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My Whiteness Versus My Wrightness
Townhall ^ | March 21, 2008 | Lee Culpepper

Posted on 03/21/2008 10:53:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Watching the “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright gesticulate like a horny peacock and spew out ignorance, hatred, and bitterness towards America truly inspired my religious faith.

Once Wright pointed out that he was “still in Bible country,” I began to “love the hell out of” rich, white people just as much as Wright does.

How could so many people not understand that white people have caused all the world’s problems? As Wright pointed out to his congregation, the Bible says it’s so. I’m not sure what verse actually says that, but I’m now betting that rich, white people are responsible for my biblical ignorance.

Regardless, I’m rejoicing because I have prayed for forgiveness that God made me white, not Wright. I’m also praying for all the people Reverend Wright identified as “Negroes who just don’t get it.” I hope that Wright will change and that those “Negroes” won’t make him “sick” anymore.

I don’t know about you, but I feel liberated now that I realize that my own stupid decisions and selfish actions are no longer my fault. Now that I won’t have to accept responsibility for my thoughts, my words, or my decisions, I am thanking God for creating rich, white people for me to blame all my problems on. I’m also thanking God for justifying my sin whenever I allow myself to think something I shouldn’t about other people -- just as Reverend Wright has taught me to do.

Praise the Lord that I’m not like rich, white Hillary -- I actually know what it’s like to have “a cab whiz by me.” But I didn’t realize, until last week though, that my not being white enough was probably the reason I was shunned. Thanks to Reverend Wright, now I understand that rich, white people were responsible for those non-white cab drivers’ refusing to pick me up.

I also realize now that rich, white people are responsible for poor children growing up in single-parent families. I used to think that the irresponsible sexual behavior and lack of commitment between the children’s parents were responsible. But I guarantee these parents feel a lot better knowing their fornication is someone else’s fault. Thanks to the Wright kind of reverend, I now have a totally new respect for sexually immoral people – unless they are rich and white, of course.

Despite the conflicting medical evidence, I now know too that AIDS and drug abuse are rich, white people’s fault. Individual’s who choose to abuse drugs and engage in deviant sexual behavior are merely victims driven to bad decisions by rich, white people. Certainly being a victim of evil people feels better than thinking of one’s self as just a pathetic drug addict or a promiscuous sexual deviant. “Oh, I am so glad” that Reverend Wright worked “twice as hard…to get a passing grade” and that he knows he is “smarter than that C-student sitting in the White House.” Otherwise, I would have never known the truth about drugs and AIDS.

I can’t tell you how relieved I was Tuesday concerning Obama and Wright’s twenty-year relationship. Obama said, “Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms.” Praise the Lord for prepositional phrases like “in my conversations with him.”

When Obama said, “I can no more disown [Wright] than I can disown the black community,” I was glad Obama didn’t actually mean, “If I disowned Reverend Wright because he’s a racist, I would instantly become one of those ‘Negroes who just don’t get it.’”

I finally swooned (actually, I cringed) at Obama’s hopeful audacity when he eloquently humiliated his white grandmother for political gain because “she once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion [had] uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made [Obama] cringe.”

I haven’t figured out, however, how rich, white people caused Obama’s father to abandon his responsibilities as a dad and a husband – thereby forcing someone else to provide for and care for his child. Perhaps Mr. Obama strategically deserted his family so Reverend Wright could preach that Barak “fits the mold” of a poor, black man -- even though Obama was raised by his generous and loving white grandparents.

More importantly, I’m just grateful that Barak refocused our country on “the real culprits” related to racial hostilities. Obama targeted “a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed,” as well as “economic policies that favor the few over the many.” Yes, Obama, if America’s evil corporations and economic policies were not preoccupied with causing greater suffering in the world, perhaps they could find time to develop medications to treat AIDS and continuously improve technology to better our lives.

Obama has reminded all of us that we have a choice. We can examine disturbing evidence in order to draw the right conclusions. Or we can simply ignore it and have the audacity to hope it just goes away.


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Deadly accurate!
1 posted on 03/21/2008 10:53:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Let the audacity shine upon me. I want Obama to resign from the Senate, and to cancel his Presidential Race, once and for all. Bad ideas to begin with.

Doesn't matter. Let John McCain do a landslide on either he or theHill.

Guess who's more Presidential this go 'round.

2 posted on 03/21/2008 11:01:46 PM PDT by Revereee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whith that wheadline you could make qwhite a post.


3 posted on 03/21/2008 11:03:12 PM PDT by BJungNan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Whites aren't allowed to determine what offends them. Whites best mind their place and do as house honkies like E. Richardson or Chris Wallace tell them to do, i.e., shut up and don't be uppity with master Barack.

