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| Jules Crittenden: Happy Columbus Day |
| 2007-10-08 |
James Carroll at Boston Globe, All glasses half full, all silver linings cloudy. Put another way:Roses are red Carroll's quick summage of American suckage through history -- actually relatively upbeat as Carroll's America takes go -- and in the GWOT leaves out a couple of factors that make this a happy holiday. . . . Columbus Day celebrates the arrival of Europeans in the New World, which critics note marked the onset of a lot of death, power shifts, slavery and domination of the continent by new ethnic groups. Essentially, a continuation of history as usual as far as the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia were concerned, all of which had practiced those things repeatedly. Only in the Americas, an acceleration of history, something different. From this complex, sometimes disturbing history of boldness, vision, determination, misery, blood and hope in the cauldron of New World, emerged the greatest nation history has seen, founded on noble ideas, some of which we are still finetuning. An example to the rest of the world, which is still having trouble with a lot of the basics. Happy Columbus Day. Anyway, Carroll, if you believe the European occupation of North America was such a bad thing, I respect your views, but you really need to act on your convictions: Find a hole in the Auld Sod to crawl into and divorce yourself from oppressive institutions of the European occupation of North America such as the Boston Globe. It's the only moral choice. |
| Posted by:Mike |
#2 Anyway, Carroll, if you believe the European occupation of North America was such a bad thing, I respect your views, but you really need to act on your convictions: Find a hole in the Auld Sod to crawl into and divorce yourself from oppressive institutions of the European occupation of North America such as the Boston Globe. It's the only moral choice.Having seen the likes of Carroll's mindset in action and having been able to ask other holders about it, I believe Carroll is doing this as a means of assuaging his own perceived culpability. Therefore it is positively necessary that he stay here. To move back to Ye Olde Country would be counterproductive to The Struggle, man. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-10-08 14:20 |
| #1 James Carroll is the guy the Globe keeps around to make Derrick Z. Jackson seem sane... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-08 13:11 |