by which men are oftentimes transported to their great hurt and danger, but for sundry weighty and solid reasons….
Of all sorrows most heavy to be borne, was that many of their children, by these occasions, and the great licentiousness of youth in that country, and the manifold temptations of the
place, were drawn away by evil examples to extravagant and dangerous courses, getting the reigns off their necks, and departing from their parents. Some became soldiers, others took upon them far voyages by sea, and other some worse courses, tending to dissoluteness and the danger of their souls, to the great grief of their parents and dishonor of God. So that they saw their posterity would be in danger to degenerate and be corrupted.
Lastly, (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work. These, and some other like reasons, moved them to undertake this
resolution of their removal….
The place they had thoughts on was some of those vast and unpeopled countries of America, which are fruitful and fit for habitation, being devoid of all civil inhabitants, whether are only salvage and brutish men, which range up and down, little otherwise then the wild beasts of the same….
It was answered, that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages. It was granted the dangers were great, but not desperate; the difficulties were many, but not invincible. For though there were many of them likely, yet they were not certain; it might be sundry of the things feared might never befall; others by provident care and the use of good
means, might in a great measure be prevented; and all of them, through the help of God, by fortitude and patience, might either be borne, or overcome… there ends were good and honorable; their calling lawful, and urgent; and therefore they might expect the blessing of God in their proceeding....
Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before ...
From 1949 Wall Street Journal Editorial published every Christmas season. The danger of totalitarianism versus the blessings of freedom. Plays with music. Can turn into a short movie file export video in PPTX
This document discusses several curses from Deuteronomy chapter 28 that were placed on the Israelites if they disobeyed God's commandments. It argues that these curses apply to Black/African Americans today based on the conditions they experienced during slavery and continue to face. Some key points made:
- Blacks have been cursed in cities and rural areas as shown by poor living conditions and high death rates historically and currently.
- Disease, lynching, burning, and violence described in the curses match what Blacks experienced through slavery and beyond.
- Blacks were removed and scattered across kingdoms of the earth through the slave trade, fulfilling another curse.
- In contrast, Jews and other groups came voluntarily and were not subjected
HISTORY UNFOLD (shared using http://VisualBee.com).VisualBee.com
This document provides an analysis of Deuteronomy chapter 28, which outlines blessings for obeying God's commands, and curses for disobeying them. The author argues that the curses described match the experiences of Black Americans, such as living in poverty in cities and rural areas, experiencing disease, violence, and oppression at the hands of enemies. In contrast, the author claims Jews have prospered despite also facing oppression, indicating Black Americans must be the biblical Israelites experiencing the curses for disobedience. The analysis seeks to connect the plight and identity of Black Americans to the biblical curses and promises tied to obedience to God.
This document provides an analysis of Deuteronomy chapter 28, which outlines blessings for obeying God's commands, and curses for disobeying them. The author argues that the curses described match the experiences of Black Americans, such as living in poverty in cities and rural areas, experiencing disease, violence, and oppression at the hands of enemies. In contrast, the author claims Jews have prospered despite also facing oppression, indicating Black Americans must be the biblical Israelites experiencing the curses for disobedience. The analysis seeks to connect the plight and identity of Black Americans to the biblical curses and promises tied to obedience to God.
Chivalry refers to the medieval system of knighthood and the ideals of bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry towards women. The word chivalry derives from the Latin word "caballus" meaning horse, as horses were prominently featured during the Age of Chivalry. A knight's code of chivalry included defending the church, protecting the weak, and engaging in warfare against non-Christian lands in a disciplined manner according to their vows. The code of chivalry can be summarized as consisting of 10 commandments governing a knight's faith, defense of the church, treatment of weaknesses, love of country, and engagement in just wars without mercy against enemies.
Caitlyn is known as the Sheriff of Piltover who has kept crime rates low through her sharpshooting skills and relentless pursuit of criminals. Her arch-nemesis is an unidentified thief known only as "C" who has always evaded her capture. Caitlyn joined the League of Legends to gain more influence and resources to track down "C" across Valoran.
1) Nineveh is condemned as a "bloody city" that is full of lies, plunder, and victims. It is accused of being a city built on bloodshed and murder.
2) The city is described as being completely full of lies and robbery. Its people are untrustworthy and deceptive, and the city is full of stolen goods acquired through violence.
3) Nineveh will face destruction for its crimes. God will bring terror and slaughter upon the city as punishment for the terror and destruction it inflicted upon others through its cruelty and oppression.
In his 1961 inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy pledged to defend freedom around the world, pay any price and bear any burden to ensure liberty's survival. He promised support for allies, new independent states, and developing nations, as well as a renewed commitment to the United Nations. Kennedy called for both sides in the Cold War to begin negotiations in good faith to reduce nuclear arms and prevent their proliferation.
The document summarizes a class discussion on William Shakespeare's play Richard III. It includes an agenda with topics like recitations of Shakespearean sonnets, a discussion of Richard's wooing scene and whether he is a trickster character. There are also questions posed about dramatic irony in certain scenes and the impact of ghosts visiting Richard in a dream. Students are asked to discuss their answers and homework in groups.
King Arthur and his illegitimate son Mordred have agreed to meet with a small party of men to negotiate, but mistrust remains high. When a knight's foot is stung by an adder and he draws his sword to kill it, both armies take this as a sign to attack. Arthur and Mordred lead their men in a bloody battle that lasts all day, leaving 100,000 dead. Only Lucan and Bedivere remain by Arthur's side as night falls. Arthur spots Mordred alone among the corpses and insists on confronting him personally, despite Lucan's warnings. Arthur mortally wounds Mordred with his spear, but Mordred is able to fatally strike Arthur with his
The document outlines the code of chivalry that governed knights' behavior during the medieval period. It lists the 10 commandments of chivalry, including defending the church, showing mercy to defeated enemies, and fighting against infidels without mercy or cessation. It also discusses the origins and development of chivalry over time, how knights were trained from a young age, and examples of famous knights that embodied the chivalric ideals of bravery, honor and service.
