Obama’s Real Objectionable Statement - “America’s Original Sin”
From Historychannel.com:
America’s Original Sin
Today Senator Obama remarked that across the street from where he was, the Declaration of Independence was signed. But it was unfinished [flawed]. “It was stained by the nation’s original sin of slavery.”
This is how Senator Obama began his speech. And this poses the question that if Senator Obama is the Christian he professes to be, is he saying that his belief that original sin transfers to the children, that all white people are not born with the original sin of slavery?
Does that include the 360,000 soldiers of the Northern Army that fought to free his wife’s ancestors? Are they also guilty of original sin? How about all our soldiers who have gone to foreign nations to free others from the boot heel of tryanny? And those who marched with Dr. King, do they also bear that original sin? What about those who came here after the Emancipation Proclaimation and never owned slaves? Do they inherit the “original sin” due to the color of their skin?
It was reported that Senator Obama wrote the speech himself. If that is so, it says more about the Senator than he really wanted people to know.
I find this as objectionable as Wright’s hateful and racist remarks, because it’s sneaky. It’s not only historically wrong, but badly mischaracterizes the United States in the bargain.
Do we really want a person who believes this to be our President?
The United States briefly had slavery in some areas due to its former status as a colony of Great Britain. At no time in our history did a majority of US citizens own slaves or traffick in them.
Historically, slavery is almost as old as humanity itself, so calling it an “original sin” of the United States is just flat wrong. In fact, the vast majority of black slaves in this country were originally bought from black African slavemasters in Africa. All races have been enslaved at some point in history, so skin color has nothing to do with it.
The Republican Party was founded to end slavery in the United States, and Obama’s political party, the Democrats, were the Party of not only slavery, but of segregation, Jim Crow Laws, poll taxes, the KKK and all the rest.
IMO, Obama and all the other race pimps and race hustlers are cynically playing the race card in order to grab political power.
