CDZ Is Slavery America's Original Sin?

[2aguy]

In a word..Yes. As you point out, we compromised from the very beginning....else there would have been no nation at all---and set the table for the Civil War..100 years later.

Had America given up slavery when the rest of the civilized world did, there never would have been a civil war.

No, because slavery was not the issue. Succession was.

They were seceding from the union to keep slaves........what is it with you guys and lying about history.

 

[2aguy]

If slavery had existed for 150 years before the creation of the United States, how can it be described as our original sin? The answer is that it can't be blamed on our country unless you miraculously reset the date of its creation to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold to British colonialists in Jamestown. The principal reason for buying African slaves was their natural resistance to malaria., which was killing off the European workers in the Southern Colonies. Once purchased, they became an indispensable asset to labor intensive agriculture in those colonies.

Slavery was never popular in the Northern Colonies, and abolitionist movements began to spring up in the mid 1700s. However, resentment of the British government's authoritarian policies was also building and finally erupted into the War for Independence from Great Britain. After winning that war, the Colonies realized that their independence could not be protected unless a common government was formed. A proposed Constitution was hotly debated among the former colonies, and was ratified only after allowing the southern States to retain slavery in return for accepting joint responsibility for the war debts that had been accrued.

This compromise enabled the creation of the United States, but did not end the ever-growing abolitionist movement which culminated in the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflagration, and it is an insult to those who died for that cause to now be accused of supporting the institution they fought against. If there is any original sin to be assigned, it was the widespread rape of African women by their slave masters. But this is not and should not be an indictment of the entire United States of America.

https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/

Hove you read the Constitution and it’s proclaimed values and compared that to actions at the time?

That would help you.

Yep....slavery has existed Throughout the entire history of mankind, our Constitution finally put down in words how we would be different from the rest of the planet, by ending slavery and stating that all men are created equal.........since Europe and Africa brought slavery to America, we had to deal with it....and we did........we ended slavery with bloodshed....and have been working to create our ideals in this country....all the while, the democrat party, from it's very creation, has been fighting to keep racism and hate alive.

The Democratic Party included the Dixiecrats until the republic party decided they wanted them.

Enjoy them. They have made the GOP into a new dumber party.

And that is not true or accurate......

The dixiecrats stayed democrats.....they never changed sides.....the lie of the great party switch on racism is just that, a lie....the democrat party never abandoned it's racism and violence, as we see today as joe biden voters burned and looted cities, beat and murdered Americans and as the democrat party, today, seeks to resegregate society based on race.....

Don't try to deny what any 3rd grade kid can plainly see.

3rd Graders are smarter than that.......given the truth, they will see that the democrat party has been and still is the party of racism and hate...

Sure, sure.

Which party in 2020 is still bitching about all those African-American votes from urban areas.

Which party will again move to suppress voters in urban areas.

Which party has a president who retweets from racist alt-right websites and call neo-nazi protesters fine people?

Which party president pushed for and signed the Civil Rights bills?

Which party is david duke a current member of?


Why do you support the party of dumb?

David Duke ---WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO
what party has members that commit HATE crimes at the highest rate?? ??? Dems

Offenders

ucr.fbi.gov

.....which party has members that commit MURDER at FOUR times the rate??? commit INTERRACIAL murder at TEN TIMES the rate!!!!!!??????
Dems:

Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

ucr.fbi.gov

white supremacists murder less than 10 per year
Obama's people murder over 3000 per year
Obama's people rape at TWICE the rate

Statistics: Perpetrators of Sexual Violence - RAINN

Research reveals that most perpetrators are not scary strangers lurking in the shadows; they are people their victims knew—and often trusted. Perpetrators may be family members, intimate partners, friends, classmates, coworkers, authority figures, or caregivers. While anyone can commit sexual...

www.rainn.org

The Long List of Killings Committed by White Extremists Since the Oklahoma City Bombing

White supremacist James Fields Jr. appears to have intentionally run over Heather Heyer in Virginia on Aug. 12.

slate.com

Great here we go with the false equivalence straw man.

The trump FBI has called rightwing domestic violence the greatest terror threat facing America.

Yet, you compare gang violence directly to Obama like as a black man responsible for the entire race. The south has a term for that...

