[cuban leaf]

This will not end well.

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What they don’t understand is that they are heavily in the minority and they will lose solidly. But really, everyone will lose.

This country sowed the seeds of its own destruction at its inception when it tolerated slavery. We never fully recovered. We never will.

[subterfuge]

Nice excuse-making for blacks there chief. Well done.

[stars & stripes forever]

[This country sowed the seeds of its own destruction at its inception when it tolerated slavery. We never fully recovered. We never will.]

No, this country sowed the seeds of its own destruction when it turned its back on the Lord God Almighty.

What you are seeing are the curses that result from disobedience to God’s Laws.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deuteronomy+28&version=NIV

America’s only hope is through 2 Chronicles 7:14. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive them and heal their land.”

[baddog 219]

America did not invent slavery. There were white slaves as well as black. There is still slavery in the world mostly in the countries that invented it. The middle east. I am not ashamed of my white race. It has more achievements in history and modern times than the African race ever had. Hell, they can't even wear a pair of pants right. Quit blaming animal behavior on the distant past.

[jdsteel]

“This country sowed the seeds of its own destruction at its inception when it tolerated slavery. We never fully recovered. We never will.”

Poppycock. At that time most nations on earth practiced some sort of slavery. In a had slaves in N. America before Columbus landed. It is neither an American sin nor a curse. It was and in some places still is man's inhumanity to man.

We've dealt with the aftermath badly, and Obama has set our progress back decades.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Don’t support the BS excuse of slavery. I’m from the South and I have been enduring the in your face black crapola since LBJ ushered in the Great Society.

Black people have had every opportunity to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like the rest of us and become normal citizens. Instead they have constructed a Mysoginistic anti white, anti authority subculture of the perpetually outraged. They have their own dialect, race rap music. Whitey always keepin us down. Totally untrue and I’m sick of it. They are keeping themselves down.

13% of the population constantly attacking the rest of us. Time for Whitey to gun up. Too bad that lady didn’t have a .38 Lady Smith.

[Leaning Right]

This country sowed the seeds of its own destruction at its inception when it tolerated slavery.

Can't do much about that now, but you're right. The same sort of thing can be said about France and Britain. They sowed the seeds of their own destruction when they decided to colonize Africa and southern Asia.

Slavery and colonization...greed was behind it all.

[ansel12]

This country inherited slavery from the world, and instantly became one of the first forces against it, and even managed to quickly remove it from this country, not over centuries or from outside forces, but within only 75 years.

Africa for instance still practices slavery in 2015.

[Nifster]

“We never fully recovered. We never will.”

Not true at all. The truth is out there people need to find it. The fact that dimorats have treated ‘people of color’ as nothing more than slaves for two centuries and have made the federal government the plantation for the last century is the bigger problem.Your pessimism is a sign that you believe that people can’t or won’t change. My faith tells me other wise

[Springfield Reformer]

This country sowed the seeds of its own destruction at its inception when it tolerated slavery. We never fully recovered. We never will.

Respectfully disagree.  As others here have pointed out, America was created in a world that had long been comfortable with slavery.  The remarkable thing is that we chose, as a nation, to buck that conditioning and reject slavery as a moral wrong.  On a national scale, it is a one-of-a-kind achievement, and we have a right to enjoy it, and to hold it over other nations as a mark of our truly exceptional nature as a people, and a goad to them for their own moral improvement.

However, we did blow reconstruction.  My dad taught and was a principal in the Chicago public schools for about 40 years.  He saw all this coming.  All of it. A woman from the community once told him, to his face, "you had us in slavery for 400 years, we're gonna have you in slavery for 400 years."  Dad's analysis was that we prolonged the slave mentality by early on by trying too hard to protect the newly freed slaves from the challenges of life as free persons.  This was done for political reasons, of course, and the policy lives on in the likes of the new plantation masters Jaskson, Sharpton et al.  The key is dependency.  Frederick Douglas understood the problem well:

"I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right...."

Enter Marxism.  How can we persuade millions of former slaves that slavery is still right?  By rebranding it as a "right" to depend on big government, or the instruments of revenge (aka reparations), to set right things that a free-thinking man or woman would insist on taking care of for themselves.  The greater tragedy is that so many who have no history of slavery have bought into the lie, and are putting themselves in chains without a fight, because they too have begin to think like slaves.

Is there a way out?  Yes, there is.  Jesus said it.  You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.  Jesus speaks here to spiritual realities, spiritual truths, because they do come first.  No man or woman can be free who fails to understand that they owe their first duty of obedience to their Creator.  A man or woman who only worships God will have little use for the lesser deities invented by humans or politicians.  It is a paradox.  If God is our one Master, no one else can be.  Jesus said it.  You can't serve two masters.  Those truths are the seeds of our redemption.

But the truth sets us free in a broader sense as well.  One of the things my dad tried to do, and for which he was punished by Jesse Jackson and the elder Mayor Daley, was instill in his students the sense of reality that comes from having the opportunity to fail.  He rejected the idea of using classrooms as day care warehouses for disengaged hoodlums.  In that view they were so much dead weight being passed from grade to grade, with no concern at all for their future success.  His programs rejected that slave mentality, and ran instead on the principle of personal responsibility.  You own your own success, and you own your own failure. Those programs were working.  Kids respond to a genuine challenge, especially when they figure out it is really for their benefit.  It can happen.  Those of you who have given up all hope are probably unaware of how much we could do to turn this around if we regained control of the educational process.  It's not the only piece of the puzzle, but it's a big one.  

But the obstacles are well-entrenched, and it would take a serious fight to root them out.  A younger Jesse Jackson sat with my dad in his office one day and told him, to his face, he was the wrong color for the job.  If that isn't racism, then there's no such thing as racism.  The good guys in the black community have to come out against this, and some are.  But numbers matter.  They have to learn the truth, the whole lot of them.  That's how they get to freedom.  It begins in the heart and mind.  Race hatred IS slavery.  It darkens a person's "moral and mental vision" profoundly. It limits your world to a nightmare cartoon, created by your masters explicitly to control you through misguided fears and desires. When the hatred and the quest for vengeance stops, freedom can begin.  It is possible.  Because with God, all things are possible.

Peace,

SR