This quartet would have been better than the trio. |
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| By: ambassadorzot Tuesday January 22, 2013 7:20 pm | |
Almost everyone is giving the Obama speech writing crew
big kudos for the iconic linkage of “Senaca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall”.
My contrary observation; I think they blew it.
Far better would have been to evoke
this quartet of symbolic events known by their location;
“Concord, “Senaca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall”.
They missed a chance to embrace the entire panorama
of revolutionary roots by including, usurping the first
and most traditional event in American insurgent folklore.
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Folk lore indeed, the revolution was by rich white men.
N they been in control ever since.
I don’t see that event as the pinnacle of democratic grandeur that our schooling presents it as.
I’m very happy with the trinity that WAS invoked.
I see Concord as one of the fundamental
revolutionary acts that has ever
occurred in the history of this nation.
If it was only rich white men who were there,
that only rebounds to the credit of rich white men.
AT that moment, the rebellious action was taken
against an unrepresentative monarchy.
I’m with the Americans in that fight,
whatever their gender and the amount of their assets.
. . . and “folklore” is not a synonym with “fairy tale”,
as you seem to imply.