AMERICA‘s “first public park” is now one of its ugliest parks (which is saying a lot):
A new monument honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was unveiled in Boston Friday, ahead of Monday’s national holiday honoring the civil rights icon.
The 22-foot tall sculpture, named ‘The Embrace,’ represents the hug between Dr. King and Coretta after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
The $10 million bronze statue, designed by Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group, now stands in the Freedom Plaza of the Boston Common, America’s first public park.
A renowned philanderer and liar who died in the company of prostitutes — and the civil rights movement in general — have been given an appropriate tribute.
“AFTER this, being desirous of advancing still more in Christian perfection, he took a resolution of retiring into the desert, and of withdrawing himself altogether from the conversation of men. This resolution he communicated to the old monk his friend, of whom we spoke above, proposing that he should accompany him; but the old man excused himself, alleging his advanced age, and the novelty of such an enterprise. Antony, however, no way discouraged, set out upon his journey towards the heart of the wilderness, at that time utterly uninhabited, arid lying at a very great distance from any town or village. As he walked along, he saw a large dish of silver with which the enemy sought to interrupt his journey, lying on the ground; but he easily discovered the artifice, and cried: ‘This is a trick of thine, Satan; thou shalt not divert me from my resolution; keep thy silver to thyself, and let it perish with thee.’ Read More »
“A South African academic named Sarita Pillay Gonzalez noticed the aesthetic in Cape Town in the late 2010s, when she was working there at an urbanism research organisation. Gonzalez saw it as a form of gentrification, or even an echo of colonialism in a postcolonial country. Generically minimalist coffee shops were popping up on Kloof Street in Cape Town. When we spoke, Gonzalez identified them by their “long wooden tables, wrought-iron finishings, those lightbulbs that hang, hanging plants”. The aesthetic itself was spreading into different venues as well: beer halls, gastropubs, art galleries, Airbnbs. She had noticed a similar transformation in north-east Minneapolis while she was living there in 2016, where warehouse buildings were turned into coffee shops, microbreweries, and co-working offices – all common indicators of a gentrifying neighbourhood.
“According to Gonzalez, the style marked ‘a globally accessible space. You’re able to hop from Bangkok to New York to London to South Africa to Mumbai and you can find that same feel. You can ease into that space because it’s such a familiar space.’ The homogeneity contrasted with the overall hipster philosophy of the 2010s, namely, that by consuming certain products and cultural artefacts you could proclaim your own uniqueness apart from the mainstream crowd – in this case a particular coffee shop rather than an obscure band or clothing brand. ‘The irony of it all is that these spaces are supposed to represent spaces of individuality, but they’re incredibly monotonous,’ Gonzalez said.”
IN 1994, black journalist Elizabeth Wright examined the story of the late-nineteenth century Chicago caterer, Charles Smiley. He was so successful that in 1893 he constructed a large, three-story stone mansion (below) to house his business, complete with a dining room and ballroom. Smiley was a head of the Chicago chapter of the National Negro Business League, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1900 with financing by Andrew Carnegie.
According to Wright, black businessmen like Smiley were held back not so much by legal discrimination as by black leaders who refused to encourage a separate black economy and looked down upon manual labor:
Take Chicago in the late 19th century, for instance, where the doctrine of self-help was vigorously promoted by black businessmen. While such men emphasized the importance of business enterprise as the path to increased affluence and self-respect, other prominent blacks just as vigorously discouraged the creation of any black institutions.
Among the city’s most successful entrepreneurs was Charles Smiley, who owned the dominant catering business in Chicago and its suburbs. So respected was he for his outstanding professionalism that the demand for his services reached even into the adjacent states of Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan.
Smiley was actually following in the footsteps of many black men throughout the country who made fortunes through their skillful management and promotion of the catering trade. When he arrived in Chicago as a young man, in 1881, with little formal education and 50 cents in his pocket, he took a job as a janitor, and used his spare time to hire himself out as a waiter at catered dinners and parties. As he developed contacts among wealthy Chicagoans, he saw the possibility of these people becoming clients of his own catering business.
Well-disciplined from a youth spent as a laborer, Smiley began his business on a shoestring. Booker T. Washington was to later say about this period in Smiley’s life, “He possessed, however, several assets more valuable than mere money. He had a resolute character, good powers of observation, ambition, and brains.” Read More »
Third World immigrants make a net-negative lifetime financial contribution in the West (see here), but so do women, even though their workforce participation rate is only slightly lower than men’s.
“The positive net fiscal impact women make from 45-59 never outweighs the prior negative net fiscal impacts.”
The Girlboss Industrial Complex has achieved nothing other than halving men’s wages, taking women away from their children, and preventing people from starting families.
NOW, the religion of chivalry was altogether the religion of motives and of the heart. It was love, faith, hope, gratitude, joy, fidelity, honour, mercy; it was a devotion of mind and strength, of the whole man, of his soul and body, to the discharge of duty, and to the sacrifice of every selfish and dishonourable feeling that was contrary; it was to obey a commandment which was in unison with all the elevated sentiments of nature, and calculated most effectually to develop every quality that was the object of esteem and reverence. The knights of old had neither the inclination nor the ingenuity to determine the minimum of love which was compatible with the faith of Christ. They were not like men who regard it sufficient if they love God at any time before death, or on the festivals; or if they keep the commandments and do not hate God; or who imagine that this burdensome obligation of loving him was part of the Mosaic law, which is dispensed with by the religion of nature and the Gospel.
