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Mr. Reiner,
First let me say I have always enjoyed a most generous amount of respect for you youâre talents, abilities, liberalism, decency and kindness.
Having said that, your appearance this morning on AM Joy concluded a few minutes ago. I feel I must take issue
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Mr. Reiner,
First let me say I have always enjoyed a most generous amount of respect for you youâre talents, abilities, liberalism, decency and kindness.
Having said that, your appearance this morning on AM Joy concluded a few minutes ago. I feel I must take issue
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with the thoughts you expressed concerning slavery, Americasâ
âOriginal Sinâ as you describe it. A great many people, especially those in the media use the very same words and descriptions concerning this dark history of ours. Yet the context is that of the enslavement of
with the thoughts you expressed concerning slavery, Americasâ
âOriginal Sinâ as you describe it. A great many people, especially those in the media use the very same words and descriptions concerning this dark history of ours. Yet the context is that of the enslavement of
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people of color, mostly thought of as those of African descent. No mention whatsoever of First Peopleâs or Native Americans, (Indians) who suffered under slavery before the first Negros were brought to the colony at Jamestown.
Furthermore, the idea that â Original Sinâ
people of color, mostly thought of as those of African descent. No mention whatsoever of First Peopleâs or Native Americans, (Indians) who suffered under slavery before the first Negros were brought to the colony at Jamestown.
Furthermore, the idea that â Original Sinâ
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being the slavery you speak to thoroughly excludes the beginning of an even earlier stain of horror inflicted upon The Indigenous Peoples of North America. Namely the killing of 120 - 130 million Native People in our quest for colonization.
To conclude,
being the slavery you speak to thoroughly excludes the beginning of an even earlier stain of horror inflicted upon The Indigenous Peoples of North America. Namely the killing of 120 - 130 million Native People in our quest for colonization.
To conclude,
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I hope you might better realize that this
notion of âORIGINAL SINâ in the significantly limited way you convey it excludes the horrific suffering of the Indigenous North Americans, the Native American Peoples, beginning even before this âOriginal Sinâ you speak of.
I hope you might better realize that this
notion of âORIGINAL SINâ in the significantly limited way you convey it excludes the horrific suffering of the Indigenous North Americans, the Native American Peoples, beginning even before this âOriginal Sinâ you speak of.
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The sheer scale and scope of their suffering, the Indigenous North Americans, their enslavement and the near extermination of these people deserves, nay demands better than the wholesale exclusion of the history you speak to.
The sheer scale and scope of their suffering, the Indigenous North Americans, their enslavement and the near extermination of these people deserves, nay demands better than the wholesale exclusion of the history you speak to.
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To discount the massive and horrific treatment suffered by them is not only absurd, it offends our sensibilities, our sense of decency and common good.
-Valery St. James
To discount the massive and horrific treatment suffered by them is not only absurd, it offends our sensibilities, our sense of decency and common good.
-Valery St. James