They have never been his FBI, they belong to the democrat party.

 

[2aguy]

In a word..Yes. As you point out, we compromised from the very beginning....else there would have been no nation at all---and set the table for the Civil War..100 years later.

Had America given up slavery when the rest of the civilized world did, there never would have been a civil war.

The rest of the civilized world didn't give up slavery, they simply stopped shipping slaves on British ships......europe didn't have 3 million slaves on their soil and they didn't have agriculture based on slavery.......saying they gave up slavery is just dumb.......

 

[2aguy]

If slavery had existed for 150 years before the creation of the United States, how can it be described as our original sin? The answer is that it can't be blamed on our country unless you miraculously reset the date of its creation to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold to British colonialists in Jamestown. The principal reason for buying African slaves was their natural resistance to malaria., which was killing off the European workers in the Southern Colonies. Once purchased, they became an indispensable asset to labor intensive agriculture in those colonies.

Slavery was never popular in the Northern Colonies, and abolitionist movements began to spring up in the mid 1700s. However, resentment of the British government's authoritarian policies was also building and finally erupted into the War for Independence from Great Britain. After winning that war, the Colonies realized that their independence could not be protected unless a common government was formed. A proposed Constitution was hotly debated among the former colonies, and was ratified only after allowing the southern States to retain slavery in return for accepting joint responsibility for the war debts that had been accrued.

This compromise enabled the creation of the United States, but did not end the ever-growing abolitionist movement which culminated in the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflagration, and it is an insult to those who died for that cause to now be accused of supporting the institution they fought against. If there is any original sin to be assigned, it was the widespread rape of African women by their slave masters. But this is not and should not be an indictment of the entire United States of America.

https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/

Hove you read the Constitution and it’s proclaimed values and compared that to actions at the time?

That would help you.

Yep....slavery has existed Throughout the entire history of mankind, our Constitution finally put down in words how we would be different from the rest of the planet, by ending slavery and stating that all men are created equal.........since Europe and Africa brought slavery to America, we had to deal with it....and we did........we ended slavery with bloodshed....and have been working to create our ideals in this country....all the while, the democrat party, from it's very creation, has been fighting to keep racism and hate alive.

The Democratic Party included the Dixiecrats until the republic party decided they wanted them.

Enjoy them. They have made the GOP into a new dumber party.

And that is not true or accurate......

The dixiecrats stayed democrats.....they never changed sides.....the lie of the great party switch on racism is just that, a lie....the democrat party never abandoned it's racism and violence, as we see today as joe biden voters burned and looted cities, beat and murdered Americans and as the democrat party, today, seeks to resegregate society based on race.....

Don't try to deny what any 3rd grade kid can plainly see.

3rd Graders are smarter than that.......given the truth, they will see that the democrat party has been and still is the party of racism and hate...

Sure, sure.

Which party in 2020 is still bitching about all those African-American votes from urban areas.

Which party will again move to suppress voters in urban areas.

Which party has a president who retweets from racist alt-right websites and call neo-nazi protesters fine people?

Which party president pushed for and signed the Civil Rights bills?

Which party is david duke a current member of?


Why do you support the party of dumb?

David Duke ---WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO
what party has members that commit HATE crimes at the highest rate?? ??? Dems

Offenders

ucr.fbi.gov

.....which party has members that commit MURDER at FOUR times the rate??? commit INTERRACIAL murder at TEN TIMES the rate!!!!!!??????
Dems:

Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

ucr.fbi.gov

white supremacists murder less than 10 per year
Obama's people murder over 3000 per year
Obama's people rape at TWICE the rate

Statistics: Perpetrators of Sexual Violence - RAINN

Research reveals that most perpetrators are not scary strangers lurking in the shadows; they are people their victims knew—and often trusted. Perpetrators may be family members, intimate partners, friends, classmates, coworkers, authority figures, or caregivers. While anyone can commit sexual...

www.rainn.org

The Long List of Killings Committed by White Extremists Since the Oklahoma City Bombing

White supremacist James Fields Jr. appears to have intentionally run over Heather Heyer in Virginia on Aug. 12.

slate.com

Great here we go with the false equivalence straw man.

