Posted on 03/10/2015 7:45:19 AM PDT by raptor22
elma: After ignoring the battle that ended slavery under the first Republican president, President Obama at the 50th anniversary of Democrats' blocking the Selma bridge says, "We're the slaves that built the White House."
The parts of American history that this president chooses to commemorate and what he says about them speaks volumes about his view of America and American history.
His America is not only unexceptional, it is perpetually and deeply racist, an overbearing world bully with no right to lecture the world about morality, democracy or freedom.
He reminded us over the weekend that despite any progress since then, "We just need to open our eyes, our ears and our hearts to know that this nation's racial history still casts its long shadow upon us." Or just look at the police department in Ferguson, Mo.?
To Obama, the White House is not the home of the leaders of the world's oldest democracy, but a structure built by slaves.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
("Congressional White Caucus")
Who is keeping racism alive today? Black Americans making a living with racism. By rewriting history they are the Plantation owners now.
Pure demagoguery from a “Community Organizer” doing what he does best. The “Buzz Words” as always, are all pre-tested before being inserted in his speeches. Facts do not matter to a community organizer, only results, and so far his results have been excellent.
Oh yeah, I knew that. [ ...going to be a long day... ]
OBAMA RACE CARD PING
What do anyone expect from this COMMUNISTS BLACK MUSLIM TRAITOR?
Obama has as much black slave blood as I do, i.e. none.
TOO STUPID TO KNOW IT WAS THE DEMS AND THE KKK IN THE SOUTH THAT KEPT THEM DOWN....
March 4th was the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's second inauguration. His speech on that occasion is generally rated as his best work next to the Gettysburg Address. That got no attention in the media but C-SPAN did show an event on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial commemorating the event (with actors in period costume).
The Second Inaugural is noteworthy for its generous tone given that the war was still going on. The Gettysburg Address has memorable phrases but is more one-sided: Lincoln was honoring only the Union troops, living and dead, who had fought there. (The cemetery was for the Union dead only--although a handful of Confederates were buried there in error because they were thought to be Union soldiers.)
March 4th was the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's second inauguration. His speech on that occasion is generally rated as his best work next to the Gettysburg Address. That got no attention in the media but C-SPAN did show an event on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial commemorating the event (with actors in period costume).
The Second Inaugural is noteworthy for its generous tone given that the war was still going on. The Gettysburg Address has memorable phrases but is more one-sided: Lincoln was honoring only the Union troops, living and dead, who had fought there. (The cemetery was for the Union dead only--although a handful of Confederates were buried there in error because they were thought to be Union soldiers.)
What Affirmative Action hire wrote this lead-in to the bogus table with Gettysburg stats? Awful attempt at composing a sentence.
The only way the above could be true is if all the wounded and missing had killed themselves. And a 1 in 4 chance of surviving? Common Core/Global Warming arithmetic. Writing for an official U.S. Army website and they can't figure out how to capitalize 'Civil War'?
Those who cannot tell the difference between killed and total casualties should be barred from writing about military history. (That goes for here on FR too.)
OBAMA RACE CARD PING
In 1860, the total USA population was 31.4 million.
Today, our population is 320 million, almost exactly ten times higher.
Today, as a percentage of USA population, the Gettysburg death toll would equal more than 500,000!
Perhaps that explains the 1863 Draft Riots in New York City?
The Lincoln "Emancipation Proclamation"(that's what executive orders were called then) turned the war in the North into a war of freeing slaves which went over like a wet fart in church. Hence rioting.
His ancestors were Maryland slave owners, so he should have said he was the people who got the money when their slaves helped build the White House.
Since the riots happened one week after Gettysburg, I’m thinking it must have had a “little” impact on the rioters.
By the way, the IBD editorial claims 51,000 dead.
I checked. That’s wildly wrong. It’s more like 8,000 dead.
Yes, know we know what he meant when he said “You didn’t build that”.
There are no votes, donations, or breast-beating pufferies to be sucked up honoring Gettysburg.
CSA 23,055
(3,155 killed, 14,531 wounded, 5,369 captured/missing)
USA 23,231
(4,708 killed, 12,693 wounded, 5,830 captured/missing)
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