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The Mighty Quinn, covered by Manfred Mann was his only song I really liked. Otherwise, IMHO, he was the most overrated, ahem, singer/songwriter/poet in history. Perhaps Dylan should make reparations and set an example for the us "igernt" folks. Let him give up his Malibu mansion and all that acreage in upstate NY. Like, share the land, man. Effing hypocrites!
1 posted on 09/13/2012 9:17:42 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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Oh shut up already, Mr. Dylan.


2 posted on 09/13/2012 9:19:35 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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STFU hippie!


3 posted on 09/13/2012 9:20:15 AM PDT by ChowChowFace
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He also says blacks know that some whites “didn’t want to give up slavery.” The 71-year-old Mr. Dylan said,

Wrong, Mr. Dillan. Democratic Whites didn't want to give up slavery. It the the Democrats that obposed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and filibustered for 57 days against Republican sponsored legislation on Civil Rights.

4 posted on 09/13/2012 9:20:50 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (The Click-&-Paste Media exists & works in Utopia, riding unicorns & sniffing pixy dust.)
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Yo, Bub or Bob... find someone who was a slave owner to complain to. Ask the Democrats why they fought for slavery, ask them why they created Jim Crow... ask them why they had an armed wing called the KKK.


5 posted on 09/13/2012 9:21:10 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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Only 1% of whites owned slaves - half of gays are pedophiles but the gay movement is never challenged.

28% of blacks owned slaves

American Indians owned slaves

Slaves are in every country in the world.

I am not ashamed of our history as we are the only one to fight and get rid of slavery.

These people live in the past or projecting their hate on others.


7 posted on 09/13/2012 9:22:30 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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To condemn a country that fought a civil war to end slavery is to ignore the 100s of thousands that died.


8 posted on 09/13/2012 9:23:46 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Wealth = Net Worth ///// Income = Net Work)
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Actually, it is those of your ilk that are destroying America and anything good that ever existed here, Mr. Folky tunes.


9 posted on 09/13/2012 9:23:53 AM PDT by formosa
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Please keep all the shame for me Dylandork.

I didn’t have any slaves, and no living black was one.

Shove it up your smelly Obama, and please go away and rot somewhere.


10 posted on 09/13/2012 9:24:17 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I am one of those who was happy when Dylan went electric. Helped him drown out his thoughts which I would characterize as rocker spam.


11 posted on 09/13/2012 9:24:27 AM PDT by chuckee (like)
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Shut up and sing Bobby.


12 posted on 09/13/2012 9:25:07 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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** Bob Dylan: Stigma of slavery ruined America, singer says, **

SHUT UP BOB !
13 posted on 09/13/2012 9:26:39 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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I am not really a student of American history but did we go to war with each other in part over slavery. Didn't we abolish it a couple of centuries ago while it is still being practiced in many places today?

Uh...shouldn't we be proud of that?

14 posted on 09/13/2012 9:26:54 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Businessmen are more trustworthy than professors, politicians and preachers.)
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Hey Boob, ah, I mean Bob... if you check your history, the American Ideal won out over slavery and has provided more freedom for more humans than any other society in the history of the world... you can alleviate you guilt by jumping off a bridge, just leave the rest of us the hell alone.


15 posted on 09/13/2012 9:28:47 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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You know you can takes his words as truth. After all, I do beleive he completed the 8th grade.


16 posted on 09/13/2012 9:29:39 AM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles
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Reparations for slavery?

When a black woman is one of the richest people in America?

When a black man was Secretary of State??

When a black woman was Secretary of State?

When black men have sat -- and do sit -- on the Supreme Court??

When a black would-be despot sits in the White House?????

When countless black men have risen to the top of the ranks of the richest in professional sports and show business?? Men like Hank Aaron. Men like Bill Cosby who... (Never mind. As we all know, Bill's either an Uncle Tom or Oreo Cookie, depending on which black race pimp you listen to.)

And, how about Liberation Theology?

Liberation from WHAT? The chance to achieve and succeed??

Give me a break!!

Let me make it clear right up front: I am NOT a racist. I supported Herman Cain in his run for the Senate and supported him in his run for the WH. And if Allen West goes for it, he, too, has my support.

I also consider Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams two of the finest economists and minds extant today. In case you don’t know them, both are black.

Sowell, Williams and Cain – among others -- have spoken out against those fellow blacks who castigate and vilify America for a slavery now long in our past. And ALL thinking men and women oppose the periodic calls for reparations. (When he ran, I supported Alan Keyes. I even spoke in his stead on the RTKABA at a Capitol rally and was asked to fill in for him on his radio show at the time. Sadly, while I still consider Alan a good man, I have had to rethink my support since he came out FOR reparations.)