The trump FBI has called rightwing domestic violence the greatest terror threat facing America.

Yet, you compare gang violence directly to Obama like as a black man responsible for the entire race. The south has a term for that...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHH--woooooooooooooooo
no strawman--FACTS!! and not from the MSM--those are FACTS
no, not comparing gang violence/etc

Is trump responsible for the actions of every white person who has committed violence?

hold on there
you are talking about which party has the EVIL people!!
YOU are the one who brought up party affiliation

I’m sorry, but you clearly not up to this forum.

It hasn't stopped him yet. ROTFLMAO!

View attachment 435558

I provide proof for my claims --you people provide babble crap

Our proof is our 8th grade education..apparently you missed some classes.

no--you have NO proof
'''instructed to DISRUPT the meetings of political opponents''''
etc
.......I have a lot of German [ nazi ] memorabilia --brought home by my Uncle who fought in WW2

Your “uncle” or his memorabilia has nothing to do with your lack of understanding about Nazi history.

If you can’t make a point about BLM protests without Nazi references you should not be posting in this thread.

Blm is the modern equivalent of the nazi brown shirts and the communist black shirts...

 

[otto105]

If slavery had existed for 150 years before the creation of the United States, how can it be described as our original sin? The answer is that it can't be blamed on our country unless you miraculously reset the date of its creation to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold to British colonialists in Jamestown. The principal reason for buying African slaves was their natural resistance to malaria., which was killing off the European workers in the Southern Colonies. Once purchased, they became an indispensable asset to labor intensive agriculture in those colonies.

Slavery was never popular in the Northern Colonies, and abolitionist movements began to spring up in the mid 1700s. However, resentment of the British government's authoritarian policies was also building and finally erupted into the War for Independence from Great Britain. After winning that war, the Colonies realized that their independence could not be protected unless a common government was formed. A proposed Constitution was hotly debated among the former colonies, and was ratified only after allowing the southern States to retain slavery in return for accepting joint responsibility for the war debts that had been accrued.

This compromise enabled the creation of the United States, but did not end the ever-growing abolitionist movement which culminated in the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflagration, and it is an insult to those who died for that cause to now be accused of supporting the institution they fought against. If there is any original sin to be assigned, it was the widespread rape of African women by their slave masters. But this is not and should not be an indictment of the entire United States of America.

https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/

Hove you read the Constitution and it’s proclaimed values and compared that to actions at the time?

That would help you.

Yep....slavery has existed Throughout the entire history of mankind, our Constitution finally put down in words how we would be different from the rest of the planet, by ending slavery and stating that all men are created equal.........since Europe and Africa brought slavery to America, we had to deal with it....and we did........we ended slavery with bloodshed....and have been working to create our ideals in this country....all the while, the democrat party, from it's very creation, has been fighting to keep racism and hate alive.

The Democratic Party included the Dixiecrats until the republic party decided they wanted them.

Enjoy them. They have made the GOP into a new dumber party.

And that is not true or accurate......

The dixiecrats stayed democrats.....they never changed sides.....the lie of the great party switch on racism is just that, a lie....the democrat party never abandoned it's racism and violence, as we see today as joe biden voters burned and looted cities, beat and murdered Americans and as the democrat party, today, seeks to resegregate society based on race.....

Don't try to deny what any 3rd grade kid can plainly see.

3rd Graders are smarter than that.......given the truth, they will see that the democrat party has been and still is the party of racism and hate...

Sure, sure.

Which party in 2020 is still bitching about all those African-American votes from urban areas.

Which party will again move to suppress voters in urban areas.

Which party has a president who retweets from racist alt-right websites and call neo-nazi protesters fine people?

Which party president pushed for and signed the Civil Rights bills?

Which party is david duke a current member of?


Why do you support the party of dumb?

