OMG: Roy Moore said in September that the last time America was great was when we had slavery

[Syriusly]

OMG: Roy Moore said in September that the last time America was great was when we had slavery

In Alabama, the heart of Trump country, many think he's backing the wrong candidate in Senate race

wow, early 18th century! This guy is something else.

Yeah...thanks for taking the quote out of context...here is the truth....and the reason why Moore has a good chance to win on Tuesday.....left wing assholes lie to gain power.....so when they come out with accusations against a republican candidate after it is too late for republicans to change the candidate, and the choice then comes to voting for the candidate or give the seat to someone who will allow babies to be killed....there isn't much choice....

FAKE NEWS: CNN Twists Roy Moore's Comments About Slavery and American Greatness

In response to a question from one of the only African Americans in the audience — who asked when Moore thought America was last "great" -- Moore acknowledged the nation's history of racial divisions, but said: "I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery — they cared for one another…. Our families were strong, our country had a direction."

Typical lying contards- reporting the actual words a person says is "Fake News'- making up crap like Trump does- is not Fake News.

In response to a question from one of the only African Americans in the audience — who asked when Moore thought America was last "great" -- Moore acknowledged the nation's history of racial divisions, but said: "I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery — they cared for one another…. Our families were strong, our country had a direction.

No way to get around it- Roy Moore chose a period of time that he believes exemplified when America was Great- as when we had slavery.

That Families were united- during the era we had slavery.
That Families cared for each other- during the era we had slavery.
That our Families were strong- during the era we had slavery.
That our country had direction- during the era we had slavery.

Not for instance- right after the Civil War- when Republican controlled the United States. Not during the Eisenhower era or the Reagan era. Not even when Teddy Roosevelt was President.

Moore chose an era before there existed a Republican President. When Democrats controlled Alabama and abortion was legal.

And families were strong.

Oh and we had slavery.

Cry some more. Make real people laugh.

Oh hell- I don't doubt that the voters of Alabama agree with Moore- that Alabama was stronger when they had slaves.

Yes....lie about what moore actually said......that is all you and the other left wing democrats have, lying, and fake emotions.

None of us have lied at all- Moore choose an era of the United States when he thought the families were really strong.

You know when we had slavery.

And when Democrats controlled Alabama.

And we had slavery.

Because the United States had purpose and direction.

Except for that slavery thing.

 

[PredFan]

OMG: Roy Moore said in September that the last time America was great was when we had slavery

In Alabama, the heart of Trump country, many think he's backing the wrong candidate in Senate race

wow, early 18th century! This guy is something else.

Yeah...thanks for taking the quote out of context...here is the truth....and the reason why Moore has a good chance to win on Tuesday.....left wing assholes lie to gain power.....so when they come out with accusations against a republican candidate after it is too late for republicans to change the candidate, and the choice then comes to voting for the candidate or give the seat to someone who will allow babies to be killed....there isn't much choice....

FAKE NEWS: CNN Twists Roy Moore's Comments About Slavery and American Greatness

In response to a question from one of the only African Americans in the audience — who asked when Moore thought America was last "great" -- Moore acknowledged the nation's history of racial divisions, but said: "I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery — they cared for one another…. Our families were strong, our country had a direction."

At the same event, Moore referred to Native Americans and Asian Americans as "reds and yellows," and earlier this year he suggested the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were divine punishment.



Mascaro couched her reporting of this statement in between two prejudicial quotes. The "reds and yellows" comment, as previously reported by PJ Media, was a reference to the song "Jesus loves the little children." The "spiritual wickedness in high places" may be exaggerated political rhetoric, but it plays to Moore's extremely conservative base.

The Times posted an audio recording of Moore's remarks so enterprising viewers could find out for themselves. The actual remarks prove quite different from the reported version that sparked so much outrage.

First, the question wasn't "when was the last time America was great?" but the more general "what does Trump mean, what does he mean, 'make it great again?'" This may seem a subtle difference, but it's important to remember that the black man did not ask for a specific time, nor did Moore give one.

More importantly, the quote above represents an extremely truncated part of Moore's response. Here it is in full, transcribed from the audio:



I think we've been striving for that greatness all the way through. I think you're right about that. And I think it was great in the minds of those who formed the Declaration, though they were not perfect people. They had problems. Those problems have been corrected by — unfortunately war — by constitutional amendment.


We've had to — we've corrected a lot of our problems. I think it was great at a time when families were united, even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. People were strong in the families. Our families were strong, our country had a direction, and we corrected many of the problems.

