..a "Slave"; that is ..
Like a beneficent hand from the grave, Solomon Northup's story comes to us after more than a hundred years of languishing in a racial "literary limbo". One, that has been scrupulously adhered to by our publishing establishment since our founding as a nation. The first African slave in my blood line arrived on these shores in the 1760s. While European immigrants have been busy obscuring their roots and "re-inventing" themselves in this country; they have left very clear records back to the importation of African slaves; due to the immense profits involved. After viewing 12 Days A Slave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Years_a_Slave_(film), I have profound admiration and respect for all of those who followed in the wake of that first African ancestor.
It takes a very strong stomach to witness so much "reality" of antebellum slavery in the Americas. Whether in Mexico, where Las Casas and the Popes began this hideous system; or throughout Latin America, where Catholic Fascism has kept its vestiges alive to this day; "slavery" is very much "with us"! Whether you consider yourself black or white, or, "in-between", there is at least "one-drop" of African blood in the overwhelming majority of us in these Americas. This film shows in excruciating detail the implications of that fact. Whether you are black, or white, or "in between", that hideous ideology, developed, and promulgated, is very much with us today in our personal beliefs, our institutions, and our everyday lives.
The key point that everyone should get from this story is the answer to a fundamental riddle. If Europeans were so convinced that persons of color were not "human", why did they invest so much brutality in "breaking" the slaves; to remove any vestige of their "humanity"? This must have occurred to Baron Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, who wrote in the early 1700s, in his Spirit of Laws :
"It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians"
Listen closely to the words spoken in the film. Get "inside" the heads of the white men and women. Get inside the heads of the "slaves" also, and you will understand today's black practitioners of those beliefs, habits and folkways that were so brutally "taught"! You hear the same sentiments uttered today by those descendants of the Overseer class who dominate our national politics today (both parties). "Pope-Too" has his work cut out for him if he thinks he can get even close to eradicating this human travesty (for all of humanity touched in any way by Catholicism). The Protestant followers of Martin Luther, have succeeded extremely well in their long-term concerted efforts to mold a perpetual servant class of human beings in the Americas. A brief trip to the old South of the United States today bears this out. The perverted Christianity taught over these past hundreds of years is indelibly etched into the bones of everyone born into what Senator Graham correctly calls those "Hell Holes".
Stay Vigilant! If you care about your country and this planet, see this film.
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