David Duke ---WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO
what party has members that commit HATE crimes at the highest rate?? ??? Dems

Offenders

ucr.fbi.gov

.....which party has members that commit MURDER at FOUR times the rate??? commit INTERRACIAL murder at TEN TIMES the rate!!!!!!??????
Dems:

Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

ucr.fbi.gov

white supremacists murder less than 10 per year
Obama's people murder over 3000 per year
Obama's people rape at TWICE the rate

Statistics: Perpetrators of Sexual Violence - RAINN

Research reveals that most perpetrators are not scary strangers lurking in the shadows; they are people their victims knew—and often trusted. Perpetrators may be family members, intimate partners, friends, classmates, coworkers, authority figures, or caregivers. While anyone can commit sexual...

www.rainn.org

The Long List of Killings Committed by White Extremists Since the Oklahoma City Bombing

White supremacist James Fields Jr. appears to have intentionally run over Heather Heyer in Virginia on Aug. 12.

slate.com

Great here we go with the false equivalence straw man.

The trump FBI has called rightwing domestic violence the greatest terror threat facing America.

Yet, you compare gang violence directly to Obama like as a black man responsible for the entire race. The south has a term for that...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHH--woooooooooooooooo
no strawman--FACTS!! and not from the MSM--those are FACTS
no, not comparing gang violence/etc

Is trump responsible for the actions of every white person who has committed violence?

hold on there
you are talking about which party has the EVIL people!!
YOU are the one who brought up party affiliation

I’m sorry, but you clearly not up to this forum.

It hasn't stopped him yet. ROTFLMAO!

View attachment 435558

I provide proof for my claims --you people provide babble crap

Our proof is our 8th grade education..apparently you missed some classes.

no--you have NO proof
'''instructed to DISRUPT the meetings of political opponents''''
etc
.......I have a lot of German [ nazi ] memorabilia --brought home by my Uncle who fought in WW2

Your “uncle” or his memorabilia has nothing to do with your lack of understanding about Nazi history.

If you can’t make a point about BLM protests without Nazi references you should not be posting in this thread.

Blm is the modern equivalent of the nazi brown shirts and the communist black shirts...

Just stop with your ignorance.

 

[otto105]

If slavery had existed for 150 years before the creation of the United States, how can it be described as our original sin? The answer is that it can't be blamed on our country unless you miraculously reset the date of its creation to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold to British colonialists in Jamestown. The principal reason for buying African slaves was their natural resistance to malaria., which was killing off the European workers in the Southern Colonies. Once purchased, they became an indispensable asset to labor intensive agriculture in those colonies.

Slavery was never popular in the Northern Colonies, and abolitionist movements began to spring up in the mid 1700s. However, resentment of the British government's authoritarian policies was also building and finally erupted into the War for Independence from Great Britain. After winning that war, the Colonies realized that their independence could not be protected unless a common government was formed. A proposed Constitution was hotly debated among the former colonies, and was ratified only after allowing the southern States to retain slavery in return for accepting joint responsibility for the war debts that had been accrued.

This compromise enabled the creation of the United States, but did not end the ever-growing abolitionist movement which culminated in the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflagration, and it is an insult to those who died for that cause to now be accused of supporting the institution they fought against. If there is any original sin to be assigned, it was the widespread rape of African women by their slave masters. But this is not and should not be an indictment of the entire United States of America.

https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/

Hove you read the Constitution and it’s proclaimed values and compared that to actions at the time?

That would help you.

Yep....slavery has existed Throughout the entire history of mankind, our Constitution finally put down in words how we would be different from the rest of the planet, by ending slavery and stating that all men are created equal.........since Europe and Africa brought slavery to America, we had to deal with it....and we did........we ended slavery with bloodshed....and have been working to create our ideals in this country....all the while, the democrat party, from it's very creation, has been fighting to keep racism and hate alive.

The Democratic Party included the Dixiecrats until the republic party decided they wanted them.

Enjoy them. They have made the GOP into a new dumber party.

And that is not true or accurate......

The dixiecrats stayed democrats.....they never changed sides.....the lie of the great party switch on racism is just that, a lie....the democrat party never abandoned it's racism and violence, as we see today as joe biden voters burned and looted cities, beat and murdered Americans and as the democrat party, today, seeks to resegregate society based on race.....

Don't try to deny what any 3rd grade kid can plainly see.

3rd Graders are smarter than that.......given the truth, they will see that the democrat party has been and still is the party of racism and hate...

Sure, sure.

Which party in 2020 is still bitching about all those African-American votes from urban areas.

Which party will again move to suppress voters in urban areas.

