Things take a slightly different perspective when viewed in the right context.

Whether one agrees with Reverend Wright or not, it seems to me that he has been unfairly demonized to make a media controversy.

Watch Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s 9-11 sermon in context on youtube and decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

Jeremiah Wright’s God Damn America in context on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw

Before I am criticized for being non-sensitive to slavery allow mwe to say, I am from Alabama and moved from that state as I detested the way blacks were treated. But, the issue here is slavery and I will say more on inequality later.

A brief history of slavery reveals that the very first writings related to Greece, 5th Century B.C. mentions slavery. It was so prevalent that the city of Athens had more slaves than free citizens.

Rome: History first reveals slavery as beginning in Rome at about the 2nd Century B.C. . Rome brought back hundreds of thousands of slaves in the 3rd Century B.C. from Carthage, Macedonia and Greece after war. They numbered so many so as to account for anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of the entire population of Italy. It was not until after the death of Spartacus that slavery ceased to exist in that country.

In even earlier times we read that slavery was known of since the very beginning iof history in Egypt. From Biblical days slavery of Israelites is known. The pyramids were built with slave labor and these historical monuments are 10s of thousands years old. These slaves came from Caanan, Etheopia and many Middle East and African countries.

In the 5th and 6th Century slaves were called Welshmen by Anglo Saxons. Many such slaves were sold to them by Germany who had taken these people as prisoners in wars with the Slavic regions. This is where we get the word ’slave,’ as they were Slav in origin.

As far back as the 7th Century B.C. slavery was rampant in India, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, Rumania and Greece.

We now get to America. Slavery in America was initially initiated at the end of the 14th Century and lasted until the 18th Century. The total duration is an estimated 300 years. This was so shocking to me that I had to recheck all that I had read. Why? Let me tell you why.

To hear people like Jeremiah Wright rant about slavery as he did you’d think slavery was started by America! The were no slaves until the ‘bad white men’ of the United States began to trade in humanity purchasing! This is so very wrong to voice as slavery has been around for about 15,000 YEARS! To say that America was the evil is to say no-one else is in his mind!

The have been so many positive developments within my lifetime respecting the inequality brough on by slavery in America that to hear anyone deny them is not only outrageous but damnable! Segregation, not only in schools but at lunch counters (initially) but now in every walk of life. Equal Rights. Education grants. I could think of so many things but that would be saying things you already know.

In my lifetime I have seen the KKK. I have also seen the Black Panthers! I agree with NEITHER and sincerely hope you, the reader, does not as well.

I heard Barak Obama speak and his words were empty and meaningless as he continues to befriend a man who apparently hates America, hates white men, and makes accusations of anyone not black that are atrocious. Obama continues to attend a church that believes that there is a ‘black’ Jesus. If Obama is the Christian he claims to be then he knows God’s Word. Jesus was of the House of David. Jesus was a Jew. Plain and simple and as a true Christian I accept that as fact! God said it and I believe God.

I too regret the treatments that were wrought upon blacks in the days gone by. There is nothing I can say that will change them. But, and there is a BIG condition here. My family came to the United States of America three generations before the Civil War. You might ask ‘What’s that got to do with matters?’ Well, I’ll tell you.

My family came from Wales! I an the descendant of a Welchman! Now you tell me, as such am I entitled to complain about Anglo Saxons (Englishmen) and am I supposed to ask for REPARATIONS from them as the American blacks seem to want from me?

I think not!