They had not learned to reason with the sophist of old, saying that religion “is a gracious and an excellent thing when moderately pursued in youth; but if afterwards it be loved overmuch, it is the ruin of men.” They had not subsided into that state of profound indifference to the truths of religion which the eloquent Massillon has compared to the condition of Lazarus, when the disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps he will do well’; and were undeceived when Jesus said unto them plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead.” But their affections were warm, their gratitude was sincere; and though their understanding on the doctrines of religion might sometimes fail them, their hearts did not. They were thankful under every circumstance of life; and like the prophet of old, it was their boast, “The fig-tree shall not blossom, and there shall be no spring in the vines; the labour of the olive-tree shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; but I will rejoice in the Lord, and I will rejoice in God my Jesus.”
They were slain in battle, they were cut off in the flower of their youth, they were shut up in dark prisons from the light of the sun and from the solace of friendship; yet they could exult in the words of the Psalm, “Quid enim mihi est in coelo? et a te quid volui super terram? Deficit caro mea et cor meum: Deus cordis mei, et pars mea Deus in geternum.”
“Thenne,’ said Bors, “hit is more than yere and an half that I ne lay ten tymes where men dwelled, but in wylde forestes and in mountains, but God was ever my comforte.”
How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!
— Matthew VII, 14
“The doctrine which naturally emerges from Our Lord’s words, that the majority of men follow the path of perdition may seem harsh and discouraging; there is no shortage of thoughtful minds who try to escape the conclusions which appear to flow from it …. Our Lord tells us that the immense influence of the majority of the men we live among is added to our own weakness and to our evil inclinations to lead us on. We shall always have the crowd against us: the example of the crowd has always held back, and continues to hold back, many souls in the pursuit of perfection. It is the example of the multitude among Catholics which ever provides a pretext for those outside her fold not to enter it. It is the example of the multitude of so-called Christians that closes the hearts of millions of unbelievers to the evidence of the Gospel.”
HOW IS it that middle class families have gone in the last five decades from being sustainable on one income to requiring two in many cases? Why in the same period has household debt grown ever higher? You would think we would have less debt, not more.
This 2019 video discussion between two Australians, Will Waite and Chas Pinwill, explains why working mothers (war and high immigration too) are a necessity in a debt-based, central banking economy and why personal indebtedness only grows worse. Everything they say about Australia is relevant to the U.S. They discuss the “social credit” alternative (not to be confused with Chinese social credit scoring) in which every adult receives a national dividend, similar to workers in profit-sharing companies. The dividend would offset the lack of money in circulation despite growths in productivity in a high-tech age and would provide enough to support families and individuals.
“We’ve gone from a situation of single income to double income but we’re not any richer, because all the second income … goes to paying the mortgage. So the banks have done bloody well. They’ve got us in a deeper grip than ever. And we think we’re getting richer because house prices are going up but they’re only going up because they’re lending money to everybody to bid against each other,” says Pinwill, a cattleman who brings earthy wisdom to the subject.
Major banks and large corporations push feminism, homosexuality and transgenderism. Our economy needs non-reproductive worker bees to keep all that debt afloat.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Both Capitalism and Communism are founded in usury. Both empower the few at the expense of the many.
I used the living wage calculator for my city. With two adults, one working, three children, I barely make the living wage with my job ~$84k (wage calculator says $83,416). This requires me to work offshore and be away from my family half the year. I also have baby number four on the way next week so even though I make good money I still will not be making a living wage.
The one big category I noticed that was absent from the typical expenses, which are pretty spot on, was savings. Try and save for retirement or an emergency fund and your money goes by even quicker. This is also with having no car notes and comparatively low credit card debt. We still find expenses tight sometimes especially with hospital bills for the new baby coming up. I barely manage to stay afloat I’m not sure how everyone else is doing it when I know they make considerably less than me even with both parents working.
Through high taxes, usury, offshoring, greedflation, our society really is the worst.
IN HONOR of this beautiful occasion, the Feast of the Holy Family, here are some brutal truths affecting family life today as noted by Anthony Migchels:
Interest is being payed [sic] by people borrowing money and received by people having loads of it. So it is per definition a wealth transfer from poor to rich.
It transpires, that about 80% of the poorest people pay more interest than they receive to the richest 10%. The next richest 10% pay as much as they receive. This means the vast majority is losing a substantial part of their money to interest. The richest own the banks or have a lot of money there. Read More »
A just society makes it possible for ordinary fathers to provide for their families. Even the ancients recognized this natural law, now buried by propaganda and false notions of equality which benefit the few over the many.
The “living wage” supports a family in basic decency, health and modest comfort without onerous taxation and indebtedness. The “servile state” makes it impossible for one-income families to own property or even have enough for food. The economic underpinnings of the family have been decimated and systemic usury makes every single one of us, no matter how much personal debt we have, “interest slaves.”
The sad thing is, it doesn’t have to be this way. There truly is enough for all.
The usurers keep us distracted by stoking social conflict and pushing hedonism, to the further ruin of family happiness. Unleashed sexual desire is deliberately used for political control. Pornography is the slave’s compensation.
It doesn’t have to be this way. There truly is enough for all. God didn’t create the family without also giving the means to support it. Even the birds in the field have been given enough by their loving Father.
