The \u201c8th Day\u201d of which Paul Harvey speaks, must have occurred in the 1950s and 60s with the end of (widespread) sharecropping. Last night, I was quite offended by Ram\u2019s \u201cGod Made a Farmer\u201d commercial during the Super Bowl. Well-meaning as it may have been, this commercial \u2013 airing during Black History Month, no less \u2013 made no mention whatsoever of the American Institution of Slavery. How could such an oversight be made?\u00a0<\/span> The \u201c8th Day\u201d of which Paul Harvey speaks, must have occurred in the 1950s and 60s with the end of (widespread) sharecropping. Last night, I was quite offended by Ram\u2019s \u201cGod Made a Farmer\u201d commercial during the Super Bowl. Well-meaning as it may have been, this commercial \u2013 airing during Black History Month, no less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/span>Industrial farming was built on the backs of African slaves. And while critics have duly noted the lack of mention of temporary immigrant workers on whom industrial farming presently relies, it\u2019s even more offensive that no one \u2013 including critics \u2013 have mentioned the omission of American slaves. You see: an accurate depiction of American History would note that \u201cGod made a farmer,\u201d but that farmer became greedy \u2013 became (Western) capitalist \u2013 degraded the humanity of the African and made a slave\u2026imported slaves\u2026traded in slaves.\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>I\u2019m not saying Paul Harvey was entirely wrong\u2026but his quote seems a bit misguided. God may indeed have said that He needed someone \u201cto get up before dawn\u2026and work all day in the fields\u2026,\u201d but like President Lincoln stated in his Second Inaugural Address: \u201c[i]t may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God\u2019s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men\u2019s faces\u2026\u201d But, God made a farmer\u2026and that farmer made a slave.\u00a0<\/span>
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