Posted on 10/21/2005 9:45:42 AM PDT by Diago
Looks like the story of Abbie is a latter day rehash of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Don't know who wrote the Abbie story, but Harriet Beecher Stowe at length admitted she'd never EVER visited a plantation. Stories with a political agenda, like some of the movies we're getting lately make me sick. If Ms. Shultz really wanted her daughter to know about the horrors of slavery, she might direct her to true stories told by actual slaves as in "The Slave Naratives." (available by Googling)(cute dolls with stories of early day victims is so much easier)
Further, she might even look up all the hundreds of old Civil War era wills that showed the lengths many slave owners went to to leave legacies to their slaves, unlike the federal government who made no provision for feeding and caring for the emancipated and left as many as 50,000 slaves to starve to death wandering the roads of the south after the war. What many fail to realize is that manumission was illegal. If it took the Union five years and almost 400,000 men to free the slaves, what makes anyone think a single slave owner could have prevailed over the laws of the day? Slave owners were as much slaves as the ones they owned in an evil system.
Are they using moneys from the sale of bracelets or the sale of the dolls to fund these programs?
I got all my values from a book, too. Mine's called the Holy Bible, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't endorse abortion. But then, I'm sure that American Girl didn't endorse it ten years ago, either.
Could you tell me where you got her donation history? Is it hers or her hubby's? Newsmeat isn't giving me anything i can use.
Dear Ms. Schultz,It’s true what the “Addy” book you quoted says: Love can make a family so strong they can’t be torn apart.
This is also true: Several thousand times each day, forceps and a vacuum machine are used by a doctor to tear a small child apart inside its mother’s womb.
That’s happened over 40 million times in the last 32 years. It’s no great leap of reasoning to estimate that half of the victims were female. That’s 20 million little (if you’ll excuse the expression) “American Girls,” torn to pieces and put out as trash.
There are millions of Americans who wish to have no connection with the process of ripping a small child limb from limb. They also have no wish to be connected with teaching girls that it’s part of freedom.
You call those who object to American Girl’s support for this “extremists” and “un-American.” Could there really be anything more extreme or less like the spirit of this great nation than killing a small child and pretending that it’s an empowering act?
If you’re looking for an extremist, look in the mirror.
Almost 20 years ago I took that same look in the mirror, and became a pro-lifer.
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