Rep. Yvette Clarke: The Dutch owned slaves in Brooklyn as recently as 1898 [VIDEO]

Daily Caller ^ | Sept 5, 2012 | Staff

[Oberon]

As a native Marylander of German extraction and having been raised a fifteen-minute walk from the Mason-Dixon line, I have always been fascinated by the nation's history regarding slavery and the Civil War. The more one learns, the more complicated the overall picture becomes.

I think that, the more time and distance we can put between ourselves and our racist national past, the better; but I have little tolerance indeed for sanctimonious liberals who know nothing of their own history... which makes Rep. Clarke a case in point.

[DoughtyOne]

As a native Marylander of German extraction and having been raised a fifteen-minute walk from the Mason-Dixon line, I have always been fascinated by the nation's history regarding slavery and the Civil War. The more one learns, the more complicated the overall picture becomes.

I think that, the more time and distance we can put between ourselves and our racist national past, the better; but I have little tolerance indeed for sanctimonious liberals who know nothing of their own history... which makes Rep. Clarke a case in point.

I spent from the age of three to fourteen living about two miles from George Washington Carver's old slave farm, itself about three miles west of Diamond Grove, Missouri.

I visited it a number of times, and can still see it in my mind 43 years from the last time I was there.

I've walked pretty much the whole farm, visited the on-site cemetery, the trees where Carver relatives were hung by their thumbs, or worse.

In my youth I was somewhat inquisitive about race.  My grandparents explain to me that everyone should be judged on their actions, not preconceived notions.  That has pretty much been my guideline when dealing with others of any race throughout my life.

Regarding slavery, it was the Southern Democrats who fought to preserve it.  After the war they formed the KKK.  The South remained a solid Democrat block, denying Blacks rights for another hundred years.  Eisenhower forced Orval Faubus to allow Blacks into Little Rock High in the late 1950s, by nationalizing the National Guard there.  Eisenhower was a Republican and Faubus a Democrat.  Kennedy did the same thing in Mississippi against George Wallace, another Democrat.

Not until Richard Nixon in the late 1960s, did the South Crack and move toward becoming a Republican region.

When civil rights legislation was introduced, the Republicans didn't sign on in mass, because they assessed the legislation to be unnecessary.  They believed all citizens were already covered by existing laws, and they were.  Still, it isn't widely know that the Democrats couldn't pass that legislation on their own.  Many Democrats opposed it because of their racial bias.  Ultimately, that legislation passed because enough Republicans signed on to it, to push it over the top.  I think they were mistaken to do so.

When it came to civil rights marches and the reactions by local governments across the South, it wasn't Republicans doing it.

When abortion 'rights' were pushed, the efforts leader stated that it would be used as a tool to keep the Black population in it's place.  (I'm paraphrasing that, so it's not an exact quote and the meaning may in fact be skewed to an extent.)  None the less, there was a pronounce racial quotient to the effort.  And the Democrats bought into the movement lock stock and barrel.  The inordinate number of Black humans that were never born as a result of readily available abortion, can in some terms be compared to genocide.  The presence of Blacks in our nation today, is considerably smaller than it should be.  This, the Democrats proudly support to this very day, but supporting abortion on demand.  Republicans value the life of the Black unborn.  We would like to see those kids born.

Who gets hurt the most when Leftists screw with our economic system?  It's always the Blacks.

Despite all this, Black vote for the people who would eradicate them without any shame whatsoever.  I realize that's a bit of an overkill statement, but that is the exact end result of what the Democrats advocate.

Of course this also suppresses the number of White children that are born too.  And that's part of the reason why illegal immigrants are allowed into the nation.  We're not reproducing in the numbers we need to be, so alternative bodies have to be found.

Abortion is the cancer that kills and destroys.  The Democrat Party, continues doing what it has done best for nearly 200 years, making humanity worse.

[DoughtyOne]

As a native Marylander of German extraction and having been raised a fifteen-minute walk from the Mason-Dixon line, I have always been fascinated by the nation's history regarding slavery and the Civil War. The more one learns, the more complicated the overall picture becomes.

I think that, the more time and distance we can put between ourselves and our racist national past, the better; but I have little tolerance indeed for sanctimonious liberals who know nothing of their own history... which makes Rep. Clarke a case in point.

I spent from the age of three to fourteen living about two miles from George Washington Carver's old slave farm, itself about three miles west of Diamond Grove, Missouri.

I visited it a number of times, and can still see it in my mind 43 years from the last time I was there.

I've walked pretty much the whole farm, visited the on-site cemetery, the trees where Carver relatives were hung by their thumbs, or worse.

In my youth I was somewhat inquisitive about race.  My grandparents explained to me that everyone should be judged on their actions, not preconceived notions.  That has pretty much been my guideline when dealing with others of any race throughout my life.

Regarding slavery, it was the Southern Democrats who fought to preserve it.  After the war they formed the KKK.  The South remained a solid Democrat block, denying Blacks rights for another hundred years.  Eisenhower forced Orval Faubus to allow Blacks into Little Rock High in the late 1950s, by nationalizing the National Guard there.  Eisenhower was a Republican and Faubus a Democrat.  Kennedy did the same thing in Mississippi against George Wallace, another Democrat.

Not until Richard Nixon in the late 1960s, did the South crack and move toward becoming a Republican region.

When civil rights legislation was introduced, the Republicans didn't sign on in mass, because they assessed the legislation to be unnecessary.  They believed all citizens were already covered by existing laws, and they were.  Still, it isn't widely know that the Democrats couldn't pass that legislation on their own.  Many Democrats opposed it because of their racial bias.  Ultimately, that legislation passed because enough Republicans signed on to it, to push it over the top.  I think they were mistaken to do so.

When it came to civil rights marches and the reactions by local governments across the South, it wasn't Republicans doing it.

When abortion 'rights' were pushed, the effort's leader stated that it would be used as a tool to keep the Black population in it's place.  (I'm paraphrasing that, so it's not an exact quote and the meaning may in fact be skewed to an extent.)  None the less, there was a pronounced racial quotient to the effort.  And the Democrats bought into the movement lock stock and barrel.  The inordinate number of Black humans that were never born as a result of readily available abortion, can be compared to genocide.  The presence of Blacks in our nation today, is considerably smaller than it should be.  This, the Democrats proudly support to this very day, by supporting abortion on demand.  Republicans value the life of the Black unborn.  We would like to see those kids born.

Who gets hurt the most when Leftists screw with our economic system?  It's always the Blacks.

Despite all this, Blacks vote for the people who would eradicate them without any shame whatsoever.  I realize that's a bit of an overkill statement, but that is the exact end result of what the Democrats advocate.

Of course this also suppresses the number of White children that are born too.  And that's part of the reason why illegal immigrants are allowed into the nation.  We're not reproducing in the numbers we need to be, so alternative bodies have to be found.

Abortion is the cancer that kills and destroys.  The Democrat Party, continues doing what it has done best for nearly 200 years, being a blight on humanity, for personal and political gain.

[pabianice]

Big deal. In 2000 it was discovered that the pastor of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Westboro, MA, was keeping a Asian sex slave locked in his basement.