Michelle Obama: 'It Is Our Responsibility As a Nation' to Remember the Slaves

Yes, slavery was 150 years ago. It should not be mentioned

But we should allow founding fathers opinions from 235 years ago determine our agenda


Yeah, people like Plato, Shakespeare, Jefferson should be ignored.

After all, they're long dead.

Modern democrats don't understand the difference between progress and change. They should call themselves changelings.
 
May 23, 2013, By Susan Jones @ Michelle Obama: 'It Is Our Responsibility As a Nation' to Remember the Slaves | CNS News
First Lady Michelle Obama joins children learning about the Emancipation Proclamation at historic Decatur House in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2013. (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) - In remarks at the historic Decatur House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama remembered the 20 slaves who toiled at the mansion around the corner from the White House, where "some of our nation's foremost leaders" lived and hosted parties.

The stories of those slaves "too often get lost," Mrs. Obama said.

Oh come on! Gimme a break Moochelle. It's been over a hundred years and nobody alive is responsible for it. You and your husband simply cannot stop playing the race card, can you?

:evil:

When is the Democrat Party going to apologize for their role in slavery and the injustices perpetrated against black since the civil war?

Apologize? There is something wrong with the way your brain is wired.

Slavery has ALWAYS been wrong. Genocide has ALWAYS been wrong. Stealing other people's land has ALWAYS been wrong. There has never been an excuse that has made these evils men have put upon each other morally correct.

Are we so desperate to LOOK moral in spite of our history that we will do anything it takes or say anything it takes to sweep the actions we have taken under the rug?

Sorry. What we enjoy today WAS at a great cost to those we enslaved and stole from and to ourselves in our endeavor to be better individually and as a society.

If you are the kind of person that would buy, use and enjoy stolen property you are NOT a moral individual. You are no less a criminal nor more moral than the junkie that broke into someone's house.

If you have evil living in your own heart you should spend more time working on your own exorcism rather than be a soldier for evil working to keep it hidden from view.
 
Slavery in America wasn't bad because slavery has happened everywhere.


Hiroshima wasn't bad because bombings happen all the time

I've never said the slavery wasn't "bad". I consider it evil.

All I'm saying is that the history of black slavery in America is not unique. Truth.

And rather than consistently focus on the past deeds of those that were ignorant to the evils of slavery in America that we should all focus on slavery world wide in the here and now.

The trade in human flesh be it for labor or for sex is a horrid truth in the present.

Some child today is being traded for money for farm work in China as we type. In Cuba as we are carrying on this conversation, some parent is selling their son or their daughter into the sex trade to be abused by foreign tourists.

It most certainly was.....what other form of slavery kidnapped people in the MILLIONS and shipped them across vast expanses of ocean with the high percentage who died thrown overboard? What other form of slavery took away their native NAMES, RELIGION, CULTURE, LANGUAGE? What other form of slavery based it on race right down to one-drop thru the mother? What other form of slavery had breeding plantations for centuries, sold families apart for centuries?
 
Come on all you outraged wingnuts

Explain to all the nice people how Michelle Obama is supposed to give a speech on the Emancipation Proclamation without mentioning slavery
Easy. She should have said that she was thankful that her ancestors were chained, raped, whipped, forced to work without pay, and have their children taken from them.

It is the America dream, after all.
 
She shoulda said "Emancipation Proclamation...We were nothing until you blessed white people came to show us the light. Thank you, thank all of you. Go America"
 
Yea you guys would have loved the pilgrims. They fired the first shots in your imaginary "war on christmas". The Pilgrims were ultra orthodox jackasses that England was glad to be rid of.



Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm............no, not orthodox. That was sort of the POINT. The Puritans were severely reformist, anti-Catholic, protestant Lutherans of an extreme sect.

They weren't quite Anabaptists, though. Anabaptists threw everything out from Catholicism, too, but some of them had too much fun. Orgies. Communism.

The Puritans weren't up for fun. They were into hard work and high ethics. That culture still lingers among some groups. Though NOT the group complaining bitterly about how they should get lots of reparations for slavery. The people who derive from the Puritans are the richer part of America. Because that culture works better than trying to guilt people into giving you money, as if.

