It is OK to be Black/It is OK to be white
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timeontarget
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timeontarget 15 hours, 29 minutes ago.
Take Me To Post Comment Form I'm not sure how many of our bloggers are white or how many are black. I know that we are not all the same
color.
It appears to me that we have had a number of blogs posted which are nothing more than efforts at race baiting. This is not good for our community nor is it good for our country.
When the United States of America became a country two hundred and forty plus years ago there were no black people at all in this country.
Funkentelecky commented on Thursday, Nov 16, 2017 at 20:00 PM
The first black slaves arrived at Jamestown Virginia in 1619. 157 years before the country was founded in 1776.
There were white people from Europe who had come over to forge a new life in a new land which had previously been the homeland of the red man or Indians. Some of the Indian nations were more civilized than others but basically they were all civilized. They had learned how to coexist on the same continent although there were occasionally conflicts that erupted into wars among various tribes. The Indians were robbed of their homeland, rounded up like livestock and relocated to barren lands westward toward the Pacific. Many died or were slaughtered by the white man who had arrived aboard sailing ships from Europe.
At first these newcomers lived under the rule of the English Crown. They struggled and prospered on the new land but were taxed by the crown and soon they revolted declaring war on the crown. Independence was won in July of 1776 I believe. Some forty plus years later England once again invaded the upstart new nation In the war of 1812, but again the Americans defeated the crown and the rest is history.
At some point black people from Africa were captured by other black people and herded to the western African shore and sold to White traders who in turn took them to other lands to be sold just like livestock.
The USA was not the only nation to allow slaves to be brought to their country.
Many Americans came here as indentured servants which had signed contracts to work for their freedom in various occupations, but mostly in agriculture I believe. Ultimately some black indentured servants were also brought to this new land and ultimately earned their freedom.
The very first black slaves brought to America were bought and brought here by other black people.
It was black people who instituted the ownership of other black people into America.
Ultimately these United States took varying different degrees of acceptance of slavery or not to accept it in their states.
I don't think the practice was very successful in northern states because of such harsh climate conditions. However the black folks survived very well in the south where there was less freezing and cold conditions.
This country was founded on the principal that free enterprise is the foundation of our survival. There is a line in the Jaycee Creed which reads:
"ECONOMIC JUSTICE CAN BEST BE WON BY FREE MEN THROUGH FREE ENTERPRISE".
As this young country grew and became prosperous it and it's people astounded the world With their victory in the war of 1812. Later came the American Civil War which was really caused by a struggle of States rights versus Federal Imperialism but many folks believe that the primary issue was slavery.
I did not live in those days and I don't really know what caused that war. History books tell us that many families were divided on the issue and there were cases of Father fighting son and brother fighting brother. Again I don't know for sure about these things.
After slavery was abolished the rule of segregation was imposed on the races. I grew up in a time of segregation and my next door neighbors in my childhood were black. I am white and I grew up in a majority black community in Liberty County.
In the late sixties integration was implemented and it took a long time for it to become accepted especially in the South.
However in 2008 a black man was elected to the highest office in the land and he could have ended racism for once and for all but instead he proclaimed that now the white man can ride on the back of the bus.
Today we have a great President who is attempting to right the course of some thirty plus years of the elite folks in the DC swamp who have made countless bad choices in their governing of us on the Federal level.
I hope all fellow bloggers on this Courier blog site will offer commentary regarding our racial divide because in my opinion it is greater today than it was in the fifties.
If we fail to unite both black and white and remain divided as we are we will ultimately fail to survive.
I am not the best student of history and if I have made errors in any issue of this blog please point it out and I will make the necessary corrections.
It appears to me that we have had a number of blogs posted which are nothing more than efforts at race baiting. This is not good for our community nor is it good for our country.
When the United States of America became a country two hundred and forty plus years ago there were no black people at all in this country.
Funkentelecky commented on Thursday, Nov 16, 2017 at 20:00 PM
The first black slaves arrived at Jamestown Virginia in 1619. 157 years before the country was founded in 1776.
There were white people from Europe who had come over to forge a new life in a new land which had previously been the homeland of the red man or Indians. Some of the Indian nations were more civilized than others but basically they were all civilized. They had learned how to coexist on the same continent although there were occasionally conflicts that erupted into wars among various tribes. The Indians were robbed of their homeland, rounded up like livestock and relocated to barren lands westward toward the Pacific. Many died or were slaughtered by the white man who had arrived aboard sailing ships from Europe.
At first these newcomers lived under the rule of the English Crown. They struggled and prospered on the new land but were taxed by the crown and soon they revolted declaring war on the crown. Independence was won in July of 1776 I believe. Some forty plus years later England once again invaded the upstart new nation In the war of 1812, but again the Americans defeated the crown and the rest is history.
At some point black people from Africa were captured by other black people and herded to the western African shore and sold to White traders who in turn took them to other lands to be sold just like livestock.
The USA was not the only nation to allow slaves to be brought to their country.
Many Americans came here as indentured servants which had signed contracts to work for their freedom in various occupations, but mostly in agriculture I believe. Ultimately some black indentured servants were also brought to this new land and ultimately earned their freedom.
The very first black slaves brought to America were bought and brought here by other black people.
It was black people who instituted the ownership of other black people into America.
Ultimately these United States took varying different degrees of acceptance of slavery or not to accept it in their states.
I don't think the practice was very successful in northern states because of such harsh climate conditions. However the black folks survived very well in the south where there was less freezing and cold conditions.
This country was founded on the principal that free enterprise is the foundation of our survival. There is a line in the Jaycee Creed which reads:
"ECONOMIC JUSTICE CAN BEST BE WON BY FREE MEN THROUGH FREE ENTERPRISE".
As this young country grew and became prosperous it and it's people astounded the world With their victory in the war of 1812. Later came the American Civil War which was really caused by a struggle of States rights versus Federal Imperialism but many folks believe that the primary issue was slavery.
I did not live in those days and I don't really know what caused that war. History books tell us that many families were divided on the issue and there were cases of Father fighting son and brother fighting brother. Again I don't know for sure about these things.
After slavery was abolished the rule of segregation was imposed on the races. I grew up in a time of segregation and my next door neighbors in my childhood were black. I am white and I grew up in a majority black community in Liberty County.
In the late sixties integration was implemented and it took a long time for it to become accepted especially in the South.
However in 2008 a black man was elected to the highest office in the land and he could have ended racism for once and for all but instead he proclaimed that now the white man can ride on the back of the bus.
Today we have a great President who is attempting to right the course of some thirty plus years of the elite folks in the DC swamp who have made countless bad choices in their governing of us on the Federal level.
I hope all fellow bloggers on this Courier blog site will offer commentary regarding our racial divide because in my opinion it is greater today than it was in the fifties.
If we fail to unite both black and white and remain divided as we are we will ultimately fail to survive.
I am not the best student of history and if I have made errors in any issue of this blog please point it out and I will make the necessary corrections.
Pat Watkins, web editor
