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Americanthinker.com ^ | 3/17/2021 | Ned Cosby

Posted on 03/17/2021 10:34:43 AM PDT by rktman

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Oh Ned you so silly. Seems more folks died during the (un)civil war than the number of persons moved here from Africa. And maybe 5% of folks living today can actually trace their kin folks back to that...... But, you know as well as we that we ain't done "paying" by a long shot.
1 posted on 03/17/2021 10:34:43 AM PDT by rktman
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Name one nation that hasn’t had slavery in it’s history.


2 posted on 03/17/2021 10:39:44 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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Slavery wasn't a national mistake. It was something that was part of human culture when our nation was born.

We inherited it...and then we fought and died to get rid of it.

If anything, its death here should be a source of pride.

3 posted on 03/17/2021 10:46:39 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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I would say the biggest mistake was allowing a progressive scale income tax.


4 posted on 03/17/2021 10:47:01 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: LastDayz

How much does Egypt owe Jewish people and their descendants


5 posted on 03/17/2021 10:54:24 AM PDT by Josa
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Payments only to those who were actual slaves. Deductions for all the welfare payments and crime fighting costs. Exemptions for those who were not alive during slavery.


6 posted on 03/17/2021 10:54:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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If you want to buy a black slave today you can! In Africa.


7 posted on 03/17/2021 10:56:44 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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It's not about fairness or making up for the past. It's simply a grift. Welfare has created a class of people (not limited to any one race) who are professional moochers. They'll invent any number of "reasons" why they deserve more:


8 posted on 03/17/2021 10:57:45 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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The Democrat’s Jim Crow is arguably much more harmful than slavery.


9 posted on 03/17/2021 10:58:42 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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The author is an f’ing idiot. Slavery was not a mistake. Slavery was a condition that had existed thousands of years and continues in parts of the world today. Our nation made the decision to end slavery and paid dearly for it.


10 posted on 03/17/2021 11:10:57 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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If someone were to ask me what the United States of America's greatest mistake was, I would answer without hesitation: slavery.

YOU would be WRONG!

America's greatest mistake was allowing its USSC to legalize the murder of its most innocent citizens in 1973.

" Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness " is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their creator and which governments are created to protect.

Slavery is a horrible stain on America, but it pales to insignificance to murder, for nation mentioning life in its Declaration, not only in numbers (over 60 million), but also in suffering (cut to pieces with a knife inside your mother's womb).

If, as Lincoln suggested, that the death and destruction wrought by the civil war was divine retribution to the U.S. for possessing slavery, saying that God may will that the war continue "until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword," and that the war was the country's "woe due."

How much more shall divine retribution to the U.S. be for the murdering of its most innocent?

Wake UP, America! May God have mercy on you!

11 posted on 03/17/2021 11:17:45 AM PDT by amorphous
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The West has had a 133 year hiatus in the practice of slavery. When my grandparents were born in 1900, slavery had only been ended (peacefully, BTW) in Brazil for 12 years.
Slavery, like poverty and tyranny, is the norm. The fact that the West managed to suppress slavery (in the West...) for a 133 years is a colossal achievement.
But slavery is pretty obviously on the way back. All you have do is look at the ‘unaccompanied minors’ being smuggled in and guess at their likely fates...


12 posted on 03/17/2021 11:22:55 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State (1945-1947) “Speaking Frankly”, p. 169 - “Forced labor (slavery) camps are a symbol of Hitler’s regime that we should eliminate as rapidly as possible.” Slavery in 1947? How progressive.


13 posted on 03/17/2021 11:23:02 AM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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Affirmative action was supposed to correct the effects of slavery.

Now the same people claim reparations are needed.

And that’s in addition to bending the knee to “Critical Race Theory”.

Oh, don’t forget, your support for defunding the police.

Then there’s getting rid of your white privilege (even though you never had it), and removing math, English, tests, and any kind of western civilization education from schools because it’s all racist (and sexist, too).

And forfeit your cars or anything that has wheels, because it’s likely those were racist inventions as well.


14 posted on 03/17/2021 11:26:43 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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Slaves were offered for sale in Africa by Africans.

If slaves weren’t offered for sale in Africa, sailing ships manned by white people would not have been able to bring them over in massive numbers to badly infect the New World with slavery.


15 posted on 03/17/2021 11:32:02 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The United States as an institution had very little to do with slavery.

Slaves were private property. If a slave escaped, a bounty would have been offered up by his/her owner. Escaped slaves probably only made it to another state rarely. Private bounty hunters probably handled the return of most of the interstate escapees with no government intervention whatsoever.


16 posted on 03/17/2021 11:36:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Not to mention that the indigenous empires of central & south America fought wars against neighboring tribes in large part to enslave their peoples. So it’s note even a unique characteristic of white Europeans to act the part of slavers. Every race did it for most of human history for varied reasons.


17 posted on 03/17/2021 11:39:25 AM PDT by Tallguy
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Indigenous? After leaving africa and central asia across the bearing land bridge and spreading around north, central and south america. :-)


18 posted on 03/17/2021 11:45:55 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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$14T. $350,000 per person: that 40 Million recipients.
Currently there are 40 million blacks in America.

So this guy is saying that every black in America is the descendent of a slave? How about those who just arrived last week?


19 posted on 03/17/2021 11:46:30 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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Somewhere along the line all of our ancestors have been enslaved by someone.


20 posted on 03/17/2021 11:47:58 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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