http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/slavery/ en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:32:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393510/posts Just another example of how the dems are keeping you down bro... Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393510/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:32:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389926/posts The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” The remark stirred a murmur at the reception, held by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation as part of a series of events revolving around the 25th anniversary of Jackson’s run for president. Several CBC members were in attendance, including Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who’d introduced Jackson. Davis, who is running for governor,... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389926/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:09:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389944/posts The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” Davis, who is running for governor, is the only black member of Congress from Alabama. He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month. Davis referred to Jackson’s 1988 run for president in a statement, issued through his office, that said he would... The Hill (via Drudge) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389944/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386621/posts On Nov. 1, the government of the state of California began withholding from workers' paychecks 10 percent more than what it had been withholding. The Los Angeles Times described this move -- prompted by California's fiscal calamity -- as "a forced, interest-free loan" from taxpayers to the government. The Times explained to its California readers that "You'll be repaid any extra withholding in April. Those who would receive a refund anyway will receive a larger one, and those who owe taxes will owe less." The ostensible purpose of withholding is to better ensure that taxpayers actually pay the taxes they... The Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, Pa. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386621/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:51:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385886/posts It seemed like a good idea -- take an elementary school class on a field trip to a historical plantation. But things turned awkward when the tour guide decided to choose black students to demonstrate how slaves were forced to pick cotton. The incident happened last Wednesday in Charlotte, North Carolina on a visit to the historic Latta Plantation. When the subject turned to slavery, tour guide Ian Campbell, who is black, picked three black students out of the mostly white class to illustrate slaves picking cotton. "I am very enthusiastic about getting kids to think about how people did... Opposing Views http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385886/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2384483/posts I have been reading the history of Egypt and the Nile Valley, stretching some 6,000 years back, in preparation for my teaching lectures, and I must say I am thoroughly impressed. Diehard racists can say what they like, but there is no doubt, from solid evidence, that the Nile Valley was the cradle of human civilisations. While Western Europe was still steeped in slumber and darkness, the communities of the Nile — Egypt, Nubia, Kush, Aksum and Meroe — were teaching their children reading and writing, mathematics, philosophy, algebra, trigonometry and fine art. For a long time, the truth about... DAILY NATION http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2384483/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:57:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383573/posts Before we get into the nuts and bolts, let's take a quick trip back to February 13, 2009. Obama's Presidency was still in its early days. His approval numbers were sky-high, and he had a limitless supply of political capital. The national unemployment rate was at 8.2%. People were afraid, but they had just elected a new, vibrant leader who seemed to have all the answers. "At $789 billion, the final package "is just not going to pack the same jobs punch" as some earlier versions, which cost as much as $100 billion more, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of... Hype, Chains, and a Whole Lot of Fail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383573/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:50:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383135/posts President Obama, stinging from criticism of what opponents have called his "apology tour" to places like Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, announced that he will visit Georgia next year to heal the wounds from America's Civil War. Obama's visit will begin in Atlanta on September 2, where Sherman's march began and later that day he will visit Savannah, where Sherman concluded his march on December 22, 1864. Along the way, Sherman conducted total warfare and burned everything in sight, including private homes and businesses. By Sherman's own estimate, his army caused over $100 million in property damage in Georgia alone. Off... Ikeonic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383135/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:15:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381479/posts If Barack Obama, the black man, and Democrats, many of whom are black, are so opposed to and horrified by the notion of slavery in our country and are determined to move the country beyond it, why then did they just vote to become the most grotesque slave owners in history? Other despots in our history merely hated America and the Liberty she stood for and wanted to destroy the United States. Barack Obama and his fellow slave owners hate America and the Liberty she stands for yet do not want to destroy us; they want to compel us to... Blue Collar Muse Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381479/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:31:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380884/posts What a day of contrast in America. In New York Harbor sits the latest warship of the US Navy, whose bow contains tons of steel that once supported the World Trade Center towers, the USS New York. In Washington, DC Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to ram through the House a 2,000 page bill which will rob Americans of their freedom, giving the Federal government unprecedented control over the lives of every American. The warship will be commissioned today, in the name of the American people, to defend their freedom. The Speaker will try to enslave those same people. Make no... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380884/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374876/posts Since Angelina Jolie adopted her daughter Zahara in 2005, the number of Americans adopting Ethiopian children has quadrupled. A pop-media obsession with celebrities adopting children in Africa has resulted in a queue of adopting foreigners dealing with opportunistic adoption agents in operating in a regulatory vaccuum. In Ethiopia - and beyond - its creating a heartbreaking mess. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374876/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:14:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372581/posts Rhode Islanders may get a chance to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name over its ties to colonial slavery. Officially, Rhode Island is called the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. But the House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution Tuesday that would allow residents to vote next year on whether to drop the words "Providence Plantations" from that name. The issue now heads for a House floor vote. Supporters say "Providence Plantations" conjures painful images of colonial slavery. Rhode Island merchants grew wealthy off the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Boston Globe/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372581/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:13:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372354/posts NEW YORK, October 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While the American Catholic Church once failed to diligently promote human dignity in the era of slavery, Catholics can now take pride that its leaders are taking a stand against the civil rights atrocity of abortion, said New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan last week.In his column at Catholic New York Online, Archbishop Dolan reflected on October as Respect Life Month by pointing out the similarities between slavery and abortion in America - two assaults on human life, he notes, that were both deemed "constitutional."Dolan writes: "That 'right' to own a slave was... