Famed American Democrat Poet Falls Victim to Cancel Culture
By Merlin
Mon, Jul 12, 2021 5:31 p.m.
Famed American Democrat Poet Falls Victim to Cancel Culture
(N.S.: Violence alone my not solve this predicament, but there is no non-violent solution. Anyone who says, "We may not respond with violence" has already surrendered.)
Merlin: It amazes me how people of no accomplishments, except for discomplishments, get to decide where history resides. Meanwhile, statues of career criminal George Floyd are springing up across the nation. That is how crazy cancel culture has become. It's time for me to re-read "Leaves of Grass".....it is wonderful word-art and much more worthwhile than culture which only seeks to demolish American history to suit themselves. Those who do that are part of the ascendant American Taliban.
From the bard himself......
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
― Walt Whitman [Preface to Leaves of Grass]
Even for a Democrat, that's pretty good stuff.......
~J......
Walt Whitman Statue to Be Relocated on College Campus, Citing Controversial Racist Past
https://www.newsweek.com/walt-whitman-statue-relocated-college-campus-citing-controversial-racist-past-1608947
A statue of the famous 19th-century poet Walt Whitman is set to be removed from the center of the Rutgers University-Camden campus in New Jersey after complaints from activists [sic] and a recommendation from a committee of scholars [sic] was recently approved.
A sculpture by Banks of American poet, essayist and journalist Walt Whitman.
The Whitman statue, located in Camden's Campus Center courtyard, will be moved to another campus site, according to the school's vice-chancellor for public affairs and chief of staff, Mike Sepanic. The statue pays homage to the author who lived in Camden upon his death in 1892 at age 72.
Sepanic told Newsweek that members of the Rutgers University–Camden community asked the university in spring 2020 to re-evaluate, through contemporary and social-justice lenses, the statues, monuments and other forms of public art on our campus.
"A committee of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members, including a number of historians and artists, examined this broad topic during the past year," said Sepanic. "Their recommendations include the relocation of a statue of Walt Whitman from in front of our Campus Center to another site on campus—in a garden space near a century-old tree—where the statue can be displayed with accompanying contextual information within the coming [?]
[N.S.: The decision was based solely on Whitman's having been a White man. And not even a heterosexual, White man, for Whitman was a homosexual.]
Last year, a petition on change.org entitled "Remove Racist Walt Whitman from Rutgers-Camden Campus" started circulating.
The appeal argues the statue "glorifies a man who we should not hold such a place of honor on our campus. Our school encourages inclusion, diversity, and equity while Whitman stood for none of those things. He instead stood for white supremacy and racism against Black and Indigenous Americans."
It went on to quote what the activists called one of Whitman's "white supremacist beliefs": "The n*****, like the I****, will be eliminated: it is the law of races, history, what-not: always so far inexorable—always to be. Someone proves that a superior grade of rats comes and then all the minor rats are cleared out."
[N.S.: He was alluding to Darwin, but with a sardonic edge.]
As of Monday, the petition had 3,853 signatures of its 5,000 goal. Protests also centered on the school landmark.
Whitman is considered one of America's most famous and influential poets known for his seminal "Leaves of Grass," "Song of Myself" and "O Captain! My Captain!" The author and essayist was considered a humanist; he incorporated both views of transcendentalism and realism in his works and was often called the father of free verse. In general, his poetry praised the American experiment.
[N.S.: "Is considered"?! I guess that's supposed to make it sound like reporting.]
In an email to both students and university employees, interim Chancellor Margaret Marsh said the school plans to establish a day to honor and examine the history of Rutgers-Camden and racial justice, diversity, equity and inclusion narratives.
[N.S.: Note the redundancy of her wokespeak: "racial justice" already entailed the other three items.]
1 comment:
There SHOULD be many Whites automatically surrounding these historical pieces--hundreds,if not thousands to prevent removal.The woke mob is practicing on dead Whites first--live ones to come.
--GRA
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