The Disgrace of Slavery

The poignant picture of two little boys and the documentation of the sale of the child on the left, John, is heartbreaking.

The antebellum South might be celebrated by some, but as far as I'm concerned, it's THE most shameful era of our country.

Sure, slavery has been practiced all over the world, in darn near every culture, but the brutality and inhumanity of slavery as it was practiced in the South is completely opposite of the principles of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Violence, rape, the explotation of a whole race, all for the sake of money.

Yes, in the end, like all too many horrible events in history, it really was all about the money.

In my mind, there's no excuse. And the faces of John and the unknown child next to him, lost in the mists of history, forgotten by all except perhaps, hopefully, their descendents, remind us that we are responsible for the children.

All the children.

Slavery was a disgrace that our nation is still recovering from, all these years later.

There is no excuse for ignorant behavior or tolerating ignorant behavior in America. Yet we still hear and see it every day. Bigotry and racism is alive and well.

The faces of two little boys look at us with haunted eyes, reminding us of the result of racism, of slavery, of the most shameful times in our history...

Link:
artdaily.org: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38596
Associated Press: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Rare-photo-slave-children-found-NC-attic/ss/events/us/061010keyamorgan/im:/ydownload_ap/20100610/photos_net_ap_ts/1276210841/#photoViewer=/100610/480/urn_publicid_ap_org_edf9c9ebc02f4ab2a5bb79130057327a

And The Slide Into Chaos Begins

Remember back in May, May 22nd to be specific, where I pointed out the slippery slope of Arizona's law requiring law enforcement to question the citizenship of people. And how that power can and will be abused, harassing citizens who are brown, or have an accent, or that the officer just doesn't like. (Cops are human, do not ever kid yourself. They WILL profile.)

Well get this, right out of Time.com: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1996064,00.html?xid=rss-fullnation-yahoo

So here we go, facing exactly what I said. The children will be next.

And then the children who only have one parent that's a citizen. (Think Obama and the birth certificate garbage that people are still repeating. Bunch of freaking idiots.)

And then the children of citizens who aren't born on US soil. If they aren't born here, then they can't be citizens, right?

And then people of any unpopular race, color, religion, creed.

I hate being right. Damn, I hate it.

The handwriting is on the wall. Are we going to stand up and fight for the rights of our citizens? Or are we going to be like Nazi Germany? Little by little, allowing the fanatics to undermine our rights, until no one has any rights at all?

It's up to us, all of us, to stand up for our Brothers and Sisters, our fellow citizens, no matter what race, color, religion, or creed -- and that includes national origin too.

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