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

[Circe]

I see they've resorted to general trolling

Their basic position is that:

Slavery benefited black people.

Americans of the time did nothing wrong because everyone else was doing it.

Black people shouldn't ever mention or even know that they were once beaten, raped, whipped, worked to death and/or torn from their parents because somewhere a white person might say, hey, that was wrong.

If black people do find out about slavery, they should be told to get over it and they should stop being racist.

Now you're catching on.

My goodness, it took you awhile!

I don't know about that third point, a little wordy there, but the other points are a pretty good recapitulation.

 

[Ravi]

I see they've resorted to general trolling

Their basic position is that:

Slavery benefited black people.

Americans of the time did nothing wrong because everyone else was doing it.

Black people shouldn't ever mention or even know that they were once beaten, raped, whipped, worked to death and/or torn from their parents because somewhere a white person might say, hey, that was wrong.

If black people do find out about slavery, they should be told to get over it and they should stop being racist.

Now you're catching on.

My goodness, it took you awhile!

I don't know about that third point, a little wordy there, but the other points are a pretty good recapitulation.

There you go, NIT. Do you actually manage to not see these type of posts or are you just a liar?

 

[rightwinger]

Is there anything more repulsive than people on this thread trying to defend the institution of slavery because it happened in other parts of the world?

Well.....THEY did it too
So it makes it OK for us to do it

You folks are a bunch of sick fucks
No other way to describe it

Prove it.
Where? I dont see one post defending slavery, you hysterical liar.

Then what the fuck are you talking about?

Michelle Obama, in talking about the Emancipation Proclamation, which FREED THE SLAVES....said slavery was wrong

From this, we get 11 pages of posts from idiots not only condemning the woman for saying it but justifying American slavery because it happened elsewhere too

Are you guys really this fucking stupid?

 

[Mustang]

Gawd I'll be glad when these TWO hating people don't have that soapbox (the Presidency) and feel Entitled to PREACH their crap on US..

Yes, let the people with love in their hearts (like you?) run the country. Then the new conservative leaders can pretend that all the bad in the past never really happened. And undoubtedly they'll take the same view of the bad things happening in the present, as long as it's not happening to fellow conservatives, of course.

 

[NLT]

Their basic position is that:

Slavery benefited black people.

Americans of the time did nothing wrong because everyone else was doing it.

Black people shouldn't ever mention or even know that they were once beaten, raped, whipped, worked to death and/or torn from their parents because somewhere a white person might say, hey, that was wrong.

If black people do find out about slavery, they should be told to get over it and they should stop being racist.

Now you're catching on.

My goodness, it took you awhile!

I don't know about that third point, a little wordy there, but the other points are a pretty good recapitulation.

There you go, NIT. Do you actually manage to not see these type of posts or are you just a liar?

1 out of 163 posts and it was after you made your stupid comment. Valravir

 

[ClosedCaption]

Now you're catching on.

My goodness, it took you awhile!

I don't know about that third point, a little wordy there, but the other points are a pretty good recapitulation.

There you go, NIT. Do you actually manage to not see these type of posts or are you just a liar?

1 out of 163 posts and it was after you made your stupid comment. Valravir

First NLT said it didn't happen and used it to make a point. Now NLT sees it does happen but he has a new excuse that it's only once. Show him another example and he'll have a new new excuse

 

[Ravi]

There you go, NIT. Do you actually manage to not see these type of posts or are you just a liar?

1 out of 163 posts and it was after you made your stupid comment. Valravir

First NLT said it didn't happen and used it to make a point. Now NLT sees it does happen but he has a new excuse that it's only once. Show him another example and he'll have a new new excuse

Notice he couldn't repeat what I asked him to repeat. Very telling.

 

[BlindBoo]

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?

It is our responsibility as a nation to remember that there are four dead Americans, who needlessly died at the hands of terrorists, due to the abject ineptness of MO's husband and administration, who desperately tried to cover-up the FACT that they abjectly FAILED those four Americans, both before the attack, and during the attack.