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372354/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:10:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372314/posts Not everyone admires the Founders. As a reflection of his rebranding as a "progressive," Ed Schultz accused Glenn Beck of "Psycho Talk" for thinking well of the Founding Fathers. After Beck mentioned his appreciation of Samuel Adams, Ed lectured Beck that the Founders deserved no honor, because they were evil white men. [M]ost of these Founding Fathers that you think so highly of were actually slave owners themselves, and the ones that didn't own slaves weren't exactly abolitionists...[C]omparing progressives to slave owners while idolizing actual slave owners -- that's "Psycho Talk." In his remarks, Schultz also indicted the Founders... NewsRealBlog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372314/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366234/posts The AP reports that "federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state law. The guidelines to be issued by the department do, however, make it clear that agents will go after people whose marijuana distribution goes beyond what is... STEVELACKNER.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366234/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:49:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365289/posts Aided and abetted by imposters posing as authentic American citizens the United States of America has been taken over by an authentic dictator. How could so many millions of U. S. citizens just gently cede their heritage and birthright so easily; without more than a whimper? Assisted by genuine anti-American leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, actually elected by unknowing and uninformed lemmings, Barack Hussein Obama has surely seized the ultimate power of dictatorship and is making decisions not within the established authority of the office of President, which are opposed only by vocal chants from a gaggle of conservatives... canada freepress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365289/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:35:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2364768/posts  From the back of a cannon in Fort Sumter, the church steeples of Charleston are clearly visible across the harbor. Charleston is proud of its historic steeples, most notably St. Michael's Episcopal, St. Philip's Episcopal and St. Matthew's Lutheran. There are so many churches its nickname is "the Holy City." Charleston is also proud (still) of having fired the first shot of the American Civil War. In April 1861, city residents clambered onto church roofs and into steeples to watch Fort Sumter get blasted. -SNIP-Shortly after midnight on Aug. 22, the Swamp Angel began lobbing incendiary shells into the... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2364768/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:40:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362976/posts LONDON (AFP) - The dollar hit a 14-month low against the euro Thursday on fears that US interest rates would remain super-low for a long time and as a stock market rally sparked appetite for riskier assets, traders said. AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362976/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:01:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2359508/posts The concepts of race, war, and politics have changed immeasurably from the Civil War to the present. Our first African President has tried to emulate the legend of Abraham Lincoln, it is time to dispel some of the myths. This article will use letters and documents written from 1863 to 1865, borrowed from the ‘The Boisterous Sea of Liberty’ by David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz. Black soldiers fought for the Union at great personal risk, The Confederacy threatened to summarily execute or sell into slavery any Black soldiers that were captured. Lincoln threatened to reciprocate against Southern prisoners if... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2359508/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:57:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356623/posts In an astonishing change of verbiage, President Obama’s favorite let’s-sit-down-to-chat Islamofacist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has left the Holocaust denial business momentarily for a new claim. Mad (our president’s endearing nickname for the little Hitler wannabe) said, “Slavery never occurred in the USA . It was a hoax to get welfare, Affirmative Action and elect Obama president. America is an enemy of Islam! We will wipe you off the map!” He claimed this just as Iran ’s second underground nuke plant was exposed to the world. This precipitated a heated phone call from Dear Leader to Jihad Central in Tehran : “Hey... www.daveweinbaum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356623/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:31:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354452/posts This is a Vanity. If it shows up in the wrong place, would some kindly soul remove it to a better place. I have recently seen the movie "Amazing Grace", with Ioan Gruffudd, about William Wilberforce and his efforts to end British participation in the slave trade. At one point, his friend, PM Pitt, tells him that one of the reasons he's having trouble is that it is rumored that WW was corresponding with Thomas Jefferson. Is it true? Does anyone know what they were writing about? Jefferson had slaves, and WW was against it. "Amazing Grace", film http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354452/posts#comment Sun, 4 Oct 2009 04:47:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353491/posts America’s two failed experiments with socialism, Jamestown Colony and Plymouth Colony have overshadowed America’s most successful experiment with socialism. The contrast is stark, so perhaps a retrospective examination of America’s successful Utopia is in order. That Utopia survived for about 246 years, yet so few Americans are aware of its Utopian character and existence. Liberals are trying to recreate this Utopia but may be ignorant of its existence and success. For their benefit and ours, let’s review some of the facts. For the sake of brevity, I shall henceforth refer to this American Utopia as SPS for reasons that will... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353491/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:42:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352759/posts In an astonishing change of verbiage, President Obama’s favorite let’s-sit-down-to-chat Islamofacist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has left the Holocaust denial business momentarily for a new claim. Mad (our president’s endearing nickname for the little Hitler wannabe) said, “Slavery never occurred in the USA . It was a hoax to get welfare, Affirmative Action and elect Obama president. America is an enemy of Islam! We will wipe you off the map!” He claimed this just as Iran ’s second underground nuke plant was exposed to the world. This precipitated a heated phone call from Dear Leader to Jihad Central in Tehran : “Hey... www.daveweinbaum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352759/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:07:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2351676/posts If you want to know what the ultimate goal is of those that want reparations for the American slave trade, you have to look no farther than a telling quote that appeared in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on September 25. For slavery reparation advocates, the ultimate desire is not contrition, no apology will do, no memorial statues or finger wagging in Congress is satisfactory. Nothing less than punitive sanctions against living Americans for an institution that is 150 years dead is what these people want. The article in question details the efforts of Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen (D, Tenn.) who... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2351676/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:43:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351152/posts The Powerfully Stunning, Shocking, yet Redemptive Human Trafficking Conference San Diego, Ca. September 29th, 2009 Tony Nassif, founder and President of the Cedars Cultural and Education Foundation hosted the recent 7th Annual Preventing Abuse Conference in Irvine California. We are deeply in debt to him for his vision and desire to expose, educate and activate a truly godly response to one of the worst crimes against humanity. It is estimated that there are currently over 27 million who are trapped in the bondage of modern day slavery. An estimated 800,000 annually are trafficked across borders, who are mostly women and... Biblical Family Advocates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351152/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:12:15 GMT