Carlson likes to refer to white people as "legacy " Americans. Here is an anecdote from a fascinating book, "African Founders", by David Fischer.
In the early 1700s, a young African boy was enslaved by Africans and whites, and eventually owned by a Quaker named Slocum, who let Kofi buy his freedom. He married a Wampanoag Indian.
Carlson likes to refer to white people as "legacy " Americans. Here is an anecdote from a fascinating book, "African Founders", by David Fischer.
In the early 1700s, a young African boy was enslaved by Africans and whites, and eventually owned by a Quaker named Slocum, who let Kofi buy his freedom. He married a Wampanoag Indian.
Kofi became a prosperous whaler and trader. Yankees called him Mister Coffe Slocum. Coffe learned to read and write, keeping a journal that incorporated his African tribe's sense of right and wrong and duty to others.
The large family took the surname Cuffe. Some sons were farmers or store owners. Grandson Paul Cuffe owned a shipyard and expanded the family's trade. In 1811 a Cuffe brig became the first ship built and navigated by blacks to land in England. Paul Cuffe became a world leader in the effort to end slavery.
So my point is these black and Indian people are actually among the legacy Americans. We were always muliti-racial in fact, if not in governance.
Good story, but I find the idea of having to prove that the term, 'legacy Americans' shouldn't just be white people is beside the point that 'legacy Americans' is just code for 'real Americans' which is a bullshit notion at odds with our laws and higher ideals as a country. My neighbor was born in India. She married an American, moved here and worked hard to get her American Citizenship. She's every bit as American as I am, despite relatives who fought in the Civil War and a family name found in the officer corp in the American Revolution.
And please don't take that as any attack on you or your story. I absolutely agree with your point.
I agree. Every American is just as much American as every other American. I think Carlson was implying that whites created America. Legacy is a code for whites. But from the beginning, American Indians, enslaved blacks, and free blacks also created America.
The way my mindset works on that concept is that I can acknowledge it as predominantly true (while certainly not underselling the examples you mention) and then have to ask, "Now what in hell does that have to do with anything today?"
I mean, if tomorrow we uncovered George Washington's secret diary that proclaimed that America was being created by white people for white people, what should change? We founded the country to be open to all religions (or none). We fought a war and made it for all races. We then passed an Amendment that made it women as well as men. That last has been more than 100 years ago now. It is a country for everyone that is born or becomes a citizen. Nowhere in our documents, founding or otherwise do we give any special place to legacy. The closest you can get is that a President has to be a born citizen, and that doesn't have to have been to citizen parents.
Again, my rant isn't against you or anything you posted. Just Tucker and any concept that legacy has some kind of meaning in America.
Right, but it matters because it is the basis for maga mocking diversity and inclusion, and of course we have always been diverse. Maga creates its own meaning, as we see in book banning and threats to librarians.
Carlson likes to refer to white people as "legacy " Americans. Here is an anecdote from a fascinating book, "African Founders", by David Fischer.
In the early 1700s, a young African boy was enslaved by Africans and whites, and eventually owned by a Quaker named Slocum, who let Kofi buy his freedom. He married a Wampanoag Indian.
Kofi became a prosperous whaler and trader. Yankees called him Mister Coffe Slocum. Coffe learned to read and write, keeping a journal that incorporated his African tribe's sense of right and wrong and duty to others.
The large family took the surname Cuffe. Some sons were farmers or store owners. Grandson Paul Cuffe owned a shipyard and expanded the family's trade. In 1811 a Cuffe brig became the first ship built and navigated by blacks to land in England. Paul Cuffe became a world leader in the effort to end slavery.
So my point is these black and Indian people are actually among the legacy Americans. We were always muliti-racial in fact, if not in governance.
Good story, but I find the idea of having to prove that the term, 'legacy Americans' shouldn't just be white people is beside the point that 'legacy Americans' is just code for 'real Americans' which is a bullshit notion at odds with our laws and higher ideals as a country. My neighbor was born in India. She married an American, moved here and worked hard to get her American Citizenship. She's every bit as American as I am, despite relatives who fought in the Civil War and a family name found in the officer corp in the American Revolution.
And please don't take that as any attack on you or your story. I absolutely agree with your point.
I agree. Every American is just as much American as every other American. I think Carlson was implying that whites created America. Legacy is a code for whites. But from the beginning, American Indians, enslaved blacks, and free blacks also created America.
The way my mindset works on that concept is that I can acknowledge it as predominantly true (while certainly not underselling the examples you mention) and then have to ask, "Now what in hell does that have to do with anything today?"
I mean, if tomorrow we uncovered George Washington's secret diary that proclaimed that America was being created by white people for white people, what should change? We founded the country to be open to all religions (or none). We fought a war and made it for all races. We then passed an Amendment that made it women as well as men. That last has been more than 100 years ago now. It is a country for everyone that is born or becomes a citizen. Nowhere in our documents, founding or otherwise do we give any special place to legacy. The closest you can get is that a President has to be a born citizen, and that doesn't have to have been to citizen parents.
Again, my rant isn't against you or anything you posted. Just Tucker and any concept that legacy has some kind of meaning in America.
Right, but it matters because it is the basis for maga mocking diversity and inclusion, and of course we have always been diverse. Maga creates its own meaning, as we see in book banning and threats to librarians.
Exactly.