She’s been with a darkie. You wouldn’t want her.
And, if the popular saying is correct, neither would she want him.
That’s probably true, but I doubt it has much to do with the popular saying.
Probably going to come off sounding like a prig here, but calling someone a ‘darkie’, even if it was supposed to be tongue in cheek (even if you happen to be black) gives me a really hinky feeling. I HATE that term. It’s probably a generational thing, but it was a term that was used in my own youth.
-XT
On this topic, here is a letter from a freed slave, who was asked by his former master to go work for him again after the Civil War. The letter’s author is very polite, but quite reasonably makes the terms of his return hinge on the wages owed to him by his former master:
This gives you some idea of how much money in in question here, considering this is just one man’s lost wages. Needless to say, the plantation owner in question did not remit the $11,680 minus deductions/plus interest (about $162,000 in today’s money according to the article). Now, think about all the people who labored, for so many generations, without pay. We are talking about a lot of money here, which I don’t think you can dismiss by saying that factory workers don’t leave their kids much money.
NOTE: I do not write this to show that I am in favor of reparations. I am merely writing to indicate that slaves were in a very different position from factory workers, at the very least in terms of wages, which should go without saying, but apparently that’s not the case.
I love the last sentence in the letter…
I know, that letter made my day when someone sent me the link. The author’s sardonic politeness is brilliant. I plan to find a way to have my students read it next year in class. I think they will enjoy it.
So, I suppose, were “gardyloo” and “phlogiston”— getting a shiver up your back from those too, Pops?
How would you know? Only Michael Jackson could say for sure.
Regards,
Shodan
You are focused on the gross, but a person can only leave their kids the net.
She’s hotter in the mug shot.
Tell me I’m wrong.
Regards,
Shodan
That goes without saying.
Obviously the Teaneck P.D. needs to upgrade their copy of Photoshop.
What you’re ignoring is that it is impossible to leave your kids anything if both your gross and net are zero.
What? How am I ignoring anything? I’m taking more factors into account than you, that’s the opposite of ignoring relevant info.
You’re comparing factory workers’ inability to leave their kids money to slaves’, because, you say, I’m forgetting the difference between gross and net salaries. Don’t you see how absurd that comparison is?
You are looking at the total salary a slave could have earned and think that is solely determinative of how much they could have left their kids. That’s absurd.
This made me laugh, which makes it the best post in this asinine thread. If you could see me now, you’d be watching me tattoo a giant W - T - F on my forehead, in honor of this pissant thread.
Zoe, I don’t know how much time you’ve spent in central VA, but there Confederate flag is quite common around here. I worked a booth at the state fair last year, and just about 50% of the white folk who visited my booth had on a shirt of some type emblazened with the flag (with Palin/McCain sticker accompaniment).
(When I worked at Six Flags over GA as a youngster, it was the same thing. Maybe they save those kind of shirts for special outtings.)
I learned early on not to discuss the CW at work. Everyone is nicefolks, but something about that topic makes people overly defensive and stupid, because suddenly you’re talking about great-great-grand daddies who ain’t never had no slave and all’s they was doin’ was fightin’ for States’ Rahts and you people JUST DON’T GET IT. So I don’t bother, because I’d rather keep thinking that everyone is nicefolks.
You don’t know what I’ve seen and heard living here. This state is more backwards-looking and backwards-behaving than most people think.