Posted on 06/23/2015 11:56:19 AM PDT by EveningStar
Edited on 06/24/2015 8:32:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Why are people shocked that GWTW was made...the novel was a huge best seller. Those get made into movies...almost all the time.
You're exactly right. Sometimes they even get caught discussing their plan of action.
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From “Slavery in New Jersey” :
New Jersey's slave population, unlike that of other colonies, actually increased during the Revolution, mainly through migration from other states. But the white population increased at a much faster rate, and wages for laborers became affordable to employers, while the cost of feeding and maintaining and guarding slaves remained high. By 1786, when a ban on slave importation into New Jersey took effect, the institution was dying an economic death. The 1800 census counted 12,422 New Jersey slaves, but the white population had boomed from 1786 to 1800, increasing at a rate six times that of blacks. This is not surprising, in part because in the same year New Jersey banned importing of slaves it also forbid free blacks from entering the state with intent to settle there.
In 1804 the New Jersey Legislature passed “An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery.” It provided that females born of slave parents after July 4, 1804, would be free upon reaching 21 years of age, and males upon reaching 25. Like New York's, this law held a hidden subsidy for slaveowners. A provision allowed them to free their slave children, who would then be turned over to the care of the local overseers of the poor (the state's social welfare agency in those days). The bill provided $3 a month for the support of such children. A slaveowner could then agree to have the children “placed” in his household and collect the $3 monthly subsidy on them. The evidence suggests this practice was widespread, and the line item for “abandoned blacks” rose to be 40 percent of the New Jersey budget by 1809. It was a tax on the entire state paid into the pockets of a few to maintain what were still, essentially, slaves.
Furthermore, New Jersey slaveowners had the option to sell their human property into states that still allowed slaveholding, or into long indentures in Pennsylvania, until an 1818 law that forbid “the exportation of slaves or servants of color.”
New Jersey, like other northern states, replaced outright slavery with stricter controls of free blacks. Black voters were disenfranchsed by an 1807 state law that limited the franchise to “free, white male” citizens.
In 1830, of the 3,568 Northern blacks who remained slaves, more than two-thirds were in New Jersey. The institution was rapidly declining in the 1830s, but not until 1846 was slavery permanently abolished. At the start of the Civil War, New Jersey citizens owned 18 “apprentices for life” (the federal census listed them as “slaves”) — legal slaves by any name.
But don't you dare call him/her/it a hater!
Ok, I get it....... but I still love that old movie.
Haters gonna hate. No need to read further than the first two or three sentences.
The simple fact is that Dylann Roof did not shoot those people because the Confederate flag was flying on the statehouse grounds. Removing the flag will not prevent some future racist from murdering others. The flag is a scapegoat in this. A convenient symbol to blame things on because trying to find the real cause is just too hard. And politicians are jumping on the dump-the-flag bandwagon because it's easier and more poltically expedient than admitting that there really isn't anything we could have done to prevent Roof's rampage and there isn't anything we can do to prevent some future racist from doing something similar.
My favorite part is when Scarlett makes her own gown for the ball and she has the curtain rods sticking out.......
“... I hate Gone With the Wind. I hate everything about it. I hate its portrayal of the Civil War. I hate its portrayal of Southern aristocrats. I hate its popularity. I hate that it’s become an iconic movie. I hate that it was ever made in the first place.”
Liberals are so hateful. Where is the tolerance? Oh, and with regards to the slavery thing, it wasn’t just the south. Lincoln wouldn’t have freed the first one had he not needed to do so in order to rally support for a war he was losing. The biggest mistake this country ever made was importing Africans.
My synopsis of the author’s two major points is as follows:
1) “I’m obnoxiously ignorant and I intend to stay that way!”
2) “I’m sanctimoniously intolerant and I intend to stay that way!”.
The Civil War was about he FEDERAL GIVERMENT and how it CAN MAKE the States SERVILE to it.. like a democracy..
Which it did... and how it could make the PEOPLE historical MORONS and civics MORONS, which it did.....
Took awhile though for the federal givernment to TAKE OVER EDUCATION.. and completely STOP teaching AMERICAN HISTORY.. and CIVICS...
TO generate a coupla generations of people with NO CLUE as to american history or even WORLD history... and have no idea about what CIVICS IS.. and how the Constitution demands that the American system should WORK...
Three governments.. LOCAL, State and federal.. NOT ONE GIVERNMENT.. America should have AND NEEDS another CIVIL WAR.. to RESTORE FREEDOM ....FROM.... GIVERNMENT..
Memo to What’s-His-Name:
It’s a movie, bub.
Lighten up, John. You hate hate hate GWTW, but that has nothing to do with the rest of your rant.
GWTW was not about slaves, or any politics about civil war. But you can’t tolerate something (movie or book) told from the southern view point.
Hey! I didn’t know Carol Burnett played Scarlett. :)
We probably need to ban this movie, because someone hates it
Like most good stories it’s about a hero’s journey. Starts out idyllic; quickly the indomitable hero (Scarlett) runs into troubles, then learns what REAL trouble is and has a death-rebirth in the turnips. At the end she’s lost all she thought mattered most to her and her own inessential qualities have been burned away, leaving pure steel in the spine and forward drive in the eyes.
She even achieves insight, at terrible cost. I’d call that a happy ending.
The historic details just help to present the theme using a time and place familiar to most readers.
Haters got to hate, hate, hate.....
Liberals are intellectual children.
Gone With The Wind is just the cause of all racism in the world. Before Gone With The Wind there was no racism. :-)
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