Father Pfleger threatens to murder, “snuff out,” gun shop owner.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2500606/posts
[Obama’s longtime friend and campaign surrogate. Oh, cardinal rebuked him — ‘wow’.]
Sowell Exposes One Aspect of Loony Left’s Self-Mesmerism:
Filtering History (Thomas Sowell)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2501148/posts?page=3
The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton. [snip]
Only the fact that the West had more firepower than others put an end to slavery in many non-Western societies during the age of Western imperialism. Yet today there are Americans who have gone to Africa to apologize for slavery— on a continent where slavery has still not been completely ended, to this very moment. [snip]
Those who mine history for sins are not searching for truth but for opportunities to denigrate their own society, or for grievances that can be cashed in today, at the expense of people who were not even born when the sins of the past were committed. [snip]
An ancient adage says: “Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.” But apparently that is not sufficient for many among our educators, the intelligentsia or the media. They are busy poisoning the present by the way they present the past.
Copying your post here:
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A few years ago, I taught seventh grade social studies which spent about a quarter of the curriculum on Africa. When I would tell my prodominantly black classes about slavery continuing, they never believed me. I found a Lonely Planet travel video that actually went to a slave trading post, and though they wouldn’t show any slaves for sale on camera, they did show some people who claimed to be runaway slaves in hiding. Very informative for American kids.
Oh, the slave traders?
You guessed it; no southern accents, and not a white person around except the narrator.
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Uproar follows comment on Germany cross ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2500886/posts
“A call by a German politician of Turkish origin for a ban on Christian crosses in state schools has sparked uproar”
[Crosses in state schools? And they remained a free country? Gee, possible?]