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For the record, Obama descended from white slave owners
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| March 3, 2007
Posted on 03/02/2007 7:49:02 AM PST by dead
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:49:05 AM PST
by
dead
To: dead
"And it is a true measure of progress that the descendant of a slave owner would come to marry a student from Kenya"
Slave guilt offset marriage?
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:50:46 AM PST
by
Sax
To: dead
Blacks in the USA did own slaves. "Blacks" (Zulu's) owned slaves in Africa and sold them to traders that brought them here.
While the black community tries to imply whites invented slavery at the forming of this nation, slavery dates back to the beginnings of man. Only USA and Britain (majority white) have actually owtlawed the practice hundreds of years ago. As a point slavery is done legally today in Africa as blacke own blacks.
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:54:39 AM PST
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: dead
Hillary Clinton camp in full attack.
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:56:58 AM PST
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: Sax
Why, this makes him a "man of the people" and a "great uniter" then, doesn't it?
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:57:20 AM PST
by
50sDad
(Cultural Diversity means never having to say "I don't fit in.")
To: dead
So now let us see and hear Osama Obama stand up in front of the NAACP and crow about "victims of slavery"....hehehe.
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:57:22 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: dead
Should Obama apologize? Should he pay reparations to himself?
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:57:25 AM PST
by
JoeGar
To: dead
Did his mother's slave owning forebearers own his father's ancestors?
If so, he'd owe himself reparations!
Inquiring minds want to know.....
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:57:45 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(McCain / Feingold - 2008 ... "Shut Up or Go To Prison")
To: dead
For the record, I suspect lots of black people are.
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:58:11 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: dead
It's crap like this that keeps a lot of good people from entering politics! What on earth difference does it make what your ancestors did through the ages? Everyone has the odd character in their geneaology.
Obama Hussein is not responsible for what his ancestors did. He is responsible for what he says and does.
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posted on
03/02/2007 7:59:29 AM PST
by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment rights--buy another gun today.)
To: JoeGar
"Should he pay reparations to himself?"
No way- Obama is purely a villain when it comes to slavery, not a victim. After all, he's the descendant of white slaveowners and black Africans who were never enslaved and most likely helped in the slave trade.
Obama might as well be living on a cotton plantation right now. :)
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posted on
03/02/2007 8:00:11 AM PST
by
MittFan08
(Anybody but McCain)
To: edcoil
Yes, blacks were enslaved and sold by blacks. And most of the slave traders within Africa itself were either blacks or Arabs.
What made black slavery different from slavery earlier, which as you say was universal, was the racial component. "Race" was pretty much a nineteenth century scientific invention.
Christianity gradually dispensed with slavery in Europe, although you still had serfs and peons and peasants and such. Although Christianity did not immediately outlaw slavery, it is fundamentally incompatible with it, since all souls are created by God. But slavery has been a part of Islam since the beginning, and is strongly supported by Mohammed himself.
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posted on
03/02/2007 8:01:37 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: jveritas
I would strongly suggest that Obama not go walking thru a park with Hil-o-ree.
To: dead
"While a relative owned slaves, another fought for the Union in the Civil War," "And that is why I will only pay half of the reparations money you whiteys have to pay..."
To: dead
Obama is all things to all people.
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posted on
03/02/2007 8:03:05 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
Si he should look in the mirror and say:
Font Color="white">I'm sorry!"
To: dead
As a genealogist myself, I did some tracking, and also looked at Mr. Reitweisner's work. The tree appears solid. The Mareen Duvall book is very well known in genealogical circles and if St Barack had Duvall ancestors, he has slaveowner ancestors.
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posted on
03/02/2007 8:03:34 AM PST
by
CivilWarguy
(CivilWarGuy)
To: JoeGar
Should Obama apologize? Should he pay reparations to himself? Absolutely, it'd be as genuine as Gore buying "carbon offsets" from his own company.
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posted on
03/02/2007 8:05:20 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(WARNING: The above post may contain sarcasm... if unsure, please remember to use all precautions)
To: dead
Does this mean he has to pay reparations to himself or to Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson?
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posted on
03/02/2007 8:06:19 AM PST
by
xrp
(Republicans Message: Vote for us, we suck less than Democrats.)
To: dead
Slavery happened, the Crusades happened, the Inquisition happened. Time to stop whining and move on and cure the evil that Mohammad left.
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posted on
03/02/2007 8:07:37 AM PST
by
FixitGuy
(By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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