The document provides an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. It describes the setting of Paris in September 1792 during the French Revolution. Citizens are executing aristocrats daily via the guillotine. At the barricades, Sergeant Bibot enjoys catching aristocrats trying to escape disguised and sends them to their deaths. He brags about how he will catch the elusive English spy known as the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping many aristocrats escape France.
This document is an excerpt from Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities. It describes the setting of 18th century London and Paris before the French Revolution. Specifically, it summarizes the political and social unrest in both countries. In London, crime runs rampant on the streets. In Paris, the clergy and aristocracy oppress the people. The excerpt then follows three passengers traveling by coach from Dover to London. One passenger, Jarvis Lorry, receives a mysterious message to "wait at Dover for Mam'selle."
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
The document is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. It describes the scene at the West Barricade in Paris in September 1792 during the French Revolution, where Sergeant Bibot is overseeing the gates and ensuring no aristocrats attempt to flee the city to escape execution. Bibot recounts how another sergeant was sent to the guillotine for allowing a family of aristocrats to escape disguised in a cart, which was supposedly driven by the elusive English spy known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Bibot prepares to close the gates for the night as covered market carts prepare
Paige Abel witnesses the execution of King Louis XVI after he is found guilty of treason for his acts of tyranny against France. Paige feels no forgiveness for the king and believes he deserves death for inflicting so much pain on France. The crowds surround the scaffold chanting "off with his head" as the king is dragged to the platform. He proclaims his innocence to deafening boos from the crowd. Paige commands the blade to be raised, bringing justice to the former king and signaling a new era for France.
This document provides a summary of the plot of the novel "Farina" by George Meredith, published in 1857. It describes the main characters and setting in Cologne, Germany during the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The protagonist is Margarita, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant, who is admired from afar by many young men in the city, including members of the "White Rose Club". The summary outlines some of the early events and interactions between Margarita, the club members, and a young man named Farina who holds himself apart from the others.
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863 to dedicate a cemetery for Union soldiers who fell in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. In the address, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a struggle to determine whether the nation founded on the principles of equality, liberty and democracy as expressed in the Declaration of Independence could long endure. He called on Americans to resolve to fight for these principles and ensure that the soldiers who died did not do so in vain, but to establish a new birth of freedom in the United States.
I. The King is Dead . « .Il
THE RELIGION OF THE PATHERS
II. A Mummy on its Travels • • 21
III. Throwing Thîngs Overboard . . 31
IV. Cutting Down Fruit Trees . . 43
THE UNCHANGEABLE CHRIST
V. At the Wellsîde . . . -57
V3. Still Workîng Wonders . . «67
TWO UNCHANGEABLE BOOKS
VII. The Bible Dîsposed of , What Then? 8 1
VIII. Is the Bible Disposed of ? . , 95
THE UNCHANGEABLE PLAN OF SALVATION
IX. The Atonement in Modem Thought m
X. Justification by Faith . . ,125
TWO EDDIES OF ERROR
XI. Baalism, the Déniai of the Father . 13g
XII. Antichrist, the Déniai of the Son • 151
NOTE: This rare book by a very popular Bible scholar of the past is now a collectors item that you can purchase for 25 to 45 dollars. This free copy has a good many spelling errors, but the value is still here for those who want to know its content.
H114 Meeting 3: Why Do We Celebrate Columbus Day6500jmk4
We celebrate Columbus Day to commemorate Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492 that opened the Americas to permanent European colonization. However, Columbus's arrival also devastated indigenous populations through violence, disease, and enslavement. While textbooks often portray Columbus as a heroic explorer, historians emphasize the genocide and exploitation of native peoples that resulted from European colonization. There is a debate around whether Columbus Day should continue to be celebrated without also acknowledging these darker aspects of history.
William Bradford, from History of Plimouth POllieShoresna
William Bradford, from
History of Plimouth Plantation (written between 1630-51)
AFTER they had lived in this city [Leyden, in the Netherlands] about some 11 or 12 years… and sundry of them were taken away by death, and many others began to be well stricken in years…. those prudent governors with sundry of the sagest members began both deeply to apprehend their present dangers, and wisely to foresee the future, and think of timely remedy. In the agitation of their thoughts, and much discourse of things hear about, at length they began to incline to this conclusion, of removal to some other place. Not out of any newfangledness, or other such like giddy humor, by which men are oftentimes transported to their great hurt and danger, but for sundry weighty and solid reasons….
Of all sorrows most heavy to be borne, was that many of their children, by these occasions, and the great licentiousness of youth in that country, and the manifold temptations of the
place, were drawn away by evil examples to extravagant and dangerous courses, getting the reigns off their necks, and departing from their parents. Some became soldiers, others took upon them far voyages by sea, and other some worse courses, tending to dissoluteness and the danger of their souls, to the great grief of their parents and dishonor of God. So that they saw their posterity would be in danger to degenerate and be corrupted.
Lastly, (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work. These, and some other like reasons, moved them to undertake this
resolution of their removal….
The place they had thoughts on was some of those vast and unpeopled countries of America, which are fruitful and fit for habitation, being devoid of all civil inhabitants, whether are only salvage and brutish men, which range up and down, little otherwise then the wild beasts of the same….
It was answered, that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages. It was granted the dangers were great, but not desperate; the difficulties were many, but not invincible. For though there were many of them likely, yet they were not certain; it might be sundry of the things feared might never befall; others by provident care and the use of good
means, might in a great measure be prevented; and all of them, through the help of God, by fortitude and patience, might either be borne, or overcome… there ends were good and honorable; their calling lawful, and urgent; and therefore they might expect the blessing of God in their proceeding....
Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before ...
From 1949 Wall Street Journal Editorial published every Christmas season. The danger of totalitarianism versus the blessings of freedom. Plays with music. Can turn into a short movie file export video in PPTX
The document describes the oppressive Roman world that existed when Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus. There was one state - Rome - and one master - Tiberius Caesar. The Roman government exercised power over all, and oppressed those who were not friends of Caesar through taxation, conscription, and persecution. Then Jesus came preaching a message of God's kingdom where people were free and treated each other with compassion. Paul warned that people must stand fast in the liberty brought by Christ and not allow themselves to be entangled again by powers that wish to dominate and oppress.
