 jatfla says: FTA: "With all due respect to our president, this assertion is again not fully accurate. The only thing that ended slavery in the United States was the Civil War, which saw some 600,000 Americans — the vast majority of them white — lost in a violent struggle to ensure that nearly half the country would not remain a slave-owning society. Also, the massive urban riots of the 1960s and 1970s were certainly violent." Selective historical interpretation. Probably learned it at those Ivy League colleges and from Rev. Wright. He began, “I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city.” He apparently forgot that for the prior eight years, the official faces of American foreign policy in Germany were Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — both African-Americans.Are they talking about Cairo or Germany? The Civil War was fought...not to free the slaves but to maintain the Union. freeing the slaves was a calculated strategy...it was also the morally right thing to do. Berlin, Germany. "not free the slaves..." Here again, it depends on whose interpreting the information and the context of the times. This whole article relies on who is interpreting the information. The author says at one point, "it seems like he is saying...." The author goes out of his way to twist the context. It was the mayor of Berlin who, during the airlift, implored the people of the world to do their duty. It isn't Obama implying that the airlift was a unified project of the countries of the world. How ridiculous can you get. In fact in the speech President Obama says, "Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle." Condolezza Rice and Colin Powell made trips to Germany but they didn't make huge... And in all brutal honesty, slavery did not actually end in the United States until half way through the 20th century. Despite the 13th Amendment, no federal or state laws criminalized slavery, and after federal troops left the South, blacks were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges and "sold" to fields and factories to pay off their "debts to society." |
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