America's Founding Document Debunked

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America's Founding Document Debunked

Power grab by wealthy merchants targeted the men who fought and died for the Revolution

Honest soldiers deprived of pay

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are foes, not friends

It sounds like a joke (and maybe it is), but a nursing-home occupant and a New York crime family boss are about to compete in an “election” to serve as our country’s next chief executive. Neither man believes that they need to debate anyone in public to secure their party’s nomination — and that judgment is almost certainly correct. Our whole lives, we’ve been fed fanciful stories about our nation’s fabulous “democracy” enshrined in its glorious Constitution. Now is probably the time to admit something: We’ve been conned. The fact that the written text of the Constitution never uses the word “democracy” is no accident. Yet the US education system — and most of the country’s major media operations — center themselves around safeguarding the country’s precious “democracy” in order to pull the wool over the eyes of us rubes. For the American Establishment, the Constitution’s immaculate-conception origin story operates much like Christianity’s concept of God: A loving, kind, and …

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The Cleopatra of the Race-Track

Works by pioneering 19th century African American artist appear in strange places

Marble bust of Christ recovered from closet in Scottish castle: ’Old Arrowmaker’ recovered from Québec City junk shop.

Historical Society of Forest Park, Ill. preserves statue of Nilotic Queen using unorthodox techniques

By Isabel Vincent

Edmonia Lewis has faded so far into obscurity that, until a few years ago, experts had no idea when the African American and indigenous sculptor died, where she was buried, or what had happened to the more than 100 marble pieces she created. The handful of working Lewis sleuths — the academics, conservators, and art aficionados who have devoted their careers to tracking her work — have only recently uncovered some of the most basic details of her life and death. Lewis belonged to a coterie of American expatriate women sculptors in Rome, where she went to live in 1865, and never married. She was born in East Greenbush, New York, to an Ojibwe mother and Haitian father. An older half brother, Samuel Lewis, struck it rich in the California gold rush and financed her art studies at Oberlin College. Lewis, who had faced intense discrimination and a near-lynching at Oberlin after she was accused of poisoning two white housemates (she was acquitted at trial in 1863), enjoyed success and …

America's Founding Document Debunked

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The Cleopatra of the Race-Track