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To: Signalman

This is absolutely the craziest, dumbest thing I’ve heard today. MY people were slaves in Egypt for 400 years, buddy-—should I get to vote twice, in violation of the Constitution of this country? I assure you that none of the people who were slaves here, or slaveowners, are alive today. And we don’t have slavery today. So why do you want to drag that unfortunate piece of history around as baggage forevermore? Do you insist on a permanent victimhood and therefore dependency position for blacks? Because that is certainly what you would get with such ridiculous measures as “blacks get 2 votes in America, and whites only get 1 vote”. And, which blacks would qualify for the 2 votes? Only those with proven descendancy from actual slaves here, or anyone with dark enough skin? You’re a racist ignorant DOPE, and I hope you lose your teaching position so that you won’t be in a situation where you can infect young minds with your stupidity.


16 posted on 12/23/2020 10:38:54 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC
"This is absolutely the craziest, dumbest thing I’ve heard today. MY people were slaves in Egypt for 400 years, buddy"

All true.

What millennials don't know, because the evil left has dumbed them down, is that a majority of all Europeans were slave serfs from late antiquity up to until the 1850s.

Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to slavery, which developed during the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century.

As with slaves, serfs could be bought, sold, or traded, with some limitations: they generally could be sold only together with land (with the exception of the kholops in Russia and villeins in gross in England who could be traded like regular slaves), could be abused with no rights over their own bodies, could not leave the land they were bound to, and could marry only with their lord's permission. Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the lord of the manor who owned that land. In return, they were entitled to protection, justice, and the right to cultivate certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence. Serfs were often required not only to work on the lord's fields, but also in his mines and forests and to labor to maintain roads. The manor formed the basic unit of feudal society, and the lord of the manor and the villeins, and to a certain extent the serfs, were bound legally: by taxation in the case of the former, and economically and socially in the latter.


source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom

38 posted on 12/23/2020 11:38:49 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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