Steel,
Here is Glen Beck it is your chance to refute his arguments.
http://www.glennbeck.com/theblaze-tv/anarchy-explained-the-radical-left-group-thats-teaching-antifa-how-to-destroy-state-power

Josephus,

I'm not believing it unless it is in the Bible somewhere.

Join the dots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-1k35Ltpo&fbclid=IwAR22Ek3h41Ywqtex5ZlUEGK6rwS2QJnazx25zXAFitIkT4VROgMokCTAXjA

Banjo,

Sorry, I forgot to give you any references. If you can find a copy of Hugh Thomas's magnificent "The Slave Trade", grab it with both hands.

Joe

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Dear Josephus,

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You wrote :

« Obviously you live in the past hurts »
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Not exactly, Josephus. Nobody can live in the past, any more than we can live in the future. We live in an eternal present all our life. We are born in the present, we live in the present, and we die in the present. But, inevitably, the inaccessible past determines our present and our present determines the inaccessible future.

So it is with past hurts and past joys. They are deeply embedded in our minds and psyche. We can choose to ignore them or even deny them, but there’s no escaping them just as there's no escaping the present.

The discussion with NNS was about racial discrimination. I – like you – and, hopefully, like most other people, see slavery and the racial discrimination it generated as a hurt. Though its origins in the US go back to its colonial beginnings in the early 1500s, it is still very much present today, deeply embedded in the minds and psyche of many Americans, particularly in the South – even though, as you say, “in western society slavery is currently banned”.

According to a National Public Radio report in the US in 2017, nearly, 50% of Afro-Americans have been discriminated by police and another 56% have been discriminated when applying for a job.

Racial segregation is still inextricably rooted in the educational system. According to a Newsweek report in 2017, 37% of US public schools are one-race schools—nearly all white or all minority. In New York, two out of three black students attend a school that is 90% to 100% minority. Yet, Title VI (Transcript of Civil Rights Act, 1964) states that : “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, colour, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

To ignore, discount, or deny the extent and gravity of today’s racial discrimination in the US is simply to perpetuate it.

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Dear loudmouth2,

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Thanks, Joe. I managed to find an extract of Hugh Thomas's "The Slave Trade" on Google Play. It certainly looks interesting.

I’ll check it out.

Here is the extract :

http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=lzuEzmO81GwC&hl=fr&pg=GBS.PP1

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