Southern Democrat Dixiecrat racism then, nationwide Republican racism now, Caste and Class and slavery worldwide in all its forms, the Holocaust and Holocaust deniers, MTG, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, DeSantis, Kevin and Mitch, Mussolini & Hitler, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson and Joe McCarthy, Putin and Trump, Orval Faubus and Pres. Eisenhower, LB…
Southern Democrat Dixiecrat racism then, nationwide Republican racism now, Caste and Class and slavery worldwide in all its forms, the Holocaust and Holocaust deniers, MTG, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, DeSantis, Kevin and Mitch, Mussolini & Hitler, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson and Joe McCarthy, Putin and Trump, Orval Faubus and Pres. Eisenhower, LBJ and Great Society, Obama, Biden, Biden, Harris, Joe Knows Us, segregation now, segregation forever, AG Nick Katzenbach and George C. Wallace, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, MLK and FDR and JFK and RFK, Nobel Nadia Murad and @SBLewisSB - Greta and Gov. Abbot - the arc of our story today in Texas, Arizona, of my story now coming, of history as told here, finally, now, here by HCR, of Kenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark, Bill Clinton on his last day in office, Stanley James Evans MD, Douglas S. Eakeley, Bill Bradley, USD Judges Mary Johnson Lowe and William C. Conner, January 6th, July 4th, Juneteenth, Trump at the border, Pelosi and The House, Cheney and Cheney, John Robert Lewis and Matt Gaetz, Floyd George and Emmet Till, Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln Douglas, Civil War and 1813 and January 6th… the Negro Wet Nurse, first sex for white boys, KKK, our tortured past and present.
To truth. To Pericles Oration, the Gettysburg Address, I Have a dream.
To Heather for her nightly labors, let’s put her on The Court. She can teach there.
To Adam Liptak. Willy Rashbaum. Suzanne Craig. David Barstow.
As truth, as facts, as history reminds us that current nefarious tactics are not new or shiny, Sandy, then hope does spring. Historians remind us of action put into motion during another era that corrected course. We are reminded that we are a community of neighbors on the watch for each other.
Thank you for your comments today. I hope HCR and the likes of her will be able to record our history of this year as being the arc bending towards Lady Justice.
Careful with counting on "hope" springing wherever or whenever. The full Pope couplet reads "Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man NEVER IS, but always TO BE blessed." Which I take to mean that you'll never catch the right train if you're waiting on the wrong platform.
Mr. Grantham's comment (immediately below) is spot on, though as he surely recognizes there is no possibility that Mr. Lewis will mend his tiresome ways. One way to understand the poverty of Mr. Lewis's comments is to appreciate that all of them are all about him: he is a showy writer, the goal of his word salad screeds, which are largely incoherent--he is unable to mount an extended narrative, compare id. with Ms. Richardson's narratives-- is to show off what he perceives to be his intellectual depth and breadth. But it is not breadth and depth that are shown, but the lack of same: he is a vain dilettante, not remotely in Ms. Richardson's league on any front, which explains in part why he is so jealous of her.
I admire the efforts of HCR. As a historian she is B+. Thucydides is A+.
Jealous? She’s unappealing in every way for me, but she’s honest. I’ve loved academics that survived Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald. With a few good exceptions, I’ve not found a Phillips Exeter graduate well rounded. We have three in our nuclear family. The stuff they have that makes them special came later. Not one loves the memory of PEA. Two hate it. Summa cum laude at Princeton and D. Phil at Oxford, law at Yale and medical school.. not one loved the snots at PEA.
I am not a writer. I’ve written and have been asked by the best to do that. I speak. Writing requires patience I do not have.
Jealous? I am jealous of few. At 82, I’ve coped well will my handicaps. I seek no approval. I provoke.
As I see it, we live for those to come and we are failing badly. I would destroy millions if I felt that by doing so I might cleanse the human race of Trump, Giuliani, Putin, and thousands of others. I do not feel that killing solves anything.
