Conservative ideology does accommodate radical revolution — accommodate paradigm change.
Conservatism 101
1. Good things: conserve them
2. Gone wrong: try 2 reform them
3. Gone crazy, no longer recognizable: Separate from, or replace them.
Conservatism 101
1. Good things: conserve them
2. Gone wrong: try 2 reform them
3. Gone crazy, no longer recognizable: Separate from, or replace them.
Some argue, (I agree) that The American Revolution was in many ways a - conservative - revolution!
It appealed to earlier documents about the rights of man, natural rights, etc, claiming King George violated these established norms.
It appealed to earlier documents about the rights of man, natural rights, etc, claiming King George violated these established norms.
The argument: The American Revolution sought a return to those norms — norms that King George had obviously violated.
Conservatives are suspicious of radical change. So, total paradigm change is resisted because of the potential for greater chaos and unforseen occurrences
But, it can wage revolution, too!
It just takes a longer time.
But, when it happens — it leaves such a powerful mark.
But, it can wage revolution, too!
It just takes a longer time.
But, when it happens — it leaves such a powerful mark.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, ...
... the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
"What one begs the American people to do, for all our sakes, is simply to accept our history.”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
The most powerful revolution is a cultural one, and a black conservative revolution (mindful of the past) IS a most POWERFUL thing.
Interesting piece on Edmund Burke, supporter of the American Revolution, critic of French Revolution.
telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/… …#Happy4thJuly
telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/… …#Happy4thJuly
But, like the black Pharaoh of Cush/Sudan/Egypt wno has "marched out to fight against you" - Sennacherib - King of Assyria.
Black Conservatism is COMING for you White Nationalism.
Black Conservatism is COMING for you White Nationalism.
We have a "rendezvous" with history, too.
We refuse to escort black (and other) children down white steps for you; to encourage that they bend a knee to you, we refuse to escort them into a thousand years of darkness, for you.
We refuse to escort black (and other) children down white steps for you; to encourage that they bend a knee to you, we refuse to escort them into a thousand years of darkness, for you.
"But at that place their kicking will stop.”
“They may kick and protest up to the convention floor, but At That Place their kicking will stop.”
-- William Madison McDonald
(1866-1950)
-- William Madison McDonald
(1866-1950)
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The Black 🌳 Tree of Liberté
“In overthrowing me you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep.”
— L'Ouverture, Toussaint (1742-1803)
“In overthrowing me you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep.”
— L'Ouverture, Toussaint (1742-1803)
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