Today, I see our families divided, I see people in prison, young men, and women, that have a life ahead of them that have not been led and nurtured in the families like they used to be. And I know, I’m talking to you because you, like me, you’re an age when you remember when families used to care, when fathers used to care, when mothers used to care, and children used to care and weren’t disrespectful.

The greatness I see was in our culture, not in all our policies, there were problems — we had slavery, we’ve overcome slavery, we had prejudice, we still have prejudice. But we’ve turned the tide on civil rights, we’ve done a lot of things to bring this country around, and I think we can still make it better.

Notice what Moore did and did not say. He did not specifically point to the period of slavery as the "last time" America was "great." Rather, he suggested that "we've been striving for greatness all the way through." Remarkably, he said that "we've turned the tide on civil rights, we've done a lot of things to bring this country around, and I think we can still make it better."

Wiw, thanks for posting that. It’s the left, lying again.

Notice what Moore did and did not say. Moore did say that our families were strong when we had slavery. Moore said that families cared for each other when we had slavery.

And Moore said that Fathers in America no longer care, and Mothers in America no longer care and children no longer care.

But we all did care.

Back when we had slavery.

Illiterate and a liar.

 

[PredFan]

That’s a lie. He said quite clearly: “Despite the fact that we had slavery.” Very big difference there. Are you illiterate or just lying?

That is quite a big "despite"

Despite hitting an iceberg, the Titanic had a lovely voyage

Not even the same thing idiot. He’s talking about family. The slavery could have been left out as it wasn’t relevant to his point. He added it because he knew as he said that that the left would jump all over it. The iceberg certainly is relevant to the Titanic.

He didn't leave it out.

Do you think that America was strongest- the American family was strongest-prior to the Civil War- even though we had slavery?

Do you think the American family was strongest when abortion was legal? When women couldn't vote? When women died on average- young- do to the physical rigors of having so many children? When it was common for entire families- men, women and children to work in tenement sweatshops?

Do you think the American family was strongest- and America the Greatest- before our first Republican President- and when the Democrats controlled Alabama?

Oh for fucking crying out loud just how stupid are you? I have no idea why Moore thinks the family was so great back then. I never said it was, stupid. All I’m saying is that he DID NOT SAY or mean that because of slavery, things were great as you lying liberal idiots are trying to imply. For the last time, more said “even though we had slavery”, it’s not to be confused with “we even had slavery!”. If you are too illiterate to understand things that simple then there’s no use in us discussing anything anymore.

Of for fucking crying out loud- just how stupid are you? (lol- that is a rhetorical question)

Pretty straight forward- before we had Republican Presidents, and Alabama was controlled by Democrats- Moore thought American families were strong.

And now he thinks that in America- fathers don't care about their families. And mothers don't care about their families.

I wonder why Moore doesn't think that fathers and mothers in Alabama care for their kids?

You are illiterate and a liar. Sucks to be you.

 

[rightwinger]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

 

[basquebromance]

Frank Luntz dumbfounded that his AL focus group wanted Roy Moore. He is literally there TRYING to talk them out of it Was this polling or was it liberal advocacy?

 

[LittleNipper]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

That is an absolute twisting to the truth! The Bible had very specific rules in the Old Testament for the care of slaves ---- most of which were and are not being observed by the Simon Legree's of this world. The New Testament ended the slavery of the heart and soul and began a work to end slavery as an institution among Christians. The fact is that the Underground Railroad would have never have worked had not Christians united in a like mind not banded together to to assist the downtrodden! Slavery was and is a socialistic and capitalistic institution protected by the civil law of the land that was upheld.

 

[tinydancer]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

Yankees controlled the slave trade. I guess I really have to hammer this home and blast this up your yankee ass. The mega ship magnates controlled the trade. They were Yankees.

Without them there would have been NO SLAVES FOR THE SOUTH. You got this you bigoted mother fucker.

Yankees made their fortunes on slaves. Eat this you bastard. Get off your high fucking horse you pig.

"The DeWolf slave trade

The DeWolf family fortune was built on the buying and selling of human beings. DeWolf slave ships brought the enslaved from the west coast of Africa to auction blocks in Charleston, South Carolina and other southern U.S. ports; to Havana, Cuba and to other ports in the Caribbean; to their own sugar plantations in Cuba; and into their own homes. James DeWolf owned a rum distillery, and he and his family started both a bank and an insurance company, all to profit even further from the slave trade. They even sent a family member to establish an auction house in Charleston, S.C., where many of their slaving voyages ended up.

