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Jerrod Carmichael: "If it weren't for slavery, I would be in Africa right now."
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| April 9, 2015
| Jerrod Carmichael
Posted on 05/22/2017 7:42:00 AM PDT by grundle
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:42:00 AM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
If it were not for slavery, you might only be a lion fart.
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:46:09 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: grundle; metmom; Mark17; P-Marlowe
There are black folk in the Reformed corner of Christianity who will say they have been blessed by the suffering of their forefathers, and see them being here as signs of God's providence.
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:46:45 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
("We always choose according to our greatest inclination at the moment." R.C. Sproul)
To: grundle
No defense of slavery, but without slavery how do his parents meet. Unless every ancestor on both sides of his family came from the same village he is never born
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:50:05 AM PDT
by
xkaydet65
To: reg45
Maybe he’s just tryin’ to stay positive. More likely he’d a been breakfast like you mentioned.
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:51:09 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: grundle
without slavery we would have condos on Neptune by now. You have to pick your own cotton and clean your own toilets.
To: grundle
"Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!"
Muhammad Ali
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:52:37 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: grundle
Can’t watch the video now but I’m black and I only see it as a good consequence of a great evil. However glad I am at being an American through in no way decreases the evil of slavery.
I met a 15yo kid whos parents met as a result of 9/11. She wouldn’t be here without it but it doesn’t excuse the evil that happened that day.
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:53:07 AM PDT
by
Raymann
To: grundle
Yep, if your African brothers hadn’t sold your ancestors into slavery.........................
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:54:03 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: grundle
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Yeah but here blacks have to worry about white people with too much privilege
To: grundle
That is the only real impact of Islam on the founding of America.
Slavery.
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:54:26 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: grundle
What does he think his ancestor felt about it all those years ago?
To: Raymann
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posted on
05/22/2017 7:55:09 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: xkaydet65
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posted on
05/22/2017 8:01:32 AM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: grundle
Can anyone imagine how REALLY segregated we'd be along racial lines in America had slavery not existed at our founding or before? Blacks would be considered a true oddity wherever they existed here in very small, isolated pockets in society.
I have one real world example. A black sales employee recently visited a former Eastern bloc country (I think it was Ukraine) and encountered whole communities who had never seen a black person live before (the sales guy is African born, so he is really dark.) He got a lot of requests for pictures with him. He wasn't accepted except as a novelty.
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posted on
05/22/2017 8:04:00 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
To: grundle
Nothing prevents you from going right now.
To: xkaydet65
I say the same thing about World
War 2. It was terrible and all by no war no me.
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posted on
05/22/2017 8:04:11 AM PDT
by
jalisco555
("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
To: Raymann
I don’t know who Jerrod is, but unless he has checked his genetics on 23andme or ancestry, he wouldn’t have existed. Almost no one here is “purely African” if their ancestors were brought here as slaves. There was a lot more mixing than people think. We’ve had our adopted child tested and she has every race known to mankind.
As as for the 9/11 thing, yeah. If Hitler hadn’t been trying to exterminate my family, I sure wouldn’t exist either, but it wasn’t a good thing he did.
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posted on
05/22/2017 8:07:38 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: jalisco555
I say the same thing about World
War 2. It was terrible and all by no war no me. My dad had fought in 2 major battles in the Pacific and was shipped home with a parasite Borne disease. Had they not dropped the bomb he was scheduled for duty, attacking the Japanese mainland. Good chance no me, also.
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posted on
05/22/2017 8:09:56 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Raymann
Well put. May as well say it was great that Britain allowed a couple million Irish to starve to death since it compelled a million others to risk death at sea to come to America. And how about the Jews getting their homeland back following their families' extermination in Europe? Somehow I doubt the Exodus arrivals would have considered that a fair trade off.
We can't do anything about and aren't responsible for slavery back in the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, but how about we face up to it still going on wherever Islam holds sway?
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posted on
05/22/2017 8:14:19 AM PDT
by
katana
(It still hasn't occurred to them that Trump doesn't give a s***)
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