The Real Roots of Racism and Slavery

The Real Roots of Racism and Slavery

Commentary by: Darrell G. Young

June 24, 2020

  Racism and slavery are subjects of trending news today. The plague of slavery has always been a curse on humanity wherever it has been implemented by the powers of this world. It has always caused hatred, envy, strife, and chaos!

  Can you list the number of nations in world history that have engaged in Slavery? The answer is ALL of them! A few nations (very few) finally dissolved their practice of slavery by legislation, as soon the Gospel Christ began to influence their culture. Great Britain, for example, after using slavery to build their empire, finally in 1807 rejected slavery.

  Can you list the nations in world history that actually fought a civil war (brother against brother) to absolve their nation from the evil practice of slavery? The answer is only one nation!

  That nation was the United States of America! (About 400,000 white Union soldiers and about 30,000 black Union soldiers died fighting to abolish slavery “nationwide” in America’s horrible civil war)
Slavery was institutionalized in America’s southland, not by the United States; but by European Colonial powers; 150 years before the United States was even conceived. It was the United States Declaration of Independence (based upon Christian beliefs) that stated that “all men are created equal” that ultimately led to the American revolt against racism and slavery!

  The practice of slavery is as old as the world. Ever since God pronounced his sentence on sinful man for his disobedience, mankind of all nations and races has sought to escape Gods sentence of hard labor for his earthly sustenance! (Genesis 3:17-19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.)

  The easiest way for sinful man to avoid sweat and backbreaking toil was to force servitude on his fellow man; an effort thereby to circumvent Gods sentence for his Sin. Such has been the practice of nations, kingdoms, empires, state and tribal powers as humanity increased and spread.

  America is not a racist country, as many are trying to imply today. America has fought long and hard against the plague of slavery and racism. It paid a terrible price to halt the spread of slavery! (700,000 lives lost....1/20th of the entire population of the US in the 1860"s) There are racists in America, as there are in every nation of the world.

  Racism and slavery is simply the byproduct of the evil emanating from the heart of man; and not from his skin!