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Wow that sums it up rather well!.
For some, this is HEAVEN compared to where they're going.
ELAM (in the picture, with Bobby Jo doing the typing.)
I feel I must comment on this..the majority of slave owners were from the south and had huge plantations.
My ancestors were from the north, never owned a slave, and fought and died in the Civil War along with men who escaped from their owner to fight for their freedom.
Most of the oppression of the black race came from the south.
“If you are Black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South.” — Malcolm X
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Now let's talk about Africa...this country has enslaved and oppressed more people than any nation in the world.
Slavery for domestic and court purposes was widespread throughout Africa. Plantation slavery also occurred, primarily on the eastern coast of Africa and in parts of West Africa. The importance of domestic plantation slavery increased during the 19th century, due to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.
Forced labor was not uncommon — Africans and Europeans had been trading goods and people across the Mediterranean for centuries — but enslavement had not been based on race. The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began as early as the 15th century, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited. Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold and exploited. Though people of African descent — free and enslaved — were present in North America as early as the 1500s, the sale of the “20 and odd” African people set the course for what would become slavery in the United States.
Dcopymope, I have never used that word. I was at least grown up right in that aspect. If someone else did on here, then they weren't being a Christian. I would like to think and hope that the majority of the people here wouldn't dare to have that attitude.
God made all people and we're all brothers and sisters in Christ. I believe we were all meant to come together as a family and thank God for the others that do, too! My dad was brought back to the faith by a black man who came to him outside of a grocery store and prayed for him, invited him to his church, and so my dad attended a black church and they took him in as family. We should ALL be that way. Without that man, I don't know if my dad would be saved. The church is not meant to be divided. We all make up one body.
For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13
If someone has treated you that way, then I am sorry, but also know they couldn't be truly loving the Lord. I wouldn't be surprised if they were a troll, either. That's not a matter of opinion. It's Biblical.
If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:20
But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.
1 John 2:11
Well, let's be fair Dcopymope. Three of those decades were all I've had and anything before that I can only go so far back as being a zygote. I don't believe any of my ancestors were in America before 1890s.:) Yes, when it comes to faith in Jesus, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, and that's where my peoples common ground with you ends. My people were never meant to "commune" or "come together" with you. There wouldn't still be clear distinctions between the Jew and the nation of Jerusalem and the gentile and the gentile nations in revelation if we were. My people are done serving their 400 year sentence in these lands, so there is no having a seat at the table and singing kumbaya with each other. If the Mzungu was gonna do that, you should have done it decades ago. Its too late for that.
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Well, let's be fare Dcopymope. Three of those decades were all I've had and anything before that I can only go so far back as being a zygote. I don't believe any of my ancestors were in America before 1890s.
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I don't benefit from anything. I struggle with racial issues deeply. I hate what is happening in this world and it isn't just here. I pray continually for this to end but how can when the media reports continue to flame the fire.You may have never owned a slave but as a mzungu, you benefit from it everyday. And slavery never ended, it was only transferred to the "prison" system, as per your 13th amendment.