My posts make sense to a small percentage of people -- i.e., the remnant -- but frighten or confuse the rest. This is because most people today have been force-fed lies practically since birth, the unfortunate side effect of a culture so prosperous as to become decadent and divorced from reality. Reality is ugly, unpleasant, and demands tough choices. Prosperity fosters (at least for a while) delusions such as that the purpose of life is sheer enjoyment; that feelings are more important than facts; and that pain, suffering, and want are terrible anomalies to be avoided or eliminated.
Because of this fundamental disconnect between my perspective (grounded in knowledge and reality) and that of most of my lurkers (grounded in ignorance and fantasy), I will begin offering some shorter posts that deliver small "doses" of truth rather than longer posts that take all such truths as a given. A mind saturated with lies is naturally repulsed by exposure to too much truth, like an addict confronted with the dread prospect of going cold turkey.
Today's small dose of truth concerns slavery. Slavery has existed since the dawn of recorded history. Blacks enslaved blacks; blacks enslaved whites; whites enslaved blacks; whites enslaved whites . . . and insert all other colors of the rainbow. Whites do not have any reason to bear unique blame or feel unique guilt for enslaving blacks. Blacks unsentimentally enslaved each other and sold each other to whites. The only thing that makes whites unique is that they eventually perceived a moral problem with slavery and fought to end it. This warrants praise, not criticism. As for whites living in America today, none of them ever have bought, sold, or owned a slave, and they have no possible duty to make atonement for slavery. As for blacks living in America today, they are far better off than if the trans-Atlantic slave trade never had happened.
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