6 thoughts on “On Race And Equality”

  1. It’s also worth remembering, if we’re supposed to focus on 1619, that the first blacks arrived as indentured servants (as did many whites). Indenture was for a time period, not for life. Indenture for life, on the other hand, is slavery.

    Things changed in 1654, when a man by the name of Anthony Johnson, who had a black indentured servant named John Casor, whose term of indenture had expired. Anthony Johnson fought this in court, and was granted his claim that John Casor was his indentured servant for life (the first instance of this in the colonies, other than as criminal punishment), and thus John Casor became the first black slave in the colonies. The interesting bit is that while John Casor was not among the blacks to arrive in Virginia as indentured servants on the ship The James in 1619, 1620, and 1621, Anthony Johnson, the man who’d had him enslaved to him, was.

    But, it was all due to racism, we are assured.

    1. Glenn Loury is the very best. I love his bloggingheads videos; there is just no one who listens to his guests as carefully, or quickly picks out points from their words that he will focus in on. As devil’s advocate, he does a great job of presenting opposing arguments…

  3. Obviously you can’t raise that child by yourself. It takes a community. And Big Brother is here to help.

  4. You are so right David. There is a massive institution built into or social safety net that requires the children be fed at school, that their fathers to be predominantly absent, that their mothers comply with the rules of this system. The system was set up to control the population that submits to the system. The money and the housing come with strings attached. That is why misdemeanor offenses like selling bootleg movies, selling individual cigarettes, copying forms to successfully getting your kids “diagnosed” with ADD, are all considered “hook ups”. We have breed a culture that lives on the margins, and actively discourages anyone from working to move out of the system. Imagine that those inside this miserable system actively work against anyone else in the system that shows a preference for leaving the system. This cannot be a natural state of any human being, therefor this must be a deliberate and we’ll thought out feature of the system. It was and is the replacement for slavery and was conceived as such.

    1. Americans: Our children are precious angels sent by God.
      Also Americans: Take these horrible things away from us and confine them in government institutions!

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