Which party has a president who retweets from racist alt-right websites and call neo-nazi protesters fine people?

Which party president pushed for and signed the Civil Rights bills?

Which party is david duke a current member of?


Why do you support the party of dumb?

David Duke ---WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO
what party has members that commit HATE crimes at the highest rate?? ??? Dems

Offenders

ucr.fbi.gov

.....which party has members that commit MURDER at FOUR times the rate??? commit INTERRACIAL murder at TEN TIMES the rate!!!!!!??????
Dems:

Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

ucr.fbi.gov

white supremacists murder less than 10 per year
Obama's people murder over 3000 per year
Obama's people rape at TWICE the rate

Statistics: Perpetrators of Sexual Violence - RAINN

Research reveals that most perpetrators are not scary strangers lurking in the shadows; they are people their victims knew—and often trusted. Perpetrators may be family members, intimate partners, friends, classmates, coworkers, authority figures, or caregivers. While anyone can commit sexual...

www.rainn.org

The Long List of Killings Committed by White Extremists Since the Oklahoma City Bombing

White supremacist James Fields Jr. appears to have intentionally run over Heather Heyer in Virginia on Aug. 12.

slate.com

Great here we go with the false equivalence straw man.

The trump FBI has called rightwing domestic violence the greatest terror threat facing America.

Yet, you compare gang violence directly to Obama like as a black man responsible for the entire race. The south has a term for that...

They have never been his FBI, they belong to the democrat party.

Just stop with your ignorance.

 

[AMart]

In a word..Yes. As you point out, we compromised from the very beginning....else there would have been no nation at all---and set the table for the Civil War..100 years later.

Had America given up slavery when the rest of the civilized world did, there never would have been a civil war.

The rest of the civilized world didn't give up slavery, they simply stopped shipping slaves on British ships......europe didn't have 3 million slaves on their soil and they didn't have agriculture based on slavery.......saying they gave up slavery is just dumb.......

Correct.
The Act provided for payments to slave-owners. The amount of money to be spent on the payments was set at "the Sum of Twenty Million Pounds Sterling".[21] Under the terms of the Act, the British government raised £20 million[22] to pay out for the loss of the slaves as business assets to the registered owners of the freed slaves. In 1833, £20 million amounted to 40% of the Treasury's annual income[23] or approximately 5% of British GDP at the time.[24] To finance the payments, the British government took on a £15 million loan, finalised on 3 August 1835, with banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore; £5 million was paid out directly in government stock, worth £1.5 billion in present day.[25] The money was not paid back by the British taxpayers until 2015

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) abolished slavery in parts of the British Empire. This Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom expanded the jurisdiction of the Slave Trade Act 1807 and made the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal within the British Empire, with the exception of "the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company", Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Saint Helena. The Act was repealed in 1997 as a part of wider rationalisation of English statute law; however, later anti-slavery legislation remains in force

Slavery Abolition Act 1833 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[9thIDdoc]

In a word..Yes. As you point out, we compromised from the very beginning....else there would have been no nation at all---and set the table for the Civil War..100 years later.

Had America given up slavery when the rest of the civilized world did, there never would have been a civil war.

No, because slavery was not the issue. Succession was.

They were seceding from the union to keep slaves........what is it with you guys and lying about history.

They weren't seceding. They already HAD seceded before Lincoln started the Civil War (AKA: War of Northern Aggression) by making a De Facto blockaid by holding and reinforcing Ft. Sumpter. You don't think blocking NY harbor would have started a war?

 

[Kilroy2]

Is Slavery America's original sin?

The way you phrase the topic would say that it is. As it just refers to America which was established on a particular date. If all men are created equally then how can people buy other people especially when the people being purchased really have no say in the transaction. A nation under God allows slavery. Indians learned real quick that white man speaks with a fork tongue. Written words sound great on paper but when put to use in speaking with others to obtains some type of agreement then it requires some modifications.

yet if you change the meaning to mean that America was not the first in using slaves then obviously no. Still slavery is nothing to be proud about.