The document discusses interpretations of passages from the Book of Revelation about beasts and a dragon that represent corrupt governments and Satan. It argues that one beast government will become very powerful and popular globally, resembling aspects of communism, fascism, and capitalism. This beast will persecute Christians and demand worship, forcing people to receive a mark to buy or sell. The number of the beast is identified as 666. Overall the passage suggests that a future one world government will emerge that persecutes believers but will ultimately fail when Jesus returns.
The document discusses how in 1914, a small group of English, French, and German men lived isolated on an island without regular news from the outside world. They had been unaware for 6 weeks that the countries of these men were now at war with each other. The introduction explains that during times of war, people's mental pictures of the world often do not match reality, as there is a delay between when events happen and when news of them spreads.
This document provides a summary of the genocide of California Native Americans that occurred when white settlers arrived in the region. It describes how settlers justified taking Native lands by promoting the concept of "Manifest Destiny," which held that white Americans were destined to expand across North America. It then details some of the initial encounters between Native peoples and European explorers and missionaries in California. However, it argues that the settlers ultimately carried out massive violence and genocide against Native populations in order to steal their lands.
Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE)History, XIV.16 The Luxury .docxgalerussel59292
Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE):
History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 CE.
Rome is still looked upon as the queen of the earth, and the name of the Roman people is respected and venerated. But the magnificence of Rome is defaced by the inconsiderate levity of a few, who never recollect where they are born, but fall away into error and licentiousness as if a perfect immunity were granted to vice. Of these men, some, thinking that they can be handed down to immortality by means of statues, are eager after them, as if they would obtain a higher reward from brazen figures unendowed with sense than from a consciousness of upright and honorable actions; and they are even anxious to have them plated over with gold!
Others place the summit of glory in having a couch higher than usual, or splendid apparel; and so toil and sweat under a vast burden of cloaks which are fastened to their necks by many clasps, and blow about by the excessive fineness of the material, showing a desire by the continual wriggling of their bodies, and especially by the waving of the left hand, to make more conspicuous their long fringes and tunics, which are embroidered in multiform figures of animals with threads of divers colors.
Others again, put on a feigned severity of countenance, and extol their patrimonial estates in a boundless degree, exaggerating the yearly produce of their fruitful fields, which they boast of possessing in numbers, from east and west, being forsooth ignorant that their ancestors, who won greatness for Rome, were not eminent in riches; but through many a direful war overpowered their foes by valor, though little above the common privates in riches, or luxury, or costliness of garments.
If now you, as an honorable stranger, should enter the house of any passing rich man, you will be hospitably received, as though you were very welcome; and after having had many questions put to you, and having been forced to tell a number of lies, you will wonder---since the gentleman has never seen you before---that a person of high rank should pay such attention to a humble individual like yourself, so that you become exceeding happy, and begin to repent not having come to Rome ten years before. When, however, relying on this affability you do the same thing the next day, you will stand waiting as one utterly unknown and unexpected, while he who yesterday urged you to "come again," counts upon his fingers who you can be, marveling for a long time whence you came, and what you can want. But when at last you are recognized and admitted to his acquaintance, if you should devote yourself to him for three years running, and after that cease with your visits for the same stretch of time, then at last begin them again, you will never be asked about your absence any more than if you had been dead, and you will waste your whole life trying to court the humors of this blockhead.
But when those long and unwholesome banquets, which are indulged in at .
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The warning of war , a poem delivered before the, united societies of dartmou...Coming Up
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from The General History of Virginia John Smith What HapJeanmarieColbert3
from The General History of Virginia
John Smith
What Happened Till the First Supply
John Smith himself wrote this account of the early months
of the Jamestown settlement. For that reason, he may be
trying to make his actions seem even braver and more
selfless than they were. As you read, stay alert for
evidence of exaggerating by Smith.
Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned
1
that within ten
days, scarce ten amongst us could either go
2
or well stand,
such extreme weakness and sickness oppressed us. And thereat
none need marvel if they consider the cause and reason,
which was this: While the ships stayed, our allowance was
somewhat bettered by a daily proportion of biscuit which the
sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for
money, sassafras,
3
or furs. But when they departed, there
remained neither tavern, beer house, nor place of relief but the
common kettle.
4
Had we been as free from all sins as gluttony
and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints,
but our President
5
would never have been admitted for
engrossing to his private
,6
oatmeal, sack,
7
oil, aqua vitae,
8
beef,
eggs, or what not but the kettle; that indeed he allowed equally
to be distributed, and that was half a pint of wheat and as
much barley boiled with water for a man a day, and this, having
fried some twenty-six weeks in the ship's hold, contained
as many worms as grains so that we might truly call it rather
so much bran than corn; our drink was water, our lodgings
castles in the air.
With this lodging and diet, our extreme toil in bearing and
planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual
labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened
us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in
our native country or any other place in the world.
From May to September, those that escaped lived upon
sturgeon and sea crabs. Fifty in this time we buried; the rest
Vocabulary Development: pilfer (pil far) v.steal
palisades(pala sadz) n.large,pointed stakes set in the ground to form a fence
used for defense
1. fortuned v. happened.
2. go v. be active.
3. sassafras (sas' e fras) n. a tree, the root of which was valued for its supposed
medicinal qualities.
4. common kettle communal cooking pot
5. President Wingfield, the leader of the colony.
6. engrossing to his private taking for his own use.
7. sack n. type of white wine.
8. aqua vitae (ak' we vir e) brandy.
seeing the President's projects to escape these miseries in
our pinnace
9
by flight (who all this time had neither felt want
nor sickness) so moved our dead spirits as we deposed him
and established Ratcliffe in his place . . .
But now was all our provision spent, the sturgeon gone,
all helps abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the
savages; when God, the patron of all good endeavors, in that
desperate extremity so change ...
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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The Tragedy of White Injustice: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
1. Tragedy of White Injustice
Garvey writes:
“The bankers employ men to shoot and kill
When we interfere with their august will.
They take the savings of deaf, dumb and
poor. Gamble with it here and on foreign
shore;
In oil, gold, rum, rubber they speculate.
Then bring their foreign troubles upon the
State. Friends in government they control
at will. War they make for others, our sons
to kill.”