In the 1790s and early 1800s, DeWolf and his brothers virtually built the economy of Bristol, Rhode Island: many of the buildings they funded still stand, and the stained glass windows at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church bear DeWolf names to this day. Across the generations, their family has included state legislators, philanthropists, writers, scholars, and Episcopal bishops and priests.

Illegal slave trading

The DeWolf family continued in the slave trade despite state and federal laws prohibiting many of their activities in the late 1700s. Their efforts to circumvent those laws eventually lead them to arrange a political favor with President Thomas Jefferson, who agreed to split the federal customs district based in Newport, R.I. This maneuver permitted the appointment of a customs inspector just for Bristol, and the choice was Charles Collins, the brother-in-law of James DeWolf, who conveniently ignored the slave ships moving in and out of harbor.

One member of the family, George DeWolf, is known to have continued in the trade after 1808, when Congress banned the importation of slaves into the U.S. He did so until 1820, when Congress made slave trading a hanging offense. James DeWolf himself was reported to have abandoned the slave trade as of January 1, 1808; there is, as yet, no evidence to demonstrate that he took part in any slaving voyages after that date, but it seems quite possible that he did.

The DeWolf family’s complicity in slavery continued after 1820 in other ways, too, as the family maintained slave plantations in Cuba and James DeWolf invested his slave trade profits in textile mills which used slave-produced cotton. Today, there are as many as half a million living descendants of the people traded as chattel by the DeWolfs."

Tracing Center | James DeWolf and the DeWolf Family

 

[tinydancer]

Frank Luntz dumbfounded that his AL focus group wanted Roy Moore. He is literally there TRYING to talk them out of it Was this polling or was it liberal advocacy?

Frank is a never Trumper. I'm amazed he hasn't been invited on a hunting trip yet and had an accident. Should still be white tail season now.

 

[rightwinger]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

That is an absolute twisting to the truth! The Bible had very specific rules in the Old Testament for the care of slaves ---- most of which were and are not being observed by the Simon Legree's of this world. The New Testament ended the slavery of the heart and soul and began a work to end slavery as an institution among Christians. The fact is that the Underground Railroad would have never have worked had not Christians united in a like mind not banded together to to assist the downtrodden! Slavery was and is a socialistic and capitalistic institution protected by the civil law of the land that was upheld.

Bible passages about how a slave should obey his master were read to slaves to show that God wanted them to be slaves

 

[Seawytch]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

That is an absolute twisting to the truth! The Bible had very specific rules in the Old Testament for the care of slaves ---- most of which were and are not being observed by the Simon Legree's of this world. The New Testament ended the slavery of the heart and soul and began a work to end slavery as an institution among Christians. The fact is that the Underground Railroad would have never have worked had not Christians united in a like mind not banded together to to assist the downtrodden! Slavery was and is a socialistic and capitalistic institution protected by the civil law of the land that was upheld.

Bible passages about how a slave should obey his master were read to slaves to show that God wanted them to be slaves

Yup...

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[Syriusly]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

Yankees controlled the slave trade. y

Moore choose an era of the United States when he thought the families were really strong.

You know when we had slavery.

And when Democrats controlled Alabama.

And we had slavery.

And before Republicans controlled the government

And we had slavery

Because the United States had purpose and direction.

Except for that slavery thing.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

Yankees controlled the slave trade. y

Moore choose an era of the United States when he thought the families were really strong.

You know when we had slavery.

And when Democrats controlled Alabama.

And we had slavery.

And before Republicans controlled the government

And we had slavery

Because the United States had purpose and direction.

Except for that slavery thing.

You still have slavery. It's called welfare.

 

[Syriusly]

The Civil War was a time when Christian moral values united to end an evil applying Biblical reasoning. Today, men attempt to apply their own opinions to redefine history, life, values, morality, and marriage. And they make a corrupted mess of everything they touch.

Those same values supported slavery in the south

Yankees controlled the slave trade. y

Moore choose an era of the United States when he thought the families were really strong.

You know when we had slavery.

And when Democrats controlled Alabama.

And we had slavery.

And before Republicans controlled the government

And we had slavery

Because the United States had purpose and direction.

Except for that slavery thing.

You still have slavery. It's called welfare.

I am sorry you are stuck in welfare- but it isn't slavery.

When your wife and kids can be sold away from you- you know like when Roy Moore said the families were strong in America- that is slavery.

 

[Syriusly]

Another image of when Moore thought America was great for families....