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The Theology of Slavery
as America's 'Original Sin'

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Posted By: EQKimball, 7/9/2021 12:28:36 PM

To look at me you’d never know it, but my great-great-great-great [“4G”] grandmother was from Nigeria, according to my saliva, all that was needed for the laboratory to make that determination. [Snip] My brother’s reaction to the revelation that we are 1/64th sub-Saharan African was terse and profound: “I just hope it was consensual,” he texted me. Suddenly, the tender fantasy of star-crossed lovers I’d begun to imagine for my “4G” grandparents was gone with the wind. Although the laboratory cannot tell us, and our family history doesn’t record it, my “4G grandmother” was likely a slave. And logic informs us, alas, that my “4G” grandfather was probably her owner.

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Though Moses led his people out of slavery, the notions of collective guilt, secular original sin, and reparations for wrongs committed by ancestors are not based in law or in scripture.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Proud Texan 7/9/2021 12:35:16 PM (No. 840411)
I read a while back, probably a year or more, that one of the big DNA testers (23 and me?) had employees that were telling white people that they had african ancestors as a joke. SO the author probably may be completely off with the 1/64 claim.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: LeeBertie 7/9/2021 12:49:15 PM (No. 840420)
Good piece, but at the risk of being labeled as PEDANTIC, Paul O'Brien should have read Catch-22 before including a quote from it in this column. Yossarian was a Captain in World War II, a B-25 bombardier, NOT a private.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BarryNo 7/9/2021 1:00:48 PM (No. 840428)
There is not a race on the face of the Earth that has not practiced, or been victimized, by Slavery. None. Not one... America and England were the beginning of the end of that sickness.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bpl40 7/9/2021 1:08:21 PM (No. 840430)
Like Archie Bunker who developed a sudden yearning for fried chicken after getting a shot of the Jamaican doctor's blood!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: GoodDeal 7/9/2021 1:16:16 PM (No. 840433)
England brought slavery to this country when it was a colony. The founding fathers achieved our independence and then worked to abolish slavery which they were all morally opposed to. The original sin was England’s. America inherited slavery then ended it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/9/2021 1:31:20 PM (No. 840442)
Slavery has been around for thousands of years, and is still around. America is the first country that ended it. The Civil War was not about slavery, but the defeat of the South brought it to an end. Slavery would have ended in America anyway, as it was a very uneconomical system that benefited only a few absentee owners in Europe. Slavery can come in degrees. The Democrats and Republicans want to import new wage slaves to work for them cheap.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JrSample 7/9/2021 1:50:02 PM (No. 840454)
On an episode of ''Finding Your Roots'' they explored Spike Lee's ancestry. The big surprise is that one of his direct ancestors was a slave master who sired a daughter with one of his slaves. You could see it dawn on him that he is the great great grandson of a white slave owner. As bad as it is that this woman was subjected to this against her will, if it had not happened, Spike Lee would have never been born. The genealogical progression that resulted in him being born would have diverted in another direction resulting in different people being born, instead. This illustrates the absurdity of race-based reparations; him being compensated for a wrong that not only did not cause him damage, but otherwise he would have never been born. Apart from the obvious absurdity of the possibility that the white great great grandson of a Union Private wounded at Gettysburg paying reparations to Spike Lee, the multi-millionaire great great great grandson of a white slave master.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Heraclitus 7/9/2021 1:53:16 PM (No. 840457)
Well said, OP.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: paral04 7/9/2021 1:59:20 PM (No. 840461)
Are the thousands of black slave owners ancestors getting a pass on this? They had better or this is just another ploy of the democrats to divide this country.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: paral04 7/9/2021 2:00:15 PM (No. 840463)
Correction I meant to say "they had better NOT get a pass on this.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Laotzu 7/9/2021 2:42:35 PM (No. 840506)
Epic fail. An article on the lack of reason behind the idea of original sin for slavery that fails to identify the leading proponents of the theory are representative of the slaveholder party. Like taking a flight to New York to pick up a quart of milk.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 7/9/2021 2:58:16 PM (No. 840531)
Sorry, not buying their lies. Slavery was erased more than 160 years ago, and I will NOT act guilty about something that was gone before my great grandfather was born. Just go to Hades. Zero guilt about slavery. This whole deal is just a racist money scam.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: coyote 7/9/2021 2:58:32 PM (No. 840532)
About this Critical Race Theory (CRT), it is not a theory, it is racist propaganda.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: MDConservative 7/9/2021 3:00:49 PM (No. 840534)
Nice try by the author, but those saliva DNA kits are rife with uncertain outcomes. If one reads the disclaimers they are told that results below certain significant-appearing numbers are to be disregarded. 1/64 would seem to fill that bill. Several of my relatives have done these and some of those results are astounding/amusing, especially knowing their actual origins over even centuries. With that, the piece is a bunch of disjointed whatever.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: msjena 7/9/2021 3:04:55 PM (No. 840542)
I think the Democrat Party should pay reparations,since they were the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and opposition to Civil Right legislation.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: lakerman1 7/9/2021 3:08:47 PM (No. 840551)
63/64th of the author should pay 1/64 to him.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: columba 7/9/2021 5:29:39 PM (No. 840729)
The eastern part of the United States was an English colony. During the colonial period, England outlawed the slave trade. No one who wants to paint those white Anglo folks as bad guys has mentioned this fact,].
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Reply 18 - Posted by: MNluxiegal 7/9/2021 11:49:48 PM (No. 840972)
Indeed slavery of Africans came over with the original European settlers in North America. I write this as there has always been slavery even in North and South America among the native population. It is an error, however, to say the USA was the first country to abolish slavery. The British Empire passed laws abolishing slavery in about 1820. Look up the name William Wilberforce, who was the most persistent opponent of the slavery industry. When the British parliament finally passed the law it include forbidding any ship flying the British flag of having any commerce in slavery transport.. A more accurate statement is to say that the English-speaking world led the way amongst major countries in the abolishment of the slave trade.
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