Al Sharpton Blasts Sarah Palin for Making Debt-Slavery
Comparison
Sarah Palin compared the federal debt to slavery. Al
Sharpton took immediate offense:
“Our
federal debt is like slavery? Slavery was horrific, vile, a vile practice that
was explicitly based on race. So it’s hard to avoid sounding racist when you
make comparisons like that. This kind of talk has no place in our political
debate. But Palin doesn’t seem to care. She only cares about throwing red meat
to the right wing.”
There are many types of slavery: drugs, food, sex,
prostitution, alcohol, etc. Governments can enslave people. The people in North
Korea are slaves to the State. Communism is slavery. The Communists in Germany
had to build a wall to keep people from escaping to freedom. The people were
wards of the State. There are political slaves in the United States who vote
for politicians who keep them enslaved through dependency programs. They are
slaves who think they are free.
Debt is a form of slavery since it inhibits a person’s freedom. Palin said:
Debt is a form of slavery since it inhibits a person’s freedom. Palin said:
“Our free
stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing
from China. When that money comes due – and this isn’t racist – but it’ll be
like slavery when that note is due. We are going to beholden to the foreign
master. . . We’re not wards of the State but free men and women who can live
good and productive lives without D.C.s appointed best and brightest telling us
what to do.”
Sharpton is an ordained minister. This means he should be
familiar with the Bible: “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes
the lender's slave” (Prov. 22:7). The apostle Paul wrote, “Owe nothing to
anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the
law” (Rom. 13:8). Indentured
servitude is often the result of debt. “It was permissible to purchase men
and women who voluntarily sold themselves into indentured service, but not to
sell them (Exodus 21:2, Leviticus 25:39, 42, 45, Deuteronomy 15:12). Taking men
and women and enslaving them against their will, or selling them into slavery,
was expressly forbidden on pain of death (Exodus 21:16, Deuteronomy 24:7).” If
biblical law had been followed, America never would have gotten involved in the
immoral slave trade.
While the Thirteenth Amendment
abolished chattel slavery, it did not abolish “involuntary servitude” if it was
for the “punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
. . .” Restitution is a viable way for a person to pay off a property debt.
If slavery was explicitly based on race, as Sharpton
maintains, then why did blacks enslave other blacks and sell them to British
and American slave merchants? Money was the primary issue.
In the late 18th and early 19th century, Muslims enslaved American Christians, most of whom were white. The notorious Barbary slave trade is something that is not taught in today’s American history classes:
In the late 18th and early 19th century, Muslims enslaved American Christians, most of whom were white. The notorious Barbary slave trade is something that is not taught in today’s American history classes:
“It is
estimated that between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by
pirates and sold as slaves between the 16th and 19th century. Reports of
Barbary raids and kidnappings of those in Italy, Spain, France, Portugal,
England, Ireland, Scotland as far north as Iceland exist from this period.
Famous accounts of Barbary slave raids include a mention in the Diary of Samuel
Pepys and a raid on the coastal village of Baltimore, Ireland, during which
pirates left with the entire populace of the settlement. Such raids in the
Mediterranean were so frequent and devastating that the coastline between
Venice to Malaga suffered widespread depopulation, and settlement there was
discouraged. In fact, it was said that this was largely because ‘there was no
one left to capture any longer.’”
Captain John Smith (1580-1631), best known for his exploits
at the Virginia Colony at Jamestown (1608-9), had previously been captured and
sold at a slave market. “We all sold for slaves, like beasts in a market-place;
where every merchant, viewing their limbs and wounds, caused other slaves to
struggle with them to try their strength.” Smith’s coat of arms depicts the
heads of three Turk’s heads and the motto Vincere est vivere (‘To
Conquer is to Live’).
Sarah Palin is correct in linking debt to slavery. The nation that lends the money will one day be governed by the nation that's owed the debt.
Sarah Palin is correct in linking debt to slavery. The nation that lends the money will one day be governed by the nation that's owed the debt.
7 comments:
And they say it's Palin who's dumb.
I am a black man & I think Al Shapton is a idiot. He hears slavery and that is ALL he hears , no matter what to context of the statement.
Oh, no! Did someone offend good old Al? Better call Jessie Jackson. (It will have to be Senior because Junior is doing time!) Shut up you parasite! You've spent your life keeping your face in the camera attacking whitey! All that PR brings in the money, does it not? Do something productive. Tell him to kiss your white Alaskan butt, Sarah. Call her a honkey, Al. Then run like hell. She's always packing! She'll shoot your racist ass before you get 40 paces. Have a good day now, ya hear!
Whoever wrote this article needs to get educated on the reality of the actual, original 13th amendment and what that states... the info is easily found online.
And, since the original 13th amendment was illegally "suppressed" by the same group of traitors whose present-day minions still benefit from it... it was never "repealed" and is still in effect.
The ORIGINAL 13th amendment is a MAJOR KEY to cleaning up the present mess that is the US "government":
http://www.amendment-13.org/
I agree with you. He's paid to stir up trouble any way he can. I love Bill Cosby. He said this. Al Sharpton, who met with Cosby two weeks ago, said he had a "mixed reaction" to the actor-comedian's comments. "I agree that we have to do something about the internal contradiction of our community," said Sharpton, who ran against Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the presidential primaries. "But we also must be careful not to relieve the general community of what they've done to our community."
Cosby, 66, seemed to disagree in his remarks on Thursday, saying that blacks cannot simply blame whites for problems such as high rates of teen pregnancy and school dropout. "For me there is a time . . . when we have to turn the mirror around," he said. "Because for me it's almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat. It keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in."
I admit that I do not know the good person from the bad ones in Washington D.C. but I believe that Obama is swimming with sharks and he has to be careful and never show his hole card. I am expecting amazing things very soon and I think Obama is helping us get there even if makes him look inept while he's doing it. When they finally arrest those in Washington D.C., I hope they drag off Sharpton, too.
Al Sharpton is a complete Idiot!!!! Ms. Palin hit it right on the nail!! And that is exactly what this system based on debt really is, they "abolished" slavery and then they went and made a slave of every one of us via the fabulous debt system were they teach us that it was alright to live way above our means as long as we get in more and more debt so the Banks could make more and more money from us.
Al is so DISGUSTING!!!! He is a greedy parasite, how can people be so stupid to believe this man cares about anyone but himself ?
He is an embarrassment to the Black Community, He will sell his own mother if that will make him a few dollars!!!
What a disgusting sorry excuse of a Human Being!!! Al is as corrupt as the day is long, he has no right to open his mouth an criticized Sarah, and SHE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ON THIS ONE!!!
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