The Conversation Surrounding Heritage and Hate in an Industrialized World of Extremes
April 11th 2010 14:24
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Issues come and go from American conversation but there is none less evolved than the discussion of finding a way to understand our unique history while still respecting atrocities that occurred during her darkest periods.
The atrocity of slavery is not an American invention nor is it one that has ever been reserved for a specific race, religion, gender, nationality or any other segment of a specific population that stands out from the majority.
Slavery is an invention of man as a race of people and has emerged in societies from the beginning of civilization.
In our experience as Americans, slavery came to our shores with the birth of colonization and was the lifeblood of a young nation until Industrialization took over the Northern part of the country which created the opportunity for the dirty little secret of a nation built on the tenants of freedom for all men to end.
Freedoms that only came when the Sixteenth President of the United States of America Abraham Lincoln decided to use a power play to pull a nation together in a time of war by punishing the states that were engaging in secessionist behavior.
A punishment in taking away the ultimate source of income in their economy through free labor by declaring their slaves free while slaves in the northern part of the country from states who decided not to be part of the rebellion remained in bondage.
It’s the fine print of historical pieces of legislation that lead to the most confusion.
The fine print of slavery not being the central issue in the Civil War as both sides of the battlefield openly practiced segregation in their homes and in public.
While the certain states in the South decided to create written law to protect so called “investments” from gaining the gifts of education, assembling in public or in private and “acting white” life in the North was one of segregation in disallowing opportunities from people of color from gaining these things as well with local, state and federal police fiercely enforcing these unwritten but understood social laws.
When it comes down to taking an honest look at the genocide that occurred when human beings were openly allowed to be placed and kept in bondage, treated as property along side cattle and held to different set of rules; our focus needs to be on the reasons why these things happened and the players that kept forces in motion.
Players who had millions of dollars invested into the practice of slavery and relied on the income of an atrocious practice to keep their families fed and maintain a way of life.
When it comes to talking about things like Southern Heritage, Dixie or the Confederate flag these are the visions that come to mind.
The ultra rich who lived lives of hypocrisy in creating social codes to convince a populous that a segment of society is inferior because of the color of their skin while not living to the same standards in their professional lives by allowing people of color to own plantations with slaves along side their own and to pump money into the Confederate Government once it was formed.
It is for this reason that firestorms are created from decades of missed opportunities in the state of Virginia from Democratic Leaders who simply chose to not talk about it.
With visions of politicians sticking their feet in their mouths and our ability to pick at every little word said and not said there has to be a point where we collectively agree that we’re not getting it as a society.
We’re not getting the fact that not every man who fought for the Confederacy did so to promote the continuation of slavery as a practice.
Most of the men who fought and died in the Civil War on both sides of the Mason Dixon Line did so to protect their families and home which were considered fair game by the Northern And Southern Armies who openly burned down entire towns as part of a no holds barred war offensive.
In an age of open racism in the North and the South it is simply implausible to assume that either side of the battlefield fought solely to promote or hold back a race of people.
When we have a conversation about any war it has to be something more than pitting one side as good and the other as evil.
There was no place in the United States of America that was giving fair shake to people of all races during this period of time and a review into the records of any court of law up to the Supreme Court will show a glaring picture of the realties that exist on this matter.
While there is a segment of people in society who still live off of the luster of a time period where they consider it a source of pride for the “White Race” to have power over the “Black Race” we have to take these ignorant statements for what they are and fault these misguided individuals for their simplicity and lack of understanding all the nuances of the issue.
The nuances of people in this great nation who are looking to celebrate the original tenants of what it means to be a southerner when a group of states took a stand against a nation that was not honoring their rights to individual liberty.
While their might not be bloodshed on the streets, states talking about seceding from the union or the issue of a legally tolerated system of slavery; the very same argument exists in modern conversation because the issues have been buried in a chilling affect.
A chilling affect where the reasons behind the Civil War are hidden under the guise of a simple disagreement over the issue of slavery when this was just one of a multitude of issues, still in modern discussion, that separated two different lifestyles created in the American Revolution.