The idiots that jabber nonsense here are a form of obnoxious bum fluff.
Those that struggle to make sense here have potential.
This Substack works the elderly. It does not reach students. I try. If we do not reach deeply those now being educated, planet earth 🌍 will burn up.
If we allow the GOP to rule, it’s Civil War. Trump et al will be jailed, or we will again experience January 6th. And worse.
Getting into a pissing fight with a skunk 🦨 is silly, Robert Lerner. I pass.
"This Substack works the elderly. It does not reach students. I try. If we do not reach deeply those now being educated, planet earth 🌍 will burn up."
But HOW the hell do we do that?? I totally agree, but in a world with more diversions than Leggo pieces, getting attention is kinda difficult. I am remined of a recent cartoon - Small spaceship lands on what looks like a Uni lawn. Students everywhere, intently looking at their phones. Alien 1 to Alien 2 " You see, I told you they'd never notice us" ! Some care, most don't.
Sandy, not being one of the cognoscenti, you posts lose me. Such a shame, as I'm sure there is so much in them. Maybe you can find some one to filter them first? We'd all benefit, I'm sure.
I re-read that 2012 Times article and Sandy Lewis has credibility that cannot be ignored. As for his 'stream of consciousness' style, imagine that you are at a magnificent buffet table of great length. The tempting items are too numerous to sample them all, but certainly, whatever you select to eat will be delicious.
Abuse? Bull shit. People in the public sphere are open to criticism. Idiots reading here are responding to their needs, not hers. She has broad shoulders… and she is guilty, as are many of us, of latent racism. Boston College the same. We will not whip the vicious racism spreading again over Europe and the USA… with passive crap that does not rip it, front and center. The best German Jews thought Hitler was a joke. Never again? Well, it’s ramping right now… and Trump and the racist GOP and the passive historians that fear controversy are of the problem, not of the solution. Most readers here are silent… and do not pay $5 or $50 to comment or read the comments. They come and go. The hard core play here, with us… and I am amused to read the garbage from the latent racists that seek to protect the Million Dollar Historian that will not challenge racism, front and center. Passive resistance worked for MKG. It will not work in our Senate or our nation,.
I find Sandy’s posts often confusing, yet compelling. Reading this one, I see a composite of faces and events in our history that lead to today. It makes me remember, and think. It’s a patchwork quilt that often doesn’t match patterns and there might be a few stay threads, but it sure covers a lot. I’m thankful we have someone like him in our midst.
Charlie Grantham, you have a physician in your community - who did not choose to give his famous father a memorial service… That physician is first class. And well liked… and he is dying of lung cancer… we last saw each other in December 1949.. his father hired and fired me… and I liked him. He was not brilliant. His uncle Arthur was.
As for you, Charlie, look in the mirror and tell me what color your cheeks are.
Common knowledge. Slave women before and after emancipation were used to get white boys started. Their sperm produced what the old Negro wanted. Their experience destroyed their respect for women and created an ownership syndrome that drives white supremacy to this day. Racist white men like to do it with the willing. It’s not rape. It’s not love. It’s Bill Clinton, pure and simple. And he knows it.
When the first such experience forms expectations, subsequent efforts do not result in happiness. The men orgasm. It’s a pit stop mentality. Their women rarely do, regardless of color.
Southern Democrat Dixiecrat racism then, nationwide Republican racism now, Caste and Class and slavery worldwide in all its forms, the Holocaust and Holocaust deniers, MTG, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, DeSantis, Kevin and Mitch, Mussolini & Hitler, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson and Joe McCarthy, Putin and Trump, Orval Faubus and Pres. Eisenhower, LBJ and Great Society, Obama, Biden, Biden, Harris, Joe Knows Us, segregation now, segregation forever, AG Nick Katzenbach and George C. Wallace, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, MLK and FDR and JFK and RFK, Nobel Nadia Murad and @SBLewisSB - Greta and Gov. Abbot - the arc of our story today in Texas, Arizona, of my story now coming, of history as told here, finally, now, here by HCR, of Kenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark, Bill Clinton on his last day in office, Stanley James Evans MD, Douglas S. Eakeley, Bill Bradley, USD Judges Mary Johnson Lowe and William C. Conner, January 6th, July 4th, Juneteenth, Trump at the border, Pelosi and The House, Cheney and Cheney, John Robert Lewis and Matt Gaetz, Floyd George and Emmet Till, Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln Douglas, Civil War and 1813 and January 6th… the Negro Wet Nurse, first sex for white boys, KKK, our tortured past and present.
