Tag: Slavery
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Americans Need To Get It Out Of Our Heads: We DO NOT Do Everything Right
My gut is, this very American attitude — “How WE Do It Is How It Should Be Done” — flows from, the MALE of the American species. It’s definitely got a “I alone can fix it” pong to it. You know how men are kind of “famous” for refusing to ever ask for directions when…
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A Democracy’s Bottom Line Must Be Its Principles – Not Money or Power
Let’s take it a step further: OUR Democracy’s bottom line must be its principles — not money or power. Let’s frame it correctly though. OUR Democracy’s principles started off un-principled. We cut a deal with slavery. We accommodated it and it cost us dearly. We fought a Civil War because we compromised our principles. We…
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Slavery Sucks. All Forms Of Slavery, That Is — Including The “Subtle” Ones…
Slavery has been a thing homo sapiens do (we don’t know if any other human species did it) since we figured out we could force someone else to work for free. Slavery, in its essence, is stolen labor. Yes, it’s a stolen life. But, from the point of view of the enslaver, the goal is…
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America Is Still Dealing With Its ‘Original Sin’: We Screwed Up On Slavery
If you really think about it — and you don’t have to think too hard — an awful lot of our current debate about racism in this country is as old as the Republic itself. When the Founders of this Republic sat down to hash out what this country was and what it wasn’t, what…
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Never Mind ‘Winning The War’ If You End Up ‘Losing The Peace’ That Follows
History is littered with the lamentable stories of Cultures that ‘won wars’ but lost the subsequent peace that should have been the spoil of their victory. Case in point: The Union (The United States of America) v The Confederate States of America. Grant accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The Civil War ending was the Union’s…
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How About If, Today, We Declare Independence From BULLSHIT!
It seems a natural thing to want to be INDEPENDENT from — BULLSHIT. Yet, look around you and ‘witness’ all those who are SLAVES to BULLSHIT — especially their own. Turns out we all carry around our own bullshit like it was a box of LPs from College that we know we should get rid…
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America: ‘Died Of A Theory’?
I’m a History Geek. Among the History topics that Geek me out most is The Civil War — you know, that ‘thing’ we fought for ‘States Rights’ according to Revisionist (Southern) History but really fought cos SLAVERY. Ken Burns’ ‘Civil War’ series is Nirvana. The first time I heard David McCoullough’s exquisite baritone caressing the…