[TLBSHOW]

Certain free black men owned slaves, too. Will their descendants have to pay? Who are they?

[TLBSHOW]

Free Black Slaveowners in South Carolina
Domestic slavery was quite common in West Africa, although the Europeans organized the trade to a much greater magnitude and value.

Free black slaveowners resided in states as north as New York and as far south as Florida, extending westward into Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. According to the federal census of 1830, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia. The majority of black slaveowners lived in Louisiana and planted sugar cane. The majority of black masters had not been slaves themselves. Yet, the ranks of black slave masters were diverse: some acquired slaves as soon as they had accumulated enough capital after their own freedom, others received slaves with their own freedom from their white masters, and others had been free for several generations.

http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w188/south/charles/charles3.htm

[weikel]

What do you expect from someone who teamed up with Senator Joseph Loserman to try to censor the video game industry.

[FourtySeven]

Reparations is a dead issue; no one in their right mind will support it. But the author has a point about conservatives "doing back flips" to convince others they're not racist. It's time to stop that, now, because it's just like saying, "Oh, we're guilty all right, we just want to cover it up!".

Race really shouldn't be a factor anymore in politics; it's always a shame when it's brought up, by either side.

[Optimist]

PING

[per loin]

Until white men find the courage to hear the word "racist" aimed at them, without falling to their knees quivering in fear, they are not men.

[dalebert]

Great read. Thanks.

[Russell Scott]

Take a page from our President's success. If Senators would spend less time in cocktail lounges, and more time praying, a lot of their stupidity would evaporate.

[hosepipe]

There you go.... Browny went and got himself propagandized by the race pimps...
pity...hope he doesn't get pregnant with bull sperm.... or congress will need another abortion... could be too late for that though..
i.e. Bob Barr going to work for the ACLU..............

[Missouri]

Don't forget his pro-illegal alien record.