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darkbake
burdman30ott6
ScottProphhit
Title alone, where would America be without slavery?
A lot more open, liberated, and less manipulated. One of the byproducts of slavery has lived on and continues to significantly shape the country is the racial division which it represented before, during, and after emancipation. That division *may* have never been available for use as a manipulative, divisive tool by the media and leftist chatterboxes had slavery never existed in America.
Less divisions equals more United, as in United States of America.
Where would America be without slavery?
Well... a relevant question, as slavery is coming back big time now.
We are headed towards a slave state, and that a lot of this has been driven by the fact that people will blindly follow their party lines over a cliff.
Look at how extremist and totalitarian both sides are, there is no safe haven for someone who just wants to be happy. And in my opinion, if you cut right down to the bottom line,
Both sides are working together to promote a totalitarian agenda against everyone's best interest.edit on 11-10-2013 by darkbake because: (no reason given)
Aloysius the Gaul
Ben Caron is the guy who compared gays to pedophiles and practitioners of bestiality isn't he?
Where would America be without slavery?
Well... a relevant question, as slavery is coming back big time now.
We are headed towards a slave state, and that a lot of this has been driven by the fact that people will blindly follow their party lines over a cliff.
Look at how extremist and totalitarian both sides are, there is no safe haven for someone who just wants to be happy. And in my opinion, if you cut right down to the bottom line,
Both sides are working together to promote a totalitarian agenda against everyone's best interest.
PLAYERONE01
reply to post by ScottProphhit
Man, never engage a white American on what happened with the Native Americans, you think saying that they enslaved them was bad I remember someone tried to put forth that they were the original land owners of America as the Aboriginals are in Australia and well, how do you think that was received.
neo96
reply to post by boncho
Are you serious? Have you even looked at where your tax dollars go? The US wastes so much ____'ing money on so much GARBAGE, and some people actually think giving out free healthcare is the descent into evil pinko communism?
It is.
And the majority of that government waste is paying for peoples existence.
Not the job of the state to provide the wants of the people.
That is up to themselves.
17 trillion dollars in debt ,and the trillions more tell the truth to everyone paying attention.
Take money from the people so they can go out and line corporate pockets even more so than they already are.
Eryiedes
"Free Healthcare"
I hear this nonsence a LOT so let's clear something up right here and now...
IT'S NOT FREE...YOU ARE TAXED FOR IT WHETHER YOU USE IT OR NOT...MORE THAN IF YOU ACTUALLY DECLINED AND PAID THE FINE!!!
The next time someone says "free healthcare"....you can ignore them because they have NO CLUE what they are talking about.
-Amitaba-
neo96
Then do tell why is the FACT that native Americans killed off and enslaved their own kind long before the Europeans ever came over?
boncho
But I digress, think of all the truly free stuff, free police beat downs and tazerings, free trumped up charges, free jail stays, free court costs, free penitentiary stays. You know, if you happen to say the wrong thing...
ScottProphhit
neo96
Then do tell why is the FACT that native Americans killed off and enslaved their own kind long before the Europeans ever came over?
Oh, did they now? So who did these small tribes sell slaves to? Other small tribes? That makes sense. What did they slave for? They had no #en currencyedit on 11-10-2013 by ScottProphhit because: (no reason given)edit on 11-10-2013 by ScottProphhit because: (no reason given)
neo96[/I]
So never heard of tribes fighting and killing each other off and taking the women and kids as slaves ?
Did the same thing to 'white' settlers.
Why the hell does that get left out?
Small tribes?
There have been historical reports of 50 to 100 million native Americans before disease whiped most of them out.
ScottProphhit
neo96
Then do tell why is the FACT that native Americans killed off and enslaved their own kind long before the Europeans ever came over?
Oh, did they now? So who did these small tribes sell slaves to? Other small tribes? That makes sense. What did they slave for? They had no #en currencyedit on 11-10-2013 by ScottProphhit because: (no reason given)edit on 11-10-2013 by ScottProphhit because: (no reason given)
American Indians in each of the nations, except the Seminole, began to purchase African Americans as slaves.
ScottProphhit
Nah because they didn't take them in as slaves, they'd take them in as their own? They never ever did anything to 'white settlers' except out of self defence.
And that just makes it a bigger crime?edit on 11-10-2013 by ScottProphhit because: (no reason given)
Bassago
Back to Obamacare vs. slavery. I'm kinda concerned of the long range implications here. I'm concerned America (not the USSA) is going to lose.
Slavery was one of the "official" reasons for the Civil War. I'm a firm believer it was actually an issue of state rights and freedom from Federal intervention in private state affairs.
Looking at it that way one has to wonder if the parallel will be self fulfilling.
DocHolidaze
perceived history alone, were would humanity be without slavery?edit on 11-10-2013 by DocHolidaze because: (no reason given)