Posted on 02/12/2002 7:48:01 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Maybe some day, Jackson's sheeple will wake up and recognize the great progress that blacks have made in 50 years. How unfortunate for the black community that they don't condemn Jackson's infidelity that resulted in yet another black child born out of wedlock. They probably laugh at the reports of Jackson blackmailing 'white' corporations for millions of dollars on the pretense of helping black America (nod, wink, punch -- 'boy, he sure put one over on those white boys' -- who deserve it after the way they have discriminated against us poor black victims). They don't seem to care that Jackson is living a millionaire lifestyle from his blackmail alledgedly on behalf of blacks. Instead, they choose to be 'victims' of racism in a society where racism is now marginal.
The day Afro-Americans no longer identify themselves with a hyphen, is the day they will be acknowledged as fellow Americans. The same goes for any group that chooses to hyphenate their heritage while living in the land of freedom and opportunity for all
Mickey Kaus Analyzes Recent Statistics About Marriage and Welfare Reform
I strongly recommend you read it and follow some of the links within. The increase in black children born out of wedlock to a peak of about 70 percent in 1996 has been covered extensively by writers like Kaus, Thomas Sowell, Maggie Gallagher, Charles Murray, Myron Magnet, and Heather Mac Donald. They get their statistics from government agencies in Washington, DC - operations like the Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
It varies, but in Africa today there are no societies as barbaric and regressive as the old south. The souths heritage was the barbarism of Africa, and today, even Africa has moved ahead of that. There are the occasional lapse, but then, none have been so much like the evil incarnate found in Europe in the 20th century.
That is utter nonsense.
It varies, but in Africa today there are no societies as barbaric and regressive as the old south. The souths heritage was the barbarism of Africa, and today, even Africa has moved ahead of that. There are the occasional lapse, but then, none have been so much like the evil incarnate found in Europe in the 20th century.
Are you an ignoramus because you are too lazy to research your outlandish claims, or simply because you are a left-wing apologist for the brutal regimes that have killed millions on your beloved continent? It may pain you to realize this (although you won't realize it--only deny it), but the slaves in the south were property--valuable property--and as such, had to be taken care of. While I certainly never have and never would condone the practice or the institution, you can hang Alex Haley's fictional account up--it never happened. You have this visceral hatred of the South, and quite probably the US in general, judging your silly-assed comments at face value.
Go look up Sudan in your DU Book of Lies, or whatever fairy tale is on your pink nightstand. You might just learn something.
True enough.
Oh, you poor, pathetic baby. South Africa and other African countries opperate " better " than the old South ? You've just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, the paucity of your knowldge of that topic, and the abject stupidity you are working under. Before I shred you , I would like the answer to the following questions :
1. Who is Thabo Mbeki ?
2. What are the exact numbers of murders , in South Africa, between 1948 and 1994 AND between 1994 and 2001 ?
3. Who is Mugabe and what has he been up to ?
4. How many lynchings ( total ) have taken place in the " old " South ?
5. Have you ever been banned from FR ; if not, why are you here ?
Senator Daniel Patrick Monynahan ( you have heard of him , havent you ? ) write a well known treatisis , in the 60's, I believe, wherein he warned about the 30 % out of wedlock births to balcks . Since then , there have been other studies ( well known, to almost everyone ! ) with these stats. Go look it up.
If I were to base my opinions , about what is happening in the USA, by what I see around me, I would have to come to the conclusion, that everyone is making at least 6 figures, owns a summer house, goes to Europe, Asia, Africa, and / or Australia for vacations, at least twice a year ,belongs to a country club, and owns a minumum of two brand new cars ...one of them being a Range Rover or a Jeep, and the other/s being high end luxury cars. Is that a realistic overview of the population of the USA ?