Scarlett letters, Salem Witch Trials, banning Christmas, yea they sound like a great group to emulate.


It is truly sad that those are the only things people know about the Puritans.

I wonder how many think the Scarlet Letter is historical fact.

Hester Prynne was a Puritan, too.
 
Yes, slavery was 150 years ago. It should not be mentioned

But we should allow founding fathers opinions from 235 years ago determine our agenda

With all due respect, what a bullshit point. Slavery can and should be talked about in a true historical context. But the American Black slave experience is not unique; I'm not dismissing it, but it is not unique.

I'd prefer to see slavery discussed in the here and now and discuss how we can eradicate it from the face of the planet. But that won't happen in America because slavery in America = racism. That's what is taught in school and it's a fallacy.

Yet race never had anything to do with slavery. Slavery was based on labor needs.

Slavery goes back thousands of years. Slavery exists today. And sadly slavery will exist for centuries to come.

Should the existence of slavery from the past, present and future prevent us from utilizing and embracing the great teachings of men of history from centuries past?

Should we ignore the teachings of great philosophers such as Plato or Aristotle because slavery existed in their day?

Should we dismiss the Magna Carta?

I think not. I could list a thousand more examples but I'm only on my second coffee.

:eusa_angel:

What a total load of bullshit

The American Black slave experience was not unique? Are you ******* nuts? Indentured servitude was not slavery and it was voluntary. Black slaves were captured against their will and treated as animals. Not only them but all succeeding generations. What is not unique about that?

Race had nothing to do with slavery? They were treated like animals and considered lesser human beings up until the 1960s. Race had nothing to do with it?


You have no idea what you are talking about. You really do need to do some research on the history of slavery in the United States.
 
Slavery in America wasn't bad because slavery has happened everywhere.


Hiroshima wasn't bad because bombings happen all the time

I've never said the slavery wasn't "bad". I consider it evil.

All I'm saying is that the history of black slavery in America is not unique. Truth.

And rather than consistently focus on the past deeds of those that were ignorant to the evils of slavery in America that we should all focus on slavery world wide in the here and now.

The trade in human flesh be it for labor or for sex is a horrid truth in the present.

Some child today is being traded for money for farm work in China as we type. In Cuba as we are carrying on this conversation, some parent is selling their son or their daughter into the sex trade to be abused by foreign tourists.

It pretty clear what you're doing buddy...the rest of your dribble is just to mask your bullshit

History is dribble?

History is bullshit?

:lol:

All your liberal bigoted colors are showing loud and proud.

You can't argue with me on the truth of history; you have to fall back on a "tinydancer must be racist" argument. Your insinuation is barely veiled.

That doesn't bother me whatsoever. I am discussing facts. There is no argument with truth and history.
 
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With all due respect, what a bullshit point. Slavery can and should be talked about in a true historical context. But the American Black slave experience is not unique; I'm not dismissing it, but it is not unique.

I'd prefer to see slavery discussed in the here and now and discuss how we can eradicate it from the face of the planet. But that won't happen in America because slavery in America = racism. That's what is taught in school and it's a fallacy.

Yet race never had anything to do with slavery. Slavery was based on labor needs.

Slavery goes back thousands of years. Slavery exists today. And sadly slavery will exist for centuries to come.

Should the existence of slavery from the past, present and future prevent us from utilizing and embracing the great teachings of men of history from centuries past?

Should we ignore the teachings of great philosophers such as Plato or Aristotle because slavery existed in their day?

Should we dismiss the Magna Carta?

I think not. I could list a thousand more examples but I'm only on my second coffee.

:eusa_angel:

What a total load of bullshit

The American Black slave experience was not unique? Are you ******* nuts? Indentured servitude was not slavery and it was voluntary. Black slaves were captured against their will and treated as animals. Not only them but all succeeding generations. What is not unique about that?

Race had nothing to do with slavery? They were treated like animals and considered lesser human beings up until the 1960s. Race had nothing to do with it?


You have no idea what you are talking about. You really do need to do some research on the history of slavery in the United States.

yeah, it really wasn't that bad for them. Probably a step up, actually in that it got them out of Africa and halfway on the path to citzenship ... plus many of them came to know Jesus.
 