4 posted on 03/21/2008 11:06:28 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: I see my hands

As a poor Honky who can’t jump, can’t dance, has no rhythm, and got’s no mojo in his soul, I certainly do one heck of a job of keeping my assigned Negro down! Reverend Wright is my Negro, and I just got him kicked off his brother Barack’s presidential campaign. Watch as I continue to make him squirm with all the negative news stories I drum up against the reverend.


5 posted on 03/21/2008 11:45:22 PM PDT by ME-262 (Nancy Pelosi is known to the state of CA to render Viagra ineffective causing reproductive harm.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Black people (just like the racist Reverend Obama) can be some of the most vile and profound examples of racism.

However the liberal definition of Racist is : a white person, (even though other blacks in Africa captured the descendents of "african americans" and sold them to french slave traders who then sold them to white plantation owners as slaves, (yet white men died to set them free)and the white american slave owners treated them better than any other slave owners in the history of the world

6 posted on 03/21/2008 11:48:22 PM PDT by KTM rider (McCain '08, ...plan B is better than no plan at all)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

save


7 posted on 03/21/2008 11:52:13 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4


8 posted on 03/21/2008 11:53:52 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For Later


9 posted on 03/21/2008 11:55:45 PM PDT by Space Moose
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What is truly funny is that it seems O’bama thinks this issue “will go away” in a week or two.

He is oblivious to how scary the Rev Wright is, and even worse, how very, very scary the reception from the ‘congregation’ was. If those people actully that hate filled drivel, then this Nation is doomed to racial division well past my Grandchildrens lifetime.

10 posted on 03/21/2008 11:56:54 PM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: george76

Good link.


11 posted on 03/21/2008 11:58:41 PM PDT by John Robie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

mark


12 posted on 03/22/2008 12:04:53 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("41-David, you are clear for end of watch." Rest in Peace, SWAT Officer Randal Simmons.)
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To: ASOC; 2ndDivisionVet; george76
This ain't going away.

Wright was wrong but he was right; Grandma was wrong but she was white.
13 posted on 03/22/2008 12:21:32 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul politicians. The Ship of State needs a good scrubbing!)
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To: KTM rider

“Black people (just like the racist Reverend Obama) can be some of the most vile and profound examples of racism.”

I have always found blacks to be the most racist, on a whole, of any other group or race on the planet.


14 posted on 03/22/2008 12:34:44 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron ("Terisn" is my new favorite word. Thank you, Allegra.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Save


15 posted on 03/22/2008 12:50:58 AM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dang. The writer is on to something here. I have now turned over a new leaf-—a new “not white enough” leaf-—and he's right, it is absolutely exhilarating to realize that it is those “rich white people” who are responsible for all the ills of the world!! Like Obama, I could have saved myself a lifetime of toil and grief!! /s to the nth degree

This guy is not just an “empty suit”. He is a rotten red herring, who should have NEVER been considered Presidential material, by anyone, even crazy liberals. Now, I'm concerned what kind of conflagration our nation will suffer if he loses. Imagine what kind of violent hell on earth could be inspired by Obama and followers of “Reverend” Wright?

I just put ammo on my grocery list.

16 posted on 03/22/2008 1:00:05 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: singfreedom; All
"I just put ammo on my grocery list."

Everyone should: I've got a bad feeling about the next year or so in this country. I think we'll see riots, looting and lawlessness worse than Watts, Detroit, Hurricane Katrina and Rodney King rolled into one.

17 posted on 03/22/2008 1:09:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (http://www.fourfriedchickensandacoke.blogspot.com)
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To: KTM rider

I haven’t ever owned slaves, my parents (rest their souls) never owned slaves, my GRANDPARENTS never owned slaves, Yet, it is interesting that I am blamed as if I, and all my family, continue to own, and mistreat, slaves.

I won’t go so far as to vouch for the treatment received by American slaves, but I do think it is time American Blacks eased up on the race blaming game. I look forward to the day blacks are able to honestly vote for a candidate because they agree with his politics, rather than simply because he is black. I will probably never see that day, hopefully my kids will.


18 posted on 03/22/2008 1:13:38 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: BIGLOOK
I think even a lot of Obama supporters were stunned. I have a few friends that I've not been able to convert, but suddenly they're not so gung ho on Obama any more. Two of them have even asked me if I know how to get “McCain” signs for their front yards!

These people are not poor white folks. They are white, and quite wealthy. One of them is a “corporate” person. Yes, like Obama bashed, in his rush to excuse his own inexcusable behavior. No, I don't think he's heard the last of it either.

He just scared a lot of the wrong folks, folks who had the money, and connections, to support his campaign.

19 posted on 03/22/2008 1:30:45 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
CafePress needs to bring out the "Old Rich White Guy, Blame me!" golf shirt.

I'll buy a couple.

20 posted on 03/22/2008 2:20:55 AM PDT by leadhead (Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think,)
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To: leadhead

Obama pappy was ridin’dirty!


