Definition of Slavery (Merriam/Webster):
1: Drudgery,
Toil
2: submission
to a dominating influence
3: a: the state of a person who is a
chattel (property) of another
b:
the practice of slaveholding
I start with that definition to point out that slavery has
nothing to do with race. It is not exclusive
to any one race or people. It has
existed since the beginning of time (i.e. the Biblical Hebrews) and is still
practiced in parts of the world today.
So, if you are locked into a mindset that I, as a white male, do not
have the right to talk about the concept of slavery, well, get over it.
If I gave my personal definition of slavery it would draw
the picture of someone who is forced to work to provide for another, against
their will. Yes, because of where I’m
from, the picture would be of some folks sitting on a porch watching others
work in a field just to take from them the fruits of their labor.
I said in a much earlier post that I could already see that
this election was going to come down to the “makers” versus the “takers”, and I
was exactly right. Never in my lifetime
has there been such a demand by the takers in our society yelling at the makers
for not providing more. And never in my
lifetime has the ranks of the takers been so large.
One party vilifies the makers, very loudly, stirring up class
hatred to forcibly take more from the people who have earned it. Funny thing is, the money never actually
makes it to the takers, it just gets absorbed into the system, but the takers
seem happy just because the makers don’t have it either.
The other party has to tread lightly in pointing out that
government handouts and freebies are at an all time high and that the masses
have reached the point of “voting themselves the treasury”, to the tune of over
a Trillion dollars per year. They have
to be careful because the all powerful media will paint them as cruel and
uncaring for making that point. I’ve
said in a previous post that it’s not charity if you’re forced to do it. And, the difference in charity and a
government handout is we get to exercise a little discernment in our charity
where none is required when the government does it.
So, I’ve come to see that there is a new type of slavery in
our country. I see it all across the
area that I work in that there are people sitting on their front porches
forcing me to work harder to provide them with the fruits of my labor.
To me, that’s slavery.
