Yes, that's why I call them the "Founding Slave Rapists", and don't have this 'We need to obey the constitution because these men were so holy." They were complete shitheads who didn't want to pay their fair share in taxes and wanted to keep their slaves.
He was comparing Obama to clowns like Jackson and Sharpton, so in CONTEXT, it was a clumsy compliment.
Again- the problem here was that busing (bussing means to kiss someone) was creating a lot of tensions because NOBODY - black or white - liked their kid being shipped across the city to a strange neighborhood on the whim of a judge. It's why busing is no longer done today. So your argument is that he was right to oppose a stupid policy.
Biden never started a war to overthrow the government, ordered thousands of men to death in USELESS battles, or owned slaves. He was actually a piece of human garbage, which is why we need to tear down every statue.
Oh, I agree, in the words of the fictional Malcom Reynolds "
But Lee was a special level of sumbitch. He put the interests of slave owners above the interests of the country he swore an oath to protect. He doesn't deserve statues.
Actually, that number was closer to 20%.
But you might be on to something. Why did the whites who didn't own slaves fight for the Confederacy? Because they were racists! The main terror these folks had was that once freed, the slaves would retaliate against their white oppressors. They might even want to date your sister. The HORROR of it all.
Then again, you dumb ass Cleetuses vote Republican as they slowly dismantle your white Middle Class lifestyle because they play on your racial, religious and sexual fears.
"Hey, why did my good union job go away?"
"Never mind that, there's a boy in a dress, and he wants to use the lady's room!!!"
"Dur dangit, that makes me mad, Billy-Bob!"
Gone with the Wind is a racist movie, shithead. It was part of that "Lost Cause" mythology we let the South spread. Today, if you see a movie with a character with a Southern Accent, that character is usually portrayed as stupid. (Kind of like if we want to make a character look smart, we give him a British Received Pronunciation Accent.)
I'd be fine with Christianity if you people actually did the stuff Jesus said. And for Christian Morality- 2000 years of slavery, racism, misogyny, homophobia, crusades, inquisitions, witch burnings, child abuse - all encouraged by the Church. God didn't change his mind, we changed ours.
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And, no, greasy, artery clogging food is nothing to be proud of.
As far as pride in country, only one of us has a DD214. And it isn't you.
As a rule, I only tend to be proud of my own achievements, not those of others.. I can be proud of my Dad, who was a German Immigrant who served his country in World War II as a Translator and Medic, but those were his accomplishments, not mine. (Then again, I also didn't get his lifetime of PTSD or die at an early age because some rich asshole told him that Asbestos he was working with was totally safe.)
Frankly, as a student of history, there's not a lot to be proud of. America has done a lot of shitty things in her history, which is why we are hated around the world. True, we fought some good wars, like WWII, but we got into a lot of shitty ones where we inflicted untold misery on people. We were started on a lot of lofty principles, but the the fact that THIS shit still happens...
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Shows we haven't lived up to them yet.