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 1
“THE POEM AND HIS NOTES REGARDING”
2. Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice
(1)
Lying and stealing is the whiteman's game;
For rights of God nor man he has no shame
(A practice of his throughout the whole world)
At all, great thunderbolts he has hurled;
He has stolen everywhere-land and sea;
A buccaneer and pirate he must be,
Killing all, as he roams from place to place,
Leaving disease, mongrels-moral disgrace-
(2)
The world's history of him is replete,
From his javelin-bolt to new-built fleet:
Hosts he has robbed and crushed below;
Of friend and neighbor he has made a foe.
From our men and women he made the slave,
Then boastingly he calls himself a brave;
Cowardly, he steals on his trusting prey,
Killing in the dark, then shouts he hoo ray!
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 2
3. (3)
Not to go back to time pre-historic,
Only when men in Nature used to frolic,
And you will find his big, long murder-list,
Showing the plunderings of his mailed fist;
Africa, Asia and America
Tell the tale in a mournful replica
How tribesmen, Indians and Zulus fell
Fleeing the murdering bandit pell mell.
(4)
American Indian tribes were free,
Sporting, dancing, and happy as could be;
Asia's hordes lived then a life their own,
To civilization they would have grown;
Africa's millions laughed with the sun,
In the cycle of man a course to run;
In stepped the white man, bloody and grim,
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 3
4. The light of these people's freedom to dim.
(5)
Coolies of Asiaties they quickly made,
In Africa's blacks they built a world trade,
The Red Indians they killed with the gun,
All else of men and beasts they put to run;
Blood of murderer Cain is on their head,
Of man and beast they mean to kill dead;
A world of their own is their greatest aim,
For which Yellow and Black are well to blame.
(6)
Out of cold old Europe these white men came,
From caves, dens, and holes, without any fame,
Eating their dead's flesh and sucking their blood,
Relics of the Mediterranean flood;
Literature, science and art they stole,
After Africa had measured each pole,
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 4
5. Asia taught them what great learning was,
Now they frown upon what the Coolie does.
(7)
They have stolen, murdered, on their way here,
Leaving desolation and waste everywhere;
Now they boastingly tell what they have done,
Seeing not the bloody crown they have won;
Millions of Blacks died in America,
Coolies, peons, serfs, too, in Asia;
Upon these dead bones Empires they builded,
Parceling out crowns and coronets gilded.
(8)
Trifling with God's Holy Name and Law,
Mixing Christ's religion that had no flaw,
They have dared to tell us what is right,
In language of death-bullets, gas and might
Only with their brute force they hold us down,
Men of color, Yellow, Red, Black and Brown:
Not a fair chance give they our men to rise,
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 5
6. Christian liars we see in their eyes.
(9)
With the Bible they go to foreign lands,
Taking Christ and stealth in different hands;
Making of God a mockery on earth,
When of the Holy One there is no dearth:
They say to us: "You, sirs, are the heathen,
"We your brethren-Christian fellowman,
"We come to tell the story of our God";
When we believe, they give to us the rod.
(I0)
After our confidence they have thus won,
From our dear land and treasure we must run;
Story of the Bible no more they tell,
For our souls redeemed we could go to hell.
Oil, coal and rubber, silver and gold,
They have found in wealth of our lands untold;
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 6
7. Thus, they claim the name of our country, all,
Of us they make then their real foot-ball.
(11)
If in the land we happen to tarry,
Most of us then become sad and sorry,
For a white man's country they say it is,
And with shot, gas and shell, they prove it his:
What can we do who love the Gracious Lord,
But fight, pray, watch and wait His Holy word:
His second coming we know to be true,
Then, He will greet the white man with his due-
(12)
This Christ they killed on Calvary's Cross.
After flis Person around they did toss:
White men the Savior did crucify,
For eyes not blue, but blood of Negro tie;
Now they worship Him in their churches great,
And of the Holy Ghost they daily prate;
"One God" they say, enough for all mankind,
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 7
8. When in slavery the Blacks they entwined.
(13)
Their churches lines of demarcation draw;
In the name of Christ there is no such law,
Yet Black and White theyhave separated,
A Jim Crow God the preachers operated,
Then to Heaven they think they will all go,
When their consciences ought to tell them NO.
God is no respecter of persons great,
So each man must abide his final fate.
(14)
We'd like to see the white man converted,
And to right and justice be devoted;
Continuing in land-values to lie and steal,
Will bring destruction down upon his heel.
All that the other races want, I see,
Is the right to liberty and be free;
This the selfish white man doesn't want to give;
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 8
9. He alone, he thinks, has the right to live.
(15)
There shall be a bloody mix-up everywhere;
Of the white man's plunder we are aware:
Men of color the great cause understand,
Unite they must, to protect their own land.
No fool's stand on argument must we make;
Between Heaven and earth an oath we take:
"Our lands to deliver from foreign foes,
Caring not of trials and maudlin woes."
(16)
The privilege of men to protect home
Was established before the days of Rome.
Many gallant races fought and died,
Alien hordes in triumph thus defied.
Carthage did not crush Ancient Greece
For their believing in the Golden Fleece.
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 9
10. No other race shall kill the sturdy Blacks
If on their tribal gods we turn our backs.
(17)
From Marathon, Tours, Blenheim and the Marne
A braver courage in man has been born;
Africans died at Thermopylae's Pass,
Standing firm for Persia-men of Brass.
The Black Archers of Ethiopia stood
At Marathon, proving their stern manhood;
Senegalese held their own at Verdun,
Even though their praises are not now sung.
(18)
In the Americas' modern warfare
The Blacks have ever borne their share;
With Cortez, Washington, too, and the rest,
We did for the others our truthful best;
At St. Domingo we struck a clear blow
To show which way the wind may one day go.
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 10
11. Toussaint L'Ouverture was our leader then,
At the time when we were only half-men.
(19)
Italians, Menelik put to chase,
Beating a retreat in uneven haste;
So down the line of history we come,
Black, courtly, courageous and handsome.
No fear have we today of any great men
From Napoleon back to Genghis Khan;
All we ask of men is "Give a square deal,"
Returning to others same right we feel.
