Posted on 04/11/2016 11:19:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
During Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign visit to Liberty University, he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles. Students at a Christian-based university, such as Liberty, do not often hear the founders-as-racists argument. But it is featured at many other universities, as well as primary and secondary schools. Most often, the hate-America teachings are centered on the fact that slavery is a part of our history. What is left untaught is: Slavery was a routine part of human history. Blacks were the last people to be enslaved. Plus, our Founding Fathers struggled mightily over the issue of slavery. Let us look at some of that struggle.
George Washington said, "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Patrick Henry and others were highly critical of slavery, describing it as a "disease of ignorance," "an inconsistency not to be excused" and a "lamentable evil." George Mason said, "The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind." James Madison, in a speech at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, declared, "We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man." Benjamin Rush said: "Domestic slavery is repugnant to the principles of Christianity. ... It is rebellion against the authority of a common Father."
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And still enslaved in the Middle East, yet blacks look up to Islam. Ignorance is the only logical explanation. However, Islam enslaves more than just blacks. So I am not sure that the statement is entirely accurate, accept if the context is viewed as the last acceptable slavery by the world as a whole.
I noted that as well. I’ve read Islam still enslaves and your statement on context could well be it as well as slavery no longer being practiced on a wholesale scale.
News flash.
Slavery has NOT been eliminated from the world, and in fact, millions, perhaps billions, are still held in bondage.
In that other widely admired and most “humane” of world religions, the very concept of slavery is encoded and even held in high regard. One of the rewards of this world view is that those who embrace this sort of theology (really an entire ideology) get to possibly BECOME slave owners, or at least assert the right to abuse and place under excessive obligation those who choose to remain some kind of “free agent”.
I speak of Islam. The very term, “Islam” has a basic meaning of “submission”. This submission is not necessarily out of any love or heartfelt devotion, but plays almost entirely to the emotion of fear. There is a whole litany of criteria for being a “devout” Muslim, most of which hinges upon proselytizing, either by firm persuasion, up to and including threat of death, or die. If born a Muslim, there is no choice, ever, given to the individual to leave, and attempts to leave are met with again, death threats, or a simple summary execution, on the spot. In lands that fall under Islamic domination, the choice is stark and very clear, convert, submit to the superior power of the Islamic masters (a form of slavery known as Dhimmi), or be known for the remainder of perhaps a very short life as Kufir, the unbeliever or infidel, subject to execution.
While slavery was once part of the American fabric, it has been erased nearly completely, and would have been forever gone from the world, except for its repeated introduction by various ideologies that continue to practice the concept of a “master race”, which of course has to have as its justification, some kind of “slave race”, underlings poorly compensated and held in bondage which they cannot escape.
The moonbats are beginning to pile on Williams at the article source. Reinforcements!!!!
It’s hilarious the way moonbats react to intelligence and truth, they’re beyond help.
And still enslaved in the Middle East, yet blacks look up to Islam. Ignorance is the only logical explanation.
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It is because they’re so blinded by hatred of whitey.
Muhammad had plenty of slaves and it’s a part of the muzzie culture. And no group was more brutal to African slaves than muslims.
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Wasn’t America the first country to abolish slavery?
Here’s a Reuters piece with list of countries and states abolishing it, don’t know how accurate it is.
http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-slavery-idUSL1561464920070322
No, America was not the first but it was also not the last.
Technically, The British Empire abolished slavery on the British Isles and most of their New World colonies in the 1830’s, and given time, the institution would have collapsed of its own weight in the United States, except events were a little hastened after the Dred Scott decision.
I read a book on our founding that made an interesting point.
To some, it may be very offensive as it may initially come across as a rationalization or excuse for the vile issue of slavery, but it is an interesting insight that I had not read before.
First we must all acknowledge that the colonies, on their own individually, tried to abolish slavery generations prior to the rebellion and were stopped by Great Britain in that effort. This includes southern colonies such as Virginia.
So there was slavery in most colonies at the time of our surge for independence — it was a fact of life for generations — not a new introduction.
Now the interesting insight I got from a book of McDonald’s was that he pointed out how different slavery in the 1770s was from slavery in the 1850s. The large plantation slavery of the thousands of depictions is an unbearable vile social ill. But, in the 1770s the slavery of Charleston was analyzed for free time, work hours, private property owned and allowed, path to manumission and the like and it was not at all like it would be fifty and ninety years later. In fact, it was not so different from the serfdom that many German immigrants, low country immigrants and poor Scots and Irish were coming from in the old world.
Let that sink in. It is not an excuse, but the institution that certain states had or depended upon in agriculture at the time the other states allowed them to join in common cause and union was not the institution of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Should the New England states not have joined with the other states that had fought with them to secure Liberty?
I guess since socialism killed a hundred million since its founding, Bernie will disavow his political beliefs, tendencies and programs due to the vile outcome that they have always produced.
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