Tuesday, March 14, 2006
I'm A Slave For You
This editorial has to be one of the most jaw-droppingly awful things I have ever read in my entire life:
The pony hidden in slavery is the fact that it was the ticket to America for black people. I have long urged blacks to consider their presence here as the work of God, who wanted to bring them to this raw, new country and used slavery to achieve it. A harsh life, to be sure, but many immigrants suffered hardships and indignations as indentured servants. Their descendants rose above it. You don’t hear them bemoaning their forebears’ life the way some blacks can’t rise above the fact theirs were slaves.
Yes, nothing like a dumpy white woman telling black people that they should be grateful for the blatant abuse of human dignity that was the slave trade. After all, we all know that the Jews have a holiday celebrating Hitler, because without him, there'd be no Israel!
I never thought we'd get to the point where we saw slave trade revisionism, but here it is. Forget the hundreds of deaths that stemmed just from the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. Forget the forceful separation of families for profit. Forget the beatings, the whippings, and the fact that some slaves gladly chose death over servitude. Let's just focus on how nice it is that black people got a chance to come over here.
God. Some people.
The pony hidden in slavery is the fact that it was the ticket to America for black people. I have long urged blacks to consider their presence here as the work of God, who wanted to bring them to this raw, new country and used slavery to achieve it. A harsh life, to be sure, but many immigrants suffered hardships and indignations as indentured servants. Their descendants rose above it. You don’t hear them bemoaning their forebears’ life the way some blacks can’t rise above the fact theirs were slaves.
Yes, nothing like a dumpy white woman telling black people that they should be grateful for the blatant abuse of human dignity that was the slave trade. After all, we all know that the Jews have a holiday celebrating Hitler, because without him, there'd be no Israel!
I never thought we'd get to the point where we saw slave trade revisionism, but here it is. Forget the hundreds of deaths that stemmed just from the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. Forget the forceful separation of families for profit. Forget the beatings, the whippings, and the fact that some slaves gladly chose death over servitude. Let's just focus on how nice it is that black people got a chance to come over here.
God. Some people.
