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An Appalling Idiocy: A Slave Memorial
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| May 28, 2003
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 05/28/2003 7:35:01 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Every must understand this. Our Constitution in no way whatsoever established slavery. It did end it.
I've heard lots of people -- usually young, public school grads -- sneeringly insist that it did. It did not. Slap them down when you hear them say this.
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posted on
05/29/2003 7:32:31 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Tailgunner Joe
When are we going to memorialize the 43,000,000 (and counting) slaughtered by Roe v. Wade.
bump to read later
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posted on
05/29/2003 7:37:27 AM PDT
by
meema
To: mhking
You should write a syndicated column. You're a great writer.
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posted on
05/29/2003 9:40:03 AM PDT
by
RAT Patrol
(Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
To: mhking
Nicely put.
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posted on
05/29/2003 9:48:40 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
To: Chancellor Palpatine
I gave up Marlboros at around 30....I had quit briefly a few years before.
I took up cigars at a poker game about 9 or 10 years ago. I smoke the big sticks...I don't inhale anything but what seeps in.....it's very hard to go from fags to cigars in order to get off fags since the impulse is to go back to inhaling all the time...which in the case of a big fat stogie will knock yer head off.
My wife smokes slimes...I wish she'd quit. I told her I'd quit stogies if she would but stogies are a lot easier to just drop. I can smoke a couple a day or go a few days without one....it's different unless you're Mark Twain or Churchill who were serious cigar junkies.
Good luck.
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posted on
05/29/2003 9:59:13 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
To: mhking
THANKS!
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posted on
05/29/2003 11:38:57 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
To: mhking
NICE!
i'll support a slave memorial the day AFTER we get toerect a memorial on Monument Ave. in Richmond,VA to the 100,000 or so black CSA soldiers, sailors & marines who fought/bled/died for the cause of DIXIE LIBERTY!
FRee dixie,sw
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posted on
05/29/2003 11:41:16 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
To: wardaddy
The Empress has quit smoking slimes in sympathy for my predicament - of course, it is really damn easy for her. The thing I've noticed is an increase in my energy level, and I sleep better.
To: mhking
As enriching to us nationally and individually such a museum would be, I have little hope of seeing one erected. When you consider that there has been a small movement for decades to build a museum in D.C. to the victims of Communism (over 100 million world-wide slaughtered by their own governments), and it is going
nowhere, then a museum dedicated to understanding slavery historically hasn't a chance.
The liberals have too much say and control over such thing. They don't want Americans having a clear understanding of the consistent consequences of Communism, and they certainly aren't going to allow their race-baiting tactics to be diminished.
But I'm thankful you both also see the value of such a museum. It's a dream I have had for a long time. But I know it's just a dream.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:39:13 PM PDT
by
WaterDragon
(America the beautiful, I love this nation of immigrants.)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Well...you're better off no doubt....not a lot of old male fag smokers.
I went on a 27 day sailing adventure and took one pack...and I did not pick them back up when I hit shore.
That's the easiest way....lock someone up for a week or two with food, water, entertainment, plenty of java, and some Xanax just in case. What they do when they are "let out" will be up to them.
My little brother chain smokes Reds...and herb. When he has a cigar with me...he always has a cigarette immediately afterwards.
There is a major difference in delivery and addiction between cigars and fags.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:51:27 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
To: wardaddy
Paternal grandfather was a (count 'em) FOUR pack a day man, along with being a raging yet functional alcoholic. Needless to say, he got his money's worth out of his life insurance by dying early. I can't say as I ever saw him without one burning.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Yep...my grandpa (paternal was well) smoked Luckies and dropped dead reading the paper on the veranda of his country squire estate after lunch at age 54. Scary.
Die young, leave a good looking corpse, and plenty of term life.