(20)
With a past brilliant, noble and grand,
Black men march to the future hand in hand;
We have suffered long from the white man's greed,
Perforce he must change his unholy creed.
Stealing, bullying and lying to all
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12. Will drag him to ignominious fall;
For men are wise-yes, no longer are fools,
To have grafters make of them still cheap tools.
(21)
Each race should be proud and stick to its own,
And the best of what they are should be shown;
This is no shallow song of hate to sing,
But over Blacks there should be no white king.
Every man on his own foothold should stand,
Claiming a nation and a Fatherland!
White, Yellow and Black should make their own laws,
And force no one-sided justice with flaws.
(22)
Man will bear so much of imposition,
Till he starts a righteous inquisition.
History teaches this as a true fact,
Upon this premise all men do act.
Sooner or later each people take their stand
To fight against the strong, oppressive hand;
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13. This is God's plan, raising man to power,
As over sin and greed He makes him tower.
(23)
This trite lesson the white man has Dot learnt,
Waiting until he gets his fingers burnt.
Milleniums ago, when white men slept,
The great torch of light Asia kept.
Africa at various periods shone
Above them all as the bright noonday sun;
Coming from the darkened cave and hut,
The white man opened the gate that was shut.
(24)
Gradually light bore down upon him,
This ancient savage who was once dim;
When he commenced to see and move around,
He found the book of knowledge on the ground;
Centuries of wonder and achievements
Were cast before him in God's compliments;
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14. But, like the rest, he has now fallen flat,
And must in the Lord's cycle yield for that.
(25)
We shall always be our brother's keeper,
Is the injunction of the Redeemer;
Love and tolerance we must ever show,
If in Grace Divine we would truly grow;
This is the way clear to God's great kingdom-
Not by the death-traps of Argonne or Somme,
When the terrible white man learns this much,
He will save even the African Dutch.
(26)
South Africa has a grave problem now
In reducing the Negro to the plow;
White men are to live in their lazy case
While the patience of the goodly natives tease;
They make new laws to have Africa white
Precipitating righteous and ready fight:
Around the world they speak of being so just,
Yet, in fact, no lone white man can you trust.
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15. (27)
In Australia the same they have done,
And so, wherever man's confidence won:
This they call the religion of the Christ,
And upon their willing slave try to foist.
Only a part of the world can you fool,
And easily reduce to your foot-stool;
The other one-half is always awake,
And from it you cannot liberty take.
(28)
"And now valiant Black men of the west
Must ably rise to lead and save the rest":
This is the ringing call Africa sounds,
As throughout the Godly world it resounds;
Clansmen! black, educated, virile and true!
Let us prove too that we are loyal blue.
We must win in the blessed fight of love,
Trusting on the Maker of men above.
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16. (29)
The Christian world is yet to be saved!
Man, since the risen Christ has not behaved!
Wanton, reckless, wicked, he still remains,
Causing grief, sorrow, tears and human pains!
Can we show the Godly light to anyone
Seeking for earnest truth while marching on?
If so, friend, let us tell you now and here,
For love, freedom, justice let's all prepare!
(30)
God in His Glorious Might is coming,
Wonderful signs He is ever showing,
Unrest, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and storms
Are but revelations of Heavenly Forms:
The proud white scientist thinks he is wise
But the Black man's God comes in true disguise,
God is sure in the rumbling earthquake,
When He is ready, the whole world will shake.
(31)
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17. The Armageddon is gathering now;
The sign is on every oppressed man's brow:
The whites who think they are ever so smart
Do not know other men can play their part:
When the opportune time is almost here
Black, Yellow and Brown will be everywhere,
In union of cause they'll stand together
And storms of the bully boldly weather.
(32)
Their gases and shots, and their rays of death,
Shall only be child's play-a dream of Seth,
For out of the clear, sleeping minds of ages,
Wonders shall be written on history's pages:
Our buried arts and sciences then shall rise,
To show how for centuries we were wise:
Silent tongues we kept, by God's true command,
Until of us, action, He did demand.
(33)
Under the canopy of Nature's law
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18. We shall unitedly and bravely draw.
On the plains of God's green Amphitheatre,
Swords, in rhythm with Divine Meter:
Jehovah's Day will have surely come,
With Angelic strains and Seraphic hum:
The Guides of Heaven will direct the way,
Keeping us from wandering far astray.
(34)
Like around the high walls of Jericho,
March we, as Rio speeds through Mexico:
Trumpets loud will the Guiding Angels blow.
As scatter the enemy to-and-fro:
Heaven will have given us a battle cry:
"Oh Brave Soldiers you shall never die":
Rally to the command of Heaven's King,
As Cherubim to Him your tidings bring.
(35)
See the deadly clash of arms! Watch! They fall!
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19. There is stillness!-It is the funeral pall!
A sad requiem now is to be sung!
Not by Angels. but in their human tongue!
The cruel masters of yest'rday are done!
From the fields of battle they have run!
A brand new world of justice is to be!
"You shall be a true brother unto me!"
(36)
This is a forecast of God's wrath:
White man, will you turn from the evil path?
There is still hope for you, among the good:
If you will seek the bigger-brotherhood:
Stop your tricks, frauds, lying and stealing,
And settle down to fair and square dealing;
If not, prepare yourself for gloomy hell,
As God announces the sorrowing knell.
(37)
Your lies, to us called diplomacy,
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20. Are known by us, a brazen phantasy;
You imprison men for crimes not so great,
While on your silly wisdom you do prate.
The masses are soberly watching you;
They know that you are false and so untrue.
The laborers of your race you oppress,
As well as black and other men you distress.
(38)
If you were wise you'd read between the lines
Of feudal isms and others of old times.
Men have fought against ugly royal gods,
Burying them 'neath European sods.
Such to heartless masters the people do,
From Syracuse to bloody Waterloo;
Wonderful lessons for any sober man,
Who worships not idols or the god Pan.
(39)
In the vicious order of things today,
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21. The poor, suffering black man has no say;
The plot is set for one 'gainst the other,
With organization they mustn't bother.
"If one should show his head as a leader,
Whom we cannot use, the rest to pilfer,
We shall discredit him before his own,
And make of him a notorious clown."
