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Tracking Michelle Obama's slave roots
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| Joe Johns and Justine Redman
Posted on 07/16/2009 3:09:31 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: PLD
To bad we can't hear about those poor farmers that did their own work instead of having slaves AMEN! My family never owned a slave and I'm sick of lefties trying to put the blame on others for decades now. If BILLIONS in reparations aren't enough through WELFARE then NOTHING will ever be enough!
I guarantee there isn't a welfare recipient today that knows or even remembers any slaves in their family!
I thought we were supposed to 'get over' the past and try to make the world a better place?! I seem to remember that was what we were told when Bill Clinton got caught with his pants down.
"MOVE ON"!
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posted on
07/16/2009 3:44:31 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: Repeal The 17th
her great-great grandfather likely toiled in the fields here six days a week, from sunup to sundown Does this mean those vicious slavemasters gave him Sunday off? How could this be?
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/16/2009 3:46:08 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
07/16/2009 3:47:31 PM PDT
by
Califreak
(I can't answer that in the abstract)
To: Gay State Conservative
Change Irish for Scots-Irish and Filipino and I agree with you 100%.
To: Yankee; bfree; tacticalogic; Cicero; indylindy; kcvl; PLD; KarlInOhio; Sacajaweau; VeniVidiVici; ...
Are you missing the “Jim Rob” connection?
To: muawiyah; Jeff Chandler
You know, glad you mentioned Grant, in our family, he was always respected! The soldier’s soldier, I think they could relate better to him, besides, look how he treated Robert E. Lee and the South (allowing them to retain their horses/mules to make a living and other points). No, Grant was also a man of character. We’ll defend Grant.
JeffChandler got me to thinking about Wilburforce who for something like what, 20 years? Submitted a bill to abolish slavery to Parliament. He was ridiculed, threatened, smeared and castigated but he stuck by his principles. That’s it! PRINCIPLES! You Betcha! Grant had principles...
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posted on
07/16/2009 3:52:06 PM PDT
by
brushcop
(SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
To: brushcop
“...glad you mentioned Grant, in our family, he was always respected!...”
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Balderdash!
To: grey_whiskers
Not really a typo it as meant to be lardy..You see that is what my old Irish granny use to say all the time instead of cursing..She was a cute little round lady with rosie cheeks..rosie cheeks from working in the kitchen from the heated wood stove she cooked Lardy bread on..Fresh rendered lard,flour,sugar,spices and raisins..
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posted on
07/16/2009 3:57:23 PM PDT
by
PLD
To: grey_whiskers
Not really a typo it as meant to be lardy..You see that is what my old Irish granny use to say all the time instead of cursing..She was a cute little round lady with rosie cheeks..rosie cheeks from working in the kitchen from the heated wood stove she cooked Lardy bread on..Fresh rendered lard,flour,sugar,spices and raisins..
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posted on
07/16/2009 3:57:26 PM PDT
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PLD
To: Repeal The 17th
That Jim Robinson fellow sure gets around.
To: Repeal The 17th
Are you missing the Jim Rob connection?Who is this Jim Rob? People talk like he's somebody famous, like Jim Thompson.
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posted on
07/16/2009 3:58:33 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Repeal The 17th
I said, I said Boy (in my best Foghorn Leghorn accent), that he is respected in my FAMILY, not all the South, are ya listenin’ Boy??
LOL! and thanks...needed some humor this day after Sotomayor.
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posted on
07/16/2009 4:00:47 PM PDT
by
brushcop
(SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
07/16/2009 4:01:36 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(If you cannot be a good example you can serve as horrible warning - like Obama.)
To: Snurple
Well, that explains why the left has been attacking FR. Damn. I had no clue JimRob was that old.
To: kcvl
The liberal are liars they never get over anything..especially when they can blame the things they did on us..Like who had the slaves in the first place..Not me or my family..we at the time did not have the money but wouldn't think we would have slaves anyway..
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posted on
07/16/2009 4:05:56 PM PDT
by
PLD
To: Repeal The 17th
...Jim Robinson, likely toiled in the fields here six days a week...So he had a job and was working as a productive member of society...
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posted on
07/16/2009 4:11:16 PM PDT
by
sniper63
(Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
To: Repeal The 17th
Not that the Obamaâs would make anything up, but has any of this been substantiated? Or do we just take CNNâs accurate reporting on this?
To: brushcop
As far back as I can trace any of my family we did not own slaves. Many branches came here after slavery, and the ones I can find that were here during slavery were against slavery.
There is one exception. I can trace American Indian ancestry, and I know some Indian tribes kept slaves. Maybe I can claim victim and victimizer in the same ancestry!
To: sniper63
Bet their life as a slave was 1000 times better than what they would have had in Africa!!
To: Repeal The 17th
Damn near everybody toiled in fields 150 years ago, because it took so much effort to produce food that only a small percentage of the population could be supported to do otherwise. Technology and cheap energy allowed this to change, and “environmentalists” want to return to the bad old days.
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posted on
07/16/2009 4:16:22 PM PDT
by
3niner
(When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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