Posted on 07/08/2012 12:13:45 PM PDT by Nachum
What a misleading headline.
Citing Oprah and Obama as the present ones the children know is not a ‘seemingly’ hit on Obama.
Maybe that is because Dr. King was a Republican who sought to work within the system.
Nat Turner, on the other hand, is a "foundation stone." Nat Turner and his followers killed about 60 white people. Among the 57 documented are 40 children (many of whom happened to be attending school at the time), with most of the remainder being women and elderly men, many of whom were too poor to even own slaves. But they were all soft targets of opportunity.
As a result of Turner's rampage, 56 of his followers were captured and executed. Those with lesser involvement were sold out of the state. A handful were acquitted. Up to 200 more innocent blacks throughout the south were simply lynched in retaliation.
Sadly, a bill being seriously debated in the Virginia legislature to outlaw slavery and compensate slave owners under the same successful model used by William Wilberforce in England, was voted down and the grip of slavery was tightened, including the outlawing of educating slaves as a result.
Great role model, eh?
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