America’s Founding Was
Jul 4, 2020 14:21:35 #
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America’s Founding Was Greatest Anti-S***ery Movement in History
Thomas Krannawitter / July 02, 2020
This Independence Day, more than any in living memory, it is vitally important that we reflect upon that greatest of all anti-s***ery documents, the Declaration of Independence.
That document in turn launched the greatest abolitionist movement in human history: the United States of America.
The United States was not founded as a regime of institutionalized r****m, tribalism, or injustice. Intrinsic to the founding principles of this country, America institutionalized freedom, institutionalized opportunity, and institutionalized justice.
We need only remember. And we should. It might be the only thing that prevents our country from further descent into violent chaos and the tyranny that typically follows.
S***ery is old. S***ery is older than human history, stretching back thousands of years to prehistoric times, before written historical records were kept.
S***ery has taken different forms among different people in different places around the globe, existing at one time or another—often for long periods of time—on every continent. Sometimes s***ery has resulted from war, sometimes from religious persecution, sometimes from debt. Skin color has been important in some kinds of s***ery, not so much in others.
When the sciences of shipbuilding and sailing became advanced enough for the reliable t***sportation of cargo, t***soceanic trade in s***es became big business. It was the first time large numbers of s***es were sold and sent to distant lands, where they lived among people strikingly different from themselves.
Much ugliness and injustice dwells in the stories of the s***e trade. It is heart-wrenching to learn human beings were treated as mere property, owned, controlled, used, bought and sold by others.
Injustice is colorblind.
Amid the growth of the international s***e trades—and in the context of the much older story of s***ery itself—one group of people, far from being morally perfect, dared to declare a universal, true moral idea: that all men are created equal in terms of inalienable natural rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
And these imperfect people set for themselves an ambitious goal for which there was no historical model: to create a new nation upon that idea.
The idea was enshrined forever in the America’s Declaration of Independence, and memorialized in Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech at the Gettysburg cemetery.
The American idea is perfect. Every human being, regardless of looks, language, or religious beliefs—whether rich or poor or in between—does possess, by nature, a morally rightful claim to his or her own freedom, to wh**ever he or she rightfully owns, equal to all other human beings.
We know that injustices are wrong—we know that s***ery is wrong—precisely because we know that the American idea is right.
To live up to the American idea means abandoning s***ery and all forms of tribalism in our public policies. No dividing citizens into groups, granting special government-dispersed powers, perks, favors, and crony subsidies to some while placing special burdens on others. No turning our backs on the natural rights of some. No stealing from others. No giving to the politically privileged and the politically preferred what they have not earned.
In the early decades of our republic, many Americans made big strides toward their goal. They treated s***ery like a cancer: prohibiting the supply of s***es from Africa; prohibiting the spread of s***ery to new federal territories; confining s***ery to where it existed in the original states. Between the Declaration of Independence and 1800, a mere 24 years, half of those original states abolished domestic s***ery.
Never before had a people declared their own independence upon a universal moral idea that applies to all human beings, everywhere, always. Never before had so much been done to constrain and eliminate s***ery so quickly.
The American Founding was the greatest anti-s***ery movement in human history, hands down.
That was not the end of the tragic story, of course. Changes in technology, new business opportunities, the importation of 19th-century European philosophy and science, and rigid biblical theologies sparked new economic interests in s***ery while convincing Southern s***ers that they were right.
Through a terrible, bloody Civil War, Americans abolished s***ery by way of a constitutional amendment, only a few more than four score and seven years after the Declaration of Independence.
The American idea requires equal protection of the laws for the equal individual rights of each and every citizen. Period.
Let us embrace our own beautiful founding idea. Let us show the world, by example, what institutionalized freedom, institutionalized opportunity, and institutionalized justice look like.
All we need do is live up to our own standard in our policies and our practices. All we have to do is remember and reflect upon the true ideas contained in our own Declaration of Independence.
Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D., a former professor, is co-founder of The Vino & Veritas Society, which is dev**ed to forming a Declaration of Independence culture in America. His many books include “Vindicating Lincoln” (2008), which was featured by the History Book Club and endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
America’s Founding Was Greatest Anti-S***ery Movement in History
Thomas Krannawitter / July 02, 2020
This Independence Day, more than any in living memory, it is vitally important that we reflect upon that greatest of all anti-s***ery documents, the Declaration of Independence.
That document in turn launched the greatest abolitionist movement in human history: the United States of America.
The United States was not founded as a regime of institutionalized r****m, tribalism, or injustice. Intrinsic to the founding principles of this country, America institutionalized freedom, institutionalized opportunity, and institutionalized justice.
We need only remember. And we should. It might be the only thing that prevents our country from further descent into violent chaos and the tyranny that typically follows.
S***ery is old. S***ery is older than human history, stretching back thousands of years to prehistoric times, before written historical records were kept.
S***ery has taken different forms among different people in different places around the globe, existing at one time or another—often for long periods of time—on every continent. Sometimes s***ery has resulted from war, sometimes from religious persecution, sometimes from debt. Skin color has been important in some kinds of s***ery, not so much in others.
When the sciences of shipbuilding and sailing became advanced enough for the reliable t***sportation of cargo, t***soceanic trade in s***es became big business. It was the first time large numbers of s***es were sold and sent to distant lands, where they lived among people strikingly different from themselves.
