{"id":28190,"date":"2019-08-19T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28190"},"modified":"2019-08-19T21:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T02:13:43","slug":"good-riddance-to-lake-calhoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28190","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance to Lake Calhoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.fox9.com\/media.fox9.com\/photo\/2017\/10\/17\/---VO-LAKE%20CALHOUN%20HEARING_00.00.01.13_1508246113877_4367769_ver1.0_1280_720.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minneapolitians were divided about the renaming of long-standing Lake Calhoun into Bde Maka Ska. I doubt that many Minnesotans even knew who John C. Calhoun was or why anyone would object to his name being affixed to one of Minneapolis&#8217;s many pretty lakes. The answer is spelled out in one one of the New York Times marvelous histories concerning 2019&#8217;s  400 anniversary of the beginning of slavery in the United States. When they are finished I hope they publish the collection as a book. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the villain himself:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/08\/18\/magazine\/18mag-republicans-image\/18mag-republicans-image-jumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m intrigued that he looks every bit as grim as his polar political opposite John Brown whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/1989\/1106\/ucurry.html\">Kansas State Capitol Mural<\/a> I googled yesterday. That link is to a Christian Science Monitor story about the painter John Steurt Curry. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2h1WaJb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48580969602_a8f7d03575_n.jpg\" alt=\"2019-08-19_08-48-06\" width=\"320\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my Mother was a girl the mural was being painted in the capitol building. Brown was &#8220;reaping the whirlwind&#8221; that John C. Calhoun had sown in poisoning the call to equality in the Declaration of Independence. Or to loosely paraphrase George Orwell. &#8220;All animals are equal but slaveholders are more equal than others.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is a reason this blog is called Lincoln<em>democrat<\/em>. When I named it I was about to throw in the towel to the quasi-fascists that had taken over the GOP to fashion a new Jim Crow run by rural white Americans. The spirit of the Republican Party had been stripped from Abe Lincoln and handed to the architect of the anti-democratic South, John C. Calhoun.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this installment of the New York Times coverage of the 400th Anniversary of oppression against funny colored people by pink people:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/republicans-racism-african-americans.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/republicans-racism-african-americans.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolitians were divided about the renaming of long-standing Lake Calhoun into Bde Maka Ska. I doubt that many Minnesotans even knew who John C&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,31,25,96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28190"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28202,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190\/revisions\/28202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}