2aguy
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Sure, sure.Don't try to deny what any 3rd grade kid can plainly see.Hove you read the Constitution and it’s proclaimed values and compared that to actions at the time?If slavery had existed for 150 years before the creation of the United States, how can it be described as our original sin? The answer is that it can't be blamed on our country unless you miraculously reset the date of its creation to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold to British colonialists in Jamestown. The principal reason for buying African slaves was their natural resistance to malaria., which was killing off the European workers in the Southern Colonies. Once purchased, they became an indispensable asset to labor intensive agriculture in those colonies.
Slavery was never popular in the Northern Colonies, and abolitionist movements began to spring up in the mid 1700s. However, resentment of the British government's authoritarian policies was also building and finally erupted into the War for Independence from Great Britain. After winning that war, the Colonies realized that their independence could not be protected unless a common government was formed. A proposed Constitution was hotly debated among the former colonies, and was ratified only after allowing the southern States to retain slavery in return for accepting joint responsibility for the war debts that had been accrued.
This compromise enabled the creation of the United States, but did not end the ever-growing abolitionist movement which culminated in the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflagration, and it is an insult to those who died for that cause to now be accused of supporting the institution they fought against. If there is any original sin to be assigned, it was the widespread rape of African women by their slave masters. But this is not and should not be an indictment of the entire United States of America.
That would help you.
Yep....slavery has existed Throughout the entire history of mankind, our Constitution finally put down in words how we would be different from the rest of the planet, by ending slavery and stating that all men are created equal.........since Europe and Africa brought slavery to America, we had to deal with it....and we did........we ended slavery with bloodshed....and have been working to create our ideals in this country....all the while, the democrat party, from it's very creation, has been fighting to keep racism and hate alive.
The Democratic Party included the Dixiecrats until the republic party decided they wanted them.
Enjoy them. They have made the GOP into a new dumber party.
And that is not true or accurate......
The dixiecrats stayed democrats.....they never changed sides.....the lie of the great party switch on racism is just that, a lie....the democrat party never abandoned it's racism and violence, as we see today as joe biden voters burned and looted cities, beat and murdered Americans and as the democrat party, today, seeks to resegregate society based on race.....
3rd Graders are smarter than that.......given the truth, they will see that the democrat party has been and still is the party of racism and hate...
Which party in 2020 is still bitching about all those African-American votes from urban areas.
Which party will again move to suppress voters in urban areas.
Which party has a president who retweets from racist alt-right websites and call neo-nazi protesters fine people?
Which party president pushed for and signed the Civil Rights bills?
Which party is david duke a current member of?
Why do you support the party of dumb?
Barak obama is close friends and allies with openly and proud racists........louis farakhan, jeremiah wright, and al sharpton....the core groups of the democrat party are openly and proudly racist, and the democrat party is proudly pushing racist, segregationist policies .....
You have no argument...the democrat party is the home of racism and violence in this country.
Your claim of close friends is backed up by what?
Can you post the "core groups" of the Democratic party so we can judge what your opinion is based on.
What "racist" polices are you claiming that the Democratic party is pushing. Please post them, so we can judge what you're basing that opinion on.
The congressional black caucus embraced racist louis farakhan....which republican caucus in congress has ever had david duke in for a meeting....?
It was a normal Wednesday on Capitol Hill when photographer Askia Muhammad told a freshman senator from Illinois: “You look just like the minister.”
The “minister” was Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who had been invited to speak at the weekly Congressional Black Caucus lunch in 2005. The senator was Barack Obama.
“He is much better looking than I am,” Obama quipped as the two men stood for what Muhammad called a “grip and grin,” a single frame.
Later that afternoon, Muhammad says, he got a call from a Congressional Black Caucus staffer, requesting that he send them the photo for safe keeping. Instead, Muhammad sent the image to Farrakhan but says he kept a copy for himself. Nobody had seen the photo for 13 years – until now.
Muhammad’s account could not be independently verified.
“I swore myself to secrecy,” Muhammad, 72, told the AJC. “If the picture was exposed, it could still be a deal breaker for Obama. I felt that there was an ambition that black people had about Obama being elected president. I did not want to be the instrument of his downfall.”
Photographer says he suppressed Obama-Farrakhan photo for years
It was a normal Wednesday on Capitol Hill when photographer Askia Muhammad told a freshman senator from Illinois: “You look just like the minister.”
www.ajc.com