Sharpton: "40 acres and a mule" convention comment

American History | 7/30/04 | Jacques Ditte

[ponderit]

Just in case anyone missed this one.

Sharpton's claim that the freed slaves never got the 40 acres and a mule is correct.
But it's actually not the fault of the Republicans. It was President Andrew Johnson (Democrat) who vetoed the bill passed by Congress in 1869. Take that mule all the way to the DNC!

[SunnySide]

I started a thread the night Sharpton said this but I guess it was too HOT and got pulled off this board.


Shows ta go ya (shrug) No harm No foul and all that jazz

[Cincinatus]

Sharpton also failed to mention that the Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction in the south, re-established southern state governments that proceeded to pass Jim Crow laws.

All those governments were Democrats.

[Nat Turner]

you know Big AL is a liar LOL or he does not know history. It was the republicans that got the civil rights act and the voting rights act passed. Dems like Al Gore Sr and others stood in the way. He is old enough to know better.

[Morgan's Raider]

Try again. IIRC that was an off-the-wall statement made by William Tecumsech Sherman regarding his idea for the disposition of freed slaves and property of Southern landholders who had been loyal to the Confederacy. It never approached a condition of law.

[Willie Green]

It was President Andrew Johnson (Democrat) who vetoed the bill passed by Congress in 1869

Kudos to Johnson.
If today's RINO controlled congress passed the same welfare legislation,
ol' Dubya would be right there to give it his rubber stamp approval.

[jpl]

Until the day I die, I'll never know how in the world a vile lowlife like Al Sharpton who slandered a good police officer and got famous on one of the great hoaxes of all time ever managed to become a mainstream persona who gets featured telling jokes on Jay Leno.

[LetsRok]

The former slaves were also given Hilton Head Island, but sold it back to the whites years ago.

[Sapper26]

you know Big AL is a liar LOL or he does not know history.


The proper conjuction is 'and' as in:

you know Big AL is a liar LOL AND he does not know history.

[syriacus]

It's true we need to learn lessons from history, but the Democratic presidential hopefuls want to relive the past.

Sharpton wants to relive the period immediately after the Civil War Era and Kerry wants to relive the Vietnam Era.

In this age of terrorism, I certainly don't want to follow leaders who are looking backward.

[cyborg]

Never trust a damn yankee bearing gifts in a carpetbag!

[Lizavetta]

Thanks to liberals and their taxing policies, most people today probably couldn't afford the property taxes on 40 acres.

[Non-Sequitur]

But it's actually not the fault of the Republicans. It was President Andrew Johnson (Democrat) who vetoed the bill passed by Congress in 1869. Take that mule all the way to the DNC!

Actually it didn't. The whole 40 acres and a mule thing came from General Sherman's Field Order 15 which ordered the distribution of 40 acres of tillable land to the head of every freed slave family, land to come from southern property owners, and the distribution subject to the approval of the President. A mule was never specifically included, but Sherman said that the Army would loan the freedmen any surplus pack animals available be. Since the land was confiscated and not purchased Johnson did not approve the plan.

[conserv13]

I think you are right.

Also, are we really discussing something that Al Sharpton said? Nobody takes him seriously.

[newgeezer]

ol' Dubya would be right there to give it his rubber stamp approval.

... and let the SCOTUS sort it out. So much for, "The buck stops here" (much less the oath of office).

[just me]

Democrats rewrite history to suit their needs. That is why they are always dumbing down education. Some people do believe every thing they hear without checking to be sure it is true.

[Restorer]

Also relevant to point out that the Confederacy was a one-party state, and the party was Democratic.

In the North, te party ran on an 1863 platform calling for an immediate end to the the war, presumably leaving all blacks in servitude in areas not already overrun by the Union Army.

[Rummyfan]

Worse still, he practically incited arson against a Jewish-owned store in Harlem. I believe seven people died in the fire. Was he even charged? Nope. Most recently when Aliyah (sp?) was killed in a plane crash and her funeral - rivalling Diana's for pomp - was called into question by Rod Dreher of the Post, Sharpton attacked him verbally and his e-mail and voice mail was soon overflowing with death threats. Sharpton is nothing but a glib criminal.

[Caipirabob]

I was so PO'd about his lies. He attributed the Civil Rights act to the DemocRATS when they OPPOSED it and a Republican Congress got it passed. Heck, he doesn't want people to remember AlGore's RAT Father voted against the Civil Rights act. What would that sort of FACT do if their base learned the real truth?!?

Looks it up, rats. The truth is out there.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Sharpton tried to refute what Bush said in his NUL speech but he couldn't, so he returned to the same old race-baiting propaganda.

He also lied about the Civil Rights act...he said Democrats signed it. No Al, it was REPUBLICANS who voted for it, Al Gore's father being one of the Rats who voted against it.