Patrick Henry

1144 Credo Patrick Henry US Mint Stamp $0.30 Time Remaining: 42m

1052 Patrick Henry MNH $3.48 Time Remaining: 7d 6h 13m Buy It Now for only: $3.48

1958 1 Patrick Henry Scott 1052 Mint F VF NH $2.92 Time Remaining: 13d 18h 10m Buy It Now for only: $2.92

Scott 1052 1 Patrick Henry $10.00 Time Remaining: 16h 35m

SCOTT 1052 LIBERTY SERIES 100 PATRICK HENRY STAMP NH $4.00 Time Remaining: 11d 21h 13m Buy It Now for only: $4.00

1052a MNH OG 1955 1 PATRICK HENRY wet printing PO FRESH BCV 650 $5.65 Time Remaining: 23d 3h 1m Buy It Now for only: $5.65

1961 Artcraft Patrick Henry American Credo 1144 $0.99 Time Remaining: 1d 22m

1052 Patrick Henry w Pl MNH $4.48 Time Remaining: 26d 6h 50m Buy It Now for only: $4.48

US 1052 Mint NH F VF Patrick Henry Liberty PNS $8.99 Time Remaining: 18d 23h 59m Buy It Now for only: $8.99

1144 Patrick Henry Credo MNH Sheet CV 1150 $2.25 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 22h 17m

1052 Patrick Henry 1052a Wet Printing MNH $5.98 Time Remaining: 10d 9h 23m Buy It Now for only: $5.98

Sc 1052 1 LIBERTY ISSUE PATRICK HENRY $1.50 Time Remaining: 3d 23h 58m

US 1052 Mint NH F VF Patrick Henry Liberty $7.99 Time Remaining: 18d 10h 43m Buy It Now for only: $7.99

Patrick Henry Sheet of 100 x 1 Dollar US Postage Stamps Scot 1052 NEW Mint $999.99 Time Remaining: 3d 3h 12m Buy It Now for only: $999.99

US FDC 1052 PATRICK HENRY FLEETWOOD CACHET $0.99 Time Remaining: 14h 8m

1958 Patrick Henry Sc 1052 MNH plate number single CV 8 $6.65 Time Remaining: 22d 4h 44m Buy It Now for only: $6.65

1052 FDC 1 PATRICK HENRY FLEETWOOD U A $4.00 Time Remaining: 22d 2h 32m Buy It Now for only: $4.00

100 Patrick Henry Regular Issue Plate Single US Stamp Scotts 1052 MNH $3.12 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 17h 36m

1961 4c Patrick Henry Scott 1144 Mint F VF NH $0.99 Time Remaining: 27d 5h 45m Buy It Now for only: $0.99

Scotts 1052 1 PATRICK HENRY Stamp Block of 4 MNH $8.00 Time Remaining: 19d 17h 48m Buy It Now for only: $8.00

1144 1960 4 cent Patrick Henry Credo block of 4 MNH w plt $0.50 Time Remaining: 2d 18h 1m

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1052 100 LIBERTY Patrick Henry FDC with Plate Single PNS $0.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 18h 55m

1052 Patrick Henry 4 Matched PB4 MNH $54.98 Time Remaining: 21d 1h 3m Buy It Now for only: $54.98

Scott 1052a fine MNH PB4 wet printing Patrick Henry Liberty Series $20.00 Time Remaining: 15d 1h 55m Buy It Now for only: $20.00

US PATRICK HENRY 1 POSTAGE STAMP USED $2.99 Time Remaining: 2d 20h 10m

1052 PATRICK HENRY 100 STAMP MINT NEVER HINGED $4.50 Time Remaining: 28d 23h 49m Buy It Now for only: $4.50

1958 PATRICK HENRY 1052 MNH PLATE BLOCK $9.95 Time Remaining: 11d 13h 45m Buy It Now for only: $9.95

Scott 1052 Used pair 1 Patrick Henry $0.95 Time Remaining: 2d 20h 45m

USA 1955 SG1052 1 Patrick Henry MH $2.37 Time Remaining: 20d 11h 38m Buy It Now for only: $2.37

Crazy Deals Scarce 100 Patrick Henry Plate Block Scott Cat 19 Penny Start $1.27 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 3h 41m

Scotts 1052 1 PATRICK HENRY Plate Block MNH $12.00 Time Remaining: 19d 17h 48m Buy It Now for only: $12.00

Patrick Henry Set of 4 x 1 Dollar US Postage Stamps NEW $249.95 Time Remaining: 3d 3h 14m Buy It Now for only: $249.95

Dollar Denom Precancels Benson AZ 1052 801 1 Patrick Henry $0.99 Time Remaining: 4d 4h 11m

1958 Patrick Henry 1 Sc 1052 MNH dry print plate block $23.65 Time Remaining: 28d 20h 40m Buy It Now for only: $23.65

1052A 1 Patrick Henry Hand Colored Artcraft cachet First Day cover $18.00 Time Remaining: 21d 17h 29m Buy It Now for only: $18.00