(40)
"In Africa we have plans to match him,
While the native Chiefs of their lands we trim;
The Blacks schooled in England are too smart,
On the I BETTER THAN YOU scheme we'll start,
And have them thinking away from the rest;
This philosophy for them is best-
Easier then we can rob the good lands
And make ourselves rich without soiled hands."
(41)
"We will so keep from them the'NEGRO WORLD'
That no news they'll have of a flag unfurled;
Should they smuggle copies in, and we fail,
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22. We will send the sly agents all to jail."
This is the white man's plan across the sea.
Isn't this wily and vicious as can be?
In other lands they have things arranged
Differently, yet they have never changed.
(42)
In America they have Colored to tell
What they know of the rest, whose rights they sell;
The Blacks they do try to keep always down,
But in time they will reap what they have sown.
No Negro's good life is safe in the STATES
If he tries to be honest with his mates;
In politics he must sell at the polls,
To suit the white man in his many roles.
(43)
The West Indian whites are tricky, too;
They have schemes curved like the horse's shoe:
There is only one opening for the black-
Three other sides are close up to his back;
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23. Hence he never gets a chance to look in
Whilst staring at the world of mortal sin.
Yes, this is the game they play everywhere,
Leaving the Negro to gloom and despair.
(44)
And now, white man, can we reason with you,
For each race in the world to give it due?
Africa for Africans is most right;
Asia for Asiatics is light;
To Europe for the Europeans,
America for the Americans:
This is the doctrine of the goodly Klan,
Now fighting for the alien ban.
(45)
Blacks do not hate you because you are white;
We believe in giving to all men right;
Some we do keep for ourselves to protect,
Knowing it as a virtue to select.
We are willing to be friends of mankind,
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24. Pulling all together with none behind,
Growing in sane goodness and fellowship,
Choosing but the Almighty to worship.
(46)
Let Justice prevail, at home and abroad;
Cease over the weak your burdens to lord;
You're but mortal man, like the rest of us-
Of this happy truth we need make no fuss.
All Nature's kindly gifts are justly ours-
Suns, oceans, trees, to pretty flowers-
So we need not doubt the marvelous fact
That God has given to each man his tract.
(47)
The common thief now steals a crust of bread,
The law comes down upon his hungry head;
The haughty land robber steals continents,
With men, oil, gold, rubber and all contents.
The first you say is a hopeless convic',
While the latter escapes the law by trick;
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25. That grave, one-sided justice will not do-
The poor call for consideration, too.
(48)
The rich white man starts the unholy war,
Then from the line of action he keeps far;
He pushes to the front sons of the poor,
There to do battle, die, suffer galore,
As the guns rage, liberty loans they raise,
And in glorious tones sing freedom's praise.
This is the method to gain them more wealth,
Then, after vict'ry they practice great stealth.
(49)
Those who make wars should first go to the front,
And of gas, shot and shell bear there the brunt:
In first lines of action they are all due,
If to their country and people they are true:
When this is demanded in right of all,
There will be no more deadly cannon ball:
The downtrodden poor whites and blacks should join
And prevent rich whites our rights to purloin.
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26. (50)
Weeping mothers, tricked in patriotism,
Send their sons to fight for liberalism:
Into most far off lands they go with pride,
Thinking right and God be on their side:
When they get into the bloody trenches,
They find of lies they had awful drenches:
The people they were all supposed to kill,
Like themselves, had gotten of lies their fill.
(51)
In the private club and drawing room,
White schemes are hatched for the nation's doom:
Speculators, grafters, bankers-all,
With politicians join to hasten the fall,
By stealing rights from other citizens,
As if they weren't fit or true denizens:
How awful is this daring story
That we tell to men young and hoary.
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27. (52)
Crooked lawyers, friends and politicians,
Corrupt the morals of the good nations:
Between them and others, fly plots they make,
Innocent citizens' money to take;
From banks they find out your real account,
Then have you indicted on legal count:
Large fees they charge, to have you surely broke,
Then, to prison you go-what a sad joke!
(53)
The white man controls cable and wireless,
Connections by ships with force and duress:
He keeps black races of the world apart,
So to his schemes they may not be smart:
"There shall be no Black Star Line Ships," he says,
"For that will interfere with our crooked ways:
"I'll disrupt their business and all their plans,
"So they might not connect with foreign lands."
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28. (54)
Black women are raped by the lordly white,
In colonies, the shame ne'er reaching light:
In other countries abuses are given,
Shocking to morality and God's Heaven.
Hybrids and mongrels are the open result,
Which the whites give us as shameful insult:
How can they justify this? None can tell;
Yet, crimes of the blacks are rung with a bell.
(55)
White men newspapers subsidize and own,
For to keep them on their racial throne:
Editors are slaves to fool the public,
Reporters tell the lie and pull the trick;
The papers support only what they want,
Yet truth, fair play, and justice, daily flaunt:
They make criminals out of honest men,
And force judges to send them to the Pen.
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29. (56,)
Capitalists buy up all blank space
To advertise and hold the leading place
For to influence public opinion
And o'er Chief-editors show dominion.
The average man is not wise to the scheme,
He, the reformer, must now redeem;
This isn't a smooth or very easy job,
For, you, of your honor and name, they'll rob.
(57)
The bankers employ men to shoot and kill,
When we interfere with their august will;
They take the savings of deaf, dumb and poor,
Gamble with it here and on foreign shore:
In oil, gold, rum, rubber they speculate,
Then bring their foreign troubles upon the State:
Friends in Government they control at will;
War they make, for others, our sons to kill.
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30. (58)
The many foundations of researches,
And the foreign missions and their churches,
Are organized to catch the mild converts
Who don't understand the way of perverts.
Our wealth when discovered by researchers,
In lands of the Native occupiers
Is surveyed and marked to the river's rim
Till they dislodge a Premprey or Abd-El-Krim.
(59)
It is not freedom from prison we seek;
It is freedom from the big thieves we meet:
All life is now a soulless prison cell,
A wild suspense between heaven and hell:
Selfish, wicked whites have made it so;
To the Author and Finisher we'll go,
Carrying our sad cares and many wrongs
To Him in prayers and holy songs.
