Posted on 03/15/2015 3:13:24 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A Leesburg, Virginia, Town Council member drew criticism from the president of the Loudoun County branch of the NAACP after stating that God — not government — was solely responsible for freeing America’s slaves and correcting racial injustice.
“It’s the . . . hand of God touching the hearts of man that will bring unity within diversity, it’s not government,” Leesburg council member Thomas Dunn said at a public meeting Tuesday.
Dunn spoke after a well-attended public hearing at which dozens of Loudoun County residents urged the town council to approve the creation of the Leesburg Diversity Commission.
Dunn abstained from the vote to create the citizen-led commission, which will meet monthly and will be tasked with improving outreach and communication with minority communities, encouraging minorities to apply to available town government jobs and fostering an inclusive environment in Leesburg.
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright, you're response?
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, you're response?
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, your response?
Liberals believe that all things come from the government.
Sorry, but the man’s a moron.
He holds pretty much exactly the same position RE Lee held about slavery, that it could only be ended over some looonngg period of time by God working on the hearts of men.
Lee found out there was a somewhat more direct, forceful and rapid method.
The man is also an idiot for assuming that government action, including war, simply cannot possibly be an outworking of God’s will. I refer him to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZ3jPMM5Ac
Which is not to say that the “diversity” policies he was arguing against are a good idea. Only that his argument against them is a poor one.
BTW, the president of the NAACP is also wrong, except in the most legalistic sense.
The 13th Amendment freed remarkably few slaves, a couple hundred in DE and 50,000 or so in KY. All others had been freed previously by the Emancipation Proclamation or state action.
In the final sense, they were freed by the victorious Union Army, not by an amendment, which merely ratified existing fact close to half a million men had died to bring about.
read lincoln’s second inaugural. he pretty much thought it was God, too. in fact, he thought that the civil war was God’s punishment for american slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a Obama order...Dunno how much force it really would/’should’ have.
No, the man’s not a moron.
The war was a sinful impatience on the part of mankind. Slavery would have ended eventually, had the government not interfered. It did so in the North, it would have done so in the South.
Because he insulted socialism’s god - government
Clarification: “it did so in the North” = “slavery ended in the North”
Which is of course a primary reason they passed the 13th Amendment. Prevented any future legal challenges to the EP. Also prevented any state from reinstituting slaver.
The EP freed individual slaves, it did not destroy the institution. State action and 13A did that.
If your daughter was being held in slavery by ISIS in Syria, would you consider it sinful impatience to wage war to free her?
Or was there something different about the southern slaves that made their freedom less of a moral imperative?
Slavery is being revived in the world today. Do you still counsel patience to let God handle it?
Lincoln must have been a moron too.
Slavery ended in the North due to moral qualms and because it was not great hardship economically.
In the South the instutition was not only hanging on, it was growing and becoming steadily more profitable.
Abe was talking here about hoping God was behind his government, pretty much what I said. He certainly didn’t sit down and wait for God’s will to win the war and free the slaves.
> He holds pretty much exactly the same position RE Lee held
> about slavery, that it could only be ended over some
> looonngg period of time by God working on the hearts of men.
That’s PRECISELY how slavery was ended in the British Empire.
See the movie “Amazing Grace”.
As far as who was God's instrument in defeating slavery, do you think Abraham Lincoln thought it was the federal gov't or the free citizens of the United States? It is pretty obvious that the writer of the article thinks it was the federal gov't.
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