Karen Croom wrote: > > I ... confessed that I thought I might be prejudiced. I was serious, but he > >started laughing. He knew that I was talking about the white race and we > >have white skin. Well, I got over that but I still feel like asking > >forgiveness from people of other races for all of the sins of the past.
Chuck wrote: > Isn't that something!!! > Now your supposed to feel GUILTY just for being who you are. It troubles me most that we are tempted to throw out the *positive* lessons of history because of the failings of the people of the time. The founding principles of my nation -- personal responsibility, individual freedom, property rights, self-government -- were crafted by men and women who were entirely human, within a human culture that was seriously flawed. As a result, the biggest single change from Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence and the document finally approved by the Committee of the Whole, was the excision of his eloquent and powerful denunciation of the slave trade. And at the very time these principles brought greater freedom, opportunity, and prosperity to a wider range of people than ever before -- our nation engaged in systematic genocide against Native peoples. Always, the painful reality has lagged behind the promise of our shining principles, and it does so today. And in recent decades it seems our principles have lost considerable ground. But it was those principles that pushed us to achieve. We are still counted among the freest people on earth to the extent that we have held on to them. I firmly believe that the only thing we can do to right the injustice of the past is to prevent the injustice of the future. And the best way to do that remains, today as always, giving people alive today the fullest measure of their basic human birthright: freedom, liberty, property, sovereignty. To the extent we let people live free we honor the greatness -- and atone for the wickedness -- of past generations. And I strongly encourage us all, me included, to steer clear of much further discussion of political philosophy on the silver list, as seductive a temptation as it is. Drat. <g> Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
