Students Forced To Re-Enact Slavery

 Political correctness alert: if that's what you're looking for, you're not going to find it here. I am not a racist, but you may not come away from this post with that impression. I am, however, a bit of a culturalist, and I feel that there are certain cultural elements in the United States that are in need of a dose of reality. Freedoms in this country are being frittered away by those who would prefer nanny government take care of them and insure their security, paving the way again to slavery...just in a different form. I'm writing this post and maintain this blog so that perhaps, years from now, I won't be saying "See, I told you so." Hopefully its not already too late.

Students at a middle school in Hartford, Connecticut were forced to re-enact slavery last year on a school field trip. You can read the story here. It was reported that students were asked to jump up and  down, open their mouths so their teeth could be checked, and made to dance for their masters. In addition to pretending to be sold at auction and picking cotton, the students participated as slaves in a re-enactment of the Underground Railroad and simulated being on slave ships. Though organizers claim racial epithets were not supposed to be used during the exercise, the parents of the complainant claims that they were.

Horrible, right? Well....maybe not so much as one would think. People in America today, though they banty the term "racist" about as if it were nothing, know nothing of true racism. Race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson make their livings off of keeping the race war alive in America, which means using the slightest hint of bigotry as a verbal cudgel to match the real cudgels carried in the 2008 presidential election and the 2010 midterms. It would seem that some have developed an extremely thin skin where the slightest provocation is met with a violent retort, leading those in a position to do something about it impotent.

There is a level of freedom for all in the United States that is unknown in the history of the world and it is being taken for granted on a daily basis by those who take their livings from those who earned it because they somehow feel entitled to it. Most are guilty to one extent or another, never thinking how easily those freedoms could slip away.

Though nothing was mentioned of it in the story, organizers most likely did not adequately inform parents of the nature of the exercise. I think parents should have been included in the exercise, made to kneel with their children as a reminder of the things America has left behind and how easily things can slide back. To know what it feels like for a human being to be bought and sold as property, because we have forgotten. All of the benefits that people vote themselves from government coffers come from somewhere....someone... productive. To do that is no different than stealing the portion of that persons life it took them to earn it.