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Seattle Named After Slave Owner (Vanity)
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Posted on 08/17/2017 5:14:25 PM PDT by llevrok

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To: llevrok
Also, some joint named "Brown University" in Providence RI. Named for the guy who funded it - whose trade was ... Slave Dealer!!

Not very PC!

41 posted on 08/17/2017 6:07:40 PM PDT by Riflema
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To: llevrok

Well they weren’t captured and sold. Whatever, you’re right. Slaves are slaves.


42 posted on 08/17/2017 6:22:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer (There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
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To: Frank_2001

seattle will need a pass now that Marshawn Lynch is gone.


43 posted on 08/17/2017 6:43:29 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We are owned by our dogs....that’s how it works with English bulldogs....THEY own you not the other way around. lol


44 posted on 08/17/2017 6:49:55 PM PDT by bohica1
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This was so embarrassing that in 1986 the county was "renamed" after Martin Luther King, Jr.

The same Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King who was a Commie serial adulterer who used to beat up white prostitutes? The same one who plagiarized more than 40% of his dissertation?

45 posted on 08/17/2017 7:02:38 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: llevrok

That’s the real reason the europeans wanted to subvert the indians in north america.

It was well known that all tribes had teens and young adults that would go out in “war parties” that would steal stuff from other tribes, including people to use as slaves.

So the europeans came here to end slavery.


46 posted on 08/17/2017 7:10:13 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: SkyDancer

Further on in that Wikipedia article it says Seattle did own slaves, captives taken in raids.

Some Northwest Indian tribes even killed slaves to use as rollers for the canoes of their guests, as they arrived at a potlatch.

Every human alive must be the descendant of successful murderers, rapists, slavers and conquerors. The amazing thing is that we can be better than that at all.


47 posted on 08/17/2017 7:36:29 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: SkyDancer
“Well if so, they weren’t black slaves. Natives all across America attacked local tribes, captured slaves. This slavery was not the same as the slaves in Democrat controlled south.”

Just for the tally book, how did “this slavery” compare to human bondage in the slave states of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland?

48 posted on 08/17/2017 8:59:18 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: ladyjane

“The same Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King who was a Commie serial adulterer who used to beat up white prostitutes?”

I never did favor a man who beat women with his fists.


49 posted on 08/17/2017 9:02:54 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: llevrok

New York is named after the owner of a British Slave Trade company. Now what?


50 posted on 08/17/2017 9:05:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: SkyDancer

Why is it different? The truth is when past societies needed workers and there were no willing workers they generally enslaved whoever was handy at the time if they had the power to do so. We are likely all descended from people who were enslaved at one time or another by one group or another.


51 posted on 08/17/2017 9:18:58 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: SkyDancer

If they were not captured how did they become slaves? Slaves of every race have indeed been captured, bought, sold, worked, abused by others who were not just white people. Native Americans did have value on slaves, they were commonly sold- traded for things of value since their currency was trade goods.


52 posted on 08/17/2017 9:27:55 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: llevrok

I’d love to see Trump latch onto this! The amount of sputtering from the Left would be stupendous. There must be hundreds if not thousands of places named after former Native American slave owners / traders.


53 posted on 08/18/2017 1:59:02 AM PDT by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: Jane Long
New York is named after the owner of a British Slave Trade company. Now what?

Maybe it should be turned into a penal colony. Oh, wait, that's science fiction...or is it?

54 posted on 08/18/2017 2:19:39 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Robert Marly was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of doobies in his lifetime.


55 posted on 08/18/2017 7:29:30 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
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To: T-Bone Texan

You are correct, and the way he did them in is totally inhumane. He lit them on fore so as to inhale their burning flesh. He said it make him feel Rasta to its fullest, yeah mon. But thankfully he spared the doobie brothers. I hear it was because they were supplying him with their doobie offspring. 8>)


56 posted on 08/18/2017 3:14:45 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: llevrok

This is a good one.


57 posted on 09/01/2017 9:20:05 PM PDT by garjog
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