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Mississippi strikes a blow against slavery

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  1. PLC1 Super Moderator

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    Mississippi Ratifies 13th Amendment 148 Years After Slavery Abolished


    No need to rush in to anything, right?
    PLC1, Feb 22, 2013
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    PLC1..I think i liked that because i'm tired...lol
    cashmcall, Feb 22, 2013
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    pretty sure it applied to them either way
    dogtowner, Feb 22, 2013
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    It probably did, but now they're OK with it.
    PLC1, Feb 22, 2013
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    An conservitive republican produced that movie. No ordinary Hollywood producer would ever touch the issue of slavery unless it supports the democrats.
    steveox, Feb 22, 2013
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    The Democrats were all for slavery back when they believed in state's right. Lincoln was a republican. Really a Whig but in the same way democrats ran from democrat to liberal and then progressive, Lincoln was running away from Whig.
    dogtowner, Feb 23, 2013
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    Times have changed dog. Back then Democrats were for the people and by the people. Nowadays theyre for liberalism and socialism. And slavery still havent been abolished. Theres another word for it... EM-PLOY-EE
    steveox, Feb 23, 2013
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    em-ploy-ees get paid for their effort, slaves did/do not.
    em-ploy-ees can quit, slaves can not.

    I know you're making a kind of joke but the fact is there are slaves today all over the world including this country. And if you think Kunta Kinte had it tough getting whipped now and again its nothing compared to what current ones are subjected to daily, hourly, minute by minute.

    But things haven't changed that much for the Donkeys, LBJ found a whole new way to enslave blacks. It may not involve chains or forced labor (oddly it doesn't involve work at all) but its every bit as suffocating and vile.
    dogtowner, Feb 23, 2013
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    Well youre not free when youre under your bosses time.
    steveox, Feb 23, 2013
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    and, when you're dependent on the government programs Dogtowner is referring to, are you free then?
    PLC1, Feb 23, 2013
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    Theyre are benefits being on welfare
    1. You have to get up 7AM to go to work -They dont
    2. You have to fight traffic- They dont
    3.You have to beg your boss for a raise-They dont
    4. You gotta put up with your boss and put up with job pressure-They dont
    5.You gotta pay uncle sam-They dont.
    6.You gotta pay morgages and rents-They dont
    7.You gotta pay high grocery bills-They dont
    steveox, Feb 23, 2013
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    Socialism is the direct pathway--back to Slavery. What goes around--comes around.
    Johnny Tremain, Feb 23, 2013
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    because you agreed to trade your time for his money.
    dogtowner, Feb 23, 2013
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    Samething,,, When Black men wanted to leave Africa come to 19th century America they agreed to become slaves.
    steveox, Feb 24, 2013
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    no they didn't. they were captured and sold without their consent.

    now my ancestor chose to become an indentured servant. he traded his freedom for a period of time in payment for passage to the new world.
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    Why didnt he run from white men chasing him?
    steveox, Feb 24, 2013
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    the slave ?
    what makes you think it was white men after him ? the euros showed up on the boat with money to spend and the locals were happy to oblige with product to sell. slavery ws widely practiced on the Dark Continent back in the day. not so much Shaka Zulu who preferred to kill the people whose land he captured.
    dogtowner, Feb 24, 2013
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    Shaka Zulu is now South Africa. Invaded by the British army.
    steveox, Feb 24, 2013
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    shaka zulu was a person, leader of the zulu nation. in huis prime his empire covered a lot more than RSA.
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    They agreed to be come slaves?
    Sure, go ahead and capture me. Sell me to the Portuguese slave traders, that's OK with me.
    I'd like my descendents to become Americans instead of Africans, so I'm perfectly willing to be a slave and work my butt off so as not to be lashed. I can scarcely wait!

    Sure, that's how it was, sure.
    PLC1, Feb 24, 2013
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