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Louisiana lawmaker labels Declaration of Independence racist in debate
Fox News Politics ^ | May 28, 2016

Posted on 05/28/2016 8:58:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Declaration of Independence came under attack from an unlikely quarter—a state legislator.

Louisiana lawmaker Barbara Norton (D-Shreveport), argued that America’s founding document was racist during debate on a bill requiring public school students in the state to recite the Declaration of Independence daily, Fox & Friends reported Saturday.

“For the Declaration of Independence only Caucasians (were) free,” Norton, who is black, said Wednesday during the debate on the floor of the Louisiana House of Representatives. “And for you to bring a bill to require that our children will recite the Declaration of Independence I think it’s a little bit unfair.”

Rep. Valarie Hodges (R-Denham Springs) shelved the bill before lawmakers could vote on the proposal, which she sponsored. The measure would have required public school students in fourth through sixth grade to recite a passage from the Declaration of Independence....

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TOPICS: Louisiana; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: blacks; democrats; doi; founders; louisiana; racecard; racepimping
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The "D" is for DUMB. Da DUMB DUMB. Who is she to denigrate the Declaration of Independence?

Another shot of this genius:

21 posted on 05/29/2016 12:13:11 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

well, we are done with apologizing for building the greatest nation on earth so this bat-in-the-belfry fool can just sit her no-listed-birthplace self down.


22 posted on 05/29/2016 1:44:48 AM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hodges told the station Norton and the other critics of the bill were wrong.

“They really just don’t get it and to me I really feel that it’s as important as Math and English and conjugating verbs,” she said, adding that it was important to educate children to become good citizens.

Conjugating verbs? Did she really compare reciting the Declaration of Independence to conjugating verbs? No wonder they think it be racist!

23 posted on 05/29/2016 2:40:21 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So allowing her to live in this country, work, have a good job, make great money, own a home a new car or cars, go on vacation, and save for the future and her ultimate retirement is not enough good this country has given her, its not enough! divide and conquer


24 posted on 05/29/2016 3:24:13 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I thought it was sexist - it says "All men are created equal..."
25 posted on 05/29/2016 3:40:18 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Boomer

Well said. Excellent tag line.


26 posted on 05/29/2016 3:47:03 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Declaration’s pretty long. Ain’t no way to memorize that in one sitting. Somebody’s going to have to learn to read...


27 posted on 05/29/2016 3:59:16 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.)
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To: BenLurkin

In the first rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote: “He (King George III) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobium of INFIDEL Powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.”


28 posted on 05/29/2016 5:10:25 AM PDT by beejaa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fear not, the remake of ROOTS miniseries starts tomorrow night.
Will set the record straight and soothe the wounds. /s


29 posted on 05/29/2016 5:33:17 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whacked with an ugly stick, she was.


30 posted on 05/29/2016 6:29:33 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: patriot08

Thanks and as it turns out; it was time for a change in tagline. How do you like this one? :D


31 posted on 05/29/2016 8:12:16 AM PDT by Boomer (liberalism is a mental disease with no cure but a frontal lobotomy will make them less of a jerk.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry Mizz Norton, you appear to be somewhat "behind the curve" in your knowledge of history.

The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776

Prior to the revolution, many free African Americans supported the anti-British cause, most famously Crispus Attucks, believed to be the first person killed at the Boston Massacre. At the time of the American Revolution, some blacks had already been enlisted as Minutemen. Both free and enslaved Africans had served in local militias, especially in the North, defending their villages against attacks by Native Americans.

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32 posted on 05/29/2016 10:22:48 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Boomer

love your new tag line! SO true.

(you may not approve of mine, but it’s gonna stay up ‘till Donald is in the WH. :) )


33 posted on 05/29/2016 2:21:20 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: TLI

Salem Poor, a former slave, was praised for his role in the battle of Bunker Hill.


34 posted on 05/29/2016 2:38:29 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Boomer
I grow weary of street negroes with eternal chips on their shoulders.
35 posted on 05/29/2016 5:29:33 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love how they tell us that the very documents that empower these people to force their unpopular ways of living on us don’t apply to them.


36 posted on 05/29/2016 7:04:37 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, what do we expect from the ignorant and low IQ crowd?


37 posted on 05/29/2016 7:07:47 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: patriot08

Why wouldn’t I approve? Love it and so true! Gotta get everyone out to vote.

I carry a koozie cup in my back pocket that says “Hillary for Prison 2016”. It starts a lot of conversations. :D


38 posted on 05/30/2016 2:06:55 AM PDT by Boomer (liberalism is a mental disease with no cure but a frontal lobotomy will make them less of a jerk.)
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To: EinNYC
Who is she to denigrate the Declaration of Independence?

I wonder if she ever actually read it?

And by the way, isn't "denigrate" a racist term? I think it has something to do with removing people of color from a given area.

39 posted on 05/30/2016 2:20:40 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

goes to show you haw utterly STOOPID her districts voters are.


40 posted on 05/30/2016 3:03:04 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (In other times Hillary would be hung, Bill,stoned.)
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