Racism Had to Be Taught

[Keith Broaders]

Who Planted the Seeds of Racism?

Racism is not natural, it needs to be taught and the seeds of racisn were planted by the Christian Pastors when the British Colonies were established in North America during17th Century.

When Columbus returned to Spain  he sought permission from Pope Alexander to claim all of the land he discovered for Spain and to subjugate all pagans, saracens and Non Christians inhabitants the lands he dicovered.

It was the position of the Church that White Euriopean Christian were superior to all other races. religions and creeds..

The predominately Christian colomies embtaced the Papal Bull, known as the Doctrine of Discovery issued by Pope Alexander and the rest is history.

The Constitution was written by an oligarchy of rich white Christian men that wanted to maintain their positions in the socio-economic heirarchy for themselves  and their posterity.

For hundreds of years the men and women from Africa who were  imported to the Unted States to labor in the fields of the financial elete were considered to be property rather tgan people. 

Twety five of the fifty five delegates to the Constituriional Convention owned slaves and had a vested interest in preserving the institution of slavery. 

[Daniel New]

1.  I disagree.  I think it is inherent in all humans to be ethnocentric.  We favor our own family, our own tribe, our own community, our own state, our own religious affiliation, and our own race, instinctively.  It's a comfort zone.  That does not mandate that we hate that which is different.  But we instinctively don't trust those who are different until we get to know them.  That means "Trust is not natural, it needs to be taught."  

Almost every tribe on earth considers themselves superior to some or all of their neighbors.  It is human nature.

It is impossible to make blanket statements about "slavery" without defining which form of slavery we are talking about.  There are several forms, and considering that they existed for millennia in stable societies suggests that they are not all inherently evil.  You even have the Biblical form of voluntary slavery to reckon with.  

It seems to me to be perfectly reasonable that when a nation invades, intent upon killing or enslaving the population of another, that the receiving nation fights back in self-defense, and if they prevail, they are perfectly within their rights to enslave the surviving invaders.  The Bible tells us to make them "hewers of wood and haulers of water."  It's what they deserve.  Frankly, I'm not sure we shouldn't return to that institution.  Is it not more merciful than killing the survivors?

What is clearly condemned in the Bible is one form only - MANSTEALING.  In fact, I recently saw a video by a Hebrew scholar who argued that the Ten Commandments (the "Ten Words") does not say, "Thou shalt not steal," but rather, "Thou shalt not kidnap."  Manstealing is kidnapping.  It's been practiced from before the beginning of recorded history.   

And what we practiced in America (both North and South, both with white and black slaveowners) was the purchasing end of man stealing.  It was, and has always been wrong.  

2.  Keith, you need to edit your comments for typos - that message above is almost illegible in places. 

[David Shipp]

I agree with your post. As for Keith's spelling, please allow for his deteriorating eye site. It is difficult for him to write anymore.  On another note, I received an email stating that if I was against Islam then I was anti Semitic. The reasoning being that Muhammad was related from Abraham. I have studies Islam and I can tell you for fact that Muhammad was not related to Abraham. That is another Islamic lie of many.  Islam needs to be destroyed.  Not the people, but the cult. In fact, if you study the Barbary pirates and Islam ( they are the same) , it is very likely that slavery would not have exited in the new world had it not been for Islam. I don't claim that is definite, but likely.  By the time the Constitution was written slavery was an important part of society.  It was being eradicated in England and was becoming unpopular in the new world.  The Civil war was unnecessary and not started because of slavery.  Along that line I recommend a book called '

When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession