Cotton decoration at Hobby Lobby

[8thdaypriest]

Have you seen the firestorm launched at Hobby Lobby for having a branch of cotton in a glass bottle on a shelf in it's flower department? 

Shall we all now give up wearing cotton clothing or drying ourselves with cotton towels, because slaves gathered raw cotton 150 years ago?   Shall we tear down rock walls or buildings that were once built by slaves? Shall we give up coffee, and spices, and diamonds too because slaves (of different colors) once harvested those things?  Slavery has been (and still is) a shameful part of human history.   It has left a painful disfiguring scab, which some continue to pick at.  And we all know that picking at old wounds, only delays healing.

I personally have no problem moving statues of Confederate leaders to a history museum type park for that era, but I draw the line at 1861.  All young people make mistakes as they grow towards maturity, and the same applies to young nations.  There is no need to burn the pictures of our founding father's because they were not perfect.

[Ellen]

I agree and having nothing to add.  We are getting politically correct to the extreme. In Canada we have the aboriginals coming up with ancient things they want the government to apologize for. It makes one think they are looking for ways to get more free grants and finding them!

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On 9/17/2017 at 5:33 PM, 8thdaypriest said:

Have you seen the firestorm launched at Hobby Lobby for having a branch of cotton in a glass bottle on a shelf in it's flower department? 

Shall we all now give up wearing cotton clothing or drying ourselves with cotton towels, because slaves gathered raw cotton 150 years ago?

Seems many get bent out of shape over slavery and cotton. However, there are many other areas of near slavery or even downright slavery in American history. Just the way society was. So, if you are going to go crazy over a cotton display and stop wearing cotton, then give up electricity, transportation of good from far off places, and many other things.

People don't consider that this country was heavily built on the backs of the people of Appalachia living in the coal camps and having the land stripped of forests for lumber. Most land thru the mountains has two owners - the one who thinks they are the owner and the holder of the mineral rights. Ask the homeowner in West Virginia who had an energy company come in and set up a fracking operation right next to their home on their land and they could do nothing about it. Many in the mountains would be arrested, thrown into jail, and given a piece of paper to sign to get out. The paper just happen to be a transfer of ownership to their land. You could go on about how early settlers of the mountains were robbed of their lands and wealth. And the rest of the nation "ate" of the spoils of theft. (Coal camps are another long story in the saga of Appalachian plundering.

Consider how the railroads out west were largely built on the back of Asian immigrants. 

So, I do get a bit tired of hearing about slavery and cotton in the south. Weren't the only people in this nation to ever suffer social injustice.

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And it gets even worse:

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/28/george-washington-church-plaque-honoring-first-president-must-come-down