Dollar Denom Precancels Sauk Rapids MN 1052 704 1 Patrick Henry $0.99 Time Remaining: 4d 4h 34m

1052 FDC 1 PATRICK HENRY ARTCRAFT ADD $3.00 Time Remaining: 16d 13h 54m Buy It Now for only: $3.00

US 1052a FDC PATRICK HENRY JOPLIN 10 7 1955 $12.99 Time Remaining: 6d 12h 26m Buy It Now for only: $12.99

Dollar Denom Precancels Butler WI 1052 801 1 Patrick Henry $0.99 Time Remaining: 4d 4h 56m

1052 PATRICK HENRY LIBERTY SERIES HASKELL HANDPAINTED $49.99 Time Remaining: 17d 21h 5m Buy It Now for only: $49.99

1933 Roanoke Virginia Hotel Patrick Henry Illustrated Adv Cover $4.99 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 49m

SCOTT 1144 CREDO PATRICK HENRY 4ct 50 STAMP SHEET $5.49 Time Remaining: 3d 13h 56m Buy It Now for only: $5.49

USA 1955 Scott 1052 1 Patrick Henry VF MNH plate block $11.97 Time Remaining: 23d 18h 22m Buy It Now for only: $11.97

USS Patrick Henry SSN 599 May 10 1962 Groton CT $2.99 Time Remaining: 5d 4h 12m

FLUEGEL 1144 American Crede Patrick Henry Give me Liberty or give me Death $5.00 Time Remaining: 15d 22h 34m Buy It Now for only: $5.00

Scott 1052 Artmaster Cachet Unaddressed 1 Patrick Henry 1955 $9.99 Time Remaining: 10d 18h 47m Buy It Now for only: $9.99

USS Patrick Henry SSN 599 December 21 1967 Groton CT $2.99 Time Remaining: 5d 4h 12m

1052 FDC 1 PATRICK HENRY ARTCRAFT U A $4.00 Time Remaining: 16d 13h 54m Buy It Now for only: $4.00

1052 FDC 1 PATRICK HENRY FLUEGEL ADD $6.00 Time Remaining: 16d 13h 54m Buy It Now for only: $6.00

USS Patrick Henry SSN 599 May 20 1968 Groton CT $2.99 Time Remaining: 5d 4h 12m

1052 Plate block 100 Patrick Henry Revolutionary War Patriot Liberty series $14.00 Time Remaining: 28d 18h 24m Buy It Now for only: $14.00

USS Patrick Henry SSN 599 November 11 1974 USPS HI 967 $2.99 Time Remaining: 5d 4h 12m

FLUEGEL 1052 Patrick Henry 100 Joplin MO $30.00 Time Remaining: 23d 16h 8m Buy It Now for only: $30.00

1052 Patrick Henry 1052a Wet Printing PB4 MNH $17.98 Time Remaining: 23d 22h 10m Buy It Now for only: $17.98

1954 61 LIberty Scott 1052 USED100Patrick Henry $0.99 Time Remaining: 1d 20h 1m

PATRICK HENRY FROM LIBERTY SERIES 1 ISSUE ART CRAFT CACHET AND UNADDRESSED FDC $3.99 Time Remaining: 13d 5h 16m Buy It Now for only: $3.99

1052 XF MNH OG 1 PATRICK HENRY PLATE BLOCK Liberty Series REM 1052 253 $17.50 Time Remaining: 23d 4h 23m Buy It Now for only: $17.50

US Sheets Mint 1144 CREDO PATRICK HENRY MINT SHEET OF 50 4CENTS OGNH $2.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 4d 23h 40m

1958 Patrick Henry 1 Sc 1052a MNH wet print plate block $23.65 Time Remaining: 28d 20h 40m Buy It Now for only: $23.65

Slavery And Racism - Is The United States To Blame?

There is a lot of antagonism toward the United States in certain segments of the African American community. People such as Louis Farrakhan have made hatred of the United States "fashionable" and "cool". President Obama has been a part of this community, much of it originating in Chicago, where Jessie Jackson, Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Williams Ayers and Reverend Michael Pfleger have spouted this anti-Americanism in the name of both real and perceived past wrongs.

Barack Obama's pastor of over 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, has said the following things about America: "Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!...We (in the U.S.) believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God."

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America!"

Recently, the US Justice Department dropped a case against members of the New Black Panther party for "lack of evidence". Members of the New Black Panthers were accused of intimidating voters at a polling place in Philadelphia. There was clear video evidence of the incident. J. Christian Adams, who was involved in the prosecution of the case, quit the justice department alleging that people in the justice department were told to ignore cases where the defendants were black and the victims were white.

Last summer, Barack Obama criticized the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts saying that the police acted "stupidly" in arresting black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. He made this accusation in a prime time speech after he just admitted in the previous sentence that he didn't know all the facts of the case.