To truth. To Pericles Oration, the Gettysburg Address, I Have a dream.
To Heather for her nightly labors, let’s put her on The Court. She can teach there.
To Adam Liptak. Willy Rashbaum. Suzanne Craig. David Barstow.
To NY State RICO, to Federal RICO.
The arc of history is bending.
Love thy neighbor, hope springs.
One Art. Elizabeth Bishop.
As truth, as facts, as history reminds us that current nefarious tactics are not new or shiny, Sandy, then hope does spring. Historians remind us of action put into motion during another era that corrected course. We are reminded that we are a community of neighbors on the watch for each other.
Thank you for your comments today. I hope HCR and the likes of her will be able to record our history of this year as being the arc bending towards Lady Justice.
Happy 4th weekend, Sandy. Woohoo!
Careful with counting on "hope" springing wherever or whenever. The full Pope couplet reads "Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man NEVER IS, but always TO BE blessed." Which I take to mean that you'll never catch the right train if you're waiting on the wrong platform.
I’m not on the wrong platform.
Blessings!
Mr. Grantham's comment (immediately below) is spot on, though as he surely recognizes there is no possibility that Mr. Lewis will mend his tiresome ways. One way to understand the poverty of Mr. Lewis's comments is to appreciate that all of them are all about him: he is a showy writer, the goal of his word salad screeds, which are largely incoherent--he is unable to mount an extended narrative, compare id. with Ms. Richardson's narratives-- is to show off what he perceives to be his intellectual depth and breadth. But it is not breadth and depth that are shown, but the lack of same: he is a vain dilettante, not remotely in Ms. Richardson's league on any front, which explains in part why he is so jealous of her.
Spot on.
I admire the efforts of HCR. As a historian she is B+. Thucydides is A+.
Jealous? She’s unappealing in every way for me, but she’s honest. I’ve loved academics that survived Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald. With a few good exceptions, I’ve not found a Phillips Exeter graduate well rounded. We have three in our nuclear family. The stuff they have that makes them special came later. Not one loves the memory of PEA. Two hate it. Summa cum laude at Princeton and D. Phil at Oxford, law at Yale and medical school.. not one loved the snots at PEA.
I am not a writer. I’ve written and have been asked by the best to do that. I speak. Writing requires patience I do not have.
Jealous? I am jealous of few. At 82, I’ve coped well will my handicaps. I seek no approval. I provoke.
As I see it, we live for those to come and we are failing badly. I would destroy millions if I felt that by doing so I might cleanse the human race of Trump, Giuliani, Putin, and thousands of others. I do not feel that killing solves anything.
The idiots that jabber nonsense here are a form of obnoxious bum fluff.
Those that struggle to make sense here have potential.
This Substack works the elderly. It does not reach students. I try. If we do not reach deeply those now being educated, planet earth 🌍 will burn up.
If we allow the GOP to rule, it’s Civil War. Trump et al will be jailed, or we will again experience January 6th. And worse.
Getting into a pissing fight with a skunk 🦨 is silly, Robert Lerner. I pass.
Sandy
"This Substack works the elderly. It does not reach students. I try. If we do not reach deeply those now being educated, planet earth 🌍 will burn up."
But HOW the hell do we do that?? I totally agree, but in a world with more diversions than Leggo pieces, getting attention is kinda difficult. I am remined of a recent cartoon - Small spaceship lands on what looks like a Uni lawn. Students everywhere, intently looking at their phones. Alien 1 to Alien 2 " You see, I told you they'd never notice us" ! Some care, most don't.
