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To: central_va

What’s clear is everyone needs a hobby, especially those that romanticize people who held slaves. Which makes it clear, to me, that you either don’t truly believe any of the crap you spout (likely) or you do but you don’t actually portray it outside of your postings on FR and StormFront.


27 posted on 08/10/2010 5:06:28 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (There is no truth to the rumor that Ted Kennedy was buried at sea.....)
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To: MikefromOhio
romanticize people who held slaves.

To be fair, where did I romanticize slavery? Slavery was legal, although immoral, it's legacy was part of our countries past both North and South. In the early 19th century the newly created manufacturing culture of the North didn't need the slave model anymore so they sold all their slaves "down the river" to the south for a huge profit. Then the Northern mercantile class petitioned congress and raised tariffs on imports after making big money on selling their slaves to the south. Northerners then turned against that "peculiar" institution, a purely Southern institution at that point, on moral grounds making the hypocrisy factor unbelievable.

36 posted on 08/10/2010 6:47:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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