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31. (60)
This is the game that is played all around,
Which is sure one day to each race rebound:
The world is gone mad with the money craze,
Leaving the poor man in a gloomy haze:
There must be world reorganization,
To save the masses from exploitation-,
The cry is for greater democracy.
A salvation from man's hypocrisy.
(61)
Out in this heartless, bitter oasis
There's now very little of human bliss;
The cold capitalists and money sharks
Have made life unsafe, like ocean barks.
The once dear, lovely Garden of Eden
Has become the sphere of men uneven;
The good God created but an equal pair,
Now man has robbed others of their share.
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32. (62)
Shall there be freedom of liberal thought?
No; the white man has all agencies bought-
Press, pulpit, law and every other thing-
Hence o'er public opinion he reigns king.
This is indisputable, glaring fact;
You may find it out with a little tact.
College tutors and presidents are paid,
So that in universities schemes are laid.
(63)
Cleopatra, Empress Josephine,
Were black mongrels like of the Philippine:
Mixtures from black and other races they,
Yet "true" the white man's history will not say
To those who seek the light of pure knowledge
In the inquiring world, school or college.
Napoleon fell for a Negro woman;
So did the Caesars, and the Great Roman.
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33. (64)
Anthony lost his imperial crown
To escape Cleo's fascinating -frown.
This truth the New Negro knows very well,
And to his brothers in darkness he'll tell.
No one can imprison the brain of man-
That was never intended in God's plan;
You may persecute, starve, even debase-
That will not kill truth nor virtue efface.
(65)
The white man now enjoys his "Vanity Fair";
He thinks of self and not of others care-
Fratricidal course, that to hell doth lead-
This is poison upon which the gentry feed.
Blacks should study physics, chemistry, more,
While the gold God all such sinners adore;
This is no idle prattle talk to you;
It has made the banners red, white and blue.
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34. (66)
Out of the clear of God's Eternity
Shall rise a kingdom of Black Fraternity;
There shall be conquests o'er militant forces;
For as man proposes, God disposes.
Signs of retribution are on every hand:
Be ready, black men, like Gideon's band.
They may scoff and mock at you today,
But get you ready for the awful fray.
(67)
In the fair movement of God's Abounding Grace
There is a promised hope for the Negro race;
In the sublimest truth of prophecy,
God is to raise. them to earthly majesty,
Princes shall come out of Egypt so grand,
The noble black man's home and Motherland,
The Psalmist spoke in holy language clear,
As Almighty God's triune will declare.
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35. (68)
In their conceit they see not their ruin;
You soldiers of trust, be up and doing!
Remember Belshazzar's last joyous feast,
And Daniel's vision of the Great Beast!
"Weighed in the balances and found wanting"
Is the Tekel to which they are pointing.
This interpretation of the Prophet
Black men shall never in their dreams forget.
(69)
The resplendent rays of the morning sun
Shall kiss the Negro's life again begun;
The music of God's rhythmic natural law
Shall stir Afric's soul without Divine flaw.
The perfume from Nature's rosy hilltops
Shall fall on us spiritual dewdrops.
Celestial beings shall know us well,
For, by goodness, in death, with them we'll dwell.
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36. (70)
AND HOW SAD A FINIS!
With battleship, artillery and gun
White men have put all God's creatures to run;
Heaven and earth they have often defied.,
Taking no heed of the rebels that died.
God can't be mocked in this daring way,
So the evil ones shall sure have their day.
"You may rob, you may kill, for great fame,"
So says the white man, FOR THIS IS HIS GAME.
More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
Garvey In Re of:
Tragedy of White Injustice
1. Read and study thoroughly the poe[m] "Tragedy of White Injustice" and
apply its sentiment and statements in connection with the historic
character and behaviour of the white man. Know it so well as always to be
able to be on guard against any professions of the white man in his
suggested friendship for the Negro.
> The poem exposes the white man's behaviour in history and is intended
to suggest distrust of him in every phase of life. Never allow it to get into
the hands of a white man i[f] possible.
2. You can imp[ro]ve your English as you go along by reading critically the
Marcus Garvey - Tragedy of White Injustice 36
37. books of the language; that is to say, you must pay close attention to the
construction of sentences and paragraphs as you see them in the books
you read. Imitate the style.
> Read with observation. Never read carelessly and recklessly.
3. In reading books written by white authors of whatsoever kind, be aware
of the fact that they are [not] written for your particular benefit or for the
benefit of your race. They always write from their own point of view and
only in the interest of their own race.
> Never swallow wholly what the white man writes or says without first
critically analyzing it and investigating it. The white man's trick is to
deceive other people for his own benefit and profit.
> Always be on your guard against him with whatsoever he does or says.
Never take chances with him. His school books in the elementary schools,
in the high schools, in the colleges and universities are all fixed up to suit
his own purposes, to put him on top and keep him on top of other people.
Don't trust him. Beware! Beware!
> You should study carefully the subject of ethnology. It is the subject that
causes races to know the difference between one race and another.
> Ethnic relationship is important as it reveals the characteristic of one
people as different from another. There is no doubt that each race has
different habits and manners of behaviour. You must know them so as to
be able to deal with them. There are books on this subject in the library. In
your reading and searching for truth always try to get that which is
particularly helpful to the Negro. Every thought that strikes you, see how it
fits in with the Negro, and to what extent you can use it to his benefit or in
his behalf. Your entire obsession must be to see things from the Negro's
point of view, remembering always that you are a Negro striving for Negro
Supremacy in every department of life, so that any truth you see or any
facts you gather must be twisted to suit the Negro psychology of things.
> The educational system of today hides the truth as far as the Negro is
concerned. Therefore, you must searchingly scan everything you read[,]
particularly history, to see what you can pick out for the good of the race.
As for instance, you will read that the Egyptians were a great people, the
Carthagenians, the Libyans, etc., but you will not be told that they were
black people or Negroes. You should, therefore, go beyond the mere
statement of these events to discover the truth that will be creditable to
your race. You would, therefore, in a case like that ask where did the
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38. Libyans get their civilization from or the Carthagenians or the Egyptians.
