We are attempting to explain away the reasons behind the complicated issue of racial prejudice in America. I don't profess to have the exclusive on why racial prejudice in America is still rampart. My intentions are to get you thinking as to what we, as a nation, must do to address it. Surely, diversity training, a correcting of the textbooks on American History, better funding of all schools, and a concerted protest from all America would greatly enhance any effort to eradicate this cancer upon our nation. Enjoy the read... and make a comment, if you so wish. This
enclosed italicized paragraph sets the tone for why I believe there is so much racial discord
in the United States - my belief!
Having read the Declaration of Independence, I believe many interpret
parts of it as the 'right' of a certain majority to exercise 'their God given
rights' as a right of superiority over all others! The means to achieve that end can take many forms, but the most unique of those can be shown from a review of events beginning in 1917 that continued through 1923! The utter destruction of Black America initiated the decline of the Black race in these United States.
In his initial draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson condemned the injustice of the
slave trade and, by implication, slavery, but he also blamed the presence of
enslaved Africans in North America on avaricious British colonial policies.
Jefferson thus acknowledged that slavery violated the natural rights of the
enslaved, while at the same time he absolved Americans of any responsibility
for owning slaves themselves. The Continental Congress apparently rejected the
tortured logic of this passage by deleting it from the final document, but this
decision also signaled the Founders’ commitment to subordinating the
controversial issue of slavery to the larger goal of securing the unity and
independence of the United States.
Here, I want to emphasize that Whites, during
the formative years of our country, held a desire that there be two
classes of people in these United States... those owning property would have an
exclusive set of rights over and above those of the people who did not own
property. The reasoning being that not everyone would be allowed to
shape the laws of the country. This reasoning is a significant signature
of why we see oppression on so many levels today.
With that theorem in mind you can
readily see the connection to what occurred in America during the time shortly
after the abolishing of slavery, and what happened over a fifty to sixty
year period following ending in of slavery in America. Many of the
founding Fathers were slave owners and did not want a freed slave to experience
all of what freedoms in these new United States would entail.
The difference in Black America right after the abolishment of slavery
and today is this... Blacks had businesses and owned property then; they were
elected to and served at every level of government - remember, the Constitution
was written to give property owns power over the rest of America's citizens.
This status gave them the same implied rights that our Forefathers envisioned
for themselves.
As Blacks became more affluent with their own towns, it became apparent
that they would be a force to reckon with if allowed to continue in this trend.
Whites decided to, in the late 1920s, destroy any chance of equality occurring
as described in the Declaration of Independence, hence you have the massacres
of the late twenties - Rosewood, Tulsa, etc!
Continued oppression broke the back of Black America, and forever set in
place a hidden agenda to deny Blacks their equal rights. This is what you see
now in America - sundown towns, unequal education, and a suppression of the
vote. We need to realize that, and be assured this is not out of hate, but a
reality check, we are being systematically oppressed as part of a broad agenda
to keep us from being equal.
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