Different in the way a nation had to deal with growing pains in order to blossom into the great but divided nation that stands before us today…
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Issues come and go from American conversation but there is none less evolved than the discussion of finding a way to understand our unique history while still respecting atrocities that occurred during her darkest periods.
The atrocity of slavery is not an American invention nor is it one that has ever been reserved for a specific race, religion, gender, nationality or any other segment of a specific population that stands out from the majority.
Slavery is an invention of man as a race of people and has emerged in societies from the beginning of civilization.
In our experience as Americans, slavery came to our shores with the birth of colonization and was the lifeblood of a young nation until Industrialization took over the Northern part of the country which created the opportunity for the dirty little secret of a nation built on the tenants of freedom for all men to end.
Freedoms that only came when the Sixteenth President of the United States of America Abraham Lincoln decided to use a power play to pull a nation together in a time of war by punishing the states that were engaging in secessionist behavior.
A punishment in taking away the ultimate source of income in their economy through free labor by declaring their slaves free while slaves in the northern part of the country from states who decided not to be part of the rebellion remained in bondage.
It’s the fine print of historical pieces of legislation that lead to the most confusion.
The fine print of slavery not being the central issue in the Civil War as both sides of the battlefield openly practiced segregation in their homes and in public.
While the certain states in the South decided to create written law to protect so called “investments” from gaining the gifts of education, assembling in public or in private and “acting white” life in the North was one of segregation in disallowing opportunities from people of color from gaining these things as well with local, state and federal police fiercely enforcing these unwritten but understood social laws.
When it comes down to taking an honest look at the genocide that occurred when human beings were openly allowed to be placed and kept in bondage, treated as property along side cattle and held to different set of rules; our focus needs to be on the reasons why these things happened and the players that kept forces in motion.
Players who had millions of dollars invested into the practice of slavery and relied on the income of an atrocious practice to keep their families fed and maintain a way of life.
When it comes to talking about things like Southern Heritage, Dixie or the Confederate flag these are the visions that come to mind.
The ultra rich who lived lives of hypocrisy in creating social codes to convince a populous that a segment of society is inferior because of the color of their skin while not living to the same standards in their professional lives by allowing people of color to own plantations with slaves along side their own and to pump money into the Confederate Government once it was formed.
It is for this reason that firestorms are created from decades of missed opportunities in the state of Virginia from Democratic Leaders who simply chose to not talk about it.
With visions of politicians sticking their feet in their mouths and our ability to pick at every little word said and not said there has to be a point where we collectively agree that we’re not getting it as a society.
We’re not getting the fact that not every man who fought for the Confederacy did so to promote the continuation of slavery as a practice.
Most of the men who fought and died in the Civil War on both sides of the Mason Dixon Line did so to protect their families and home which were considered fair game by the Northern And Southern Armies who openly burned down entire towns as part of a no holds barred war offensive.
In an age of open racism in the North and the South it is simply implausible to assume that either side of the battlefield fought solely to promote or hold back a race of people.
When we have a conversation about any war it has to be something more than pitting one side as good and the other as evil.
There was no place in the United States of America that was giving fair shake to people of all races during this period of time and a review into the records of any court of law up to the Supreme Court will show a glaring picture of the realties that exist on this matter.
While there is a segment of people in society who still live off of the luster of a time period where they consider it a source of pride for the “White Race” to have power over the “Black Race” we have to take these ignorant statements for what they are and fault these misguided individuals for their simplicity and lack of understanding all the nuances of the issue.
The nuances of people in this great nation who are looking to celebrate the original tenants of what it means to be a southerner when a group of states took a stand against a nation that was not honoring their rights to individual liberty.
While their might not be bloodshed on the streets, states talking about seceding from the union or the issue of a legally tolerated system of slavery; the very same argument exists in modern conversation because the issues have been buried in a chilling affect.
A chilling affect where the reasons behind the Civil War are hidden under the guise of a simple disagreement over the issue of slavery when this was just one of a multitude of issues, still in modern discussion, that separated two different lifestyles created in the American Revolution.
Different in the way a nation had to deal with growing pains in order to blossom into the great but divided nation that stands before us today…
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