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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

Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims.

The claims were made in books written, respectively, by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and House candidate Charlie Fuqua of Batesville. Those books received attention on Internet news sites Friday.

On Saturday, state GOP Chairman Doyle Webb called the books "highly offensive." And U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, a Republican who represents northeast Arkansas, called the writings "divisive and racially inflammatory."

Hubbard wrote in his 2009 self-published book, "Letters To The Editor: Confessions Of A Frustrated Conservative," that "the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise." He also wrote that African-Americans were better off than they would have been had they not been captured and shipped to the United States.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ar2012; slavery
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To: AppyPappy
If you’d like to become a slave(since you think it is a good thing), I’m sure the government can accommodate you.

We're ALL slaves now.
61 posted on 10/08/2012 12:01:16 PM PDT by crosshairs (America: Once the land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
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To: RavenLooneyToon
It is alot like saying Obama is a blessing in disguise.
Dead diplomats, dead Mexicans and boarder agents, dead economy, dead morality,dead constitution.
But it will wake true Americans to the near death of America.


And that is precisely the argument being made by some HERE who insist that having BHØ re-elected would be the best thing for 'conservatism' in particular and the nation in general;
Such is the hubris of their adolescent egos;
Such are their childish ideology tantrums that would put their 'purity' preening above the Republic's survival.

< spit >

62 posted on 10/08/2012 12:13:56 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: MestaMachine

The Australian women weren’t property that could be raped at will by their owners. Their children could not be taken away from them and sold like cattle. The men could not be castrated and mutilated by owners, or even killed at will the way people slaughter animals.
Just s few of the differences that you have overlooked.


63 posted on 10/08/2012 12:15:04 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: UltraV
That is when the American War for Independence ended and the United States came into existence. Prior to that we were British subjects.
64 posted on 10/08/2012 12:17:35 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (All Y'all White Peoples is racist!)
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To: crosshairs

More properly classified as sharecroppers because the massa’ doesn’t care if you starve as long as you pay your “fair share.”


65 posted on 10/08/2012 12:22:18 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (All Y'all White Peoples is racist!)
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To: lbryce

Why is it when I hear ANY politician from Arkansas say anything, I grab my wallet and feel like I need a shower?

That includes the “Huckster.”


66 posted on 10/08/2012 12:35:56 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: lbryce

People who were captured in the course of slave raids were headed for one of three destinations - (1) North America, (2) South America or (3) Arabia. Given that the captives were going to be slaves one way or another, they were very fortunate to be slaves in the US, because death rates were reputedly in the 90% range for South American- and Arabian-bound slaves, because they were simply worked to death, so ample and easy to obtain was the supply.


67 posted on 10/08/2012 1:02:37 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

There was slavery in the colonies for at least a hundred years’ prior. It doesn’t matter much to slaves who is in charge at the time.


68 posted on 10/08/2012 1:16:17 PM 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: muawiyah

Yes, I was thinking slavery in America which lasted way longer than a century. Technically he’s correct, but it probably didn’t matter to the slaves at the time.


69 posted on 10/08/2012 1:18:02 PM 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: RWB Patriot

I was about to post that same thing—for black Americans of today, the fact that their ancestors faced the horrors of slavery made them citizens of the greatest country in the world, instead of being citizens of some Third-World nation in West Africa. Doesn’t mean that what that GOP candidate said wasn’t inordinately stupid, though.


70 posted on 10/08/2012 1:29:39 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Cicero

Ditto. Well spoken (written?).


71 posted on 10/08/2012 1:30:23 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: AppyPappy
“So you wouldn’t mind being a slave, huh?”

Better than being dead. In ancient Greece and Roman times slaves were mostly treated well, room & board etc. Many got their freedom from greatfull owners.

In my case though, I would be the conqueror.

72 posted on 10/08/2012 1:34:44 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: kabumpo

Perhaps tou should more history. It was that bad and worse. Here is an example.

“Convicts who attempted to escape were sent to tiny Norfolk Island, 600 miles east of Australia, where the conditions were even more inhumane. The only hope of escape from the horror of Norfolk Island was a “game” in which groups of three prisoners drew straws. The short straw was killed as painlessly as possible and a judge was then shipped in to put the other two on trial, one playing the role of killer, the other as witness.”


73 posted on 10/08/2012 1:49:53 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason.)
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To: AppyPappy

Of course slavery is wrong...but it happened and still happens. We can’t go back in time and change history. WE would not have or own slaves now because we all believe it is wrong, yet we give foreign aid to countries who DO own slaves which is ALSO wrong.


74 posted on 10/08/2012 2:02:29 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason.)
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To: heye2monn
The 'northern standard of living for free WHITE labor' was lower than for slaves in the South.

The machines set us free ~ all of us ~ and now they are taking all our jobs!

75 posted on 10/08/2012 2:28:52 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Uncle Slayton
Would you submit yourself and next 15 generations of your descendants to slavery if you knew that in 300 hundred years your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchild would have citizenship in the greatest country on the planet?

No. Would you?

76 posted on 10/08/2012 2:34:18 PM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: MestaMachine

No, it is you who have overlooked significant facts. First of all, you have not answered my statement that convicts/deportees were not chattel, could not be treated as property, i.e., raped, castrated, mutilated at will. Second, you did not answer the fact that the children of convicts/deportees were not property that could be sold, continuing for generations. Third, the deportation was a sort of “final solution” to get rid of the convicts, not a flourishing business, like slavery that was the foundation and cornerstone of an empire.
As to your statement about how harsh conditions were on that penal island, I will point out to you that you are overlooking the salient detail that the prisoners were criminals, being punished - however harshly or unjustly, whereas the Africans were foreigners who were innocent people , captured and enslaved for hundreds of years.


77 posted on 10/08/2012 2:49:03 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: lbryce

It sure wasn’t any kind of blessing for this country. Look what we have now — working taxpayers are the slaves, paying decade after decade of “repamarations” in the form of welfare, etc. And having what we work so hard to earn being taken away from us by force is hardly the only aspect of slavery that’s been “reversed”.


78 posted on 10/08/2012 2:54:04 PM PDT by PermaRag (If Trayvon had a father, he'd look just like Obama)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Exactly!


79 posted on 10/08/2012 3:05:18 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Thanks for posting that article — it is now my new benchmark for stupidity in print. The slavers weren’t Jewish — they were Muslim Arabs.

No mention is made either of the slaves' original captors, their fellow blacks from other tribes. They then sold their slaves to the Muslim Arab slave traders.

Can't have any blame cast on blacks or Muslims though, can we?

80 posted on 10/08/2012 3:37:42 PM PDT by Bob
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