School Defends Slavery Booklet "Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.
'You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective,' he said."
Let me put it simply: there are not two sides to this issue. Slavery was a great human evil. There is no evidence that the South would have soon stopped the practice. Those that used the Bible to justify slavery were wrong to do so.
And although there may have been many reasons for the Civil War, the issue of slavery was paramount. The distraction of the "states rights" issue was simply another smoke screen to prolong the economic benefit of this terrible sin.
I sigh as I think of this and it leads me to radical thoughts. You know what? State have long lost their usefulness. I'm a citizen of the United States not at citizen of Ohio. I'm not an Illinoisan because I was born there. I'm an American. I'll live wherever I damn well please and I don't care to deal with 50 different sets of peculiar laws. It's time to give up the distinction. I only see the need for a Federal government, and a local one (very local if you ask me).
Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins, the authors of this pamphlet win my Evil Idiots of the Month award.
1 comment:
Yes, and demographically speaking, there are many living in the Southern states that come from other parts of the country. The more of that, the better.
Texas, however, seems to convert anyone that moves to within it's borders. Someone that was born and raised in Vermont could move to Texas for a couple of years and thereafter identify himself as a Texan! As far as I can tell, that's nothing to brag about.
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