White without Apology

TooGoodReports ^ | 08/13/03 | Bernard Chapin

[squidly]

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the United States. Even before that the northern states had outlawed slavery

The EP only freed the slaves within the states that were in rebellion, straight from the EP itself: all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free

Slaves in states that did not secede, Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri, were not freed until passage of the 13th Amendment after Lincoln's death.

[Ayn Rand wannabe]

Wasp69 beat me to it, but that's alright:

"That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

Or here: http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
Excerpted from the Emancipation Proclamation

[squidly]

looks like some folks beat me to it (g)

[Ayn Rand wannabe]

Vielen Dank.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Damn - its a working morning - I can't grab a bucket of popcorn and a beer to watch this one.

[Lazamataz]

With one or two well chosen pings, I could turn this into a civil war thread. I won't do it. But I could.

Why, whatever do you mean???

[Lazamataz]

Look at my post below yours, and revel in the fact that we are utterly evil.....

[mtbopfuyn]

when we are going to celebrate White History Month, when there will be a box labled "European-American" to check on my drivers license application, and when can I expect my reparations check from the government for killing many of my German ancestors?

Hear, hear!

[wasp69]

Any time.

[Larry Lucido]

walk into any coffee shop with a shirt that says, "I love Bush".

That gets me applause at my local sports bar. Also at WNBA games.

[wasp69]

Look at my post below yours, and revel in the fact that we are utterly evil.....

Laz, you are truly an irreverant breath of fresh air on FR. And you are utterly evil.

[driftless]

Conservatives will always have problems attracting the have-nots, because the conservative message is to tell someone that they are better off earning things on their own than stuff being given to them. Opportunity is the only thing that is owed all Americans. Liberals will always have the edge in attracting "the less fortunate", because people will always support the people that "give" them something. That "minorities" do not realize that all liberals give them are anchors around their necks is a tragedy. President Bush has a bully pulpit, and he must use it. He must pound home the conservative AMERICAN!! message.

[King Prout]

that's a chilling way of putting it.
hmmm.
I like it. I trust I have your leave to use it?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Oh, dude - there is something wrong with you. LOL.

[rdb3]

Thank you very much for NOT turning this into a Civil War thread. There are plenty of those already.

[mattdono]

That gets me applause at my local sports bar.

I usually will add in, "...and the President too".

[rdb3]

I like it. I trust I have your leave to use it?

Most def. Have at it.

[Huck]

LOL!

[GladesGuru]

Nice sting, Wasp!

[Lazamataz]

:o)