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

So When Is A Citizen Not A Citizen?

These idiots want to change the 14th Amendment so that children of undocs aren't citizens.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100521/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2192

There's a few problems with this idea, which this bunch of freaking clowns never consider:

1. It's a slippery slope. First we strip citizenship of children/people born here in the United States because their parents aren't legal.
2. Next, we decide that even with one legal parent, they can't be citizens.
3. Then children born of citizens of persuasions that we don't like -- race, ethnicity, religion -- like Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Mexicans, Arab-Americans, or African-Americans all become non-citizens.
4. Then we strip citizenship from everyone else. If you aren't a member of the current regime's party, then you can't be a citizen.

Then, oh dear Lord, what then? We have created second and third class citizens who are not citizens, who have no rights in the very country that they and their ancestors were born in. So we formulate a whole new class system based on this travesty of "American, Land of the Free."

What then? Untouchables? Ghettos in the classic sense of the word? Even a return to slavery??? A Holocaust?

Think it can't happen? Better take a look at Germany in the 1930s and 40s...

Oh yeah, the blatherers will say that it could never happen here.

They're deluded. Once you start down the slippery slope, it becomes easier and easier to be a hater, to discriminate, to steal the birthright of citizens.

Of course, being mostly Welsh and Native American, I have some pretty strong opinions about citizenship rights, since my ancestors had their country taken from them AND were not citizens until well into the 20th century. And we are STILL battling the Feds for legal recognition of tribes, even though we have always been here...

Don't think it couldn't happen here. It already has. Just ask my great grandparents.

Confederate History Month Honors Deadliest Traitors in U.S. History -- Politics Daily

I like this article, the author said it all better than I could...

Confederate History Month Honors Deadliest Traitors in U.S. History -- Politics Daily