Red and Yellow, Black and White

When I hear charges of White racism, I think of the hymn that we children sang often in the early 1950s in the Sunday School I attended in Manhattan at the Protestant, Dutch Reformed Church, Ft. Washington Collegiate Church, affiliated with a group of churches headed by Rev. Norman Vincent Peale.

We were less than a mile (20 city blocks) from then-nearly-all-Black Harlem, and we did not have, to my recollection, any Blacks in the congregation, nor any who were “Red” or “Yellow,” if you’ll excuse me, and yet we were taught “all are precious in His sight.”

That lesson stuck with some of us, at least.   

Jesus Loves the Little Children Lyrics

 

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

 

[http://www.songlyrics.com/the-christian-children-s-choir/jesus-loves-the-little-children-lyrics/]

"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby!"

 That old song could be Leo Cooper Chiang's song. Proof:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNHzMgaQUP1Klbk--L0pRd4r5NIPAATrwH67aDsxUxcSvvZER5cJ2T88Dt5z9_lyA?key=ZnhxZDZtSWY2THBvZHpiU1VMaXNmRmpzZlp3aGZR

At five months of age, Leo has become progressively even more adorable, soon to be unleashed on the vast expanse of the floor of the Stuppler-Chiang apartment in Manhattan. Watch out, world!

"Brother" Luke will be nearby, don't doubt it. 

Luke was probably a beautiful puppy.

REVIEW of WORD WARS by Morgan Moore

 Safety vs. Freedom of Speech

REVIEW of WORD WARS: How Attacks on Meaning Rob You of Free Speech

 

This well-written, well-argued, well-documented short book discusses the importance of being able to speak our minds without excessive concern about the feelings of others who disagree with us.

P.S. I have submitted this review to Amazon (without post-script), keeping it short so as to be able to defend it from possible Amazon rejection. My much longer recent review of VIRAL received an Amazon rejection with the formulaic response that I should check their guidelines and resubmit if I wished. I saw no guideline I had violated. Their rejection seemed added evidence of this author's thesis.

To Amazon's credit, they have run this review:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NVDC5W6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26V9Z38PUOZYV&keywords=word+wars+by+morgan&qid=1640006032&s=books&sprefix=word+wars+by+morgan%2Cstripbooks%2C54&sr=1-1

REVIEW of VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

 Wuhan Institute of Virology: China’s Ft. Detrick?

 

Review of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19,  by Chan and Ridley

This scholarly work presents an avalanche of evidence to allow its readers to decide whether the COVID-19 virus escaped from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (or a nearby lab) or worked its way naturally 2000 kilometers (1200 miles) from bats in mines near Kunming to people in Wuhan. Its narrative, timeline, and notes are almost encyclopedic. It ends by presenting the arguments for a "natural" escape from the mines that are home to the bats harboring the disease's closest relative versus escape from the laboratories in Wuhan.

Having spent 1965 and 1966 as an army draftee at the U.S. biological warfare and defense laboratories at Ft. Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, I learned a bit about the relevant biology and epidemiology and the difficulty of confining biological agents to the labs. If an epidemic today were to have Frederick, MD, as its epicenter, I would be unlikely to believe that the infection traveled from bat caves in our Southwest to Frederick, home of Ft. Detrick, home of the relatively few labs doing such work.

The authors expertly present a wealth of information to educate their readers and develop more informed views about this important topic.

Douglas Winslow Cooper, PhD

https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-COVID-19-Matt-Ridley/dp/006313912X/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=QWO5ZJ49QW7M&keywords=viral+the+search+for+the+origin+of+covid-19&qid=1639243794&s=books&sprefix=VIRAL%2Caps%2C795&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExUjVMVldGMEExQ1BNJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzY3Njc0MVFGQjFKM0lST1NUTyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMjcxNTI2MkpMN0tCMlUxQTZJMSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

 

A more politically charged presentation, one skeptical of the prevailing media “narrative,” about the Covid-19 pandemic is Pandemia, an excellent and highly readable book by Alex Berenson:

https://www.amazon.com/Pandemia-Coronavirus-Hysteria-Government-Rights-ebook/dp/B08XJRRZJP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=L2MHZGPS13S3&keywords=pandemia+alex+berenson&qid=1639244072&s=books&sprefix=pandemia%2Cstripbooks%2C226&sr=1-1

 

 

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Don't Despair: "Christmas Bells" by Longfellow

 

Christmas Bells

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
    And wild and sweet
    The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
    Had rolled along
    The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
    A voice, a chime,
    A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
    And with the sound
    The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
    And made forlorn
    The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
    "For hate is strong,
    And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
    The Wrong shall fail,
    The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."

This poem is in the public domain.

https://poets.org/poem/christmas-bells