No. “Jingle Bells” (originally “The One Horse Open Sleigh”) has no connection to the slave trade, nor to any practice of locking bales or bells around the heads or necks of enslaved people.
What the song is actually about
• The “jingle bells” refer to the small bells commonly attached to a horse’s harness on a one-horse open sleigh. In snowy conditions, a sleigh moves almost silently, so the bells served as a warning to other travelers at intersections or on roads.
• The lyrics describe a lighthearted (and slightly racy for its time) winter sleigh ride: racing through the snow, laughing, a young woman named Miss Fanny Bright, the horse getting stuck in a snowbank (“upsot”), and general high spirits. There is zero reference to slavery, trade, punishment, or restraint devices.
@baroncoleman@JohnMappin@ShawnRyan762@TuckerCarlson@RealCandaceO Absolutely and that’s not all. They want to break you so you can’t think for yourself. This episode between Tucker and Sean hit me deeply. I believe we all need to be praying that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the angels surround Sean during this time of transformation.
@1NationOvrchgd I would like more detail on your organization and how you propose to help this situation before signing up for some website I know nothing about and provide you my private information.
🚨WOW!!!
Firefighters and college football players showed up to a Tennessee senior home...to pull grandmas and grandpas down a MASSIVE slip 'n slide!!!
Seniors with dementia and Parkinson's laughed like little kids again.
This is the annual "Ride 'n Slide" at Adams Place in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where a giant tarp is stretched across the lawn and the Murfreesboro Fire Department keeps it soaked and lifts residents safely on and off.
The Middle Tennessee State football team spent their day pulling grandmas across the water on inner tubes and cheering them on every single ride.
One resident, Mike Mitchell, an Army veteran and a retired minister who preached for SIXTY YEARS, talked himself into it right there on the lawn.
One grandma went down FOUR times and came up smiling saying, "Well that was fast!"
Organizers say the residents with dementia and Parkinson's light up brightest of all.
For one afternoon, no diagnoses, no age, just water, laughter, and people cheering your name.
That's so amazing...
GOD BLESS THESE PEOPLE!!!! 🇺🇸
Starting to believe us, yet?
We need everyone to stand up and tell their elected reps to end this madness.
Enough is Enough.
Thank you for raising awareness, @TuckerCarlson#Flock#Surveillance#Privacy#Tucker#Carlson
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Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud?
You should. It’s the greatest break-up letter ever written.
At just 33 years old, Thomas Jefferson, with cold moral clarity, told the British government to pound sand:
“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH it.”
The power of that line isn’t just what it says. It’s how it’s said.
Jefferson wasn’t writing from a place of outrage. He was transmitting conviction—moral clarity delivered from a steady frame of mind.
It’s said Jefferson revised the Declaration of Independence with the help of Franklin and Adams dozens of times before it was finalized.
And that deliberate, cutting language, paired with emotional steadiness, is precisely why the words still land 250 years later.
Today, we’re blessed to be the inheritors of the great nation those steady hands wrote into existence.
Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