Posted on 04/09/2010 6:27:16 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
Edited on 04/09/2010 6:46:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I can envision the Obama dinner conversation date night, “Michelle, my Luo great-great-great-great-great-grandfather sold your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather to my white great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Isnt’ that a coinky-dinky??”
Who made him king of Virginia?
When Obama says that Virginia’s leaving slavery out of the commemoration of the Confederacy is “unacceptable” just what does he mean? Where does he get the hubris to tell a sovereign state what he will and will not accept? It’s none of his business. He may have an opinion but beyond that he is violating State’s Rights big time.
UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND SLAVERY!!
Indebtedness.... is slavery!!!
I am reminded of foxes and henhouses...
Inmates.... and the [political] asylum...
Yiminy.....
Not to be argued that there were several reasons men and boys in the South joined the Confederate Army but only about 5% owned slaves. On the political front, The Southern Democrats opposition to Republican efforts to end slavery was what drove that deep divide between the North and the South. And the Democrats opposition of protecting the civil rights of all Americans lasted well into the 20th century. In the south, those Democrats who most bitterly opposed equality for blacks founded the Ku Klux Klan, which operated as the party's terrorist wing.”
I think it is also terrible that during Black History Month 0bama forgets about all of the blacks that owned slaves IN AMERICA. I think it equally terrible that it is neglected during Black History Month the fact that the very first question over the legalities of owning another individual in the colonies..... was brought about in a lawsuit in which a BLACK man claimed he OWNED another black man. The "owner" won his lawsuit.
I think it is is unacceptable that blacks in America don't take responsibility for their actions regarding slavery.
I also find it unacceptable that blacks burned Chicago, Watts, Los Angeles, New Orleans etc etc etc. Yet, this is left out of Black History Month too........
Yes, in the South slaves were owned. Yes, in the north, Mass. was the first colony to legalize slaves. Yes, even during the War Between the States, northern slave runners repeatedly skirted the blockade and delivered new slaves to the South (illegal for north and South at the time).
Yes, blacks in the South were approx 2 inches taller (on avg) than blacks in the north. For the most part Southern blacks were well treated...... what about the African Burial Grounds discovered in Manhattan? You know where the bones were misshapen from where the blacks had literally been worked to death?
Now, I'm not conding slavery, or anything of the sort. But, if we have to constantly wear "our" sins around our necks even though nobody I know ever owned slaves let's make sure we have our facts straight of who else should be apologizing.......
BTW, how many folks in Barry's tribe in Kenya sold people into slavery? And hey, don't people still have slaves in parts of Africa? And didn't Barry campaign for his cousin Raila Odinga who lost his election? Didn't that lead to people being hacked up with machetes, burned alive, villages torched? Maybe he can fit all of that in on his next MLK Day speech.
What does Hussein “understand” about slavery in America or the experience of the descendants of those slaves? His father was a Kenyan who lived here only a short time before abandoning his family and returning to his country of birth. Hussein was born in Hawaii which was a sovereign nation unto itself until the end of the 19th century and has virtually no history of involvement in American slavery. He lived a good deal of his formative years in Indonesia which is about as far away geographically as you can get from the U.S. and so shares nothing with Americans of color or their experience. He was born and raised in a time when the civil rights movement was winning across the board and he never faced the discrimination of Jim Crow laws and segregation. After his mother abandoned him he was raised by his white grandparents who paid for his admission to private schools and prestigious colleges and universities. He has never had to hustle for a job or confront the challenges faced by ordinary Americans of any background let alone those descended from slaves.
I am white and I have more actual experience of how black Americans have lived in this nation than Hussein.
I say it's none of his damned business.
Thanks. I guess the Democrats never think of the “glass houses” situation because the media will never call them on it.
“Will no one rid me (politically speaking) of this meddlesome pres__ent?”
207 days until partial regime change
“President Barack Obama says Virginia’s governor made “an unacceptable omission” when he proclaimed it Confederate History Month without mentioning slavery.”
Well, Mr. Obambi, if it’s an unacceptable omission what are you going to do about it besides shoot your mouth off? It’s not your damn business what the governor of Virginia says. If it’s an unacceptable omission, what do you consider an acceptable omission.
What an a$$hat!
I would strongly recommend reading the book “Cannibals All!: Or, Slaves Without Masters” (1857), by proto-socialist George Fitzhugh.
Fitzhugh was pro-slavery, and proposed *expanding* slavery to encompass “9 out of 10” people in the entire world. The remaining 1 in 10, the elites, would be the masters.
He can properly be called a proto-socialist, because while the word “socialism” was popularized in the 1820s-’30’s, Fitzhugh himself did not use the word, though his writings encapsulated much of the founding philosophical concepts of socialism.
His book, as you might expect, is directed at those neurotic individuals who either think of themselves as “elites”, or would want to be thought of as “elite” even though they know themselves to be inferior persons. It found its audience among the lower class whites of the pre-war South, who relished the prospect of not only lording over black slaves, but over those of education, breeding and wealth, who they despised.
In the book, Fitzhugh elevates slavery to be the best situation of equality and brotherhood for the inferior man, and that the elites are doing the slaves a favor by keeping them as slaves, so as not to burden them with the hard choices and suffering inherent in freedom and liberty. For happiness, for them, is found in mindlessly obeying their masters, and doing what they are told.
For the *work* of keeping the slaves, slaves, the masters are handsomely rewarded by the grateful slaves, by whose work the masters are fed, clothed, and honored.
In other words, this book could serve as a founding document for the Democrat party. As well, you can see many of Fitzhugh’s motifs again and again in the different movements within the Democrat party.
The pseudo-intellectualism, the sense of entitlement and elitism, the complete disdain for the majority of the people, the belief that wealth and honor are given at random by chance, and an utter disregard for any truth that conflicts with the agenda.
Fitzhugh, and other writers of his stripe, of proto-socialist and socialist theory, all tend to reach similar conclusions, even independently of each other. Yet Fitzhugh stands apart, because he does not obfuscate or confuse what he wants.
He wants slavery for 9 out of 10 people, and he wants to be a master over them. Call it by any other name, or euphemism, and socialism to this day still equates with slavery. And this is what Obama, and Hillary, and Al Gore, and Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of those scoundrels want.
Those that could wax eloquently about their goals won’t do so, however, because we “potential slaves” shouldn’t have our inferior heads burdened with such thoughts, and might foolishly and hatefully resist taking our “proper place” as slaves. And the useful idiots among the Democrats who couldn’t describe what they want, only that they want it, are just below contempt.
So, find a copy of the book and read it. You will likely agree with Abraham Lincoln, in whose estimation it was one of the most dangerous books ever written.
I thought it was the Fukawee tribe. You know that lost trible that chants “where the Fukawee?”
trible=tribe. My bad.
LLS
Yes it was.
LLS
If I understand correctly - and please correct me if I’m wrong - sub-Saharan African tribes were enslaving each other long before the appearance of Europeans, and folks were pretty good at it in the Saharan regions as well, AND they continue to do so to this day in certain areas.
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