| We are all related to slave owners or slaves if we go back far enough in history. Slavery was a part of human society for thousands of years. Virtually every culture owned slaves at one point or another. The Ten Commandment says that one shall not "covet thy neighbor's manservant, not maid servant." The commandment refers to slaves. Slavery was and is the worst of all evils. Its ubiquity does nothing to diminish that fact.
The absurd thing about a bunch of white folks feeling guilty about slavery because they are white is that it echoes the old slave owner's claim that Africans were meant to be slaves because they wors the "mark of Cain," their dark skin. Now white folks are claiming guilt for acts that they did not commit soley because of their skin color. Both propositions are equally ridiculous.
Rick
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis |