“Let him [Colin Powell] resign. He can be replaced. Maybe by one of the people they fired from their job.” [OMNIZOA]
Colin Powell was highly respected both in the military and by the public. You might be one of those people I wrote of who are either too young to know or don’t remember how times have changed. William L. Shirer in his seminal history of Nazi Germany The Rise and Fall of theThird Reich spoke very disparagingly of homosexuals ("perverts" and "men of such unnatural proclivities") in a matter-of-fact tenor that was reflective of society in general then. What’s remarkable is that Shirer was no Bible thumping reactionary. On the contrary, he was a flaming liberal and was later tainted as a “pinko” during the McCarthy era. This was the attitude of even liberals then.
Likewise, many people would be shocked to learn that William Penn—the great humanitarian and advocate of religious liberty—owned slaves as did 70% of his fellow Quakers in early Pennsylvania. Penn even said that slaves were preferable to indentured servants because they served for life unlike the latter. It was only later that Quakers became prominent in the abolitionist movement.
Times change. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was a good first step.
Colin Powell was highly respected both in the military and by the public. You might be one of those people I wrote of who are either too young to know or don’t remember how times have changed. William L. Shirer in his seminal history of Nazi Germany The Rise and Fall of theThird Reich spoke very disparagingly of homosexuals ("perverts" and "men of such unnatural proclivities") in a matter-of-fact tenor that was reflective of society in general then. What’s remarkable is that Shirer was no Bible thumping reactionary. On the contrary, he was a flaming liberal and was later tainted as a “pinko” during the McCarthy era. This was the attitude of even liberals then.
Likewise, many people would be shocked to learn that William Penn—the great humanitarian and advocate of religious liberty—owned slaves as did 70% of his fellow Quakers in early Pennsylvania. Penn even said that slaves were preferable to indentured servants because they served for life unlike the latter. It was only later that Quakers became prominent in the abolitionist movement.
Times change. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was a good first step.
Last edited by Don Schneider; 05-03-17 at 01:13 PM.