 

[TemplarKormac]

If slavery had existed for 150 years before the creation of the United States, how can it be described as our original sin? The answer is that it can't be blamed on our country unless you miraculously reset the date of its creation to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold to British colonialists in Jamestown. The principal reason for buying African slaves was their natural resistance to malaria., which was killing off the European workers in the Southern Colonies. Once purchased, they became an indispensable asset to labor intensive agriculture in those colonies.

Slavery was never popular in the Northern Colonies, and abolitionist movements began to spring up in the mid 1700s. However, resentment of the British government's authoritarian policies was also building and finally erupted into the War for Independence from Great Britain. After winning that war, the Colonies realized that their independence could not be protected unless a common government was formed. A proposed Constitution was hotly debated among the former colonies, and was ratified only after allowing the southern States to retain slavery in return for accepting joint responsibility for the war debts that had been accrued.

This compromise enabled the creation of the United States, but did not end the ever-growing abolitionist movement which culminated in the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflagration, and it is an insult to those who died for that cause to now be accused of supporting the institution they fought against. If there is any original sin to be assigned, it was the widespread rape of African women by their slave masters. But this is not and should not be an indictment of the entire United States of America.

https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/

Slavery is humanity's original sin.

 

[Donald H]

If there's such a thing as original sin, which is highly unlikely, it's America's governments through the years that has made the ordinary working people slaves to the corrupt system.

ThinK BILLIONAIRES and INCOME INEQUALITY.

It can't possibly go on indefinitely and neither Trump nor Biden will ever address the issue.

The American people could be almost ready to start fighting back, but they're not motivated to fight for the right cause.

It has to become the working people's fight for a PIECE OF THE AMERICAN PIE!

Can black Americans and white Americans leave their racism behind and fight for the common good against the common enemy?

 

[AZrailwhale]

The first and last sentences were both WRONG. Obama wasn't born in Kenya, and he didn't write the book Journeys in Black and White.

You place too much credence on somebody writing one paragraph bios for their dozens of clients.

Whether he wrote the book or not isn't relevant...but thanks for trying to obscure the facts with that....

The truth is obama's publicist stated in an official release that he was born in Kenya.......

His publicist said he wrote a book, he never wrote. They didn't even fact check the reason they put Obama's bio in the pamphlet. To sell his books.

His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

Getting that WRONG, is absolutely relevant to trusting anything else they claim.

The most interesting and telling thing is that Obama didn't correct the "mistake" the publicist made. He certainly had the opportunity to proof read the releases, or at least see them after they were released. He never issued corrections.

 

[2aguy]

The first and last sentences were both WRONG. Obama wasn't born in Kenya, and he didn't write the book Journeys in Black and White.

You place too much credence on somebody writing one paragraph bios for their dozens of clients.

Whether he wrote the book or not isn't relevant...but thanks for trying to obscure the facts with that....

The truth is obama's publicist stated in an official release that he was born in Kenya.......

His publicist said he wrote a book, he never wrote. They didn't even fact check the reason they put Obama's bio in the pamphlet. To sell his books.

His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

Getting that WRONG, is absolutely relevant to trusting anything else they claim.

The most interesting and telling thing is that Obama didn't correct the "mistake" the publicist made. He certainly had the opportunity to proof read the releases, or at least see them after they were released. He never issued corrections.

Yep.....he likely thought it would help him....so he didn't tell them to change it.....

 

[AZrailwhale]

The United States of America as opposed to the Confederate States of America. It was in all the newspapers and history books.

The Confederacy was never a country. If it had won it's rebellion, it would have become one, but it lost.

 

[Kilroy2]

If slavery had existed for 150 years before the creation of the United States, how can it be described as our original sin? The answer is that it can't be blamed on our country unless you miraculously reset the date of its creation to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold to British colonialists in Jamestown. The principal reason for buying African slaves was their natural resistance to malaria., which was killing off the European workers in the Southern Colonies. Once purchased, they became an indispensable asset to labor intensive agriculture in those colonies.

Slavery was never popular in the Northern Colonies, and abolitionist movements began to spring up in the mid 1700s. However, resentment of the British government's authoritarian policies was also building and finally erupted into the War for Independence from Great Britain. After winning that war, the Colonies realized that their independence could not be protected unless a common government was formed. A proposed Constitution was hotly debated among the former colonies, and was ratified only after allowing the southern States to retain slavery in return for accepting joint responsibility for the war debts that had been accrued.

