Good one, do tell another.
Wrong. All of those slave owners who owed such a debt are long dead, as are the slaves they owned. The debt cannot be repaid as those it is owed to cannot be repaid by those who have long since passed."Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole." Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tossing aside the fact that you can't even quantify a 'moral debt'. Yet one side declares interest on it - good luck collecting on it.
So you expect a separation of church and state, yet you want the state to operate the Sabbatical release under Jewish law as outlined in the OT?http://www.theatlantic.com/features/...ations/361631/
"And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today." Deuteronomy 15: 12–15
Dude, I got no words. You only like religion when it suits you then? This is Twilight Zone stuff.
Blarg. Please to not respond to me."White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded--about themselves and the world they live in. White people have managed to get through their entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac." James Baldwin
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Kalkin (05-23-2014)
40 acres and mule was the reparations for post civil war blacks. It was a harsh reality. Take the land (and the mule) and there was no further government handout. Work the land, make your own food, or sell your own product to buy food or die. That was very different from slavery, where owners had an interest in keeping slaves alive and relatively healthy even if the slave didn't put in a full days work or even took of on unofficial R&R.
Slavery was very bad to blacks in America. The welfare state was worse in its long term damage to black cultural institutions, most notably the family.
Oh, and the 40 acres and a mule policy was ended shortly after it was enacted by President Johnson.
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
We should demand reparations from their own African slavers for selling us defective merchandise.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
You're all over the map, dude.
"An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time.
One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition
across a period of many years if he is
to have a chance of succeeding"
~RZ67~