The Lesson of Liberty in American Slavery

Given the history of Americans of slave descent, it is ironic that most today have allied themselves to a Democrat Party whose policies amount to a modern form of slavery. It offers guaranteed minimal subsistence and perennial treatment as an inferior victim. It disintegrates their families, denies their children a quality education, and a recent Harvard/Yale study showed that liberals condescend to them as inferiors lacking intelligence.

Sadly, many in the black community have internalized the limitations the Democrat Party’s philosophy has placed upon them. The liberal orthodoxy of dependence and inferiority has its rewards. If you will nod approvingly at the mass killing of your babies and limiting the growth of your population through abortion, you might get money from Planned Parenthood. They might even help get you elected.

If you will go along with the gender-bending confusion which puts more destructive pressure on the black family, you might be a favorite of Hollywood and the mainstream media. If you will use racism to explain every problem confronting every black American, you might get a job as a mouthpiece on the Democratic Plantation.

"In a free society, success is based on personal values and behavior"

Absolutely.

And American society is a free society. The perpetually ANGRY and HATE-FILLED "Left" wishes it were not so; the Democrat Party is their domicile. This is fitting:

The Democrat Party has championed every evil from slavery, the Democratic White Primary, the ku klux klan, Jim Crow laws, and segregation
to
voter fraud, illegal immigration, infanticide, abortion, sexual perversion, coup d'état, and this 4-year-long "impeachment" scheme (which is nothing more than a pretext for massive voter fraud).

I went through a period, back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, of reading as much as I could about African slavery and its aftermath in America. This included biographies of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and others.

One unforgettable experience was Uncle Tom's Cabin. I finished reading it around 1 a.m., and, though I was a strong and powerful man, an officer in the US Army in Europe, I cried bitter tears and sobs for about two hours. I don't care what anyone says about Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, it is powerful. I learned a great deal from it.

I found Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas great examples of the human spirit, its beauty, its power, and above all its indomitability. These people--and others--are great human heroes as well as African American heroes.

One evening, after returning to the USA, another Black American, a brilliant, beautiful, highly cultured and well educated man of obviously indomitable spirit, who had openly defied racism and racist laws without sacrificing one iota of his humanity, wisdom, and universal love--one of many guests in my home that evening--expounded with pride on the Black American experience. I observed that it is a human experience, one that has been repeated, to one extent and in one version or another, as long as humans have existed on this earth.

I observed that it is a human experience, one that has been repeated, to one extent and in one version or another, as long as humans have existed on this earth.

I read an article on South American slavery. While slaves in the USA lived an average 30 years, the average lifespan of slaves in South America was 10 years.

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