This compromise enabled the creation of the United States, but did not end the ever-growing abolitionist movement which culminated in the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflagration, and it is an insult to those who died for that cause to now be accused of supporting the institution they fought against. If there is any original sin to be assigned, it was the widespread rape of African women by their slave masters. But this is not and should not be an indictment of the entire United States of America.

https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/

Hove you read the Constitution and it’s proclaimed values and compared that to actions at the time?

That would help you.

Yep....slavery has existed Throughout the entire history of mankind, our Constitution finally put down in words how we would be different from the rest of the planet, by ending slavery and stating that all men are created equal.........since Europe and Africa brought slavery to America, we had to deal with it....and we did........we ended slavery with bloodshed....and have been working to create our ideals in this country....all the while, the democrat party, from it's very creation, has been fighting to keep racism and hate alive.

The Democratic Party included the Dixiecrats until the republic party decided they wanted them.

Enjoy them. They have made the GOP into a new dumber party.

And that is not true or accurate......

The dixiecrats stayed democrats.....they never changed sides.....the lie of the great party switch on racism is just that, a lie....the democrat party never abandoned it's racism and violence, as we see today as joe biden voters burned and looted cities, beat and murdered Americans and as the democrat party, today, seeks to resegregate society based on race.....

Don't try to deny what any 3rd grade kid can plainly see.

3rd Graders are smarter than that.......given the truth, they will see that the democrat party has been and still is the party of racism and hate...

Sure, sure.

Which party in 2020 is still bitching about all those African-American votes from urban areas.

Which party will again move to suppress voters in urban areas.

Which party has a president who retweets from racist alt-right websites and call neo-nazi protesters fine people?

Which party president pushed for and signed the Civil Rights bills?

Which party is david duke a current member of?


Why do you support the party of dumb?

David Duke ---WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO
what party has members that commit HATE crimes at the highest rate?? ??? Dems

Offenders

ucr.fbi.gov

.....which party has members that commit MURDER at FOUR times the rate??? commit INTERRACIAL murder at TEN TIMES the rate!!!!!!??????
Dems:

Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

ucr.fbi.gov

white supremacists murder less than 10 per year
Obama's people murder over 3000 per year
Obama's people rape at TWICE the rate

Statistics: Perpetrators of Sexual Violence - RAINN

Research reveals that most perpetrators are not scary strangers lurking in the shadows; they are people their victims knew—and often trusted. Perpetrators may be family members, intimate partners, friends, classmates, coworkers, authority figures, or caregivers. While anyone can commit sexual...

www.rainn.org

The Long List of Killings Committed by White Extremists Since the Oklahoma City Bombing

White supremacist James Fields Jr. appears to have intentionally run over Heather Heyer in Virginia on Aug. 12.

slate.com

Great here we go with the false equivalence straw man.

The trump FBI has called rightwing domestic violence the greatest terror threat facing America.

Yet, you compare gang violence directly to Obama like as a black man responsible for the entire race. The south has a term for that...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHH--woooooooooooooooo
no strawman--FACTS!! and not from the MSM--those are FACTS
no, not comparing gang violence/etc

Is trump responsible for the actions of every white person who has committed violence?

hold on there
you are talking about which party has the EVIL people!!
YOU are the one who brought up party affiliation

I’m sorry, but you clearly not up to this forum.

It hasn't stopped him yet. ROTFLMAO!

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I provide proof for my claims --you people provide babble crap

Our proof is our 8th grade education..apparently you missed some classes.

no--you have NO proof
'''instructed to DISRUPT the meetings of political opponents''''
etc
.......I have a lot of German [ nazi ] memorabilia --brought home by my Uncle who fought in WW2

Your “uncle” or his memorabilia has nothing to do with your lack of understanding about Nazi history.