The fact is that the modern descendants of slaves brought here in chains in admittedly miserable, soul-gutting conditions now calling for reparations need to remember something:

They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ANYWHERE!

Had their ancestors NOT been brought OUT of Africa – many by Muslim slave raiders --the blood of those ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago, victims of the OTHER black tribes that captured them in one of the interminable tribal conflicts STILL ravaging that sad continent and these modern day would-be "plaintiffs" would not even exist.

And I would remind you that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by – American BLACK muslims LISTEN UP!! -- MUSLIMS) and Asia today. How ironic that disgruntled American blacks are embracing a system that participated mightily in their initial bondage – and would, if Islam takes root here, probably put any who cling to their Christianity back INTO BONDAGE – or to the sword. In fact, as the majority of muslims consider black folks as “sub-human”, many of you black muzzies will get the axe.

95% of the African slaves who were transported across the Atlantic went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions, and that less than 5% of the slaves who crossed the Atlantic went to the United States, it was remarkable that the vast majority of academic research, films, books and articles concerning the slave trade concentrated only on the American involvement, as though slavery was a uniquely American aberration.

And should the great-great-great grandchildren of SLAVE OWNING BLACKS also be subject to PAYING these reparations? If so, how do we find THEM?

And I have traced MY family back to the SLAVS. Although the term looks to be related to “slave,” depending on your source, it either means “glory” or “worshipper.” But my family research indicates that many of my of my ancestors LIVED lives of virtual slavery to some despot or other. Do I qualify for reparations? From whom?? And it begs a question: Are most of us now living here headed into a modern form off that servitude? But that’s a topic for another discussion.

The official US Census of 1830 lists 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners. -"Selling Poor Steven", American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90

Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a recitation of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony: Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers' Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378

A few more salient points on the subject:

Until the US declared independence, the Colonies were REQUIRED by the King of England to embrace slavery.

The Northwest Ordinance (1789) prohibited slavery in federal territories.

A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the US became effective in 1808.

Beginning in 1820, the Democratic Congress started passing laws allowing and encouraging slavery.

It was only after the Republican Party (many of whom were southern Blacks) was formed some 40 years later that the anti-slavery movement was able to move forward.

And the holier-than-thou Northern liberals are strangely silent on recent archeological evidence from NEW YORK CITY clearly tracing the financing of the slave trade to NORTHERN BUSINESSMEN!!

At the height of his remarkable boxing career, Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), once declared, “I’m glad my great-grandpa got on that boat.”

And speaking of ancestors, my paternal grandmother’s daddy joined with the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry early in the War Between the States (re-upped twice) and fought on the Union side at Chickamauga, Vicksburg, Jackson then joined up with Sherman for that infamous march to the sea through Georgia. My wife’s great-great grandpappy ALSO fought for the Union. While I revere the memory of my ancestors, inasmuch as that conflict was less about slavery than it was the economic exploitation and abuse of the South by the North, I fear they MAY have been on the wrong side.

Author Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.

Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice, “Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”

Next problem!

Dick Bachert

AFTERWORD:

A few additional facts on the subject:

Until the US declared independence, we were required by the King of England to embrace slavery.

The Northwest Ordinance (1789) prohibited slavery in federal territories.

A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the US became effective in 1808.

Beginning in 1820, the Democratic Congress started passing laws allowing and encouraging slavery.

It was only after the Republican Party (many of whom were southern Blacks) was formed some 40 years later that the anti-slavery movement was able to move forward.

18 posted on 09/13/2012 9:31:15 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Obama for president -- of KENYA!)
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Well, inadvertently I think he is correct. It is the “stigma” of slavery - “white guilt” that helped get Obama elected. It is Obama that is ruining America.


19 posted on 09/13/2012 9:32:07 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself- Mark Twain)
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Hey Bob, bob up and kiss my butt. I never liked your music anyway. Whiny little brat.


20 posted on 09/13/2012 9:32:20 AM PDT by History Repeats (Drink plenty of TEA, but avoid the Koolaid.)
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Hey, Bob!

All the slavers were Democrats.

The KKKers were Democrats.

The boobs in Congress who fillibustered the Civil Rights Acts were Democrats.

Starting to see a pattern, Bobby?


21 posted on 09/13/2012 9:32:41 AM PDT by RexBeach (Mr. Obama Can't Count.)
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The only thing “runing America” are the dead-beat 60’s rejects who listen to talentless morons like Bob Zimmerman.


23 posted on 09/13/2012 9:33:08 AM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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America disposed of slavery, and became the most color blind mixed race nation in the history of mankind.

Its the racial grievance industry, who obviously need to keep the rage alive, that has us at each others throats.

Its really not hard to understand.

24 posted on 09/13/2012 9:33:34 AM PDT by skeeter
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