Posted on 02/16/2022 3:37:24 AM PST by Kaslin
February is Black History Month.
Why do we need Black History Month? Why don't we set aside special occasions to observe the history of other ethnicities in our country?
My answer to this question is that Black history tells a uniquely important story in our nation. It is a story that no other race or ethnicity shares. It is a story that must be grasped and understood if we are to understand our country as a whole, where it has been and where it needs to go.
Unique among a large percentage of Black Americans is a history in which their ancestors did not choose to come to America. They were brought here by force and enslaved. No other ethnicity shares a history in which their ancestors did not come here by choice.
According to the 1790 Census of the United States, of a population of 3,893,635, 17.8%, or a total of 694,280, were slaves.
In a nation founded on the principle of human liberty, almost one-fifth of the population were slaves. How should we understand this?
Some want to tell us that slavery is not just a stain on American history but that it defines America and American history. That America is a nation founded in racism and evil and that the task today is to reinvent and recreate the nation.
This is what "wokeness" and DEI -- diversity, equity and inclusion programming -- is about.
Those who have declared that the nation was evil at its birth now want to seize control and put themselves in charge of deciding what it should be about and what it should look like.
This is a great and dangerous distortion, doomed to add on to, not erase, the sin at America's founding.
The proclamation from the White House noting National Black History Month 2022 says, "Our nation was founded on an idea: that all of us are created equal and deserve to be treated with equal dignity throughout our lives."
This, I think, is false.
Our nation was not founded on an idea. An idea is a product of thought.
When slave trader John Newton, composer of the haunting hymn "Amazing Grace," had the horrible confrontation with himself, realizing the grave sin he had committed, he wrote "I was lost, but now I'm found. / Was blind, but now I see."
Newton did not discover he had a bad idea and decide to replace it with a better idea.
He realized that there is truth in the world, which he gravely violated.
The ideals upon which our nation was founded were rooted in divine principles and recognition that all are created equal because all are the product of the same Creator.
It is for this reason that those who signed the Declaration of Independence concluded saying, "With a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
"Sacred" is not about ideas. "Sacred" is about faith and divine truth.
The presence of slavery at our nation's founding was about Man's ability and willingness to sin.
Slavery was the symptom, not the cause.
Black History is documentation that even in a great nation, sin was present.
The Creator gave man the ability to choose. This is why freedom is important. Men cannot be denied their ability to choose. But they also cannot escape their responsibility to choose good over evil.
This is the lesson we must learn from Black History.
We will not live right, we will not treat our neighbors right, until we recognize that we all are the results of the same Creator.
America is in crisis today because recognition of that Creator has been widely purged.
And like the plantation owners that usurped truth, so today we have a new generation of usurpers.
This is what we must recognize and fix.
Slavery was never uniquely part of the British Colonies or the United State.
The practice of slavery in what became the USA and later, the USA, was far more humane than most slavery practiced elsewhere.
Most slaves taken to Islamic masters never reproduced. The boys were castrated and the women's children killed at birth.
Most slaves taken to Brazil (the biggest importer of slaves in the new world) were worked to death, and not allowed access to the opposite sex.
Slaves that made it to what became the USA were the lucky ones.
Now it is glorified, subsidized and poly-racial.
Not a fan of this article...not sure what her point is. I know what she says but its not making a lot of sense. She says we must recognize we come from the same Creator. Ok...who denies that? [Except for a tiny fringe, maybe?}
“Unique among a large percentage of Black Americans is a history in which their ancestors did not choose to come to America.”
Ok...yet they stay. And make demands that become increasingly strident to pay for something they never experienced. They are free to go...anywhere. Or they can say it was bad...it happened and move on.
Black history month is a huge joke and waste of time. As are all the up coming scab picking months for women and homos.
It is striking how much the USA has increased in population, and how little in comparison to the whole the black population has increased. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
Slavery was endemic in EVERY people, race, and culture, not just “black”. I am not aware of ANY historical ration/race/culture which did not practice slavery (and often far worse...see “Aztecs” (although they were not unique...there were others)).
According to the 1790 Census of the United States, of a population of 3,893,635, 17.8%, or a total of 694,280, were slaves.
According to the 2013–2017 American Community Survey, the total population United States in 2017 was 321,004,407, 12.7%, or a total of 40,610,815, were black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race
The most important lesson we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
Black history in America is the story of a tragedy; a great missed opportunity. A grievous wrong could have been easily corrected. The solution was given to us by the great Frederick Douglass himself.
Asked what should be done to help the Negro, he answered, "nothing." Basically, leave us alone to succeed or fail on our own effort. If this advice had been followed, blacks in America would have been fully integrated into the greater society long ago just as the different waves of immigrants have since.
But thanks to the good intentions of the do-gooders, blacks have adopted such a habit of dependence they they even support in mass the very political party which favored their enslavement, attempted to block their citizenship and, in many ways, their right to vote.
The lesson to be learned is that the reason for perceived inequality is inequality
Inequality precipitated slavery in Africa
Bkmk
White men remain the only humans to abolish slavery.
Indeed some things are not allowed in school books.
Or how many black slave owners they were.
There’s only ONE lesson to learn from it:
That Blacks cannot run a 1st World level civilization at the same high level that Whites do, that such civilizations always fall 100% apart , and become filthy, wastelands. Nor can they keep 2nd, or even 3rd World level civilizations running at a good enough level.
Therefore, keep ALL reigns and levels of power out of Blacks’ hands.
IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.
Also, that such civilizations also begin to be destroyed as the Black population in them gets larger and larger.
And I also forgot to mention the similarities between civilizations and sports,at all levels, as we have witnessed since at least 1947.
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