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Did you know this fact about slavery in America? (Dinesh D'Souza, 2 minute video)
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Posted on 04/28/2018 9:05:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: america; democrats; republicans; slavery
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To: unlearner
https://www.dineshdsouza.com/product/big-lie-book-signed-by-dinesh-dsouza/";

You are asking Dinesh D’Souza to validate his own inference?

41 posted on 04/28/2018 3:18:50 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: JimRed

That’s not what I hear in the MSM.


42 posted on 04/28/2018 3:27:44 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“This is pretty much common knowledge “

Perhaps to about 5% of the country.


43 posted on 04/28/2018 3:41:33 PM PDT by Rebelbase (YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
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To: Auslander154

“One of the things that set the switch in the turn of things was when JFK visited Martin Luther King Jr. in jail.”

When did JFK visit Dr. King in jail?


44 posted on 04/28/2018 4:10:42 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

“You are asking Dinesh D’Souza to validate his own inference?”

Usually non-fiction books have sources at the end. Without these he would not even get published. So, yes, you should go directly to the author for his sources.

You could peruse them at a Barnes & Noble or Books-A-Million bookstore without being forced to buy the book.

And the statement he made is not an inference: “In 1860, the year before the Civil War, no Republican owned a slave.” This is a statement of fact. And none of his critics have made the least effort to show any factual arguments to the contrary of ANY of his historical claims. Instead they just scream and insult and make stuff up that are blatant lies which can be easily verified to be lies.


45 posted on 04/28/2018 4:12:56 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: LibWhacker

Republicans are upset with blacks. Over 300,000 Republicans (Union Soldiers) died for their freedom. Blacks traded their vote for a welfare check and a lot of words.


46 posted on 04/28/2018 4:49:25 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: unlearner

“In 1860, the year before the Civil War, no Republican owned a slave.”

Again I ask: may we see the data that supports that statement?


47 posted on 04/28/2018 4:50:58 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Revolutionary

“Over 300,000 Republicans (Union Soldiers) died for their freedom”

Is freeing the slaves what the fighting and dying was about?


48 posted on 04/28/2018 4:53:24 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem; Pelham

Dinesh DSouza

Y’all enjoy

I’ll pass

He’s full of shit to a certain degree

Like every southern dem voter just died out in 1972

Anyone ever look how Goldwater did in 1964

Those southerners were just hidden GOP

Your moniker is the best example how flawed neoyankee veneration of the GOPe from 1860 till now is tomfoolery

Plus I lived this transformation and saw it unfold with my own eyes

Unlike Dartmouth oracle

Even his pal Laura Ingraham knows it’s a complicated history and admits so

Freepers like things meat and taters

One question

What the hell was so great about 1960s civil rights legislation?

It begat the crap we are living with

It’s all so stupid to fixate in this poppycock Glen Beck version of history considering we’re getting creamed culture wise

Never Trumpers love this demonizing the South

Ever wonder why?

Eff it

I’ve watched this crap here for 18 years...

It’s part of the problem and defines our inherent weakness


49 posted on 04/28/2018 5:00:07 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young buck goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: jeffersondem

My homepage has a list of these vermin

The only good thing there are a lot less of them here now

Any fool thinks this is just GOP or DEM is a damn fool

It’s a battle for western civilization as we know it and the GOPe is in the way as much as the Dems

In some ways worse...

They are supposed to be on our side


50 posted on 04/28/2018 5:07:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young buck goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Here is an excerpt from an old thread about a booklet from 1939 about FDR and the New Deal. It perhaps shows the “Biblical” angle that FDR used with regard to charity. It is a long excerpt - and the booklet is long - but VERY interesting. I was posting stuff from it all the time when obama was in office - he used the same tactics, and often the same verbiage that FDR did. obama meant to finish where FDR left off.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts

In his first inaugural address, March 4, 1933, the President said: “Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen;... the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side....... Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance....Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed,... Practices of the unscrupulous money-changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.... They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.... Yes, the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.”

[end FDR quote]

....It is not unnatural for people to think envious thoughts about large profits, and envious thoughts are very easy to exploit, as every demagogue knows. But no government before the New Deal had ever deliberately done it....Large profit as such becomes therefore a symbol of social injury, merely because it is large; moreover, it is asserted that large profit had long been so regarded by the government and penalized for that reason.

Of all the counter symbols this was the one most damaging to the capitalistic system. Indeed, if it were accepted, it would be fatal, because capitalism is a profit and loss system and if profits, even very large profits, are socially wrong, there is nothing more to be said for it.

[end excerpt]


51 posted on 04/28/2018 5:08:54 PM PDT by 21twelve
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BFL


52 posted on 04/28/2018 5:27:15 PM PDT by Darth Mall
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To: LibWhacker

D’Souza claims that not one Republican was a slave owner. Sorry, but he’s wrong. James Wallace, Maryland lawyer, legislator, and slave owner. He joined the Republican party shortly after the 1856 election and later commanded the 1st Maryland Infantry (Eastern Shore) Regiment at Gettysburg. He resigned his commission late in 1863 when the Union army began to seriously recruit black troops.


53 posted on 04/28/2018 5:41:11 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: wardaddy

“My homepage has a list of these vermin”

Quite a rogues’ gallery.

You have been at this awhile but you’re young enough to continue. Keep up the good work.


54 posted on 04/28/2018 5:49:40 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
Ulysses S. Grant.

Start with that.

Didn't watch the D'Souza video, did you? He claims that prior to 1860 Grant was a Democrat. Actually prior to the rebellion Grant was pretty much apolitical.

55 posted on 04/28/2018 5:49:47 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: jeffersondem

“Again I ask: may we see the data that supports that statement?”

And again, I tell you, check out D’Souza’s book. It will have the citations and scholarly research you seek. You don’t even have to buy it. You can skim through it at your local book store.

Or, you can do the research for yourself. You may have to pay for access to scholarly journals and research papers maintained by universities though.

For me the basic proof he is right is in the fact that none of his critics have put forward a single shred of evidence to show otherwise. And they have tried. And there are a lot of critics. I can tell you that if they could catch him in a significant factual error, they would scream it from the rooftops. Instead they resort to making up false accusations.


56 posted on 04/28/2018 6:20:38 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: jeffersondem
“You try to name one Republican who ever owned a slave. There was not even one. “ Ulysses S. Grant.

Start with that.

Dinesh D'Souza debunked that already. Julia Dent, President Grant's wife was from St. Louis, Missouri where her parents owned around thirty slaves and of course they were Democrats. General Grant got a slave from his father-in-law in 1858. He freed the man in 1959 and when he owned his slave, he was a Democrat! In 1856, he even voted for the Democrat Candidate James Buchanan.

57 posted on 04/28/2018 6:20:50 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: DoodleDawg
“Didn't watch the D’Souza video, did you?”

Correct. I have not watched much D’Souza since his conviction for being dumb.

My post 39 was in response to post 35 which contained the taunt: “You try to name one Republican who ever owned a slave. There was not even one.”

58 posted on 04/28/2018 6:27:07 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Do you know more in specific on this matter...

Brother, I'm so sorry, but I didn't click through to read the article. Cataracts prevent me from reading most sites, other than FR.

Cliff notes?

59 posted on 04/28/2018 6:28:01 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: jeffersondem
My post 39 was in response to post 35 which contained the taunt: “You try to name one Republican who ever owned a slave. There was not even one.”

And then you threw out a name that D'Souza had already dismissed. Regardless, see reply 53.

60 posted on 04/28/2018 6:40:27 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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