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We lost more lives in our

Richard Day — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:21:03 +0000

In reply to Well, he's essentially right

We lost more lives in our Civil War than all the other wars we ever entered into for chrissakes!

And all that blood had to do with the South wishing to expand slavery to all parts of this nation.

The Dred Scott Decision made compromise impossible, Missouri or not!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott

Yeah, 15,000 books published about Ole Abe.

He certainly said that he would save the Union whether or not slaves were freed but the real issue was the expansion problem.

And the Supreme Court was surrounded by Federal Officers so Taney would not get away with anything.

Of course Taney died in office and Lincoln put a Northerner in that Chief Justice's place.

The EP was instituted per Executive Order so that the intermediate states, like Maryland would not join the Confederacy.

There are scores of reasons why Lincoln acted as he did, but in the end, there is no doubt that the Civil War involved slavery as its primary reason; just look at the speeches of the Southern President and Vice President.

Oh and take a look at US 1861 et seq sometime if you have not already done so.

The Supremes just made that whole series of legislation moot twenty and thirty years later, all the legislation relating to the 13th and 14th and 15th Amendments were guttted.

Now I sound like I pretend to know something.

hahahah

Well, he's essentially right

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:53:28 +0000

In reply to NEGROES ARE AS GOOD AS ANY FOLKS!

Well, he's essentially right that abolitionism didn't "come from the government", but I don't think the Emancipation Proclamation was irrelevant. Neither was all the civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s and afterward.

Eric, did you happen to see

Richard Day — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:19:59 +0000

In reply to Well, I don't know about

Eric, did you happen to see the problem with the Clippers?

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/nba-probing-alleged-recording-clippers-owner-23484175

This billionaire bastard hates his own players?

He does not wish to see his 'girl friend' in public with Magic Johnson or any other Black guys. hahahah

See, I should not laugh. But I cannot help it. The triple irony involved in these reports of a racist team owner is beyond belief.

All that came to mind was this Bill Burr riff that I previously referred to in the last year or so

Well, I don't know about

Wattree — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 19:56:58 +0000

In reply to Yesterday I followed some

Well, I don't know about negroes, but Black people definitely are. When I here the word negro it reminds of of people like Tavis Smiley and Cornel West - accommodationists.

Yesterday I followed some

trkingmomoe — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 10:00:52 +0000

In reply to NEGROES ARE AS GOOD AS ANY FOLKS!

Yesterday I followed some links from some comments but I can't find them now. It was a couple of papers from the Smithsonian about slavery. One of them was about the life of a slave at Monticello. The Hemings family of slaves lived at the top of the hill in the slave quarters and was considered the favorites of Jefferson. Sally most likely did was she had to do to keep it that way. It was very interesting because it explained the social order and the work they had to do. In fact the post I made about the essay from Chris Hayes, he had quotes from this paper. Little boys at the age of 10 had to go to work in the nailery hammering rods into nails. Those nails was a great source of income for Jefferson. He had an overseer that would whip them to keep the production up. They worked there until they were big enough to work the fields when they were about 15 years old.

Reconstruction should of lasted longer then it did. It simply ended to early and the African Americans continued to suffer under Jim Crow laws. After the gains of civil rights movement came the Regan era and the war of drugs which was part of the southern strategy to win elections. We should all hang our heads in shame over how many people of color are in Federal Prisons.

These people who are waving their guns, running their mouths with racial whistles and trying to rewrite history, have no idea how tired the country is growing of them.

I understood the point you were heading to.