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Ark. GOP Calls Candidates' Statements 'Offensive' (Called Slavery 'A Blessing in Disguise')
Yahoo via AP ^ | October 7, 2012 | CHUCK BARTELS | Associated Press

Posted on 10/08/2012 9:59:49 AM PDT by lbryce

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To: Aevery_Freeman
It was, after all, their own people that sold them to the whites. We were unable to go get them from the jungle.

Absolutely right. That the black African slave-traders were the very ones who facilitated the institution of slavery to the West without whom there would be no slavery is all I need to know about the horrors of it all. BTW: That Brazil owned, employed five times as many slaves as the US did is to me something that changes the entire complexion, phenomena of the US slave trade. Not once have I read or heard about any recriminations or talk about reparations for even a single slave forced to live and work in Brazil.

41 posted on 10/08/2012 10:51:36 AM PDT by lbryce (BHO-"Now, I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" by way of Oppenheimer at Trinity, NM)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Yeah, and they'd still be running around in the jungle with a tiger on their ass!

42 posted on 10/08/2012 10:51:50 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Mr. K

The Black Avenger, Ken Hamblin, once said on his radio show, that he is GLAD his ancestors were brought over, for obvious reasons today.


43 posted on 10/08/2012 10:55:15 AM PDT by annieokie (O)
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To: AppyPappy

Nobody said anything about wanting to be slaves. We Hebes were slaves before we wandered around in the desert for a generation. Would I want to go back to Egypt? Hell frikkin’ no!


44 posted on 10/08/2012 10:59:18 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason.)
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To: heye2monn
Oh there's a few more....

-Blacks in America owned slaves

-Free blacks willing fought on behalf of the Confederacy (which actually armed them with rifles and bullets)

It is now pretty well established, that there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels. Frederick Douglass

45 posted on 10/08/2012 11:06:02 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (Official Romney/GOP-E Platform - We suck less)
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To: lbryce

*Facepalm!*


46 posted on 10/08/2012 11:09:18 AM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert ( "Be Breitbart, baby!")
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To: lbryce

“Offensive” and “untrue” are not synonyms.


47 posted on 10/08/2012 11:13:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Orwell in the throes of a demonic possession could not have come up with the "tuck rule".)
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To: lbryce

Well, for the current generation of blacks, he’s right. Their ancestors having been slaves in the US WAS a blessing. If it weren’t for their servitude in the US they would be living in Zimbabwe, Somalia or some other lovely failed or semi-failed African state.

BTW: Most slaves were captured and sold by other black Africans. And they were “surplus” meaning that their captors didn’t need them; it is likely they would have been killed if they hadn’t been sold. The Africans didn’t know what the Europeans were doing them; they speculated that they were eating them - and didn’t care.


48 posted on 10/08/2012 11:13:41 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: lbryce

Jesse Jackson said the exact same thing.


49 posted on 10/08/2012 11:17:39 AM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Uncle Slayton
The realistic alternatives for those slaves were being a slave in Africa, a slave in America, or being dead. They were were “surplus” and their captors didn't need, or particularly want them.
So decide for yourself.
50 posted on 10/08/2012 11:18:19 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: MestaMachine

If you don’t want to be a slave, neither does anyone else. There has never been a redeeming quality to being a slave. Israel being formed is not a positive thing that came out of the Holocaust and neither is blacks in America a positive thing about slavery.

Slavery is wrong....period.


51 posted on 10/08/2012 11:22:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

1783? Where do you get that? And slavery is wrong. Get that through your skull.


52 posted on 10/08/2012 11:27:59 AM PDT by UltraV ("Well you've got to hand it to Mitt Romney, because President Obama sure did." Seth Myers, SNL)
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To: heye2monn
You want to compare relative income levels, do that with slaves in the American South vs. Free labor in the North. There are several books out that do exactly that. Plantation life turns out better on the material wellbeing scale ~ but there was no freedom.

I, myself, prefer freedom even if I have to live in holes in the ground and steal garbage from the alien elite who might be invited in by the Democrats to take over.

53 posted on 10/08/2012 11:29:10 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Unam Sanctam

HOW STUPID CAN PEOPLE BE TO BELIEVE ANYTHING AP AND THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE SAYS?


54 posted on 10/08/2012 11:30:57 AM PDT by gr8eman (Ron Swanson for President!)
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To: UltraV

You missed that one big time. Slavery in the United States of America has the same date as the start of the United States of America ~ which is actually 1776 or there abouts ~


55 posted on 10/08/2012 11:34:21 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: lbryce

Does anyone else remember this guy?: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/out-of-america-by-keith-b-richburg/


56 posted on 10/08/2012 11:37:29 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: 7thson
Someone page the black American author - I believe worked for the ComPost at one time - who wrote a book several years ago giving thanks that his ancestors were removed by force from Africa and brought to America as slaves.

See my post #56. Is that who you were recalling?

57 posted on 10/08/2012 11:44:19 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: muawiyah

That is very interesting — northern standard of income for free black labor lower than for southern slaves. I did not know that.

I agree with you on the idea of freedom. But it’s still amazing that so few ex-slaves were willing to move to Africa (Liberia). Remarkably, the ex-slaves did not want to leave the supposedly evil racist America.

Obviously our country was never that bad of a place all along.


58 posted on 10/08/2012 11:52:19 AM PDT by heye2monn (A)
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To: lbryce

Slavery has been an absolute curse on this country. No slavery means there would be no -American in African-American.


59 posted on 10/08/2012 11:58:23 AM PDT by crosshairs (America: Once the land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
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To: lbryce

“and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims”

I’m sending tha guy a donation.


60 posted on 10/08/2012 11:58:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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