If you can’t make a point about BLM protests without Nazi references you should not be posting in this thread.

so, you brought up the EVIl stuff the ''Republicans'' do
I have question for you:
===what do you think of the Dems [ blacks ] committing HATE crimes at twice the rate of whites??--that blew your mind, didn't it??
..or Dems [ blacks ] murdering whites at TEN times the rate of vice versa??
blew your mind, didn't it
----all the LIES and bullshit about white supremacists/EVIL whites/EVIL Republicans

2019 hate crimes reported by FBI
Known Offenders

• In the UCR Program, the term known offender does not imply that the suspect’s identity is known; rather, the term indicates that some aspect of the suspect was identified, thus distinguishing the suspect from an unknown offender. Law enforcement agencies specify the number of offenders and, when possible, the race of the offender or offenders as a group. Beginning in 2013, law enforcement began reporting whether suspects were juveniles or adults, as well as the suspect’s ethnicity when possible.
  • Of the 6,406 known offenders, 52.5% were white, and 23.9% were Black or African American. Other races accounted for the remaining known offenders: 1.1% were American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.9% were Asian, 0.3% were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 6.6% were of a group of multiple races. The race was unknown for 14.6%.

It is better to quote figures from official sites than non official sites.

 

[9thIDdoc]

The United States of America as opposed to the Confederate States of America. It was in all the newspapers and history books.

The Confederacy was never a country. If it had won it's rebellion, it would have become one, but it lost.

The CSA had it's own Constitution and government. It was never an actual rebellion because it was not part of another country. The "Civil War" was necked aggression by a foreign nation.

 

[otto105]

The United States of America as opposed to the Confederate States of America. It was in all the newspapers and history books.

The Confederacy was never a country. If it had won it's rebellion, it would have become one, but it lost.

The CSA had it's own Constitution and government. It was never an actual rebellion because it was not part of another country. The "Civil War" was necked aggression by a foreign nation.

Bullshit.


Send in General Sherman again.

 

[9thIDdoc]

The United States of America as opposed to the Confederate States of America. It was in all the newspapers and history books.

The Confederacy was never a country. If it had won it's rebellion, it would have become one, but it lost.

The CSA had it's own Constitution and government. It was never an actual rebellion because it was not part of another country. The "Civil War" was necked aggression by a foreign nation.

Bullshit.


Send in General Sherman again.

Sherman was only a badass when it came to what would become war crimes. When you wanted a bunch of women and children raped and murdered and civilian homes burned he was your man.

 

[Donald H]

Sherman was only a badass when it came to what would become war crimes. When you wanted a bunch of women and children raped and murdered and civilian homes burned he was your man.

Because you're armed and dangerous, you may like this sanitized version of the NRA Song.

The NRA Song
Guns are neat, Guns are sweet
Guns the tool, what makes you cool.
Guns are fine, Guns are mine
Guns are things, that Jesus brings!
Guns for loonies, Guns for cons
Guns for Moonies, Guns for moms!
Guns are fun for everyone,
buy them up by the ton.
Guns for me, Guns for you,
Guns for nuts and children too!
Guns at home, Guns at work,
Guns at play, Guns berserk!
Tons and tons of great big Guns,
Are tons and tons of great big fun!
I’ve got Guns up my nose
‘tween my ears and by my toes.
I’m no fool, I’m so cool,
I take Guns to my school.
I take Guns to my car,
to the store and to the bar.
I got Guns in a drawer,
in my pocket and on the floor.
I got Guns on the wall,
behind the toilet and in the hall.
I got guns in my bed,
one is growing from my head!
Get a Gun and get it fast,
Gun-Gun shoot-shoot is a blast!

It's always seemed to have a calming effect on angry people who are anxious about using their guns on their fellow Americans. And besides that, it's always helpful when gun lovers don't touch and stroke their guns on places that make the guns feel uncomfortable.

 

[otto105]

In a word..Yes. As you point out, we compromised from the very beginning....else there would have been no nation at all---and set the table for the Civil War..100 years later.

Had America given up slavery when the rest of the civilized world did, there never would have been a civil war.

No, because slavery was not the issue. Succession was.

They were seceding from the union to keep slaves........what is it with you guys and lying about history.

They weren't seceding. They already HAD seceded before Lincoln started the Civil War (AKA: War of Northern Aggression) by making a De Facto blockaid by holding and reinforcing Ft. Sumpter. You don't think blocking NY harbor would have started a war?

The southern states wanted a fight for slavery and they got one.

Own it.