Posted on 03/07/2017 7:44:25 AM PST by Beave Meister
Is that what we’re calling it now?
Let’s see if I have this straight. When men and women and children were kidnapped from their villages and separated from their families and packed into rickety ships for months at a time to be traded for tobacco and cotton and cloth and grain, that was immigration?
When people were branded with hot irons like cattle on a ranch so that ownership of one human being by another human being would not be in dispute, that was immigration?
When women were raped for no other reason than that it was Tuesday, or Friday or whenever a property owner felt the urge exert his dominance on another man’s wife or mother or daughter or sister, that was immigration?
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I think it’s a disgrace to call illegal aliens immigrants, but they do that all the time.
It may have been forced immigration, but it was immigration. It’s only a word.
HAHAHA! I’m arguing with some liberals on this right now. They are coming unglued and parsing words as though he wrote this down in a carefully edited book. They don’t want to understand the ebbs and flows of conversational language, nor do they want to understand the actual dictionary meaning of words.
Check it out (I’m Robroy there):
http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/Off-Topic/OT_The_Political_Party/31934947-ben-carson-slaves-were-immigrants
I might get slammed over this but the Left is correct. I don’t think any of them brought over came willingly but as slaves.
I think the left calling refujihadis “immigrants” is disgraceful so I guess we’re even.
immigrant
[im-i-gruh nt]
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noun
1.
a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.
2.
an organism found in a new habitat.
Looks like slaves were indeed “immigrants”.
All slaves were immigrants, but not al immigrants were slaves.
Ignore them Ben
Yawn. So now Dr Carson is rayciss too. Got it. Next?
Ben should shut up and do his job
Isn’t an immigrant a person who lives in a foreign country permanently? Slaves seem to match this description, except for the ones that were born into it over here.
Let’s see if I have this straight. When men and women and children were kidnapped from their villages and separated from their families and packed into rickety ships for months at a time to be traded for tobacco and cotton and cloth and grain, that was immigration?
You DO NOT HAVE IT STRAIGHT, The VAST Majority of Blacks were SOLD INTO SLAVERY by their Families and Tribes, THEY WERE NOT ROUNDED UP!
If you search long and hard enough you will find many academic articles on the ‘net talking about slavery and the words immigrant and immigration is ALL OVER THEM.
People are morons.
Slavery did not look like Roots. After the CW most slaves stayed on their plantations for the next ten years. Washington offered them their freedom and they never left.
Pray America woke
Involuntary immigrants.
There, fixed it.
Of course the only ones who were "immigrants" were those taken across the Sahara or from East Africa by Arab traders...where they would enjoy the blessings of Islam...and the maid would leave a chocolate on their pillow every day.
Case rested.
No, blacks cannot be racists they can only be Uncle Toms because of the color of their skin.
When doe the dismantling of his department begin?
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