Comments on: Amazing Grace – an unfinished work http://www.onepeople-oneworld.org/WordPress/2007/12/03/amazing-grace-an-unfinished-work/ Everything - this is about everything. :^) Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: gene http://www.onepeople-oneworld.org/WordPress/2007/12/03/amazing-grace-an-unfinished-work/comment-page-1/#comment-14 gene Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:04:18 +0000 http://www.onepeople-oneworld.org/WordPress/?p=62#comment-14 Hello James! Nice to meet you here, though I'm sorry you stumbled, having done so myself relatively recently I know how long such things can haunt one, lol. You are right, the film's message, overall, is uplifting, the sad part is that it takes place in the early 1800's, yet here we are in the early 2000's and all that has really happened is that slavery has gone underground - or people are just as good, maybe better, at averting their eyes, as they were then too. Economic slavery is as bad as "plantation" slavery ever was. And the same arguments are used now as were then - the slave's themselves don't object, they are really better off than they were anyway so we have really improved their lot in life. People of power and greed will now, as then, commit any crime against humanity that serves the purpose of keeping them "haves" and everyone else "havenots". That this issue is not at the top of the United States, and the United Nation's, to-do list is shameful. Human trafficking, economic slavery are equally horrific evils. And we dare call ourselves civilized. Hello James!
Nice to meet you here, though I’m sorry you stumbled, having done so myself relatively recently I know how long such things can haunt one, lol. You are right, the film’s message, overall, is uplifting, the sad part is that it takes place in the early 1800′s, yet here we are in the early 2000′s and all that has really happened is that slavery has gone underground – or people are just as good, maybe better, at averting their eyes, as they were then too. Economic slavery is as bad as “plantation” slavery ever was. And the same arguments are used now as were then – the slave’s themselves don’t object, they are really better off than they were anyway so we have really improved their lot in life. People of power and greed will now, as then, commit any crime against humanity that serves the purpose of keeping them “haves” and everyone else “havenots”. That this issue is not at the top of the United States, and the United Nation’s, to-do list is shameful. Human trafficking, economic slavery are equally horrific evils. And we dare call ourselves civilized.

]]> By: James http://www.onepeople-oneworld.org/WordPress/2007/12/03/amazing-grace-an-unfinished-work/comment-page-1/#comment-13 James Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:27:35 +0000 http://www.onepeople-oneworld.org/WordPress/?p=62#comment-13 Gene, I stumbled across this post (and your site) completely by accident. And thank you. I think this is a powerful take on "Amazing Grace." And I applaud your unwillingness to take the film's uplifting message without remembering, and reminding us, that the slave trade is not yet history. In the 18th century, everyone was raised in a society which took slavery and the slave trade for granted. Only a courageous few seem to have been able to see that the trade was not "normal," and to act on their convictions. In the 21st century, we have no such excuse for failing to see, and act on, what's right in front of us. James Gene, I stumbled across this post (and your site) completely by accident.

And thank you. I think this is a powerful take on “Amazing Grace.” And I applaud your unwillingness to take the film’s uplifting message without remembering, and reminding us, that the slave trade is not yet history.

In the 18th century, everyone was raised in a society which took slavery and the slave trade for granted. Only a courageous few seem to have been able to see that the trade was not “normal,” and to act on their convictions. In the 21st century, we have no such excuse for failing to see, and act on, what’s right in front of us.

James

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