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To: Nero Germanicus
There is nothing more that I need to say on that point.

Well sure, if you don't have any point to make, you've certainly succeeded in not making one.

261 posted on 02/24/2015 10:31:25 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

I’ll spell out the point for you since you are choosing to play dumb.

You said (and I quote) “If you think anyone back then would have regarded former slaves as ‘natural born citizens’ or Indians as ‘natural born citizens’ or Texan Nationals as natural born citizens’, you have got a screw loose.
In the case of Slaves or Indians it is a virtual certainty that there would be no natural affinity for the nation and no love lost for it. You think the founders would be okay with American Hating people in the office of the Presidency? It seems to me that this is the very sort of thing that article II was intended to prevent.” Those were your exact words.

I then pointed out that your words were a racist gross over-generalization and that both slaves and freemen plus entire American Indian tribes fought with the colonists in the Revolution. You then backpedalled as fast as your feet can pedal backwards.
The estimates are that approxmately 6% of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge were black soldiers. The famed First Rhode Island regiment composed almost entirely of blacks and Indians fought under General Washington’s command. The U.S. Army was not to be racially integrated again until the Korean War.
You got it now?


265 posted on 02/24/2015 3:14:20 PM PST by Nero Germanicus (PALIN/CRUZ: 2016)
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