Okay, I'll bite.
What's your IQ?
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
Posted on 10/08/2012 9:59:49 AM PDT by lbryce
Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims.
The claims were made in books written, respectively, by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and House candidate Charlie Fuqua of Batesville. Those books received attention on Internet news sites Friday.
On Saturday, state GOP Chairman Doyle Webb called the books "highly offensive." And U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, a Republican who represents northeast Arkansas, called the writings "divisive and racially inflammatory."
Hubbard wrote in his 2009 self-published book, "Letters To The Editor: Confessions Of A Frustrated Conservative," that "the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise." He also wrote that African-Americans were better off than they would have been had they not been captured and shipped to the United States.
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Okay, I'll bite.
What's your IQ?
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
Nonsense.
For a politician to talk about slavery, a century and a half after the civil war, with anything remotely resembling a supportive attitude, is dumb beyond belief.
The comparison seems only superficially valid.
One day when the history of the black race on Earth is written, slavery in America will be cited as the greatest single positive contributor to whatever they became. It is their ticket into the modern world and along with it, the opportunity for acceptance and respect.
My IQ? High enough to know white IQs are significantly higher than those of blacks
——They (scholars Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein) also stated that the average IQ of African Americans is 85; Latinos 89; Whites 103; Asians 106
“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” - Abraham Lincoln, March 1865
Doesn’t refute my point a bit. The truth is what it is. Slavery to America was a better option than certain death at the hands of those who captured you and no longer had a need to have you around. Slavery to America morphed into freedom. The rest will always be a product of these two events.
What would it take for you to willingly become a slave?
Is that right? Well, I want to see if yours is higher than mine.
My IQ is 127. Yours?
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
Good quote.
Slavery ended almost a century and a half ago.
Theoretically this may just be an academic question of whether blacks in America are better off today having been enslaved centuries ago. Politically, it's a third-rail issue -- touch it and you're dead.
Any white person in politics defending slavery today is making a major mistake for no good reason.
For conservatives who value individual freedom, arguing for the benefits of even benevolent slavery is foolish. As conservatives, we ought to know that the poorest and most wretched freeman is in a better condition than the most pampered house slave.
Freedom is worth fighting for.
Availability of options when one makes choices determine what these choices are. Like I indicated, there weren't any other options other than death for those whose were shipped to America. No one at the time could foresee that their descendents would be the lucky ones given the opportunities that exist today. This is not defending slavery. This is stating a fact. If you disagree with that fact, state your case. See if you can state it without the "slavery is rotten" argument because you and I both agree that it is.
Your IQ is 127? That’s probably about 40 points too high, based on the quality of your posts.
But it doesn’t matter how low your IQ is. My point was that liberals refuse to discuss white and black IQs. The liberals know it would weaken their case for affirmative action, their fond notion that every minority person is a potential genius struggling to breathe free in the white-run nation.
The good news about IQs is that raw intelligence is not as important as hard work, common sense and ambition. That’s what it takes to succeed in this world. Whites (slackers) can be just as lazy as anyone else.
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