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Most oppressed groups of people complain about and/or provide excuses for their condition instead of taking action(s) to change it. Brown people labelled as terrorists seem to be the most active when it comes to fighting imperialism.😎

Why We Shouldn't Forget Uncle Remus By Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser - [1] (Note: Original edition featuring this illustration published in 1881; scan this is taken from may be a slightly later printing (this is unclear), but the image itself is identical to that which appeared in the original 1881 edition, thus has the same copyright status)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99770852 Cropped image from the title page of Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. ========================= *** ======================== I did a brief research to refresh my mind about the historical aspect of the name ‘Remus’ and why whenever I think about this name, I always associate it to a common name for Black Slave men during chattel slavery time. This subject came up due to a recent comment on another discussion thread. I was reminded of my past research and shared my thoughts in the discussion to Pioneer. I believe in ancient Roman times, the Romans developed a type of script format in which many words and phrases were written in reverse script. However, they were not the first civilization to this but it goes way back in time to the Egyptians and the Bible contains a lot of this feature as the prophets coded prophecy in this format. By Roman times, it became known as Palindrome and it was extensive. This method of script has been used to retain hidden definitions and therefore, I believe that the name ‘Remus’ is one such name that has a hidden historical aspect. I believe that this name was given to many Black slave men based on an historical hidden aspect that goes all the way back to Roman times and is associated with the ancient Romans’ Founder legend about the two brothers, Remus and Romulus. Furthermore, I also believe that this ancient Roman Founder story includes these two names because it symbolizes a hidden message of how the Romans exploited ancient Black people that were indigenous to ancient Europe. I believe that the two names represent two distinct ‘Black peoples’ that coexisted in Italy and the Romans targeted them with a ‘divide-and-conquer-method, and systematically created conflicts that rose between them which led to them attacking each other. This is a repeated practice of infiltration and then extinction attempts that ancient Romans used in many ancient Black civilizations. The fact that this ancient legend defines the two Black men as being ‘brothers’ is extremely significant because most of the Black civilizations always developed with Black men who set up on a ‘brotherhood system’ and although their cultures were distinct, however, due to their practice of marriage alliances, there was always a common brotherhood bond in early civilizations. For this reason, I believe that the name ‘Remus’ signifies a type of Sumerian people (Sumer-Remus) and ‘Romulus’ signifies a type of Etruscan peoples (Moor-Sulu) of whom migrated into Italy from Syria and Turkey Anatolia around the 1200s BC and intermixed with Lusitanians. Fast forward to modern times, I believe that the name of ‘Remus’ carries a certain meaning in association to Black people and this may be why the author of The Song of the South chose the name ‘Uncle Remus’ to describe an ex-slave Black man as the central character to his stories. The author, Joel Chandler Harris, a White man, lived on a plantation in Georgia and developed his stories from listening to the Black people that lived on this planation. He became well acquainted with the kind of pidgin language spoken by the Black Americans on this plantation and strongly believed that it was very important to preserve this Black cultural aspect of spoken language. His books and his rendition became very popular, however, some Black Americans became offended. And so, eventually, the Uncle Remus stories became a controversy of which may still be so today. Presently, some people believe that these stories should still be made available to the public and the history should continue to be preserved. The ancient Roman historical aspect of what I believe exist as an underlying factor and that has been kept completely hidden, therefore, I wonder why bother keeping it in the forefront today. In addition to the Uncle Remus stories of our modern times and the Disney special that came from it, however, in Europe there was another author that wrote a story called, The Life and Times of Remusa, and the ethnic aspect that seems to connect this story to the complete overthrow of the mysterious Etruscans in Rome seems surreal. That story revolves around a Slavic people, the Kashubians, in Poland and one major aspect of the story revolves around the comedic fashion in how the character speaks. Although Uncle Remus’s name has its ultimate origins n Rome’s Romulus and Remus legend, its more immediate antecedent was an elderly Black gardener Harris met in Forsyth, Georgia, where Harris had served from 1867 to 1870 as an editor for the Monroe Advertiser. The Brer Rabbit Stories Harris’s fictionalized storyteller, Uncle Remus, was a “human syndicate” whom he had admittedly “walloped together” from several Black storytellers he had met while working from 1862 to 1866 as a printing compositor on Joseph Addison Turner’s Turnwold Plantation, outside Eatonton, in Putnam County. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/uncle-remus-tales/#:~:text=Although%20Uncle%20Remus%27s%20name%20has,editor%20for%20the%20Monroe%20Advertiser The Life and Adventures of Remus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Life and Adventures of Remus - the Kashubian Mirror (Kashubian title Żëce i przigodë Remusa - Zvjercadło kaszubskji) is a novel written in the Kashubian language by Dr. Aleksander Majkowski (1876–1938). The linguist Gerald Green … Literary technique[edit] The novel's subtitle, Zvjercadło kaszubskji ("Kashubian Mirror"), is a clear signal of its lush allegorical content. Remus himself, with his incomprehensible speech and comically peculiar mannerisms, aptly symbolizes outsiders' perception of the Kashubian people. Why We Shouldn't Forget Uncle Remus..... (Part 1) By film screenshot (Monogram Pictures) - https://archive.org/details/RevengeOfTheZombies, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130901534 James Baskett in Revenge of the Zombies - cropped screenshot Although Uncle Remus’s name has its ultimate origins in Rome’s Romulus and Remus legend, its more immediate antecedent was an elderly Black gardener Harris met in Forsyth, Georgia, where Harris had served from 1867 to 1870 as an editor for the Monroe Advertiser. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/uncle-remus-tales/#:~:text=Although%20Uncle%20Remus%27s%20name%20has,editor%20for%20the%20Monroe%20Advertiser

Well said. I would add that churches/religious organizations used to be an engine that drove change for African Americans. From Abolitionists in the 18th & 19th Centuries, to the churches that founded at least 10 HBCUs in the 19th Century, to various 20th Century organizations whose memberships could trace their roots to church/religious organizations (NAACP, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, et al), they were the spear - if not the club - that knocked down walls that hindered us.

Chev Well we know the Etruscans were the original inhabitants of the island of Sicily and southern Italy, and they were dark skinned and quite possibly Black. But I'm still not sure about Romulus and Remus being two Black boys though, lol. I'm going to have to do a little more research on that one.

@ProfD Let's list all the tangible benefits Republicans have provided for Black people ... (1) such as their unswerving addiction for shoving so many of us into prisons on real or trumped up criminal charges (2) flooding our communities with heroin and crack cocaine (3) their decades of open and tacit support of White Supremacists (4) their staunch refusals to treat Black people as equal humans (5) maligning our accomplishments (6) proudly touting our failures while minimizing theirs (7) disregarding orders from the U.S. Supreme Court to end Segregation and other harmful and racist programs and of course recently, to create a second Black House district in Alabama (8) their widespread adherence to banking and financial discrimination such as redlining (9) their coddling and acceptance of constant whiners, detractors and race traitors in the Black Community who want us to fail miserably (10) Injecting Black men with Syphilis and refusing to treat them and stealing Henrietta Lacks' cell tissue are just a portion of many medical atrocities inflicted on Blacks that Republicans believe were all well and good Thomas Jefferson was NOT a Democrat. As usual, you never do any research. You just spout bullcrap. https://www.answers.com/Q/Was_Thomas_Jefferson_democrat_or_republican