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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76735869 United States 07/04/2018 11:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LIBERALS HOODWINKED AGAIN! Run with mis-truths - RUSH LIMBAUGH: The Statue Of Liberty Has NOTHING To Do With Immigration Emma Lazarus’s [link to www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org (secure)] poem only belatedly became synonymous with the Statute of Liberty [link to topics.nytimes.com (secure)] , whose 125th birthday as a gift from France will be celebrated on Friday by the National Park Service. [link to topics.nytimes.com (secure)] Lazarus’s “New Colossus,” [link to nextbookpress.com (secure)] with its memorable appeal to “give me your tired, your poor,” was commissioned for a fund-raising campaign by artists and writers to pay for the statue’s pedestal. But while the poem was critically acclaimed — the poet James Russell Lowell wrote that he liked it “much better than I like the Statue itself” because it “gives its subject a raison d’être which it wanted before quite as much as it wants a pedestal” — it was not even mentioned at the dedication ceremony. Finally in 1903, after relentless lobbying by a friend of Lazarus who was descended from Alexander Hamilton, himself an immigrant, it was “affixed to the pedestal as an ex post facto inscription,” the art historian Marvin Trachtenberg wrote. “Gradually, thereafter, the awareness spread not only of the significance of the lines of the poem but also of the significance of the aspect of national tradition it expressed,” another historian, Oscar Handlin, wrote. “Liberty was not simply the bond between ancient allies; nor was it only the symbol of liberal ideas of justice and freedom; it was also the motive force that had peopled the wilderness and made the country that emerged what it was.” |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76735869 United States 07/04/2018 11:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LIBERALS HOODWINKED AGAIN! Run with mis-truths - RUSH LIMBAUGH: The Statue Of Liberty Has NOTHING To Do With Immigration Barry Moreno, a historian of the statue for the National Park Service, recalled that it “was never built for immigrants.” [link to topics.nytimes.com (secure)] “It was,” he recalled, “built to pay tribute to the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence, American democracy, and democracy throughout the world. It honored the end of slavery, honored the end of all sorts of tyranny and also friendship between France and America.” THE LEFT HIJACKS THE MEANING OF THE STATUE: Only later, he added, “letters were written home, word of mouth, taught people that you would see this wonderful goddess in New York Harbor when you arrived in America to welcome you.” “And she became really famous among immigrants,” he recalled. “And it was really immigrants that lifted her up to a sort of a glory that was probably before America really fully embraced her.” Lazarus, who popularized that “wonderful goddess,” accepted the commission only begrudgingly — few poets relish the idea of writing on demand. But she was stirred by a wave of pogroms against -Jews- in Russia and by her regular visits to poor immigrants housed in temporary shelters on Wards Island. She would make “The New Colossus” the first entry in a compendium of poems she anthologized shortly before her death from Hodgkin’s disease at 38 in 1887. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76735869 United States 07/04/2018 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LIBERALS HOODWINKED AGAIN! Run with mis-truths - RUSH LIMBAUGH: The Statue Of Liberty Has NOTHING To Do With Immigration [link to www.cjh.org (secure)] “Emma Lazarus was the first American to make any sense of this statue,’’ said Esther Schor, an English professor at Princeton and author of a biography titled “Emma Lazarus.” “Conceived by the French statesman Édouard René de Laboulaye, the statue was to propound the values of the French Revolution, in a sort of end-run around the repressive Second Empire of Napoleon III,” Professor Schor said. “But Americans were so unmoved and uninterested that it was hard to raise money simply to build a pedestal to support it.” For Lazarus, who wrote the sonnet in 1883 having seen only the torch when it was on display for a fund-raising drive in Madison Square Park, “it was a moment of moral and spiritual recovery, after her attempts to raise money to benefit the Russian-Jewish refugees of 1881-82 had largely fallen on deaf ears,” Professor Schor said. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76735869 United States 07/04/2018 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LIBERALS HOODWINKED AGAIN! Run with mis-truths - RUSH LIMBAUGH: The Statue Of Liberty Has NOTHING To Do With Immigration Instead of retreating, she broadened her appeal to all immigrants, Professor Schor said. For her “the statue was a special kind of mother — a ‘mother of exiles’ — a mother whose mission is not to reproduce herself, but rather to adopt the abandoned, the orphaned, the persecuted,” she said. “She’s tender and accepting,” Professor Schor said, “but also fiercely protective, and her iconoclastic message smashes the icons of enlightenment and imperialism.” The sonnet would survive periodic efforts to excise her reference to “wretched refuse” and would become enshrined in the political lexicon in the 1930s as an anthem for Americans who, with war again threatening in Europe, lobbied to reverse anti-immigration quotas that had been imposed a decade earlier. “The irony is that the statue goes on speaking, even when the tide turns against immigration — even against immigrants themselves, as they adjust to their American lives,’’ Professor Schor said. “You can’t think of the statue without hearing the words Emma Lazarus gave her.” |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76735869 United States 07/04/2018 11:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LIBERALS HOODWINKED AGAIN! Run with mis-truths - RUSH LIMBAUGH: The Statue Of Liberty Has NOTHING To Do With Immigration See what happens when people fuck with history? The Jewish have their Holocaust museums and memorials, but the Christians have nothing for the 10's of millions of deaths at the hands of the Russian-Jewish Bolsheviks. The same people are taking down statues of Confederate Democrats in order for people to forget their history. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 11514818 United States 07/05/2018 12:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LIBERALS HOODWINKED AGAIN! Run with mis-truths - RUSH LIMBAUGH: The Statue Of Liberty Has NOTHING To Do With Immigration It’s Cybele, the cube, the black meteor, the kaaba, the kabbalah. Androgynous, look at its male face, the ultimate tranny! It’s castle was in Phrygia so pay attention to the Phrygian cap which is displayed all over our capital. It’s the cap of “liberty”! The cap was worn and was the symbol of the “French” Revolution ergo she/it was supplanted to it’s new home in New York harbor by, of course, the French! The muslim worship it at the kaaba in Mecca, circumabilating it, the black meteor inside the black cube, or Cybele! This is the truth, but few know, fewer care. |
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