Horse shit.
Sandy, not being one of the cognoscenti, you posts lose me. Such a shame, as I'm sure there is so much in them. Maybe you can find some one to filter them first? We'd all benefit, I'm sure.
Mr. Lewis deserves better: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/nyregion/the-lonely-redemption-of-sandy-lewis-wall-street-provocateur.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
I re-read that 2012 Times article and Sandy Lewis has credibility that cannot be ignored. As for his 'stream of consciousness' style, imagine that you are at a magnificent buffet table of great length. The tempting items are too numerous to sample them all, but certainly, whatever you select to eat will be delicious.
The Year They Sold Wall Street, by Tim Carrington… is his best effort to capture me… Want a copy?
Thanks ... but just ordered a used copy online for under $5.
Well that was fascinating, thank you. It doesn't shed any light on his abuse of HCR but it explains a lot of other things.
Abuse? Bull shit. People in the public sphere are open to criticism. Idiots reading here are responding to their needs, not hers. She has broad shoulders… and she is guilty, as are many of us, of latent racism. Boston College the same. We will not whip the vicious racism spreading again over Europe and the USA… with passive crap that does not rip it, front and center. The best German Jews thought Hitler was a joke. Never again? Well, it’s ramping right now… and Trump and the racist GOP and the passive historians that fear controversy are of the problem, not of the solution. Most readers here are silent… and do not pay $5 or $50 to comment or read the comments. They come and go. The hard core play here, with us… and I am amused to read the garbage from the latent racists that seek to protect the Million Dollar Historian that will not challenge racism, front and center. Passive resistance worked for MKG. It will not work in our Senate or our nation,.
Hey, send in sanitation, Sandy. You're making a mess and losing our respect. Stop crapping on you allies.
Thanks, Molly. The article speaks of his incredible integrity and genius. Definitely worth a read.
Thanks Molly, that read helped make sense of Sandy’s comments, I too write stream of consciousness, but not as brilliantly 🤷♂️
The first three words of the NYT article reads "Angry Sandy Lewis" Kinda sums it all up right there.
Thanks for that - I had the previous article - but have lost the link. We all need Sandys - however tre difficile they might be to us mortals!
I find Sandy’s posts often confusing, yet compelling. Reading this one, I see a composite of faces and events in our history that lead to today. It makes me remember, and think. It’s a patchwork quilt that often doesn’t match patterns and there might be a few stay threads, but it sure covers a lot. I’m thankful we have someone like him in our midst.
Basically, he is saying good and evil have always existed in our politics. Nevertheless, imperfect people do good and good prevails.
Hi Hugh those posts lose me too — happy 4th everyone.
Shall I please the agent and a publisher? Does anything matter today?
Well, now, that's an idea, Sandy, put Heather on the Court!
Dude, Get a new shtick. You have grown tiresome and very predictable. I'll take a side order of humility dressing with your word salad.
Charlie Grantham, you have a physician in your community - who did not choose to give his famous father a memorial service… That physician is first class. And well liked… and he is dying of lung cancer… we last saw each other in December 1949.. his father hired and fired me… and I liked him. He was not brilliant. His uncle Arthur was.
As for you, Charlie, look in the mirror and tell me what color your cheeks are.
First sex for white boys?
Yes. Of course. After he's taken the pill from girls and taught them to just say no. Please refer to his outrageous post of A few days ago.
He was listing the odious ways whites have used BIPOC in this nation.
Common knowledge. Slave women before and after emancipation were used to get white boys started. Their sperm produced what the old Negro wanted. Their experience destroyed their respect for women and created an ownership syndrome that drives white supremacy to this day. Racist white men like to do it with the willing. It’s not rape. It’s not love. It’s Bill Clinton, pure and simple. And he knows it.
When the first such experience forms expectations, subsequent efforts do not result in happiness. The men orgasm. It’s a pit stop mentality. Their women rarely do, regardless of color.