video: Eminent Domain & The TVA Takeover of Between The Rivers

 


Every now and again I see a comment on the internet where the person writes about how people who have been wronged in the past need to, in so many words, "get over it", stop whining and just accept what happened to them and their people.

This video gives one example of such short-sightedness.

Should we really be surprised by the government's actions in the LBL? The government had lots of practice in breaking its word and in driving people from land they owned and occupied. Of course, those were just Indians, or maybe Chinese on the west coast, or some other not-American people. Or they were just black people having their rights taken away from them with Jim Crow laws.

It was just someone else. It wasn't us. Let's let the gubmnt practice on them other people, and we'll just shut our eyes and ears and not think that they'll get good with all that practice and then try it all on us, too.

The past matters for lots of reasons, among them: knowing the past helps us understand what's going on now; history teaches us what we need to repent of and the consequences if we don't repent; it shows us that the sins of the past don't just go away, that God is not forgetful, and He will be holy and just.

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