Posted on 10/18/2009 12:51:18 PM PDT by El Gringo
Salve for the slavery wound
Knowledge, it has been said, will set you free. It is a true statement, and should not be dismissed out of hand. Knowledge will also go a long way toward bringing American blacks and whites together as fellow countrymen, having full appreciation for what they have in common . . . as brothers, if you will.
“What can be the content of this knowledge that would bring about this miracle?” you might ask.
Answer: A broad knowledge of two topics:1. worldwide history of Black slaves, and 2. the images and ideas that are gained from a close reading of Frederick Douglass’ autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by himself.
If a nationwide program were undertaken to require that, prior to graduating from high school, all students, white and black, would have to pass courses covering these two topics, the slavery wound would be healed in less than a decade.
To see a good summary of the wordwide history of black slavery, plus a rough sketch of Frederick Douglass: Continue
“What can be the content of this knowledge that would bring about this miracle?” you might ask.
Answer: A broad knowledge of the worldwide history of Black slaves, and the images and ideas that are gained from a close reading of Frederick Douglass’ autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by himself.
If a nationwide program were undertaken to require that, prior to graduating from high school, all students, white and black, would have to pass courses covering these two topics, the slavery wound would be healed in less than a decade.
To see a good summary of the wordwide history of black slavery, plus a rough sketch of Frederick Douglass: Continue
Better yet, require that high school students be able to read, write, and add.
Redistributive change - you can’t make this stuff up.
I was going to say you’d have to find high school kids who CAN read...but your comment covered it.
They have embraced that ‘slavery wound’ and are keeping it open and festering. It could easily have been left behind after the Civil War, in which MY ancestors fought to free the slaves. But no! Can’t let a grievance go. It could easily have been left behind with Martin Luther King, who wished for the day when his little children would be judged by their character, not by the color of their skin. But NO, cannot set that grievance down and just get on with life.
etc etc.
I was thinking, this morning, that these times/ this presidency — it’s similar to what it must have been like in the South after the Civil War. Reconstruction. Carpet-baggers. What did it lead to?? That’s right, the KKK. Because, guess what? People do not like to be ground down and spit upon while other folks take their stuff.
Exactly.
I thought he had them lining up for “Obama money” already!
WHAT WAS THAT HANDOUT OF CASH LAST WEEK???????????
Here’s a little slide show video I made about a month ago about the Baptist preacher abolitionist John Brown and the civil war. If anyone wants to check it out.
The song I sang on the video is “John Brown’s Body” During the civil war northern soldiers sang the old song as they marched off to battle. After “Julia Ward Howe” heard Union troops singing the song, she wrote her own words to it’s tune. And soon after, her version was published in the “Atlantic Monthly” as “The Battle Hymn Of The Republic”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn3NddwFQ
Clear thinking on this subject is particularly in demand now that we have a president who is nothing more than a Harvard-educated, "white-washed" version of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Jeremiah Wright.
Obama has given race-baiting a more conservative suit, a better haircut, and crisper diction...but it is the same old victimization/grievance culture that he is selling.
It was a horrible injustice. It has been ended. There is no more slavery in the USA. Time to stop trying to promote White Guilt.
“What did it lead to?? That’s right, the KKK. Because, guess what? People do not like to be ground down and spit upon while other folks take their stuff.”
I wonder what will happen this time around. Instead of being decent, we are being treated by the ‘victors’ as peasants and garbage.
I have lost all sympathy for the slave mentality.
Don’t try to make me feel guilty about our history when you largely voted yourselves back into slavery in November 2008.
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