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Bird’s Eye Views
Tag Archives: slavery
Pondering Vice
I stumbled across my old, favorite ashtray this week. It was originally part of a set of Fiestaware dishes I bought at a neighbor’s garage sale back in 1979. I wanted the dinner ware because my old, odds and ends … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplation, Controversy, Health, Hometown, philosophy, Youth
Tagged illicit drugs, organized crime, slavery, tobacco abuse, vice, victimless crime
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A Few Thoughts About Democracy
No, the United States is not the world’s largest democracy. That honor goes to India. This makes sense by virtue of population size. Strictly speaking, there actually no purely democratic nations. The U.S. India, and most of the non-dictatorial nations … Continue reading
Posted in Controversy, History, Politics
Tagged democracy, democratic republics, slavery, tyranny, women's suffrage
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Arrested For Learning
While fact checking a YouTube video last night, I stumbled across a blurb that was more compelling than the original reason for the search. There was only the statement, “90 Negroes arrested for learning”. The isolated tidbit of information was … Continue reading
An End To Racism And Discrimination Is Possible
The American Anthropological Association’s statement on race says, “Physical variations in the human species have no meaning except the social ones that humans put on them.” I say we’ve put some real doozies on the variations. Skin color, hair, and … Continue reading
Posted in Controversy, cultural highlights, History, Politics, religion
Tagged colonization, industrialization, prejudice, race, racial discrimination, racism, slavery
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Freedom Day
Intellectually, I understand the concept of slavery and have studied its various forms as it has occurred throughout history. It’s still difficult to wrap my mind around the idea of actually owning another human being. The form it took in … Continue reading
Wilberforce’s Great Cause
Allen, one of my late friends, taught me a lot about open-mindedness because of how he identified himself. With no irony at all, he often called himself a compassionate evangelical. This was during the late 1970s and early 1980s, much … Continue reading
Posted in Controversy, History, Politics, religion, Youth
Tagged abolitionism, British Empire, British Parliament, Great Britain, slave trade, slavery, William Wilberforce
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Peonage Abolished In New Mexico
I like to bounce my opinions about social problems onto my friend Jorge. He’s unafraid to objectively analyze issues that concern his personal Mexican-American heritage. This time, in particular, I wanted to understand the traditional relationship known as “Patron-Peon”. In … Continue reading
Posted in Controversy, History, Politics, religion
Tagged New Mexico, patron, patronage, peon, slavery, Thirteenth Amendment
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