Charles Brown
Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:59:24 -0800
Bible Supports Reparations for Slavery!
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By Carl on Wednesday, January 26, 2000 - 08:12 am:
Exodus 3:21-22 Original Afri(k)an Heritage Study Bible King James' Version, Gen. Ed.
Rev. Cain Hope Felder Ph.d, James C. Winston Publishing Co., Nashville, TN 1993 "When
you leave slavery - you will not leave poor. But every former Slave Woman shall take
jewels of silver and gold and clothing from the former SlaveMasters and you shall put
them on your children, you shall take property away from the former Slavemasters."
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By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 26, 2000 - 10:17 am:
That happened to be the instruction to Israel to "plunder" Egypt.
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By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 26, 2000 - 11:54 am:
Yes, the Bible is a book of Jewish myths and legends. It is valuble as many histories
and stories of peoples around the world are valuble past experience that the current
generation may learn from. Black people in the U.S. and "America" ( the land of the
Indigenous Peoples stolen by the Europeans), had first enormous experience as slaves.
So, it makes sense that many themes in the Judaic holy books should resonate with the
experience of us here, because the mode of production in the historical period of the
Old and New Testaments of Jewish history was a slave mode of production. However, we
must move forward to other than a liberation from specifically a slave condition,
because we have won that specific battle. Our oppression now is a different form than
slavery. So, we must move beyond the Jewish Bible. We can take the sense of the Jewish
Bible and our own good wisdom that those injured should be compensated. Thus,
reparations for slavery are Judaeo-Christian and pan-Human!
, all peoples recognize some form of compensation for harm, being made whole or being
"repaired" or reparations.
Also, the "slavery" of Egypt may have been more of an apprenticeship. The Jews
travelled to Egypt. I don't think they were captured. Moses was made a leader by the
first Pharoah. So, we cannot be sure exactly what was this relationship between the
Jews from the wilderness and the long time existing Black civilization in Egypt. We
cannot only look to the Jewish propaganda books as to what this relationship was. The
Jewish Bible is not the only word of Truth and Wisdom.
Black Americans should also look to the myths and legends of the Indigenous American
Peoples for wisdom of fundamental humanity on Earth.
What of reparations for the Indigenous peoples ? Then African Americans should
properly take their request for compensation on this land to Native Peoples, the true
owners of this particular place on Earth, despite the European usurpation.
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