- Mar 11, 2015
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No, not everyone. I am not one.Our ancestors made mistakes, all our ancestors! We are here, now. We know all humans are one race. We know that dividing us up into groups that can be hated only serves those who want to control us. It does not serve us.
We can have a very nice world if we just grow up.
Every body is not responsible for the division in this country.
You are.
The Civil War was fought to preserve the Union. As a by-product, slavery also ended. Two good results emerged for an otherwise horrible, and avoidable, tragedy.
We have the nation that exists today as a result of the sacrifice made back then. It is a rich land of much opportunity. At the same time, it is very far from perfect. Somehow, it has a large population that prefers ignorance to advancement. You are not alone, unfortunately, in wandering uselessly in division and duality. "White" and "black" are illusions when eyes are genuinely open. That there is discrimination on the part of some toward others is a result of falsehood, taking illusion for absolute.
You are not free as long as you maintain yourself chained to duality.
Yes you are. I am free. In reality slavery did not end after the civil war.
When it is said we talk about a history of racist laws and policy many do not understand the full extent of what is meant. According to the 13th Amendment, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction."I think people really need to understand the impact of the underlined words. Blacks were arrested, tried, found guilty and sent to prison for crimes such as vagrancy, cussing in front of whites, jaywalking and other minor or non offenses for whites. Because of this, they could be returned to slavery and were. There has been no amendment to change this part of the 13th Amendment meaning that in reality slavery could still exist in America today. After slavery ended:
Employment was required of all freedmen; violators faced vagrancy charges
•Freedmen could not assemble without the presence of a white person
•Freedmen were assumed to be agricultural workers and their duties and hours were tightly regulated
•Freedmen were not to be taught to read or write
•Public facilities were segregated
•Violators of these laws were subject to being whipped or branded.
And sent back into slavery.
You see the after math of slavery was a system that excluded just as much. And everybody did not make the laws that did so. Everybody was not allowed to participate because of those laws only a certain group was. That helped created the system we live in right now and your denial of this is where you fail. Knowledge is freedom, an opinion is not.