With all due respect, what a bullshit point. Slavery can and should be talked about in a true historical context. But the American Black slave experience is not unique; I'm not dismissing it, but it is not unique.

I'd prefer to see slavery discussed in the here and now and discuss how we can eradicate it from the face of the planet. But that won't happen in America because slavery in America = racism. That's what is taught in school and it's a fallacy.

Yet race never had anything to do with slavery. Slavery was based on labor needs.

Slavery goes back thousands of years. Slavery exists today. And sadly slavery will exist for centuries to come.

Should the existence of slavery from the past, present and future prevent us from utilizing and embracing the great teachings of men of history from centuries past?

Should we ignore the teachings of great philosophers such as Plato or Aristotle because slavery existed in their day?

Should we dismiss the Magna Carta?

I think not. I could list a thousand more examples but I'm only on my second coffee.

:eusa_angel:

What a total load of bullshit

The American Black slave experience was not unique? Are you ******* nuts? Indentured servitude was not slavery and it was voluntary. Black slaves were captured against their will and treated as animals. Not only them but all succeeding generations. What is not unique about that?

Race had nothing to do with slavery? They were treated like animals and considered lesser human beings up until the 1960s. Race had nothing to do with it?


You have no idea what you are talking about. You really do need to do some research on the history of slavery in the United States.

Learn me! Go ahead and learn me!

Just a word of advice....you better have your act together
 
War reparations should be made by the federal government to the former Confedrate states for the illegal invasion of the South and the subjugation of its people. Out of that money, reparations should be made to the descendants of former slaves.

Our wonderful federal government freed slaves to steal or starve in a decimated South. It should pay.
 
I'm going to have my Norwegian-Viking DNA pay reparations to my British-Welsh-Irish DNA.

Time To Go Shopping!
 
I've never said the slavery wasn't "bad". I consider it evil.

All I'm saying is that the history of black slavery in America is not unique. Truth.

And rather than consistently focus on the past deeds of those that were ignorant to the evils of slavery in America that we should all focus on slavery world wide in the here and now.

The trade in human flesh be it for labor or for sex is a horrid truth in the present.

Some child today is being traded for money for farm work in China as we type. In Cuba as we are carrying on this conversation, some parent is selling their son or their daughter into the sex trade to be abused by foreign tourists.

It pretty clear what you're doing buddy...the rest of your dribble is just to mask your bullshit

History is dribble?

History is bullshit?

:lol:

All your liberal bigoted colors are showing loud and proud.

You can't argue with me on the truth of history; you have to fall back on a "tinydancer must be racist" argument. Your insinuation is barely veiled.

That doesn't bother me whatsoever. I am discussing facts. There is no argument with truth and history.

Sure! Yea because saying we shouldn't focus on the past deeds and instead focus on slavery worldwide isn't opinion its...its History. I had a class on it called The History of Tinydancer in college. :doubt:
 
What a total load of bullshit

The American Black slave experience was not unique? Are you ******* nuts? Indentured servitude was not slavery and it was voluntary. Black slaves were captured against their will and treated as animals. Not only them but all succeeding generations. What is not unique about that?

Race had nothing to do with slavery? They were treated like animals and considered lesser human beings up until the 1960s. Race had nothing to do with it?


You have no idea what you are talking about. You really do need to do some research on the history of slavery in the United States.

Learn me! Go ahead and learn me!

Just a word of advice....you better have your act together

It's really not my job to educate you. Start with Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative.

After that, find a good source on the history of Georgia.

Find out how Appalachia was originally populated.

Don't be willfully ignorant your entire life.
 
With all due respect, what a bullshit point. Slavery can and should be talked about in a true historical context. But the American Black slave experience is not unique; I'm not dismissing it, but it is not unique.

I'd prefer to see slavery discussed in the here and now and discuss how we can eradicate it from the face of the planet. But that won't happen in America because slavery in America = racism. That's what is taught in school and it's a fallacy.

Yet race never had anything to do with slavery. Slavery was based on labor needs.