Much ugliness and injustice dwells in the stories of the s***e trade. It is heart-wrenching to learn human beings were treated as mere property, owned, controlled, used, bought and sold by others.
Injustice is colorblind.
Amid the growth of the international s***e trades—and in the context of the much older story of s***ery itself—one group of people, far from being morally perfect, dared to declare a universal, true moral idea: that all men are created equal in terms of inalienable natural rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
And these imperfect people set for themselves an ambitious goal for which there was no historical model: to create a new nation upon that idea.
The idea was enshrined forever in the America’s Declaration of Independence, and memorialized in Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech at the Gettysburg cemetery.
The American idea is perfect. Every human being, regardless of looks, language, or religious beliefs—whether rich or poor or in between—does possess, by nature, a morally rightful claim to his or her own freedom, to wh**ever he or she rightfully owns, equal to all other human beings.
We know that injustices are wrong—we know that s***ery is wrong—precisely because we know that the American idea is right.
To live up to the American idea means abandoning s***ery and all forms of tribalism in our public policies. No dividing citizens into groups, granting special government-dispersed powers, perks, favors, and crony subsidies to some while placing special burdens on others. No turning our backs on the natural rights of some. No stealing from others. No giving to the politically privileged and the politically preferred what they have not earned.
In the early decades of our republic, many Americans made big strides toward their goal. They treated s***ery like a cancer: prohibiting the supply of s***es from Africa; prohibiting the spread of s***ery to new federal territories; confining s***ery to where it existed in the original states. Between the Declaration of Independence and 1800, a mere 24 years, half of those original states abolished domestic s***ery.
Never before had a people declared their own independence upon a universal moral idea that applies to all human beings, everywhere, always. Never before had so much been done to constrain and eliminate s***ery so quickly.
The American Founding was the greatest anti-s***ery movement in human history, hands down.
That was not the end of the tragic story, of course. Changes in technology, new business opportunities, the importation of 19th-century European philosophy and science, and rigid biblical theologies sparked new economic interests in s***ery while convincing Southern s***ers that they were right.
Through a terrible, bloody Civil War, Americans abolished s***ery by way of a constitutional amendment, only a few more than four score and seven years after the Declaration of Independence.
The American idea requires equal protection of the laws for the equal individual rights of each and every citizen. Period.
Let us embrace our own beautiful founding idea. Let us show the world, by example, what institutionalized freedom, institutionalized opportunity, and institutionalized justice look like.
All we need do is live up to our own standard in our policies and our practices. All we have to do is remember and reflect upon the true ideas contained in our own Declaration of Independence.
Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D., a former professor, is co-founder of The Vino & Veritas Society, which is dev**ed to forming a Declaration of Independence culture in America. His many books include “Vindicating Lincoln” (2008), which was featured by the History Book Club and endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Jul 4, 2020 14:33:16 #
It certainly was founded on an institution of s******c r****m, it was called s***ery.
Jul 4, 2020 15:03:56 #
saltwind 78 wrote:
It certainly was founded on an institution of s******c r****m, it was called s***ery.
When you make government your master, you make yourself its s***e.
Howdy, s***e.
Jul 4, 2020 15:14:28 #
saltwind 78 wrote:
It certainly was founded on an institution of s******c r****m, it was called s***ery.
"It"? America doesn't deserve to be called by name, right? Do you even know what country you live in? Do you even care?
America's primary founding document is the Declaration of Independence, have you heard of it? Fella named Thomas Jefferson wrote it, he and 54 others signed it, 244 years ago today.
The title of the document states it's purpose. America was not founded upon any existing "institution", our founders declared our new country's independence FROM the "institution" of a despotic monarchy.
Y'all should read the Declaration of Independence.
Happy Independence Day, America!
Jul 4, 2020 15:28:13 #
Blade_Runner wrote:
"It"? America doesn't deserve to be call... (show quote)
The person may want to read statements by the Founders on the subject of s***ery. These people lack the ability to look at societal mores in the context of the times, not in context of current societal mores.
Jul 4, 2020 15:40:26 #
AuntiE wrote:
George Washington: "there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of (s***ery)." The person may want to read statements by the Founders on the subject of s***ery. These people lack the ability to look at societal mores in the context of the times, not in context of current societal mores.
John Adams: "Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of s***ery from the United State. I have, through my whole life, held the practice of s***ery in abhorrence."
Benjamin Franklin: "S***ery is an atrocious debasement of human nature."
Alexander Hamilton: "The laws of certain states give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property. But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty and when the captor in war thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable."
James Madison: "We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive d******n ever exercised by man over man."
The Founding Fathers and S***ery
Jul 5, 2020 07:13:43 #
saltwind 78 wrote:
It certainly was founded on an institution of s******c r****m, it was called s***ery.
You missed the whole point of the story. AMERICA, and it's belief in the Judeo-Christian values made s***ery an a*********n and was one of the 1st countries to abolish it. Now that is something to brag about!!!People like you probably should have been s***es so that you would have felt the freedom of liberty when America abolished s***ery. You would not have been talking your bs as you do now. You appear to be a subversive reprobate.
Jul 5, 2020 07:14:48 #
Gatsby wrote:
When you make government your master, you make yourself its s***e.
Howdy, s***e.
Howdy, s***e.
Saltwind would have made a good s***e. Bwanna would have been his favorite word next to Master.
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