Posted on 10/08/2012 9:59:49 AM PDT by lbryce
Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims.
The claims were made in books written, respectively, by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and House candidate Charlie Fuqua of Batesville. Those books received attention on Internet news sites Friday.
On Saturday, state GOP Chairman Doyle Webb called the books "highly offensive." And U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, a Republican who represents northeast Arkansas, called the writings "divisive and racially inflammatory."
Hubbard wrote in his 2009 self-published book, "Letters To The Editor: Confessions Of A Frustrated Conservative," that "the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise." He also wrote that African-Americans were better off than they would have been had they not been captured and shipped to the United States.
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And that is precisely the argument being made by some HERE who insist that having BHØ re-elected would be the best thing for 'conservatism' in particular and the nation in general;
Such is the hubris of their adolescent egos;
Such are their childish ideology tantrums that would put their 'purity' preening above the Republic's survival.
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The Australian women weren’t property that could be raped at will by their owners. Their children could not be taken away from them and sold like cattle. The men could not be castrated and mutilated by owners, or even killed at will the way people slaughter animals.
Just s few of the differences that you have overlooked.
More properly classified as sharecroppers because the massa’ doesn’t care if you starve as long as you pay your “fair share.”
Why is it when I hear ANY politician from Arkansas say anything, I grab my wallet and feel like I need a shower?
That includes the “Huckster.”
People who were captured in the course of slave raids were headed for one of three destinations - (1) North America, (2) South America or (3) Arabia. Given that the captives were going to be slaves one way or another, they were very fortunate to be slaves in the US, because death rates were reputedly in the 90% range for South American- and Arabian-bound slaves, because they were simply worked to death, so ample and easy to obtain was the supply.
There was slavery in the colonies for at least a hundred years’ prior. It doesn’t matter much to slaves who is in charge at the time.
Yes, I was thinking slavery in America which lasted way longer than a century. Technically he’s correct, but it probably didn’t matter to the slaves at the time.
I was about to post that same thing—for black Americans of today, the fact that their ancestors faced the horrors of slavery made them citizens of the greatest country in the world, instead of being citizens of some Third-World nation in West Africa. Doesn’t mean that what that GOP candidate said wasn’t inordinately stupid, though.
Ditto. Well spoken (written?).
Better than being dead. In ancient Greece and Roman times slaves were mostly treated well, room & board etc. Many got their freedom from greatfull owners.
In my case though, I would be the conqueror.
Perhaps tou should more history. It was that bad and worse. Here is an example.
“Convicts who attempted to escape were sent to tiny Norfolk Island, 600 miles east of Australia, where the conditions were even more inhumane. The only hope of escape from the horror of Norfolk Island was a “game” in which groups of three prisoners drew straws. The short straw was killed as painlessly as possible and a judge was then shipped in to put the other two on trial, one playing the role of killer, the other as witness.”
Of course slavery is wrong...but it happened and still happens. We can’t go back in time and change history. WE would not have or own slaves now because we all believe it is wrong, yet we give foreign aid to countries who DO own slaves which is ALSO wrong.
The machines set us free ~ all of us ~ and now they are taking all our jobs!
No. Would you?
No, it is you who have overlooked significant facts. First of all, you have not answered my statement that convicts/deportees were not chattel, could not be treated as property, i.e., raped, castrated, mutilated at will. Second, you did not answer the fact that the children of convicts/deportees were not property that could be sold, continuing for generations. Third, the deportation was a sort of “final solution” to get rid of the convicts, not a flourishing business, like slavery that was the foundation and cornerstone of an empire.
As to your statement about how harsh conditions were on that penal island, I will point out to you that you are overlooking the salient detail that the prisoners were criminals, being punished - however harshly or unjustly, whereas the Africans were foreigners who were innocent people , captured and enslaved for hundreds of years.
It sure wasn’t any kind of blessing for this country. Look what we have now — working taxpayers are the slaves, paying decade after decade of “repamarations” in the form of welfare, etc. And having what we work so hard to earn being taken away from us by force is hardly the only aspect of slavery that’s been “reversed”.
Exactly!
No mention is made either of the slaves' original captors, their fellow blacks from other tribes. They then sold their slaves to the Muslim Arab slave traders.
Can't have any blame cast on blacks or Muslims though, can we?
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