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posted on
05/29/2003 2:18:45 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
To: dagnabbit
As long as it's adjacent to the "Victims of Urban Crime Memorial"A memorial for all of the white people that black criminals have killed over the many decades. A black person killing an innocent white person is no less wrong than a white person enslaving a black person.
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posted on
05/29/2003 2:27:53 PM PDT
by
judgeandjury
(The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Well, if it isn't time for a slavery memorial, then we can rip down Confederate monuments...Maybe you should start with this one.
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posted on
05/29/2003 2:44:39 PM PDT
by
Tailgunner Joe
(Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't)
To: judgeandjury; Chancellor Palpatine; wardaddy; RAT Patrol; WaterDragon; stand watie; Dionysius; ...
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posted on
05/29/2003 6:01:40 PM PDT
by
Tailgunner Joe
(Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't)
To: Tailgunner Joe
I think they should drop to their knees and thank the LORD they no longer live in the African Continent. If they don't like it here they can return to slavery which still exists and it's not whites that are shackling them.
I'm tired of listening to the rant. I also think they are hurting their cause by continually begging for something for nothing and I'll never give them. MY LIFE
I owe them nothing.
Any respect I might have for them is dwindling fast.
To: mhking
That's a well-written letter, Mr. King.
Here's an interesting little tidbit that I heard from a relative of mine: She has a friend from Germany who is actually offended that the United States has a Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Why?
"Because Germans were the ones who carried out the Holocaust, not Americans -- so we are the ones who need to be reminded of it."
To: mhking
Several years ago in Boston a group of Irish Americans felt it was time for the Irish to get on the "victims" bandwagon and they demanded that a memorial to the Irish Potato Famine be put up in Downtown Boston. They got their wish. It is of a woman- dressed in rags (as if she were caveman) holding a naked dead baby and a little girl (likewise dressed in rags) - both reaching up to the sky in agony. It is maudelin and self pitying. I am offended by it every time I see it.
To: chachacha
It was recently disclosed that slavery was very much a part of the culture of the NORTH in the period before the War Between the States.
I'm more than a little suspicious of the timing of this "new discovery." The involvement of many members of the Northern merchant class in the slave trade has been well known for many years.
You can BET that Jesse Jackson, Sharpton and the rest of the race pimps will now use this "new discovery" to say "See, slavery was even MORE widespread here than we thought. White America needs to pay us MORE REPARATIONS!"
Trust me on this.
**********
I consider Alan Keyes, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams possessed of three of the finest minds extant today. In case you dont know them, all are black.
So far as I can tell, Keyes, Sowell and Williams oppose this idiotic call for reparations.
Those who are NOT descended from AMERICAN slaves need to sit down and shut up. Under even the most tortured, leftist, idiotic (redundant!) logic (oxymoron!), these people have no standing. And those who ARE descendants of slaves now calling for reparations need to remember a few things:
They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ON THE PLANET! Had their forebears NOT been sold to the slave traders, the blood of their ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago. Their ancestors would have been killed outright or worked to death by the OTHER black tribes who captured them in one of the interminable tribal wars still raging on that sad continent. These modern day would-be "plaintiffs" would not even exist.
And should the great-great-great grandchildren of the approximately 3,000 SLAVE OWNING BLACK plantation owners in this country also be subject to PAYING reparations?
If so, how do we find THEM?
Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of Roots. Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the Rebel flag incorporated into that states flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.
Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice:
Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it. He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.
What about the millions STILL living in slavery, held there by members of THEIR OWN RACE in Africa and elsewhere today?
Do you suppose THEY are NOT targets of these reparations whores because they have little or nothing of value for which they can be EXTORTED?
And how about the MILLIONS of WHITES and ASIANS who have slavery in their backgrounds?
And I have SLAVIC roots on my dads side. Does anyone have Johnnie Cochrans number PHONE number, that is. Past time for ME to sue someone for MY reparations.
Next problem!
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posted on
05/29/2003 7:23:53 PM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(Whom God would destroy, He first makes insane.)
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