Does Obama's view of the US differ from that of Jeremiah Wright or the New Black Panther party? Obama's policies are often prefaced with the phrase "an even playing field". In reality, however, it amounts to "Getting even".

Of course there has been slavery and discrimination in the United States. Slavery is a stain on humanity but it didn't start with the US. Physical Evidence of slavery dates to around 11,000 years ago in southern Africa. Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia. Egyptian hieroglyphics show that they practiced slavery. Where is the hatred of Egypt for originating such a vile practice? Where is the demand of Egypt for reparations?

In ancient times, conquering armies in Europe and Asia found it more profitable to enslave captives than to massacre them. Black slavery between antagonistic tribes existed in Africa long before the advent of the Portuguese in the 1400s. Portuguese slave trading began in 1442, particularly on the west coast of Africa in an area that became known as the 'Slave Coast'. Soon the Spanish entered the slave trade in 1517, followed by the English (1553), the French (1624), and then by Holland, Denmark and the American colonies.

Once the United States was formed as an independent nation, it inherited the mess of slavery. Obama should be familiar and sympathetic to the idea of inheriting messes since he reminds us each day that he inherited a mess and that it takes time to solve such things (whether he inherited or caused the mess is another question for a different day). Slavery was a mess that was created over 10,000 years ago so solving it while trying to create and unify a new nation was no easy task.

The United States was a nation built on compromise and yes, there were many people in the new country that owned slaves. Yet the people who wrote the constitution did recognize the inconsistency of creating a nation based on equal rights and opportunities while allowing an evil such as slavery to exist. Unfortunately, in order to unify the Unites States as one nation, they had to compromise on the issue. Yet written into the constitution in Article 1, Section 9 is a mandate that slavery would be outlawed by the year 1808.

So slavery existed for over 10,000 years and this new nation, while trying to fend off foreign threats, unify disparate views and create a constitution to live by, did as one of its first priorities, write into the new constitution that slavery would be outlawed within 32 years of its founding. In fact it was the United States and England, the two nations most accused of practicing slavery, that were the most involved in ending it!

They were not completely successful but their intentions were clear. John Jay wrote in 1786:

"It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused." Patrick Henry wrote:

"I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery."

It of course is true that the founding fathers owned slaves and this has caused many in the African American community to have contempt for these "dead white men". The founding fathers were not perfect people but they inherited slavery, they didn't cause it. They knew it was wrong, and were the first in over 10,000 years history to take real steps to end it. For this they deserve praise, not criticism.

There are those who will say that the wealth of America was built on the backs of slavery. If this is the case, why didn't all the other countries who practiced slavery achieve wealth and success? Why didn't Egypt, which had thousands of years of a head start on slavery, not become the world's foremost economic power? Portugal was the first country to be involved in the African slave trade to the new world so why didn't that country produce the wealth and innovation that later came out of the United States? Spain and Portugal brought slavery to South America so why didn't any countries on that continent generate success comparable to the United States?

The wealth and success of the United States is due to a system that recognizes the rights of the individual. It is due to a unique idea that says the government governs only by the CONSENT of the people. Thomas Jefferson once said:

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

The reason why so many major inventions and patents have come out of the United States is because people know they can invest their own time and money in an idea and if successful, reap the rewards from it. People have been able to feel confident that the success or failure of their idea is up to them and not on some arbitrary person in government who may decide on a whim to change the rules. There is a reason why people risk their lives to come to the United States. It is amazing that people would call this a racist country while at the same time fighting in every way possible to come here and enjoy the opportunities it provides.

Like every country on earth, the United States has done shameful things. While the United States didn't create slavery, segregation existed in this country well into the 1960s. That is a stain on this country that can't be ignored. And yet, while imperfect, it is a country with a conscience. It eventually ended slavery and while far too late, eventually ended segregation as well.

The "Get even" battle being fought against America by the likes of the New Black Panther party, Louis Farrakhan and Reverend Wright is not a battle against the forces of racism. That battle has already been fought and won. Ironically, the battle being fought by this "Get Even" crowd is a battle against all that is GOOD about America. They are actually fighting against the very forces that were able to eliminate the evils of slavery.

Barack Obama seems to be a part of this "Get Even" crowd. He demonstrates this by his actions, his words, and by who is friends are. His vision of "change" would be to remove the principles that ended slavery and replace them with the ideas that tolerated and caused slavery. Skin color, social rank, and class all play prominent roles in Obama's agenda. These are the evils that were behind slavery and what the constitution put in place to eliminate. It took almost 200 years to finally get it all working properly and now Obama and his "Get Even" crowd would have us go backwards again.

About the Author

Howard Jacobs
MBA Marketing Pace University
I currently work for a large finacial institution.
I started the blog EndTheChange because I am outraged at the direction our country is going in. People who feel this way want to know "What can I do?" This blog is my little way of trying to set the record straight on the upside-down state of our country.

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