> Following that kind of an investigation you will come upon the truth that
it was all original[ly] Negro and subsequently bec[a]me Negroid. That is to
say, subsequent people were mixed with other people's blood, who were no
doubt conquered by the Negro. As a fact, the original Egyptians were black
men and women, and so the Carthagenians and Libyans, but in the later
centuries they became mixed in blood, just as how [now?] the blacks are
being mixed in America and the West Indies by the infusion of white blood
through the domination of the white man.
> Never yield to any statement in history or made by any individual[,]
caring not how great, that the Negro was nobody in history. Even if you
cannot prove it always claim that the Negro was great. Read everything you
can get written by Negroes and their ancestry, going back six thousand
years. There are statements in the Bible in the Old and New Testaments
to show that black was always an important colour among the races of
men. Abraham had company with a black woman, even though he had his
wife Sarah, by whom he had Ishmael.
> All the original Pharaohs were black. Tutankumen, whose bones and
body were dug up not very long ago at Luxor in Egypt, was a black
Pharaoh. The sphinx, in Egypt which has stood through the millenniums,
has black features. It is evident that as art it was portrayed to teach us of
the greatness of men. When you are dealing with Jews let them know that
they were once your slaves in Egypt if you have to say so. There is good
ground to say that civilization started in Africa and passed from and
through Northern Africa into Southern Europe, from which the Greeks
and Romans and the People of Asia Minor made good copies. The swarthy
colour of the Asiatics and the brunette colour of the South Europeans
were due to the fact that the cultured and civilized blacks of Africa mixed
their blood with them. Search all history and all literature and the Bible
and find facts to support this argument but hold to it with a grip that will
never loosen. Things that may not be true can be made if you repeat them
long and often enough, therefore, always repeat statements that will give
your race a status and an advantage. That is how the white man has built
up his system of superiority. He is always telling you he is superior and he
has written history and literature to prove it. You must do the same. One of
the great backgrounds for your argument which cannot be disputed is that
you are older than any other man as a race because you are black. Your
argument is that in nature everything by way of age darkens. That you are
darker than the rest of men, proves logically, that you are older than the
rest of men. Another proof of that is that even among white people they
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39. grow darker in skin as they grow older in age in a lifetime.
> If the one individual were to live for six thousand years he would surely
be not white. If he were born white he would be as dark as the darkest
man. Therefore, the old argument that the black man is black because as
man he is older than the other man is good. Use it everywhere you go to
defeat the white man in his belief that you sprung from something else.
Use the argument that the white man is white because most of the time
when the black man was great in Africa and had succeeded in running
him across the Mediterranean into South Europe he had to hide himself
in caves where there was very little light and air. He was almost covered up
for most of the time in darkness. In natural creation the child in the womb
of the mother is almost white even though it be a black child and it is
almost born white and doesn't change colour until it comes in contact with
light and air.
> Living in caves for so many centuries the white man, therefore, became
colourless and the length of time always made it so that he was born
naturally white. You must interpret anthropology to suit yourself. The
thing for you to do is to refute every pertinent statement of the white man
which tends to degrade you and to elevate him. Turn the tables on him and
search for all reasons in the world you can find to justify it. That is how
new thoughts are given out by creation. Never yield to the statement of your
inferiority.
> In reading Christian literature and accepting the doctrine of Jesus
Christ lay special claim to your association with Jesus and the Son of
God. Show that whilst the white and yellow worlds, that is to say, the
worlds of Europe and Asia Minor persecuted and crucified Jesus the Son
of God, it was the black race through Simon the black C[y]renian who
befriended the Son of God and took up the Cross and bore it alongside of
Him up to the heights of Calv[a]ry. The Roman Catholics, therefore, have
no rightful claim to the Cross nor is any other professing Christian before
the Negro. The Cross is the property of the Negro in his religion, because it
was he who bore it.
> Never admit that Jesus Christ was a white man, otherwise he could not
be the Son of God and God to redeem all mankind. Jesus Christ had the
blood of all races in his veins, and tracing the Jewish race back to
Abraham and to Moses, from which Jesus sprang through the line of
Jesse, you will find Negro blood everywhere, so Jesus had much of Negro
blood in him.
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40. > Read the genealogical tree of Jesus in the Bible and you will learn from
where he sprang. It is a fact that the white man has borrowed his
civilization from other peoples. The first civilization was the Negro's black
people. The second civilization was the brown people Indians, the third
civilization was the yellow people, chinese or mongols; the last civilization
up to today is the white man and all civilization goes back to the black
man in the Nile Valley of Africa. In your reading, therefore, search for all
these facts. Never stop reading and never stop until you find the proof of
them.
> You must pay great attention to sociology. Get the best books on the
subject that you can and read them thoroughly. Find out the social
relationship among other races so [t]hat you may know how to advise your
people in their social behaviour. Never admit that the Negro is more
immoral than the white man but try to prove to the contrary. Socially the
white man has debauched and debased all other races because of his
dominant power. He is responsible for more illegitimacy among races than
any other race. He has left bastard children everywhere he has been,
therefore, he is not competent to say that he is socially and morally purer
than any other race.
> The mixed population among Neg[roe]s from slavery to the present in
certain countries is due to [t]he white man's immorality. Therefore, if you
should hear anyone talking about moral depravity of Negroes and the
moral excellence of the whites, draw the above facts to their attention.
> When through reading and research you have discovered any new fact
helpful to the dignity and prestige, character and accomplishment of the
Negro, always make a noise about it. You should keep always with you a
note book and fountain pen or indelible pencil and make a note in that
book of anything you hear or see that you would like to remember. Keep
always at home a larger note book to which you must transfer the thought
or experience, so that it will not be lost to your memory. Once at least every
three months read over that book and as the book becomes more
voluminous with facts, read it over at least once a year.
> By the constant reading of these facts they will be planted on your subconscious mind and you
will be able to use them without even knowing that you are doing so. By keeping your facts
registered and your very important experiences, at the end of a full life you may have a volume of
great value such as Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book. Get a copy of this Scrap Book. Ask any
publisher in your town to get it for you. It contains invaluable inspiration. Always have a thought.
Make it always a beautiful thought. The world is attracted by beauty either in art or in expression.
Therefore, try to read, think and speak beautiful things.
Marcus Garvey
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RBG Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey Studies Collection
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