Posted on 02/12/2016 7:12:36 AM PST by wtd
Hugh Fitzgerald, one time VP (emeritus?) at JihadWatch.org, occasionally mentioned an author by the name of Theodore Parker, who wrote "Historic Americans", in which Parker describes founding father, Ben Franklin, abolitionist extraordinaire, quoting the koran in defending his abolition petition to Congress. You can read it online here: http://tinyurl.com/aa96dnm
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You see the young nation in its infancy. "Hercules in his cradle, "said Franklin; but with a legion of the mystic serpents about him. If the rising sun shines auspicious, yet the clouds threaten a storm, long and terrible. "
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VI. Franklin, an old man of eighty-four, is making ready to die. The great philosopher, the great statesman, he has done with philosophy and state craft, not yet ended his philanthropy. He is satisfied with having taken the thunderbolt from the sky, bringing it noiseless and harmless to the ground; he has not yet done with taking the scepter from tyrants. True, he has, by the foundation of the American state on the natural and inalienable rights of all, helped to set America free from the despotism of the British king and Parliament. None has done more for that. He has made the treaty with Prussia, which forbids privateering on land or sea. But now he remembers that there are some six hundred thousand African slaves in America, whose bodies are taken from their control, even in time of peace ~ peace to other men, to them a period of perpetual war. So in 1787, he founds a society for the abolition of slavery. He is its first President, and in that capacity signed a
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petition to Congress, asking "the restitution of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone in this land of freedom are degraded into perpetual bondage;" asks Congress "that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discouraging every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men." This petition was the last public act of Franklin, the last public document he ever signed. He had put his hand to the Declaration of Independence; to the treaties of alliance with France and Prussia; to the treaty of peace with Great Britain, now he signs the first petition for the abolition of slavery.
Between 1783 and 1790 what important events had taken place! For three years he had been President of Pennsylvania, unanimously elected by the Assembly every time save the first, when one vote out of seventy~seven was cast against him. He had been a member of the Federal Convention, which made the Constitution, and, spite of what he considered to be its errors, put his name to it. Neither he, nor Washington, nor indeed any of the great men who helped to make that instrument, thought it perfect, or worshipped it as an idol. But now, as his last act, he seeks to correct the great fault, and blot, and vice of of the American government – the only one which, in seventy-six years, has given us much trouble. The petition was presented on the 12th of February, 1790. It asked for the abolition of the
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slave trade, and for the emancipation of slaves. A storm followed; the South was in a rage, which lasted till near the end of March. Mr. Jackson, of Georgia, defended the "peculiar institution." The ancient republics had slaves; the whole current of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, proved that religion was not hostile to slavery. On the 23rd of March, 1790, Franklin wrote for the National Gazette the speech in favor of the enslavement of Christians. He put it into the mouth of a member of the Divan of Algiers. It was a parody of the actual words of Mr. Jackson, of Georgia, as delivered in Congress a few days before; the text, however, being taken out of the Koran. It was one of the most witty, brilliant, and ingenious things that came from his mind. This was the last public writing of Dr. Franklin; and, with the exception of a letter to his sister and one to Mr. Jefferson, it was the last line which ran out from his fertile pen. ~ written only twenty-four days before his death. What a farewell it was!
This old man, "the most rational, perhaps of all philosophers," the most famous man in America, now in private life, waiting for the last angel to unbind his spirit and set him free from a perishing body, makes his last appearance before the American people as President of an abolition society, protesting against American slavery in the last public line he writes! One of his wittiest and most ingenious works is a plea for the bondman,
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adroit, masterly, short, and not to be answered. It was fit to be the last scene of such a life. Drop down the curtain before the sick old man, and let his healthy soul ascend unseen and growing.
Bkmrk.
“I think that the USA was one of the first countries to make it illegal AND immoral.”
But its not really immoral. We just put different labels on it or pretend it doesnt exist.
The film documents modern slave trade through a number of Arabian and African countries, under muslim rule. The filming was conducted both in public places, and sometimes with the use of hidden cameras, for high impact scenes of nudity, sex, and violence - and a few surprises, as slaves made out of foreigners/migrants to Mecca, and slave traders paid in traveller checks.
This film can be viewed online in ten parts at YouTube if you opt to log in...here
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Is it perhaps in part due to his less-than-impressive physical portrayal (portliness, baldness, eyeglasses)? The homespun diction of "Poor Richard's Almanach?" The bawdiness of some of his less-remembered humorous works?
Regards,
Lol. Pretending takes practice. Facing reality takes courage. Eventually one must face reality. Courage HAS to be taught to children at a very early age.
Catholic children take their first confession at six or seven. THAT is the "age of reason" where children actually KNOW that what they did was wrong...not just something to tick off mommy.
Confession is good practice for life. We all make mistakes. Some forget; some deny and those with BACKBONE and moral courage admit their mistakes/sins and ask for forgiveness from those we offended.
It's a character-building concept and practice, I believe, and a good one.
Yes, and as a nation we have fought both prejudice and slavery like no other........
Yet, to this day, the past is held over our heads as if slavery continued today, while more blacks prosper in middle and upper class America than in any other country.
Is there still racism? Yes - there always will be some. Is it pervasive and rampant? No, a very small percentage of our populace. Sadly, like the poor - such will always be with us. We live in a fallen world.
Yet, that small percentage will always be held in our faces by liberals and black racists (who will never be called such, one of which is Obama) who hold all of us today guilty for the sins of our fathers.........
Because of this, racial division today is much worse than ever in the last 40 years - and will continue to get worse not because of white racism, but because of reverse racism.........
A Rational Study of Radical Islam by Dr Bill Warner PhD
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1. OF COURSE. It's an excuse for not working hard and not being successful or honest. Those with ANY sense of morality KNOW this.
2. Yep. Nothing new here. It REALLY shows lack of courage and backbone from those who "need" an excuse to fail. It's the old: "Yeah, but...." excuse.
The baby boomer generation was fed a steady diet of founding fathers history and respect for their contributions.
Most unfortunately, subsequent generations and particularly victims of Common Core are taught these 'limited' contributions from "dead white men" was too limiting and a form of racism which were non-inclusive. Go figure.
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If Washington had been crowned King of the American States, then slavery would have been historically consistent.
But in founding a republic based on freedom and inalienable rights, slavery was a contradiction. Slavery could not stand to be seen in such an innovative arrangement of self-governance. It was hypocritical, it was an absurdity that allowed other nations to laugh at the American Revolution as a joke. It had to go.
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