BTW, MO.....I watched "ROOTS" when I was 9 or 10 years.....It was sad, and that's my extent of dwelling on the issue....I've got more important things to dwell on, other than "remembering" something I nor my ancestors had anything to do with in the first place, period.

Bottom line, take that race card and shove it up your fat, privileged elitist ass,...ya' ''Patient Dumping," phoney fuckin' wench.

Sadly, those 4 represent 0.1334 % of the deaths caused the abject ineptness of his predecessor. But fact of the matter is the Emancipation Proclamation has nothing to do with the threat of modern day Muslim terrorist does it?

 

[Jarhead]

Do you know that analogies are not meant to be compared on every level but only on the ways that make them similar? ...Nevermind

When used in a debate...which is what this board is for....an analogy is supposed to display a strong similarity to the issue at hand...otherwise it does nothing but deflect from the topic itself.

Now, in the case of "hunger", that analogy was used by you to show how silly it is to criticize Michelle for bringing up slavery even though slavery was no longer an American Issue. And as you saw, whereas I agree with you in regard to the topic, your analogy was full of holes and in no way defended your (our) position.

Perhpas if you said...

We are no longer at war with the British, so why do we teach our children about the revolutionary war?.....now THAT is a solid analogy....yes some holkes....but the holes would be quickly filled....

Such as ..."well, the american revolution is part of our history"...and I can respond with "so is American Slavery.

Maybe you should give me a little more credit and spend less time criticizing my intelligence.

Analogy

1.A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
2.A correspondence or partial similarity.


Your definition of what it should be doesn't matter. When I say you're high as a kite I don't mean you are floating on air produced by wind gusts and high as the average height of kites....It just means you're really high...try not to be smart and an idiot at the same time. Pick one

you are way too arrogant to learn...thus why your debating style has a lot to be desired.

I did not need the definition of an analogy. I made it quite clear that I know what an analogy is.

If you had the ability to comnprehend what you read...

I said yours was a POOR analogy...I never said it was not an analogy.

I went further and explained WHY it was a POOR analogy...and cited an example of a better analogy explaining why it was better used in the debate at hand.

So as I see it....you are not only a poor debater, but you lack reading comprehension skills..

And to be quite frank, I have no reason to continue interacting with you.

You are one that I pity.....

Cya fella. Good luck.

Oh...and by the way moron...saying one is as high as a kite is not an analogy. It is a play on words.

 

[ClosedCaption]

@ Jarhead

You are not the arbiter of analogies. No one cares if you think its good or not because what you think doesn't change reality.

 

[Jarhead]

@ Jarhead

You are not the arbiter of analogies. No one cares if you think its good or not because what you think doesn't change reality.

it is not what I think.

It is what is.

High as a kite is not an analogy. For nothing is similar. One refers to the word high from an altitude standpoint and the other refers to high from an intoxication standpoiint...making it a play on words. Not an analogy.

ANd as I said...whereas I agreed with your sentiments regarding the thread, I showed you how your analogy was full of holes and can not be successfully used in a debate.

You simply dont like to be cirticized...even if it is constructive.

Thus why I pity you.

 

[ClosedCaption]

@ Jarhead

You are not the arbiter of analogies. No one cares if you think its good or not because what you think doesn't change reality.

it is not what I think.

It is what is.

High as a kite is not an analogy. For nothing is similar. One refers to the word high from an altitude standpoint and the other refers to high from an intoxication standpoiint...making it a play on words. Not an analogy.

ANd as I said...whereas I agreed with your sentiments regarding the thread, I showed you how your analogy was full of holes and can not be successfully used in a debate.

You simply dont like to be cirticized...even if it is constructive.

Thus why I pity you.

 

[Stephanie]

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?

Did somebody say race card?