21 posted on 03/22/2008 3:24:20 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: Dr. Ursus
Are the black slave owners also included in Rev.Wright's and NoBama's condemnation?

This Typical White Person is just wondering.....

22 posted on 03/22/2008 4:47:56 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: ASOC
“If those people actually that hate filled drivel, then this Nation is doomed to racial division well past my Grandchildrens lifetime.”

A lot of the lads on the NYPD could tell you about that hate. They see it every day in the eyes of people who've been steeped in it since birth. That is why when a squad of cops think one of them has a gun or is reaching for a gun the lead count hits half a hundred in seconds. The day you see that hate you'll never forget it. You can't. It is a matter of atavism and beyond your conscious control.

23 posted on 03/22/2008 5:12:27 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was deeply disappointed that, on the matter of racial politics, Obama has turned out to be just another hustler.

That said, now that we’re here, the opportunity and necessity for people of good will, who love this country and are sick and tired of seeing blacks enslaved to government by teachings of hate and bigotry, to speak up and continue to speak up, as this author has done.

At some point, this Wright-racism pig has to stop flying. May it be NOW.


24 posted on 03/22/2008 5:24:16 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: ASOC

That’s what makes me sad.

I really had no idea these madrassas were having the pervasive effect that they apparently are.

I thought the racial-hate-mongers were fading away.

Instead of demonstrating that we are a post-racial nation, Obama has turned the clock back, way back. He’s also opened the blinds so that the rest of us can look through the racist haters window and see what is actually going on.


25 posted on 03/22/2008 5:27:29 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If that happens, then the fruit of this rotten-to-the-core tree nurtured by Wright et al through the years will be laid bare for all to see.

And at this point in our history, maybe the backlash will be big enough and sustained enough to finally lance this poisonous boil (mostly) once and for all.


26 posted on 03/22/2008 5:29:47 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good one. He should also have mentioned that white people were the ones who abolished slavey, but of course, Mr. Wright will never admit to that now, will he?


27 posted on 03/22/2008 5:55:38 AM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: KTM rider

Muslim traders actually enslaved the Africans, with the help of African chiefs. Wish more blacks were aware of that.


28 posted on 03/22/2008 5:57:05 AM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

come on......you just know how white people act...just ask b. HUSSEIN!!!!


29 posted on 03/22/2008 6:17:34 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: El Gran Salseron
Their hatred radiates from them like heat-waves on desert blacktop.

What a way to go through life.

30 posted on 03/22/2008 10:16:00 AM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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To: TalBlack
Cops aren't the only ones who recognize the hate in their eyes.

Demure white mothers with baby strollers (me) have seen it too. That's why I moved out of Philly.

I would've ended up having to kill one (justifiably), I'm afraid.

31 posted on 03/22/2008 10:22:32 AM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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To: fightinJAG

Well, I’ll agree at least that for too many Blacks the clock stopped a long time ago.

Having the Rev Jessie and the Rev Al shapie smashing the clock everyday isn’t helpful. Brooker T was correct in so may ways.

No matter what happens, I am glad I don’t live in Denver( or Atlanta, LA, Detriot, etc, etc). If Hill is selected, there will be riots.

If the the Big O gets the pick - there will be riots.


32 posted on 03/22/2008 10:51:14 AM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: ASOC
If Hill is selected, there will be riots. If the the Big O gets the pick - there will be riots.

Kind of like Detroit after either a particularly big win or loss by one of its sports franchises -- riots either way.

33 posted on 03/22/2008 10:53:48 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: singfreedom
I'm concerned what kind of conflagration our nation will suffer if he loses.

That seems to be the implied threat that the Democratic party is using in this election year. "Vote for our inexperienced guy who we picked solely for his race or there will be a race war."
34 posted on 03/22/2008 11:06:11 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Mr. Mojo

BINGO, my thoughts exactly.....so far has the political discourse fallen.


35 posted on 03/22/2008 11:14:49 AM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Your headline is better than the story. It describes Obama’s predicament perfectly. My whiteness versus my Wrightness, is better than I chose my black Uncle Jeremiah over my white granny.


36 posted on 03/22/2008 11:20:33 AM PDT by Biblebelter (If whites spew hate, Obama calls it hate speech, when his pastor says it, he calls it anger speech.)
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To: Scarpetta

“Cops aren’t the only ones who recognize the hate in their eyes.”

That’s pretty chilling. I’d always thought it was a guy thing, me being on their turf and all.


