In 1836, President Jackson detached Jesup to deal with the Creek tribe in Georgia and Alabama, and then to assume command of all US troops in Florida during the Second Seminole War. His actions during the latter - in violating truces to capture Seminole leaders such as Osceola - provoked controversy.
White supremacy promotes the belief Whites are superior to other ethnicities. Different forms have differing conceptions of who is considered White.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Brigadier-General Thomas JESUP (1788–1860)
Monday, 17 January 2011
Daniel WEBSTER (1782–1852)
On March 7, 1850, Webster gave a congressional speech in which he gave support to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; requiring federal officials to recapture and return runaway slaves.
Webster wanted high profile convictions: He led the prosecution when defendants were accused of rescuing Shadrach Minkins in 1851 from Boston officials who intended to return Minkins to his owner; the juries convicted no-one.
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Wiley THOMPSON (1781–1835)
only good racist is a dead one
Thompson became an Indian agent to the Seminoles and was appointed in 1834 to superintend their from Florida. He was subsequently killed by a band of Seminoles led by Osceola at Fort King, Florida, on December 28, 1835.
Saturday, 15 January 2011
William Henry HARRISON (1773–1841)
Harrison participated in Wayne's decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, which brought the Northwest Indian War to a successful close for the United States. After the war, Lieutenant Harrison was one of the signatories of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, which opened much of present-day Ohio to settlement by European Americans
In 1803, Harrison lobbied Congress to repeal Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance, in order to permit slavery in the Indiana Territory. He claimed it was necessary to make the region more appealing to settlers and would make the territory economically viable. That year Harrison had the appointed territorial legislature authorize indenturing. He attempted to have slavery legalized outright, in both 1805 and 1807.
Friday, 14 January 2011
Christopher Eric HITCHENS (1949-2011)
Turkey's scheming at the Strasbourg summit proves it doesn't belong in the European Union
Sunday, 9 January 2011
John Whitaker STRAW (1946-)
We need to get the Pakistani community to think much more clearly about why this is going on and to be more open about the problems that are leading to a number of Pakistani heritage men thinking it is okay to target white girls in this way.
Of course, this is the projection-and-displacement of those who have an overwhelmingly-disproportionate number of child molesters in their own community while possessing no answers to the problem that they claim others must find.
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Sir Henry Creswicke RAWLINSON(1810–1895)
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Tuesday, 4 January 2011
James MONROE (1758–1831)
Monroe owned dozens of slaves and took some of them to serve him when he resided at the White House from 1817–1825. Other slave owning presidents also had the custom of bringing their slaves to work for them since there was no domestic staff provided for the presidents at that time.
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