July 8, 2010 – Exodus 1

Usually you don’t see slavery as something that happens gradually over time. It is usually something that is done to captives or those that are conquered. Here, though, it starts off as discrimination, then goes farther, then into slavery, which leads to genocide. It probably isn’t the best comparison, but in our country, we started off with slavery, when that ended it was turned into discrimination, and that has lessened into us electing a black president. He could be seen as a Joseph type, we just went the other way. Slavery is something that we, at least most of us, have never had to deal with. We see the discrimination and may think it is not as bad as it was or ignore it sometimes, but it is not slavery. To have an entire race of people living under the thumb of another is totally foreign to me.