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Quote by: Century 25  Yes Athena.. they are. That is exactly what I have been saying. Under our "democratic Republic" - that has always been the case. Under a Democracy that wouldn't fly. Those black slaves were kidnapped from their African native lands.. for slavery in our wonderful land of equal opportunity.. and have been relegated to 2nd class citizenship since being freed after a bloody "civil" war. 145 years ago. What is it you do not understand...?? |
Okay, we seem to have agreement here. And let us be very clear, the South used the bible to support slavery. Throughout history, and around the world, people have held concepts of "us" and "them", and justified terrible inequality and their own cruelty to others. I started a thread about human nature to discuss this fact of life.
Now if we become literate in Greek and Roman classics, we become enlightened, and realize the error of such faulty thinking. Add to this, a scientific point of view, which is strongly encouraged by the classics, and things get even better. Technology made a huge difference as well. Shoot, we even let women, who we all know are inferior to black males, to have good paying jobs, and allow them to buy their own homes in their own names, thanks to advances in technology.
However, let us be clear, the population of the US was not highly literate. Some people learned to read, because protestants thought people should read and study the bible for themselves, but they stopped short of studying the bible. Even if they wanted to read more, books were hard to come by, and public libraries and book stores as we have today, were none existant. None of the European immigrants had experience with democracy. Those who settled outside of the king's domain, were the first to have self government, and they were theocrats, intolerant of those who held different beliefs. The bible is not a book for democracy, and Martin Luther's understanding of reality, sure was not equality and democracy, but justified inequality and autocracy.
The Age of Enlightenment, and the inspiration for a democracy with a republican form of government, was literacy in Greek and Roman classics. When I say, democracy is dependent on education, because it is like religion and must be learned before it can be manifest, what does that mean others?