U.S. cities step up removal of Confederate statues, despite Virginia violence

[thaihome]

Very good article on how Germany deals with a shameful past. I can see how this could easily be applied in the US.

TH 

 

 

TO VIEW the footage of crowds in Charlottesville yelling Nazi slogans and flying Swastika banners is troubling anywhere. But do so from Berlin is particularly so. 

https://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffeeklatsch/2017/08/charlottesville-context

[Thakkar]

29 minutes ago, thaihome said:

Very good article on how Germany deals with a shameful past. I can see how this could easily be applied in the US.

TH 

 

 

 

 

Thanks. Good piece. I especially liked this line:

 

When Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had proposed exterminating the Jewish people to Hitler, she [Merkel] politely but firmly corrected him: “Germany abides by its responsibility for the Holocaust.”

 

Not taking ANY opportunity to absolve Germany in any way of the sins of its past. This is how you build a better country, a better world, and a better humanity.

 

 

[Richard W]

29 minutes ago, thaihome said:

Slavery in Tuareg society is caste based.  Caste and race are not the same thing though, of course, both are inherited from the parents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people#Slaves

http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-caste-and-vs-race/

Caste or race in the Tuareg case depends on where you draw the race boundaries.  North Africa is complicated.

What is striking in the US is the shifting definition of white v. black and the move to eliminate free(d) blacks.  For example, Thomas Jefferson's children who were born slaves were legally 'white'.  (Was Obama truly the first US president descended from a black American slave?)

[timendres]

On 8/16/2017 at 11:20 AM, ilostmypassword said:

Where does it say in the constitution that the right to  freedom comes from one's maker?

 

My bad. It is the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

 

[goldenbrwn1]

This is shocking....and from a British main stream news outlet....

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/toppling-statues-nelsons-column-should-be-next-slavery