[Lazamataz]

Fueled by the mega-donations of the mega-rich, today’s Republican Party is not just far from being the party of Lincoln: It’s really the party of Jefferson Davis. It suppresses black voting; it opposes federal efforts to mitigate poverty; it objects to federal investment in infrastructure and education just as the antebellum South opposed internal improvements and rejected public education; it scorns compromise. It is nearly all white. It is the lineal descendant of Lee’s army, and the descendants of Grant’s have yet to subdue it.

Harold Meyerson, you don't get to play the race card, you cracker honkey white-bread peckerwood.

[kearnyirish2]

Even worse, if Harold would look at how blacks live in the “enlightened” northeast he would weep; public education has failed them completely, leaving them with hollow diplomas while they are functionally illiterate adults. The efforts to combat poverty instead multiplied it, and the Yankees simply house them in out-of-the-way reservations so that the People That Matter can go about their business.

The Union leadership had no idea what to do with the contraband in 1861; 150 years later the federal government still has no answers.

[MeshugeMikey]

IF THERE WAS EVER A CREEPY-ASS CRACKER thats him!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Guilty.