Re: Arkansas GOPer: Slavery was a blessing in disguise for blacks

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Never mind that Lincoln was a Republican, or that it was Republicans who fought to end slavery and grant citizenship to blacks...

Oh Gawd.  Every single time with these right wing shills.  Seriously you have to go all the way back to the 1800s to find a Republican platform that is semicivilized?

Never mind indeed. These people are Republicans today. They wouldn't have been a hundred years ago, of course, but that was a hundred years ago.

George Wallace...

Mmmm... George Wallace is dead.  Furthermore how are you so well versed about what was going on in Lincoln's day but have no clue about the 70s?  Just to get you up to speed...

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How on earth do you not know this?  What are they teaching in schools these days?  Or are you a victim of home schooling?

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I think this is being taken out of contest.  He wasn't saying that slavery was a good thing, he was saying that the former slaves would be blessed by being granted citizenship after slavery was ended, and that that was a great thing after all the adversity they faced.  Never mind that it was Republicans who fought to end slavery and grant citizenship and suffrage to former slaves, or that it was Democrats who fought against all of those measures.

Tens of thousands of African immigrants who did not have their family units destroyed and their cultural identity flushed down the toilet humbly disagree.  If you see the descendents of slaves celebrating Kwanza and think they are better off than African immigrants who have their language, culture, and identity intact you are even more delusional than we thought.



That's awful.  Thank God the descendents of slaves don't have to have a burden like that!

By Oldiesfreak1854 logic since a lot of Jews were allowed to immigrate to the US in the 30s and 40s we should all send a big thank you card to Hitler.

Disgusting.

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I think this is being taken out of contest.  He wasn't saying that slavery was a good thing, he was saying that the former slaves would be blessed by being granted citizenship after slavery was ended, and that that was a great thing after all the adversity they faced.  Never mind that it was Republicans who fought to end slavery and grant citizenship and suffrage to former slaves, or that it was Democrats who fought against all of those measures.

Tens of thousands of African immigrants who did not have their family units destroyed and their cultural identity flushed down the toilet humbly disagree.  If you see the descendents of slaves celebrating Kwanza and think they are better off than African immigrants who have their language, culture, and identity intact you are even more delusional than we thought.



That's awful.  Thank God the descendents of slaves don't have to have a burden like that!

By Oldiesfreak1854 logic since a lot of Jews were allowed to immigrate to the US in the 30s and 40s we should all send a big thank you card to Hitler.

Disgusting.

No; I support keeping their cultural identity, but I'm saying that they have become dependent on welfare and that is keeping them down.

And how do you propose the descendents of slaves do that?  America already obliterated their families, eliminated their language, and destroyed all of their African traditions.  Do you think that may be why SOME of them are on welfare and African immigrants who didn't have all the glorious benefits of slavery and Jim Crow are at the top of the academic league tables?

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Never mind that Lincoln was a Republican, or that it was Republicans who fought to end slavery and grant citizenship to blacks...

Oh Gawd.  Every single time with these right wing shills.  Seriously you have to go all the way back to the 1800s to find a Republican platform that is semicivilized?

Never mind indeed. These people are Republicans today. They wouldn't have been a hundred years ago, of course, but that was a hundred years ago.

George Wallace...

Mmmm... George Wallace is dead.  Furthermore how are you so well versed about what was going on in Lincoln's day but have no clue about the 70s?  Just to get you up to speed...

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How on earth do you not know this?  What are they teaching in schools these days?  Or are you a victim of home schooling?

I did know that, but he stayed a Democrat even after that. 

That's the point.  He realized he was wrong, changed his ways, apologized, and remained in the Democratic party... the other people simply left and joined the Republicans.

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Byrd rejected his past positions and was both fairly liberal (for WV Democrats) and a strong Obama supporter.

Yes.  It is obvious to me no matter how many times we state this FACT he will just ignore it.  Further discussion is obviously pointless.

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Oldiesfreak, do you believe the modern day German state and government is responsible for the actions of Germany in the past? Would you agree with someone boycotting Germany because of WWII?

No, but it certainly doesn't reflect well on them...

That's disgusting.  Get a passport and a clue.  If you bothered to travel and actually sit down with any modern Germans you would realize how offensive your comment is.  I have multiple friends that are German and Austrian and I even dated a couple of Austrian girls.  If you think concentration camps in any way "reflect" upon a 22 year old Austrian college student then you have issues that we simply can't solve in a single thread.