"[the Media] are doubly scared that a real black man might run against Barack Obama"
-Herman Cain, March 30, 2011
(Right after saying this Cain proclaimed that his being the Republican nominee would "take the race card off the table")

Obama is not a strong black man"
-Herman Cain, March 30, 2011

"A real black man is not timid about making the right decisions"
Herman Cain, June 30, 2011

"it is documented that [Obama's] mother was white and his father was from Africa."
Herman Cain, June 30, 2011”
(Right after saying this Cain sanctimoniously proclaimed "but I'm not going down this color road")

Obama has "never Been A Part Of The Black Experience In America"
Herman Cain, Oct 10 or 11, 2011

Add to the above his statement that Jon Stewart is racist

Add his black people are brainwashed statement

Note, all of the above were made knowing the it was on the record and in some cases being recorded. All were also made while he was running for President (this time, not in 2000)

Mr. Cain is black..so he can't talk about black?

 

[Vandalshandle]

I would point out that we were among the last civilized nations to ban slavery. The Texas revolution was fought because Mexico had banned slavery, but Texans kept them enslaved anyway. Even more to the point, Britain had peacefully banned slavery long before we fought our civil war. The emancipation proclamation was Lincoln's way of shaming Britain out of any thought of armed intervention on the side of the South, whose cotton they needed for their economy.

So, when we pat ourselves on the back about the virtues of the American republic over the last 3 centuries, it should be noted that we were on the wrong side of history when it came to 19th century moral and ethical issues. This, indeed, is worthy of remembrance. For one thing, we are also on the wrong side of history regarding capital punishment, compared to the rest of the world (unless we feel compelled to side with China and Muslin nations on that issue)

 

[Kondor3]

So, have we pretty much trashed ****** for the Sins of the Father, and decided that he and his kin should pay Reparations forevermore, beginning with the value of Forty Acres and a Mule, with interest compounded daily, every day between January 16, 1865 (the date Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15) and today, and factoring-in per Diem compensation for every day between arrival on the slave-docks and emancipation day, all of it with interest compounded daily, and payable to everyone with even a drop of Negro blood in them, due from every ****** in the country, regardless of whether their ancestors actually lived in the US at the time of or prior to the Civil War? I mean, that's only fair, right?

 

[Vandalshandle]

Please do not confuse the words, "rememberance" with "reparations".

 

[Kondor3]

Please do not confuse the words, "rememberance" with "reparations".

I, for one, do not get confused about that, Vandal, but that's already reared its ugly head several times on this very thread, and it seems to nearly always follow hard upon the heels of any talk about remembrance...

 

[rightwinger]

So, have we pretty much trashed ****** for the Sins of the Father, and decided that he and his kin should pay Reparations forevermore, beginning with the value of Forty Acres and a Mule, with interest compounded daily, every day between January 16, 1865 (the date Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15) and today, and factoring-in per Diem compensation for every day between arrival on the slave-docks and emancipation day, all of it with interest compounded daily, and payable to everyone with even a drop of Negro blood in them, due from every ****** in the country, regardless of whether their ancestors actually lived in the US at the time of or prior to the Civil War? I mean, that's only fair, right?

What are you babbling about?

Nobody has condemned you and nobody but you said anything about reparations

Slavery was wrong.......Disagree?

 

[Sunshine]

Does this include the slaves held by Egypt? How about the British slaves of the Romans? Don't they count? How about slavery TODAY, what's our obligation to those enslaved by muslims?

Big Moo should have another lobster tail, let the butter drip down her chin, it improves her appearance.

The Irish were once enslaved as well. And there were many indentured white slaves in the colonies before African slaves were being used.

 

[Kondor3]

"...What are you babbling about?..."

The topic at hand.

"...Nobody has condemned you..."

Never said that they did.

"...and nobody but you said anything about reparations..."

I'm not sure that's quite accurate, if you go back a ways on this thread.

"...Slavery was wrong.......Disagree?"

Nope... it was wrong as wrong can be.