Where do we draw the line?

Where do we draw the line? Where do we begin and end in the writing and rewriting of American History, The US Constitution, and The Bill of Rights?

We are a nation built on a unique set of ideals that were designed by our forefathers who left Europe to avoid religious persecution. They moved to this New World, Colonial America, and established a comprehensive set of laws to allow each and every individual to flourish in their own unique way through an economic system of capitalism. It was a new and unique approach to the economy, life, and livelihood in a new world not governed by a dynasty, instead governed by the people.

Admittedly, the United States, Colonial America was an experiment in this governing approach in a new world. The men who were so brave and bold to come here and establish colonies that would eventually become The United States of America were ‘human’ just like you and me. They moved here to build a better, more equitable republic in the best way they knew how. They were not perfect men and for us to expect them to have been, is completely impractical.

They are guilty of being ‘human’ just like you and me, living a human experience in a life of imperfection. They are ‘guilty’ of living a life that was not perfect. They engaged in buying and using slaves to build this new republic. Unfortunately, slavery was and still is a worldwide phenomenon. I don’t pretend to know what was going through their minds when they engaged in this abhorrent behavior, I do know that they righted that wrong through a civil war and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Where do we draw a line?

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

Slavery is WRONG –

We do NOT have the right to own another human being
We do not have the right to possess human life
We do not have the right to abuse a human being
We do not have the right to restrict another human’s rights
We do not have the right to dictate how another human can love, live, or prosper

The first people in North America

The first people in North America were once believed to be the Clovis people from North Asia, approximately 13,000 years ago, according to Scientific American. For decades, scientists believed that the Clovis people were big game hunters from Asia. However, fresh archeological finds have confirmed that humans had been here thousands of years before that.

With these recent archeological discoveries the team excavated more than 19,000 pre-Clovis artifacts. The historic find includes small tools. This find was publically announced and unveiled in 2011 and contains more pre-Clovis tools than all other archeological digs put together. This is the best evidence for pre-Clovis in North America.