Those who know me …understand two things…I am a analytical thinker…and very original.
BTW when i think this board is properly primed I will present my plan to make America Great Again…stay tuned.
As long as the Republicans make a public spectacle of their intransigence. I’m not making up or speculating about their unwillingness to compromise or their determination to make Obama a one term President at any cost; that was their publicly stated goal.
And liberals as a rule are not at all fond of Obama.
You are just repeating what your middle school social studies instructor indoctrinated you with.
He did. He was a colonizationist. Like practically all whites of his day including most abolitionists, he believed in black racial inferiority, or, at any rate, that blacks were just too different from whites to share the same democratic society. OTOH, he believed blacks perfectly capable of republican self-government if they formed all-black colonies of their own, in Africa or the Caribbean or Latin America or somewhere. Only the most radical of the white abolitionists accepted that the blacks would be here permanently and should be treated as equals. (Black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass mostly began from that assumption.)
However, Lincoln abandoned the colonization idea towards the end of his term/life. General McClellan did a study and reported that, drafting all the Naval and merchant-marine resources of the U.S. for the purpose, it would be utterly impossible to deport the black population “one-half so fast as Negro children will be born here.” Lincoln came around to accept the radical-abolitionist idea described above, with some reservations (he really could not entirely escape his Southern roots in that regard). You can read the fascinating story in What Lincoln Believed, by Michael Lind, which you in particular really ought to read anyway, 'twould be an eye-opener.
No, your opinions generic and you are a copy-paster.
Ah yes; let me guess, it’s all about The Greatness of White People.
No, I’m paying attention to reality. You on the other hand are regurgitating white racist propaganda & historical revisionism. And by appearances, dancing around admitting that you are pro-slavery.
I’m afraid no one here knows you yet, then.
More liberal b.s. The peculiar institution down South was very humane for the most part…read the Slave Narratives and you might understand that.
Not suprising…since I have just arrived on the disaster scene.
What is the liberal…conservative ratio on here…? 99 to one?
Slavery was legal for thousands of years…in fact not even the Holy Bible had anything bad to say about it…in fact the Holy Scriptures admonished servants to be loyal to their masters.
Again read some of the slave narratives…most know very little about the reality of the Plantation System…watching hoolyweird movies and t.v. will not help you get to the truth of the matter…neither will a public school indoctrination.
Garbage. It was monstrously brutal and evil. And “peculiar institution”? That’s positively archaic.
Everyone who practiced slavery deserved death, to be killed on the spot. They were hostis humani generis; the enemies of mankind.
Not nearly, but, this Board has its roots in the Straight Dope column by Cecil Adams, which runs mostly in free alternative weekly tabloids in urban areas. Do the math.
The Bible is a barbaric document written by barbarians; not a useful moral guide. And that is one of the reasons why. And plenty of evil things have been legal for thousands of years.
Dude, you’re not helping your case by citing the sort of thing that makes even Christians dislike the Bible somewhat. Most people nowadays would class that in with the bits about stoning adulterers, exterminating the Midianites at God’s command (now there was a Holocaust!), etc.
Lincoln and Colonization Revisited
Feb25 by Brooks D. Simpson
Ah, nothing says “good debate skills” like massive copy-and-paste.
Most slave narratives tell a very different story.
When all is said and done…opinions are like assholes…everyone has one.
But a scholarly and expert opinion is not to be overlooked…except by the foolish.
If slavery was the great moral outrage most liberals believe…then one would think The Holy Scriptures would have made some reference to that.
Case Closed.
BTW Slavery is still practiced in Africa, China and in some places in the muslim world.
Also…the position in our society of the illegal workers is not that far removed from slavery…in fact someone would call it just a different form of slavery—
Also…Americans buy a lot of things made by slaves in China.
One never hears liberals complain our use of illegal labor in America.