I am a photographer, and I agree.That is how a photographer's mind works. Drawn, not to idiosyncrasies but to form
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I am a photographer, and I agree.That is how a photographer's mind works. Drawn, not to idiosyncrasies but to form
That was a function for me when I was military intel as well. But I've learned how to turn that off and on as necessary.Have you reached the point where taking note of everything and everyone becomes an addiction?
Ezekiel 18:20
20 The one who sins is the one who will be put to death. A son will not be punished for his father’s sins, and a father will not be punished for his son’s sins. A good man’s goodness belongs to him alone, and a bad man’s evil belongs to him alone.
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Ezekiel 18:20
20 The one who sins is the one who will be put to death. A son will not be punished for his father’s sins, and a father will not be punished for his son’s sins. A good man’s goodness belongs to him alone, and a bad man’s evil belongs to him alone.
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My husband and I are both white. He and his family are currently, and generally, less religious and more progressive than mine, but his (historically) is MUCH more Southern and slave-owning than mine. In fact, all his family has Southern and slave-owning past, whereas mine doesn't on either paternal or maternal side.
My dad's family are all WASPs and Irish/Scottish from the upper northeast (Massachusetts, Vermont, etc.) who never held or owned slaves. My mom's are all Germans/Norwegians/Hutterites from the upper midwest (Minnesota, South Dakota, etc.) who came to the US in the 1800s and also never had slaves.
In recent years, I've noticed a change from individualistic and historical focus of racism, toward more 'systemic' focus. The idea is, it doesn't really matter that my husband's family was historically slave-owning, whereas mine were in regions where slavery never occurred. The focus now is, both nonetheless benefited from 'white privilege,' so it doesn't matter if one's white families had slaves or not. What matters now is, if they are allies, or at least voting Democrat in greater numbers. In that case, my husband's family is generally more progressive now, even if they have purely Southern and slave-owning roots.
Do you agree with that perspective: is it better to have a family that "currently" is overall more progressive and voting Democrat, even if that family is purely slave-owning and Southern in its past, than it is to come from a family with no slavery, even if that family is currently slightly more third-party or Republican in its voting?
At the end of the day, none of what you said actually matters in this particular situation. Those are just self-satisfying talking points circulating among conservatives.Well for one, everyone has been a slave to someone else at some point. This notion slavery only involves white people in America is ridiculous.
In Barbary the blacks owned more white slaves than America ever owned of black slaves
BBC - History - British History in depth: British Slaves on the Barbary Coast
Their untold story, by Professor Rees Davieswww.bbc.co.uk
What about native Americans that owned slaves?
How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative
The new exhibition 'Americans' at the National Museum of the American Indian prompts a deeper dive for historic truthswww.smithsonianmag.com
We all know Jews were slaves.
What about the blacks in America that enslaved blacks?
Blacks Owning Blacks: The Story of William Ellison – Cathedral of Liberty
William Ellison Jr. (c. April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was a U.S. cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War.cthl.org
And of course who sold black slaves? Other blacks that enslaved their own people to sell.
But at the end of the day it doesn't matter to you or me, we didn't own any slaves. Why should we be held accountable for something that happened a 100 years before we were born?
Let's say I found out I had an ancestor that was a Nazi child murder and rapist, killed animals and raped women. Ok, that has nothing to do with who I am as a person now. I don't do those things, I pay my taxes, work hard, love my wife and try to be a decent person.
So no one alive today in America has ever been a slave, and no one alive today has ever owned a slave.
(checks to see where Tim lives).How would that be any different than people from other nations coming here and instead of adapting to the white foundation, they keep the politics of their homelands. Babel proved a point. The Kingdom won't be segregated by colourful identity so why here?