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Carson refers to slaves as 'immigrants' in talk to HUD employees
The Hill ^
| 3/6/17
| Mallory Shelbourne
Posted on 03/06/2017 1:13:18 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1
To: Timpanagos1
His comments about men going to prison come out gay and his Pyramid theory turned me off on him.
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:20:50 PM PST
by
ColdOne
((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
To: DoodleDawg
According to Dr Carson, slaves work harder than your regular old American and they work for less money.
He mentioned slave ships, and many current blacks are descended from them.
To: Timpanagos1
While he refers to slaves as a type of immigrant, it’s obvious - or should be to anyone without an agenda- by his reference to them in the context of slave ships that he is not implying they freely came to America in pursuit of a better life... as is implied by the dishonest reporter’s creative editing.
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:23:41 PM PST
by
piasa
To: Timpanagos1
According to Dr Carson, slaves work harder than your regular old American and they work for less money. Then is he suggesting we bring it back?
To: piasa
I wonder what they thought when Muhammad Ali said, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:26:08 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: piasa
“”That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity,””
To: piasa
It should be pointed out that when you look back on it here in 2017, the Africans whose ancestors were brought over here on ships against their will are the lucky ones.
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:27:34 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
To: Timpanagos1
That would be factual.
The hardest work is that for which there is no compensation.
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:31:28 PM PST
by
piasa
To: Timpanagos1
If you can refer to illegal aliens as “immigrants”, why could you not refer to slaves as “unwilling immigrants”?
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:34:26 PM PST
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
To: Timpanagos1
Everyone here in the U.S. should be grateful that their ancestor got here no matter the circumstances or else they probably wouldn't have been born. If my GR-GR-GR-Grandpappy hadn't left Scotland, he wouldn't have met my GR-GR-GR-Grandmother and I probably wouldn't be here. The same holds true for everyone else.
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:40:42 PM PST
by
Smittie
(Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
To: Timpanagos1
The idea that we're all descendants of immigrants (including the descendants of slaves) is pretty much standard in American politics, going back at least as far as FDR.
JFK treated slaves as immigrants in the book published under his name. A Nation of Immigrants,
What's novel here is that his employees at HUD sold him out to the media, and the media thought this was worth a story.
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:42:43 PM PST
by
x
To: Timpanagos1
Ben Carson referred to slaves as "immigrants" dreaming of a better lifeBut what they report he actually said:
There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less."
Where is the dreaming of a better life part?
Hint to lying media: When lying don't provide the evidence that you are lying in your article.
To: Timpanagos1
If Lincoln had not been Assassinated, he would have deported those “Immigrants” back to Africa.
He said as much.
Lincoln said he wanted to send the slaves back to Africa. “My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia.” (Ottawa, August 21, 1858)
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:45:11 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
To: AndyTheBear
Ah I see. Yeah after they got here they wanted a better life for their decedents...imagine that. The implication in their characterization was that Carson was implying they dreamed of a better life then came here to seek it.
To: Kickass Conservative
Lincoln said he wanted to send the slaves back to Africa. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia. (Ottawa, August 21, 1858)
That makes John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, the 'mitochondrial Eve' of all of our current race problems. Thanks a lot John!
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:56:19 PM PST
by
farming pharmer
(www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
To: ColdOne
His comments about men going to prison come out gay...
A friend of my brother related his prison experience to my brother at a party. "The screams of the men at night"...
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posted on
03/06/2017 1:59:09 PM PST
by
farming pharmer
(www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
To: themidnightskulker
forgot to put up the /s tag. sorry
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posted on
03/06/2017 2:12:49 PM PST
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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