[arual95]

Great new book

[popdonnelly]

Unfortunately, we are now being governed by people who probably believe all ten of the lies.

[popdonnelly]

“The colonies that became the United States accounted for, at most, 3 percent of the abominable international slave trade”

I wonder why demands for reparations aren’t made of the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and particularly the Arabs. As for America, the Democrats supported slavery and segregation, and so they should pay the reparations.

[Tanniker Smith]

I liked Orson Scott Card's hypothesis in Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus. Basically, slavery was barbaric, but nowhere near as barbaric as what it replaced: human sacrifice.

Before conquering armies forced the conquered into servitude, the usual practice was to put them all to death, usually in accordance with some ritual or other.

[laweeks]

During the Civil War, approximately 660,000 men died in the quest to end slavery.

In most honest scholars’ best opinion, no more than 675,000 Negroes (as they were called then) were removed from Africa for the American slave trade.

660,000 Americans died
675,000 slaves brought to this country

Kinda’ a wash, don’t you think? And they want reparations after that kind of national sacrifice?

I’m so sick and tired of the white guilt involved with this crap. I’ve never owned a slave and don’t know anyone who ever owned a slave . . . there are no Negroes in American who have ever been slaves. How about we get the damn chip off our shoulders, huh?

[Fiji Hill]

In 1972, arnold Beichman wrote a book entitled Nine Lies About america (Library Press, 1972). The nine lies that he debunked were as follows:

1. "America is a fascist country"
2. "America means genocide"
3. "The Bomber Left is a moral force"
4. "The American worker is a 'Honky"
5. "Our political system is a fraud"
6. "American values are materialistic"
7. "America is insane,"
8. "The American people are guilty"
9. "America needs a violent revolution"

This book is not yet outdated, as demonstrated by the attacks on Joe the Plumber, the rallies against California's Proposition Eight, and the election of a president with ties to the old Bomber Left.