When the country was founded blacks were not even persons, and lower than animals. Women and children had no rights. The “Bill of Rights” only restrained the Federal government. Only white male property owners could vote.What Nick writes here is pretty much what I said in my last book, and what Fukuyama warned about in 1993 and Hoffer warned about in 1951. "Terrible, terrible freedom" in the sense that we refuse to be adults who grasp that freedom and embrace its concurrent *responsibilities* https://t.co/PdTtv3RMeT
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 30, 2021
And Mr. Nichols list of Cassandra’s files to mention any thinker or writer between 1951 and 1993. What, no Black men or women or Native Americans or Chicanos had anything to say? Ever?
White people remain very concerned about the condition and concerns of white people. “Terrible, terrible freedom.” I heard that argument repeatedly while Dr. King was alive. The concern was exactly the same then. Except then it was blacks who didn’t understand the responsibility of freedom. Mostly because white people feared being held responsible for how they'd wielded their freedom for so long, making sure to keep it away, or under tight control, from non-white people.
When do we include that in the indictment of who is, and is not, acting like an "adult" these days?
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