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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative Activist EW Jackson: Slavery In America Wasn't A 'Racial Issue'
In an April 9 interview with Virginia talk radio host John Fredericks, conservative activist E.W. Jackson insisted that President Obama does not love his country enough, in part because he refuses to acknowledge that slavery in America was not a racial issue.
Jackson, the 2013 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in the state, responded to a clip of a sermon by the presidents former pastor Jeremiah Wright by insisting that Obama always seems to want to put American down, apologize for America, indicate what America has done wrong, and yet he never just like Jeremiah Wright he never talks about the virtue of our country, he never talks about its greatness, its freedom.
I mean, Jeremiah doesnt want to talk about, for example, the fact that slavery was a worldwide institution and that Nigerians apologized for their complicity in slavery because those slave-masters and slave-traders could not have gotten those slaves without Africans going into the interior to bring people out, he continued.
So this is not a racial issue, its a human issue, people subjugating each other. But Americas the place where people of all races, all backgrounds, have come and found freedom. And I dont think he understands that, the president that is, and Jeremiah Wright certainly doesnt understand it and doesnt want to understand it and the
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)just stirring it up trying to make black Americans take the blame for what happened to them.
Why not mention how the Pope made it a sin to enslave Christians, so the European slave masters had to let their serfs go and then built fleets to get around the Arab slave traders? Enslaving and trading black Africans was the impetus for such things as Prince Henry the Navigator. Without slavery, there may have been no Columbus.
Why not mention indentured servitude in the early colonies here? Not quite plantation slavery, but real close.
Stop mincing words and sending out dog whistles-- just man up and say enslaving another human being is wrong. It was in the past when it was universal, and it is wrong today where it still happens in some places.
No excuses or dog whistles-- slavery is and was just plain wrong.