Dallas attack: The 'Pigs in a Blanket' crowd got what they wanted

Fox News.com ^ | July 8, 2016 | Todd Starnes

[Kaslin]

If you are prone to microaggressions you might want to stop reading and evacuate to your safe space -- because what I'm about to write is politically incorrect.

All lives matter. Every single life -- matters.

Back home in the Deep South, we used to sing a song in Sunday school – “Red and yellow black and white - they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world."

We are all God's children no matter what color our skin might be.

I thought about that song as Dallas Police Chief David Brown delivered the stunning news about the sniper who went on a killing spree Thursday night.

"The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers," Brown said. "The suspect stated that he was not affiliated with any groups and he stated that he did this alone."

To be clear – we do not know the suspect’s affiliations or allegiance, nor do we know anything about other suspects.

But we do know this – the sniper was hunting for people on Thursday night – white people.

[GJones2]

> Well. Had it not been for slavery, would these folks have been here?

Had people in Africa not captured them and people from New England brought them here, they wouldn’t be here either.

[dfwgator]

I wasn’t trying to make it a North vs South thing.

[lightman]

I have two 18th century ancestors who owned slaves when the practice was legal in the Pennsylvania colony.

I have two GGGrandfathers who fought with the Union in the Civil War; one of which was involved in the final surrounding of Lee.

I have a GGUncle who suffered a horrific leg injury in the battle of Spotsylvania and died as a Confederate POW.

Whatever “debt” I owe for the 18th century has more than been paid in the 19th.

[equaviator]

And you can’t cheat an honest man.

[GJones2]

I agree that slavery was a repulsive institution. Jefferson, a slaveholder himself, agreed as well, and denounced it eloquently. He foresaw the problems that trying to integrate two diverse populations into one free country would bring, though, and favored repatriation to Africa.

Lincoln too favored repatriation for much of his life, and even after emancipation reassured Northerners that if the freed blacks started swarming north, they could simply be refused entry (though there’s nothing in the Constitution about that, and it didn’t turn out that way).

A little diversity usually helps a country, but having large subgroups tends to cause problems. After centuries of living together, though, American whites and blacks should be able to get along within the borders of the same country, and even within the same neighborhoods — and most of the time we do. (Our cultures have long been intermixed. As a child in the 1950s, I played with the children who lived in the black neighborhood across the back road, listened to black singers and musicians on the radio, and with the integration of major sports, rooted for black athletes.)

A peaceful association isn’t easy to preserve, though, when you have a race industry working full time inciting hatred against whites — and a government and mainstream media that act as accomplices. (BlackLivesMatter was founded on lies -— publicly exposed lies — about what happened in the Ferguson shooting, yet most of the American people still don’t know it.)

[dfwgator]

I agree that slavery was a repulsive institution. Jefferson, a slaveholder himself, agreed as well, and denounced it eloquently. He foresaw the problems that trying to integrate two diverse populations into one free country would bring, though, and favored repatriation to Africa.

And yet what are we doing today? Importing cheap labor that is incompatible with our culture, we haven't learned a damned thing.

[infowarrior]

Times like these really make me mad at the slave-holders. They got to reap the economic benefits, while the future generations got stuck with the bill.

Save your anger for the Chamber of Commerce types who want to start the process all over again, while we are still paying the bill from the first time around. "Cheap" labor, indeed...

the infowarrior

[Kenton]

Times like these really make me mad at the slave-holders. They got to reap the economic benefits, while the future generations got stuck with the bill.

Damn good point, 'gator. They should have stuck with Scots-Irish indentured servants, like they did before Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.

I have ancestors who left the old country and sold themselves into indentured servitude to pay for their passage to America. Our family has been indebted to these people for their bravery and sacrifice to give us the blessing of being Americans.