Slavery goes back thousands of years. Slavery exists today. And sadly slavery will exist for centuries to come.

Should the existence of slavery from the past, present and future prevent us from utilizing and embracing the great teachings of men of history from centuries past?

Should we ignore the teachings of great philosophers such as Plato or Aristotle because slavery existed in their day?

Should we dismiss the Magna Carta?

I think not. I could list a thousand more examples but I'm only on my second coffee.

:eusa_angel:

What a total load of bullshit

The American Black slave experience was not unique? Are you ******* nuts? Indentured servitude was not slavery and it was voluntary. Black slaves were captured against their will and treated as animals. Not only them but all succeeding generations. What is not unique about that?

Race had nothing to do with slavery? They were treated like animals and considered lesser human beings up until the 1960s. Race had nothing to do with it?

Why did whites own whites? First slaves in America were white children from Britain. Historical fact.

Why did blacks own blacks? There were black slave owners. Historical fact.

Why did First Nations tribes own other natives as slaves? They did. Historical fact.

Don't hand me that racism bullshit.

Deal from the fringes and pretend it applies to the Black American slave experience

Show me anywhere NEAR the scope of millions of enslaved people, tell me about generational slavery, and we can talk about your nonsense
 
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You have no idea what you are talking about. You really do need to do some research on the history of slavery in the United States.

Learn me! Go ahead and learn me!

Just a word of advice....you better have your act together

It's really not my job to educate you. Start with Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative.

After that, find a good source on the history of Georgia.

Find out how Appalachia was originally populated.

Don't be willfully ignorant your entire life.

You ran away from having to actually having to prove your point, Why am I not surprised you could not back up your point?

Go ahead and try it and watch me rip you apart
 
What a total load of bullshit

The American Black slave experience was not unique? Are you ******* nuts? Indentured servitude was not slavery and it was voluntary. Black slaves were captured against their will and treated as animals. Not only them but all succeeding generations. What is not unique about that?

Race had nothing to do with slavery? They were treated like animals and considered lesser human beings up until the 1960s. Race had nothing to do with it?

Why did whites own whites? First slaves in America were white children from Britain. Historical fact.

Why did blacks own blacks? There were black slave owners. Historical fact.

Why did First Nations tribes own other natives as slaves? They did. Historical fact.

Don't hand me that racism bullshit.

Deal from the fringes and pretend it applies to the Black American slave experience

Show me anywhere NEAR the scope of millions of enslaved people, tell me about generational slavery, and we can talk about your nonsense

Come on whiteboy tell us how those african slaves suffered so much more than all the other slaves throughout history suffrered. learn me sumthing :cool:
 
May 23, 2013, By Susan Jones @ Michelle Obama: 'It Is Our Responsibility As a Nation' to Remember the Slaves | CNS News
First Lady Michelle Obama joins children learning about the Emancipation Proclamation at historic Decatur House in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2013. (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) - In remarks at the historic Decatur House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama remembered the 20 slaves who toiled at the mansion around the corner from the White House, where "some of our nation's foremost leaders" lived and hosted parties.

The stories of those slaves "too often get lost," Mrs. Obama said.

Oh come on! Gimme a break Moochelle. It's been over a hundred years and nobody alive is responsible for it. You and your husband simply cannot stop playing the race card, can you?

:evil:

Exactly. Of course, we all remember the past and most of us (that includes minorities) don't dwell on it. Meanwhile, the government and federal reserve continue to make slaves out of all of us by piling up debt that we must pay. Not to mention the government dependents that are the responsibility of tax payers.

I think the Obamas would better serve this country by never forgetting the Muslim terrorists who have killed so many of our citizens and aren't finished yet.

Maybe Obama can come out and remind people that we must not judge all people because of the actions of some decades ago. Won't happen. He will carry a grudge forever because of what some peoples' ancestors did, yet doesn't have an issue with radical Islamists who plot and plan against us infidels.

Live in the present and deal with what is facing us now instead of lamenting what happened in the past.
 
Let's forget about slavery. Instead, we can teach our children about Washington confessing to chopping down the cherry tree with his new hatchet. After all, no public school history course teaches about the genoicide of Native Americans, so it never happened...
 
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