Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, April 05, 2010 1:07:24 PM
It is estimated that nearly 50% of all slaves in the 1700's were white indentured servants from Great Britian and Europe. Yet all we hear discussed is how awful it was to bring black slaves from Africa. These indentured servants were people who were enslaved to pay off debts that they were unable to pay for lack of employment. Often these slaves were traded just like their black counterparts and were bought and sold for land or other farm equipment like mules and oxen. This practice ended by the LATE 1800's (yes ... LATE 1800's after the slaves were freed by the Civil War).
Now a little over a 100 years later and President Obama is proposing bringing back the use of indentured servants in the form of paying back Student Loans. The administration is looking to propose alternative ways to allow college grads to pay back their loans by having them do 10 years of "Community Service" (Can you say "working for ACORN" ??). Of course, like the indentured servants of old, people who work for a long period of time in a area of employment end up spending their entire life in that field as they cannot break out of the "role" they have been cast in. Therefore these "community organizers" will forever be cast in their roles and will continue working for (and depending on) the government for their employment. This is what we can look forward to, now that the Federal Government has taken over the Student Loan business from the banks and will be able to be "creative" in their writing of the "terms of the loans". Is this what he meant when he said "I don't think reparations go far enough" ??? Is it time to enslave the white man?
Look out America! This President is selling you out!