Posted on 02/22/2019 3:47:46 PM PST by EveningStar
My ancestors were persecuted by the Germans during the Kulturkampf in Poznan.
My wife & I will go to our local Red Lobster for our anniversary. The service is great, the food is excellent and reasonably priced, the music is mellow, and the wait staff love veterans and say “Thank you for your service!” We are both Army retirees. Guess it shows somehow.
If it’s your anniversary, they bring complimentary cake with a candle.
And the cheese biscuits are to die for. Tried to replicate them at home; better to just go there.
That is a complete and utter fantasy on your part. And you appear to be declaring to all of us here that you haven't even the faintest clue how China and North Korea function.
Shut up and pay attention.
The context was about African Americans receiving reparations from American tax payers, because of slavery in America.
It's as I said.
I think you’re right. The Civil War was definitely about state’s rights...the right to own slaves. What if Americans had never owned slaves? Would the Civil War been fought? I think not.
Um, none of the above.
Well, black people do. Not a single one alive had any family members they knew who was a slave. It’s living in the past, and a crutch for all that ills them.
Yep
Yes, you’re right, and now you’re not the right color.
Uncivil malignancy ?
Reparations? I thought the free “Obama phone” was the reparations.
First explorers to Africa found centuries-old trade routes used to transport goods and slaves. From the 8th century on, the spread of Islam meant the spread of slavery - the islamists depopulating entire regions.
From around 900AD, slaves were transported from Africa to South America to work cane fields. The Portuguese were the first to take over the Atlantic routes.
In the Pacific, Peruvians slaved the Easter and Marquesas islands for labor for the guano mines of Chili and Peru.
The first slaves into Messico were brought by 15th century Spaniards. Messico officially abolished slavery in 1829 but blacks weren’t acknowledged as a separate racial group until the census of 2015.
Throughout Central and South America, blacks remain a lower caste. And slavery, of all races, is still alive and well in the Far East, the Middle East and Africa.
Not only was slavery abolished in the US, from the early 1800s until current times, Americans (and other WASP/C nations) have largely stood alone in taking historic measures to compensate and protect the ancestors of their own slave populations. Programs that have been increasingly abused by those who cannot claim ancestry. Enough is enough.
We live in a world where one is judged by their credit rating. Time for everyone to take responsibility for their own and stop blaming a boogie-man other.
Idiot. The United State of America was a slave nation. Lincoln would have done anything to preserve the Union, including not “freeing” a single slave. At lease so he said.
The congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that would have prohibited EVER eliminating slavery to preserve the Union and sent it out to the states for ratification. But then the war broke out. While the “war was fought over the rights of slave,” the US was a slave nation. Undisputed. The Confederate constitution was the same as the US’s with minor changes, like a single 6 year term for the president and a line item veto for the president. Both constitutions preserved slavery. What, you didn’t know that?
Were you opposed to the colonies leaving Great Britain? Both were slave nations as well.
Excellent reply, chuckee!
He is right!
“I would also think the T Carlson may agree with me/us-in principle- that the Government is ‘enslaving’ its citizens today with all the welfare programs, the only REAL difference being that being on welfare today (for the most part) means you don’t HAVE to work.”
Non-/won’t-workers are kept on the plantation by the “just enough” level of the programs (to the tune of about $60k pre-tax job, if they take advantage of everything).
And the working crowd are the new slaves, paying for the non-/won’t-working crowd.
“We need reparations” my royal Irish @ss.
So if slavery didn’t exist there would still have been a civil war?
If Lincoln didn’t exist there would still have been a civil war?
If Slavery didn’t exist would there have been an Abolitionist movement ?
He's right. We are one-hundred-fifty-four years removed from the passage of the 13th Amendment. How much longer will black charlatans - like Sharpton and Jackson to name two - use this as an excuse?
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