2007-08-02

History can never be an altered state

Sometimes you never know what you stumble upon. I was browsing around the Internet and came across the following link about the institution of American slavery.

Indeed, the author brings up (among others) a point often overlooked if not ignored. What about the African kings and nations who sold their own to the Europeans? Our automatic assumption, as whites, is to point the finger directly upon one side. Slavery was once upon a time an accepted part of American southern society. It was as much a cultural institution as it was an economic one. But that was then; this is now. Let it rest in the highways of history. Resurrections of the past should be reserved for Jesus Christ on Easter.

While it is difficult for us to judge or feel what is inside the black American experience, according to many a modest mind, it may be time for Americans to move forward on this issue.

www.thecommentatorjm.com/page_06.htm

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