Morning Reads for Friday, June 3, 2016

Maybe the AJC comments section is more of your’s. Trolling with race bait appears to have become the norm there. I have not seen this presentation as to its accuracy but Salty’s quick review is based upon his informed opinion. Have you seen it? Are you just kicking in with innuendo to his character by jerking your knee? Yanno’ the “history” presented on the History Channel has been, shall we say, rife with errors and the last time I had cable had very little to do with history. Even the movie Selma which was presented as history and had busloads of schoolkids taken to it to view it as such was allowed deviations and exaggerations to meet the Director’s admitted prejudices. I realize this is done all the time for dramatic or artistic reasons but if you color with only two crayons don’t expect your art to be considered realistic, or considered historic.

History is seldom black and white. For example the Christian/Muslim issues Salty brought up: There were 13MM africans brought across the Atlantic, roughly 400,000 made it to North America. The Arabic Muslims took perhaps 20MM slaves to their own lands. A factor in many black Africans converting to Islam is that the Quran forbids taking other Muslims as slaves. Is slavery reprehensible? Of course. Was the American South way too late and had to be forced to reject it? Of course. Has slavery been around since humans first became sentient and by comparison did a very small percentage happen in the US, both North and South? Of course.

I apologize for the rant but if we don’t address extremism regardless of what may be considered politically correct at the time then the other side’s extremists feel they have been given their justification. As to skin pigment I wish more people would do some reading on the human genome.