I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see. If I kill all the whiteys I see, Then whitey won't be bothering meeeeeee I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see.....
Posted on 11/03/2008 6:32:12 AM PST by forkinsocket
Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee.
The middle child of 13, Jones, who is African American, is part of a family that has lived in Bastrop County for five generations. The family has remained a fixture in Cedar Creek and other parts of the county, even when its members had to eat at segregated barbecue dives and walk through the back door while white customers walked through the front, said Amanda Jones' 68-year-old daughter, Joyce Jones.
For at least a decade, Amanda Jones worked as a maid for $20 a month, Joyce Jones said. She was a housewife for 72 years and helped her now-deceased husband, C.L. Jones, manage a store.
Amanda Jones, a delicate, thin woman wearing golden-rimmed glasses, giggled as the family discussed this year's presidential election. She is too weak to go the polls, so two of her 10 children — Eloise Baker, 75, and Joyce Jones — helped her fill out a mail-in ballot for Barack Obama, Baker said. "I feel good about voting for him," Amanda Jones said.
Jones' father herded sheep as a slave until he was 12, according to the family, and once he was freed, he was a farmer who raised cows, hogs and turkeys on land he owned. Her mother was born right after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Joyce Jones said. The family owned more than 100 acres of land in Cedar Creek at one point, she said.
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A liberal co-worker grew up in Dedham, MA and admitted once that he didn't meet an African-American until he went to college at Harvard.
Should have been “Slave’s daughter to wanna-be slave. Pathetic.”
Welcome to the real MA... :o)
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see. If I kill all the whiteys I see, Then whitey won't be bothering meeeeeee I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see.....
Mainly condoms and diaphragms.
Why is this story presented as news? Don’t over 95% of blacks vote for Obama, anyway?
Obama’s socialism is slavery.
If I do not control the fruits of my labor, I am a slave.
The irony is breathtaking.
“Slavery was horrible for all slaves” is a liberal myth.
Many slaves lived absolutely normal lives, and were treated well.
The horrible part was that they were “owned” and thus de-valued as human beings. This is no different in modern day communism where the “state” owns the citizens.
This “ownership” did not affect most of their day-to-day lives. They worked, played, ate and were comfortably housed for the most part. Many slave children learned to read, write and do maths right along with their owners’ children.
The “suffering” you speak of was limited to a very few.
In reality, the “suffering” that resulted from freedom was much greater: There was no more guaranteed food, no more guaranteed shelter and no safety.
Many plantations were nothing more than communist-style communes with the owner as the (usually benevolent) dictator/leader and the slaves as the workers working for the “greater good”.
Republicans freed her Daddy, and she votes Democrat for 70 years running...
I call BS. She was voting for the Democrats when the Dems were passing the Jim Crow laws? I don't think so!
I agree, that makes no sense.
I was making a general comment about the evils of slavery.
Wow, how earthshaking. An African-American stays true to form!!
Here’s a “Stop-the-presses” moment if ever there was one!!
(Day BEFORE the most important election in US history MUST be a slow news day in Austin!!)
Who sold the slaves in Africa and how many blacks OWNED slaves strange we never hear this from the lib msm.
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Who sold the slaves in Africa and how many blacks OWNED slaves strange we never hear this from the lib msm.
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I was a bit suprised to learn who the first REALLY big importer/owners
of African-origin slaves were in The New World:
The Spanish and Portugese...they had to really bring over shiploads
to replace the Native Americans they’d enslaved and worked to death.
This gets a modest discussion in the book “A Voyage Long And Strange”
by Tony Hurwitz (sp?). It’s a funny/serious travelogue of the author’s
travels around “The New World” to sites significant from the time of
the arrival of Columbus to the birthing of the USA.
I’d never thought about this as all you hear and see in the media is about
those “blue-eyed devils (and some were) from Northern Europe running
the slave trade.
It sounds like her family was actually well off.
Do you realize that after the Civil War many of the freed slaves did have a horrible time trying to survive. They didn't have the skills to farm and some petitioned the courts to become slaves again.
Do you realize most, perhaps all, of us have ancestors who suffered a great deal, e.g., Armenians, Roma, Jews, Indians, Irish, on and on.
Yes, slavery is a terrible thing. Some people choose slavery because they don't have the skills or the motivation to support themselves. Look at the inner cities today.
Like the taste of that koolaid do ya? IF America was the only country to ever have been a slaveholding nation, then yes, it would be a national scar, BUT slavery has existed since time immemorial. Slavery has crossed every national, ethnic, social, racial and historic boundary. Your statement infers that Americans are unique in having had slaves. We are not in the least unique in that regard, but the whites in this country fought a war amongst themselves to decide the fate of those held as slaves in their midst, and in that, we are unique.
Further, prior to the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, there was no nation called the United States, only a collection of colonies of the British Empire. When the Civil War started in 1861, the nation had only existed for 80 years. From the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 2008 is 143 years giving the USA a life span of 227 years, so slavery was only a part of America's history for barely one third of its existence. When you are willing to hold the rest of the world and all previous eras of time to the same standards you are judging America by, then you might have a point, but until then, you are just spewing worthless angst, and you can take that kind of unjustified spittle elsewhere. I hear that the DU and the KOSkiddies share your position on slavery.
Go ahead...attack me for thinking slavery is wrong.
Sorry, I don’t drink Kool Aid and the fact that you lump me with DU and Kos folks only shows your ignorance.
I maintain that slavery is, and always will be, a sad era in our history.
I was not talking about the rest of the word and their history with slavery, I was talking about America...the land that I LOVE.
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