I’ve just changed the signature on my emails to read “Sent from my child labor and slave labor-produced IPhone.” I’m going to add a similar signature to the emails I send from my Apple Mac.
The current system of sourcing from China and Congo is totally unacceptable morally.
Thomas Jefferson, himself a slave owner, wrote in a moment of hone…
I’ve just changed the signature on my emails to read “Sent from my child labor and slave labor-produced IPhone.” I’m going to add a similar signature to the emails I send from my Apple Mac.
The current system of sourcing from China and Congo is totally unacceptable morally.
Thomas Jefferson, himself a slave owner, wrote in a moment of honesty about slavery, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
It’s high time we American consumers wake up and take responsibility for the crimes our ruling class are committing in order to provide our comfort and convenience.
If anybody has any ideas about what to do please let me know.
Being actually honest about the morality involved is a strong beginning. As for what can actually be *done*, I'm reminded of a Police song from 40 years ago:
Hide my face in my hands
Shame wells in my throat
Our comfortable existence is reduced
to a shallow, meaningless party
Seems that when some innocents die
All we can offer them
is a page in some fucking magazine
Too many cell phones and not enough food
This what we've seen
Driven to tears.
Driven to tears.
Driven to tears.
Driven to tears.
Sting has been as guilty as anyone of glamorous celebrity activism, but he nailed the situation pretty starkly with that song.
Oh please. Stop swallowing that leftist swill. As if Jefferson was the only slave owner in the world. Virtually every nation allowed slavery during Jefferson's life.
More important, as you correctly observe, how about nations today - including the barbaric Chinese communists - who practice slavery on a massive scale?
Bruce, it’s worth reading the article. There’s information I didn’t know and far from “swallowing Leftist swill” I know a fair bit about Jefferson. I was duped by an early example (1998) of ideologically driven researchers lying about “the science” regarding Jefferson’s DNA but back in the day, I still trusted scientific articles in journals that were still prestigious at the time. We’ve all learned our lesson since then.
I was stunned by this article—I was misled twenty five years ago by an early perversion of “the science” about Thomas Jefferson’s DNA; I also didn’t know about the Virginia law forbidding indebted estates to free their slaves, either.
Thank you for bringing this information to my attention!
You are quite welcome. I live about 50 miles from Mr. Jefferson's Home and until last year made one pilgrimage per year to go through the same tour again and again. And I always said a silent prayer as I walked down the mountain past his grave: "Help us."
But not now. Monticello has been invaded by the Woke mob; instead a discussion of the Rights of Man, the Declaration of Independence, numerous other writings, the inventions (major improvement on the plow and many others), we are now drowned in Sally Hemmings. Personally, I don't care if he took a bed-wench - as they were called - after the death of his wife. It was a different time, and the mark of an amateur historian is judging historical figures by contemporary social mores.
Make no mistake - the denigration, perversion, and erasure of history is right out of the communist playbook - and with the same intent. I'll have none of it.
I’ve just changed the signature on my emails to read “Sent from my child labor and slave labor-produced IPhone.” I’m going to add a similar signature to the emails I send from my Apple Mac.
The current system of sourcing from China and Congo is totally unacceptable morally.
Thomas Jefferson, himself a slave owner, wrote in a moment of honesty about slavery, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
It’s high time we American consumers wake up and take responsibility for the crimes our ruling class are committing in order to provide our comfort and convenience.
If anybody has any ideas about what to do please let me know.
Being actually honest about the morality involved is a strong beginning. As for what can actually be *done*, I'm reminded of a Police song from 40 years ago:
Hide my face in my hands
Shame wells in my throat
Our comfortable existence is reduced
to a shallow, meaningless party
Seems that when some innocents die
All we can offer them
is a page in some fucking magazine
Too many cell phones and not enough food
This what we've seen
Driven to tears.
Driven to tears.
Driven to tears.
Driven to tears.
Sting has been as guilty as anyone of glamorous celebrity activism, but he nailed the situation pretty starkly with that song.
Oh please. Stop swallowing that leftist swill. As if Jefferson was the only slave owner in the world. Virtually every nation allowed slavery during Jefferson's life.
More important, as you correctly observe, how about nations today - including the barbaric Chinese communists - who practice slavery on a massive scale?
Bruce, it’s worth reading the article. There’s information I didn’t know and far from “swallowing Leftist swill” I know a fair bit about Jefferson. I was duped by an early example (1998) of ideologically driven researchers lying about “the science” regarding Jefferson’s DNA but back in the day, I still trusted scientific articles in journals that were still prestigious at the time. We’ve all learned our lesson since then.
I just read an interesting short article on Mr. Jefferson. After doing so, "Jefferson, himself a slave owner," took on a bit of a different light.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/thomas_jefferson_deserves_respect_from_all_americans.html
Thank you so much for posting this article! I never doubted Jefferson's character, but for those who did, this is eye-opening.
It should be required reading for Nicole Hannah-Jones, Ibram Kendi and the rest of their ilk, but I know that is wishful thinking...
Wow Jim—that’s a game-changer!
I was stunned by this article—I was misled twenty five years ago by an early perversion of “the science” about Thomas Jefferson’s DNA; I also didn’t know about the Virginia law forbidding indebted estates to free their slaves, either.
Thank you for bringing this information to my attention!
You are quite welcome. I live about 50 miles from Mr. Jefferson's Home and until last year made one pilgrimage per year to go through the same tour again and again. And I always said a silent prayer as I walked down the mountain past his grave: "Help us."
But not now. Monticello has been invaded by the Woke mob; instead a discussion of the Rights of Man, the Declaration of Independence, numerous other writings, the inventions (major improvement on the plow and many others), we are now drowned in Sally Hemmings. Personally, I don't care if he took a bed-wench - as they were called - after the death of his wife. It was a different time, and the mark of an amateur historian is judging historical figures by contemporary social mores.
Make no mistake - the denigration, perversion, and erasure of history is right out of the communist playbook - and with the same intent. I'll have none of it.
Thanks! I’ll check it out!