Hostage to Slavery

I hate to shock many white Americans but we were never in totality, a Slave Nation. Our Nation has been divided on this issue, both in fact and geographically. Stop, think, if we were a nation that in total, embraced slavery - who fought the Civil War! Even at the time prior to 1776, as Colonies of the English Crown, this land was divided by Free Land (soil) and Slave Soil. After our nations Declaration of Independence, we still maintained a destinction between Free States and Slave States. In fact the states were equally divided. In the year 1820 Missouri after the Louisiana Purchase, wanted to become a state. However since it was a slave state, it would have disrupted the equality of states, giving the nations slave states one more than free states. To overcome this situation congress elected to give statehood to Maine a free state to maintain parity. This is known as the Missouri Compromise. Just prior to the Civil War of 1861-65 our nation consisted of 26 states with a total population of 26,000.000 Citizens. almost equally divided between the North and the South. The first Mason - Dixon line was established to set the Boundaries between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Jeremiah Dixon and and Charles Mason, both English surveyors and Astronomers were hired to do the job. The boundaries were established between them in 1767. What is known, today, as the Mason - Dixon Line was established by Congress in conjunction with the Missouri Compromise of l820. The Mason - Dixon Line was extended from the state of Pennsylvania border down the Ohio river (which ran in a east west direction) to where it intersects with the Mississippi River. This is and was the Dividing line between the free states and the slave states. Today we are a Nation of over 300 million people. Within the population, the African Americans account for 12.1 percent or about 12 million citizens. Still they are more than willing to hold over 290 millions citizens of today as responsible for the sins of their forefathers. Today,within this nation, there is not one citizen alive that experienced or participated in Slavery. Some blacks of today, the older citizens, if they lived in the southern states, experienced Jim Crow law, and a life of depredation, as a result of the KU KLUX, KLAN, the Carpetbaggers and rule under the Democratic Party or better stated, the Dixiecrat's. It was under such rule that you, the blacks of the south, suffered the likes of Bull Conner's, George Wallace, Orville Faubus. Senator Byrd and others of their ilk. Yet today while blaming, all whites, you are deeply embedded with the Democratic party, your protractors and purveyors of you presumed and actual ills. Explain! I ask, where is your sense of proportion, the equality in your reasoning. You blame all while willingly sleeping with your Nemesis. "The worst guilt is to share an undeserved guilt." Ann Rand

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