Posted on 04/19/2021 9:43:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
African slavery flourished at the time of the Founding, true enough. And yet, within a century of the Founding, slavery was gone and people who had been chattel became citizens of the United States of America. Not equal citizens, not at first. That took another century. But African-descended Americans became, in the fullness of time, equal citizens of this republic.
Our democracy, flawed as it most surely is, nevertheless became a beacon to billions of people throughout what came to be known as the “free world.” We fought fascism in the Pacific and in Europe and thereby helped to save the world. We faced down, under the threat of nuclear annihilation, the horror that was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Moreover, we have witnessed here in America, since the end of the Civil War, the greatest transformation in the status of a serfdom people (which is, in effect, what blacks became after emancipation) to be found anywhere...
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This great and historic achievement surely would not have been possible without philosophical insights and moral commitments cultivated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the West—ideas about the essential dignity of human persons and about what makes a government’s exercise of power over its people legitimate. But something new was created here in America at the end of the eighteenth century. Slavery was a holocaust out of which emerged something that actually advanced the morality and the dignity of humankind—namely, emancipation. The abolition of slavery and the incorporation of Africa-descended people into the body politic of the United States of America was an unprecedented achievement.
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In the last 75 years, a vast black middle class has developed. There are black billionaires. The influence of black people on the culture of America is stunning and has global resonance.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Boys and girls todays slave story is ......................
Nothing wrong at all with the Patriotic Black folks movement.
They are brothers.
One slogan: “Make the Hood Great Again!”
https://blackgunsmatter.myshopify.com/
Most liberals would foam at the mouth with anger and not even try to consider it but ... :
Blacks living in America today who descended from Africa got one helluva bargain. It took white European people many thousands of years to transition from living in caves and grass huts to living in homes with central heat and air, hot and cold running water, electricity, etc. Blacks in America today did it in under 200 years.
Yeah, your "democracy" is very flawed.. If you want to know HOW flawed, just take a look at the last election...
But, "OUR Republic" could stand tall and strong if the commies would get out of the way and the stinking DOJ would investigate and enforce the LAW..!
“African slavery flourished at the time of the Founding, true enough. And yet, within a century of the Founding, slavery was gone and people who had been chattel became citizens of the United States of America. Not equal citizens, not at first.”
I think at first they were. It took the Democrats some time to institute all their Jim Crow laws and system.
Free blacks began to prosper under the free enterprise system and the Democrats actively clamped down over time.
An important point. It was GOVERNMENT that mandated Jim Crow laws.
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