Posted on 06/12/2014 6:29:53 AM PDT by rktman
I forgave it a long time ago.
Why aren't those other countries required to pay reparations?
Not as long as the race baiters can make a buck off of professional victimization. Sharpton, Jackson, and the majority of blacks will never forgive because they stand to make a buck off of the issue. Nevermind that blacks owned slaves and there were many white and Native American slaves.
Like Booker T. Washington, there are certain Race Hustlers that don’t want the patient to get well.
The jew were chattel slaves of the Egyptians for instance (which means they were slaves for life and their children were automatically considered slaves)
Will there always people who want to milk and ancient historical tragedy for money?
The only way to change this is to embed the thought of a cost to bringing the subject up. It is over.
Will Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and Barbados ever be forgiven for slavery? Will Islam ever stop advocating and practicing it?
Don’t fall prey to the politically motivated belief that the United States is somehow uniquely and solely accountable for human bondage.
It isn’t. It didn’t start it, but it certainly ended it here.
C.L. Bryant suggests that conservatives should stop fighting against black history month and embrace it as a means of teaching real history.
Black history in America goes far beyond slavery and has so much more to be proud of.
Every country has something for which that same question can be asked.
Will ______ ever be forgiven for ________?
No, not as long as whitey’s guilt makes it profitable for hucksters and politicians, to the extent there’s a difference.
Slavery no longer exists in the United States. What is required by and cherished by the “race baiters” is the long vanished EXISTENCE of Slavery. It is the seed for the money extorted from this country.
I bet half the countries in the world have had the institution of slavery in their pasts, but ONLY the USA is to be vilified and condemned for it.
And don’t mention those that practice slavery today, and you know who they are.
America will never be forgiven, as long was we keep the memory of Senator Lincoln (Democrat from Illinois)
Seriously, though, slavery is still treated as a contemporary problem because it empowers people who are afraid they will lose that power if people stop talking about it. They think it's the only card they hold and they quite logically are going to play the blazes out of it.
It's funny; Marx's critique of religion works just as well against the slavery narrative, but you'll never see a Marxist point it out.
I think you meant "Like Booker T. Washington said." Washington was not a "hustler."
Anthony Johnson was never a “slave”. He was an indentured servant from Angola which put him on par with many whites (Primarily Irish) who were indentured servants. At the end of his contractual service he was granted the promised freedom and acreage for his own farm.
He then hired an indentured servant of his own. Somewhere along the way the contract was destroyed which led to the dispute and ruling in Johnson’s favor.
Yes, the brain is ahead of the fingers this morning.
America can neither be forgiven nor condemned. America did not have slaves. Some Americans had slaves, and they are all dead now.
Collectivities don’t have guilt or responsibility. Individuals do.
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