America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis Audiobook

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  Not-Racist
  October 2nd, 2016
  

  I gotta tell you, this never ever gets old… I am NOT saying slavery was okay or acceptable in any way, but slavery has been a part of every single country’s past. The fact that it was such and incredibly SMALL part of America’s history should be celebrated.

  I didn’t own any slaves, my parents didn’t own any slaves, my grandparents didn’t own any slaves, my great grandparents didn’t own any slaves. Tell me again why I should have white guilt?

  Instead, we should be rounding up everyone that tries to keep this country divided by keeping this ancient sin at the forefront of every issue.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  Really Though?
  October 2nd, 2016
  

  Are you kidding? Slavery not a big part of our history? How do you think the United States got the huge economic jump start that allowed us to burst onto the scene in contrast to other colonial powers. While it is true that none of your family was involved, you tow a very dangerous line by attempting to down play its importance.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  Not-Racist
  October 3rd, 2016
  

  Slavery was a shame. We ended it quickly and should have moved on. The real noteworthiness of slavery was how Lincoln used it for a power grab and to incite the bloodiest war ever and keep the country split to this day.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  Ripley
  October 3rd, 2016
  

  You did not “end it quickly”. Slavery in the US lasted over 300 years and the US was the second last country in the world to end slavery.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  Not-Racist
  October 13th, 2016
  

  Nope. 245 years, which is a blink compared to the thousands of years (all the way to current day) of slavery in Africa. Not a blink compared to England’s 271 years, but still a blink compared to England’s almost two thousand year history of doing business with slave owning countries.

  Some fun facts:

  The Arabs have owned more slaves than America ever did.

  Of the 10 to 15 million Africans who were transplanted to the New World, no more than 6 percent—around 400,000—went to the Northern Hemisphere. Almost all of them went to South America

  1.6 percent of whites owned slaves. Some research has shown that as many as 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves.

  Look up Irish and Barbary Slavery. How many whites are still going on about how their great, great, great, grandparents were slaves?

  I detest slavery and would slap a racist down without thinking twice, but even more I detest this false assertion that America was the cause of slavery, misses slavery or was the longest slave owner. That crap gets old. Time to move on.

  If you want to focus on something, let’s focus on the sex trafficking that is taking place all over the world to our daughters and sisters of all colors.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  Not-Racist
  October 13th, 2016
  

  Here’s a fun fact I just learned:

  When General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, it had been nearly 20 years since Lee owned slaves—he freed his slaves in the late 1840s. In 1856, five years before the Civil War started, he wrote that slavery was “a moral and political evil.” On the other hand, General Grant STILL owned slaves at the end of the Civil War, because Abe Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation cleverly outlawed slavery only in the South. Grant had stated that he would refuse to fight if he thought the war had anything to do with slavery.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  Historian
  November 7th, 2016
  

  Not Racist: That’s simply not true. You need to do more research before you go on spouting historical untruths and bogus contemporary implications:

  https://pastexplore.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/did-ulysses-s-grant-own-slaves-during-the-civil-war/

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  ML
  January 22nd, 2017
  

  ‘Not-Racist’– even that name puts me off. Ususally if people say that, then they should just shut up right there. As if you could belittle this original sin with comparisons to slaveries throughout history. Shame on you, shame, shame, shame- hope you listened to this audiobook as you are misinformed and part of the problem.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  Limited exposure.
  February 6th, 2017
  

  The authors summary want to make a bridge to a multiracial church. As if that is a new thing. I I am 45 years old only been to church maybe 15 times. Always different churches. And I have never been to a NON-multi-racial church. Every church I have ever seen has been integrated. This author must have been exposed to very limited upbringing. Glad he opened his eyes a bit. But it seems now he is applying is former limited view and applying it to the rest of humanity. Not realizing that his view is still the limited view. While many of his subjects are valid. His interpretation seems flawed in general.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
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  To Historian
  February 20th, 2017
  

  Might want to read that fact link that you so nicely linked to us. It in fact states the TOTAL OPPOSITE of what you stated. Stating that people with an agenda or with ignorance post this on the internet or previously in print, every few years. That it is documented the Grant knew slavery was dead and he was for making sure that it stayed dead. Earlier than the Emancipation.

  America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis

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