If curiosity carries us to the origin of this law - and here I approach a topic often considered in this Chamber- we shall confess again its barbarism. It is not derived from common law, that fountain of liberty; for this law, while unhappily recognizing a system of servitude known as villienage, secured to the bondmn privileges unknown to the American slave; protected his person against mayhem; protected his wife against rape; gave his marriage equal validity with the marriage of his master, and surrounded his offspring with generous presumptions of freedom, unlike that rule of yours by which the servitude of the mother is necessarily stamped upon the child. It is not derived from Roman law, that fountain of tyranny for two reasons- first, because this law, in its better days, when its early rigors were spent - like the common law itself - secured to bondman privileges unknown to the American slave - in certain cases of cruelty rescued from his master - prevented the separation of parents and children, also of brothers and sisters - and even protected him in the marriage relation; and secondly, because the Thirteen Colonies were not derived from any of those countries which recognized Roman Law, while this law, even before the discovery of this continent, had lost all living efficacy. It is not derived from the Mahomedan law; for under the mild injunctions of the Koran, a benignant servitdue, unlike yourse, has prevailed, where the lash is not allowed lacerate the back of a female; where no knife or branding-iron is employed upon any human being to mark him as the property of his fellow-man; where the master is expressly enjoined to listen to the desires of his slave for emancipation; and where the blood of the master, mingling with his bond-woman, takes her from the transferable character of a chattel, and confers complete freedom upon her offspring. It is not derived fro the Spanish lawl for this law contains humane elements, unknown to your system, borrowed, perhaps, from the Mahomedan Moors who so long occupied Spainl and, besides, our Thirteen colonies had no umbilical connection with Spainl. Nor is it derived from English statutes or American statutes; for we have the positive and repeated averment of the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Mason] and also other Senators that in not a single State of the Union can any such statutes be found. From none of these does it come.
No, sir; not from any land of civilization is this Barbarism derived. It comes from Africa; ancient nurse of monstersl from Guinia, Dahomey, and Congo. There is its origin and fountain. This benighted region, we are told by Chief Justice Marshall in a memorabe Judgement, (The Antelope, 10 Wheaton R., 66) still asserts a right, discarded by Christendom, to enslave captives taken in war; and this African Barbarism is the beginning of American Slavery. And the Supreme Court of Georgia, A Slave State, has not shrunk from the conclusion. "Licensed to hold slave property," says the Court, "the Georgia planter, held the slave as a chattel; either directly from the slave trader, or from those who held under him, and he from the slave-captor in Africa. The property of the planter in the slave, became, thus, the property of the original captor." (Neal vs Farmer, 9 Georgia Reports, p. 555.) It is natural that a right, thus derived in defiance of Christendom, and openly founded on the most vulgar Paganism, should be exercised, without any mitigaging influence of Christianity; that the master's authority over the person of his slave- over his conjugal relations - over his parental relations - over the employment of his time - over all his acquisitions, should be recognized, while no generous presumption inclines to Freedom, and the womb of the bond-woman can deliver only a slave.
From its home in Africa, where it is sustained by immemorial usage, this barbarism, thus derived and thus developed, traversed the ocean to American soil. It entered on board that fatal slave ship "built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark," which in 1629 landed its cruel cargo at Jamestown, in Virginia, and it has boldly taken its place in every succeeding slave-ship from that early day till now - helping to pack the human freight, regardless of human agonyl surviving its countless victime plunged beneath the waves; and it has left the slave-ship only to travel inseperable from the slave in his various doom, santioning by its barbarous code every outrage, wheter of mayhem or robbery, of lash or lust, and fastening itself upon his off-spring to the remotest generation. Thus are the barbarous perogatives of barbarous half-naked African chiefs perpetuated in American slave masters, while the Senator from Virginia, [Mr. Mason] perhaps unconscious of their origin - perhaps desirous to secure for them the appearance of a less barbarous pedigree - tricks them out with the phrase of the Roman law, discarded by the common law, partus sequitor ventrum, which simply renders into ancient Latin an existing rule of African barbarism, recognized as an existing rule of American Slavery
Such is the plain juridical of the American slave code, which is now vaunted as a badge of civilization. But all law, whatever may be its juridical origin, whether English or Mahomedan, Roman or African, may be traced to other and ampler influences in nature, sometime of Right, and sometimes of Wrong. Surely the law which blasted the slave trade as piracy punishable by death had a different inspiration from that other law, which secured immunity for the slave trade thoughout an immense territory, and invested its supporters with political power. As there is a higher law above, so there is a lower law below, and each is felt in human affairs.
I went to the 2000 census and spent a long time reading through the numbers.Reading through the breakdown by family composition,it gets really murky.
What?
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