This is one of these yes and no questions.
There is no “earthly” reason keeping this, like other historical slaveries, from receding into the past and ceasing to contaminate the present.
However a people seized with modern anomie, ennui, and boredom is an easy prey for such facile identity politics. “We are the slaves” becomes bigger than anything else they could be. They are very right to look for a reason that they should matter, though wrong to find it in Marxism.
It’s a spiritual battle. Nobody says that these Muslim captors were anything but evil. They were driven by evil spirits. These evil spirits must be bidden adios in favor of an embrace of God or else they will continue to plague us without end.
Wow! Good article....Obama and Hils are all about lies only.
Well, thank GOD judgement is not *left* up to me.
Oh yeah pun intended.....
There is something in human nature that seeks to be morally justified without being moral. Victimhood supplies that.
If you pay attention you will notice lots of people doing this; when you meet them, or before they offer an opinion on something, they have to establish their bona fides as a victim so that, in their minds, you will take them seriously.
Its just an odd quirk that especially in recent times people have fallen in to.
In any case, slavery has been used heavily for this purpose.
Most people get their moral sense from the culture. As a consequence when the culture goes toxic, they have no way of seeing it, and no way of understanding what has gone wrong in their lives. And the more that goes wrong in your life, the more victimhood you will suffer (and inflict) and so the cycle gets stronger.
The problem in most of our inner cities is a simple one; broken families, substance abuse. Not enough believing Christians per square mile.
Yeah, right. About a year ago, I read "Chocolate Wars", and the British Foreign Office kept the Cadburys (still family-owned) from exposing the Portuguese Angolan slave trade on the chocolate plantations as late as the eve of WWI, iirc.
Once it came out, the holier-than-thou Cadbury Quakers took an awful lot of bad publicity, courtesy of competing chocolatiers, over Cadbury's continued dealings with said chocolate suppliers utilizing actual slave labor after Cadbury confirmed the slavery.