37 posted on 03/22/2008 12:09:10 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: singfreedom

I’m white and having a whole slew of cabs driving behind me like the Sprint commercial isn’t always all that great. They’re always taking up the spare parking spaces when I go to the store and always create traffic congestion even if I want to go out for a Sunday afternoon drive to drop off my 3 month old wardrobe down in Harlem. These people really need to be more thankful for what they have....(now am I white enough for Obama?) /s


38 posted on 03/22/2008 12:16:03 PM PDT by Cvengr (Fear sees the problem emotion never solves. Faith sees & accepts the solution, problem solved.)
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To: KTM rider
white american slave owners treated them better than any other slave owners in the history of the world.

Not an unmixed truth.

Manumission was extremely common for Roman slaves. It included Roman citizenship, a huge perk. The children of freedmen were accepted fully as Romans and could even become senators or political leaders. That contrasts poorly with the permanent color line in the American south.

OTOH, Roman slaves could be, and often were, crucified or tortured to death at their master's whim. On the other other hand, there was very little to prevent an American slave owner from doing the same.

To be fair, slaves were better treated in South Carolina than in Brazil or Jamaica largely because they were more valuable. The closer you were to the source, the less slaves cost and the more you could afford to kill them off with mistreatment and buy new ones.

39 posted on 03/22/2008 12:55:44 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Marysecretary
Muslim traders actually enslaved the Africans, with the help of African chiefs.

This is pretty much a myth, as it applies to the Atlantic slave trade. Most slaves were sold directly to traders by pagan African chiefs, who controlled the entire coastline. Muslims were pretty much limited to the Sahel and Sudan, inland from the coast.

Muslims did, however, control the cross-Sahara and eastern Africa slave trade. These started earlier and continued longer than the Atlantic trade. The cross-Sahara trade, in particular, had a much higher death rate than the Atlantic trade.

40 posted on 03/22/2008 12:59:15 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: ASOC
If the the Big O gets the pick - there will be riots.

If O is nominated and then loses the election, there will be riots. There will also be riots if he wins, but they'll be more good natured. :)

41 posted on 03/22/2008 1:00:32 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: singfreedom
It was last weekend when all this brouhaha hit the news (well, Fox News anyway) and last Sunday I called back east to find that many there didn't even know of it. They watch the network news. This surprised me.

However, Obama has been making statements defending himself poorly and the scandal may have piqued some interest and expanded coverage....until Friday when State Dept. contractors were summarily fired for peeking into Passport information. The MSM changed the subject, manipulated the coverage of the scandal to Obama's benefit. (Internal spying on US citizens is a campaign Red Flag issue on the Dem's platform.)

Let's see what's changed when I call back east tomorrow.
42 posted on 03/22/2008 2:01:52 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul politicians. The Ship of State needs a good scrubbing!)
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To: Sherman Logan

Saying Soth Carolina slavery was preferable to Jamaican slavery is like saying life under the Soviet style of communism was more humane than North Korea.
Techincally true but slavery,like communism,is a system based on tyranny.


43 posted on 03/22/2008 2:19:21 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: ASOC

But does it end with the nomination?


44 posted on 03/22/2008 4:46:49 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: BIGLOOK
BIGLOOK, I was just reading through FOX’s headlines and noticed one regarding the “passport spying” thing. It seems the head of the contract company works in Obama’s campaign. Now, I've not read the story yet, BUT if this is indeed true, the story may have an even greater “renewed” life! (Sort of appropriate for an Easter story, eh?)

Hillary may not be the only bag with dirty tricks!

45 posted on 03/23/2008 12:07:01 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: BIGLOOK
BIGLOOK, I was just reading through FOX’s headlines and noticed one regarding the “passport spying” thing. It seems the head of the contract company works in Obama’s campaign. Now, I've not read the story yet, BUT if this is indeed true, the story may have an even greater “renewed” life! (Sort of appropriate for an Easter story, eh?)

Hillary may not be the only bag with dirty tricks!

46 posted on 03/23/2008 12:07:04 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: singfreedom; All
Sorry, sorry for the double post! (I just HATE this new keyboard.)

Have a lovely Easter, FReepers!

47 posted on 03/23/2008 12:26:04 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: Riverman94610

Agreed. But the American south was still one of the very few slave societies in history where the slave population was not only self-reproducing but actually expanded its numbers.

Caribbean and Brazilian slavery was so harsh that large numbers had to be imported annually just to keep up with the death rate.


48 posted on 03/23/2008 9:43:05 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan

Thanks for the info. M


49 posted on 03/23/2008 4:00:47 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: Sherman Logan

True what you say about the nature of Southern slavery versus Caribbean slavery.
Touches on something interesting I saw when I went to Grenada for a couple of weeks in 1986.Even everyday Grenadians were very literate and I was wrting several for a while upon my return to the states.Their grammar and spelling were impeccable and the contrast to most students here going to ghetto schools was remarkable.
The answer lies in the fact most were educated under the old British system which was very basic and strict.No nonsense and very traditional.Again proving that culture always trumps race when it comes to such matters.


50 posted on 03/23/2008 4:17:41 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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