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06 Mar 2014, 12:09 am

Indentured servants didn't have it much better,but they had the hope that one day they would be free,if they lived long enough.
http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/galle1.html


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06 Mar 2014, 12:19 am

just the thought that there are still people in this day and age who support slavery, is unsettling.



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06 Mar 2014, 8:48 am

LKL wrote:
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Slavery is still alive and well.

The only thing thats different is that the whip has been replaced by the threat of the landlord's eviction letter.

Thomas, sorry, that's just not ok. As horrific as the current economic paradigm is (I'm a socialist, I agree with you that it's horrific), comparing it to slavery is belittling the horrific enormity of what slavery was. Being evicted from your home is not as bad as seeing your children sold in front of your very eyes. Not having work, or being paid too little, or being taxed too much, is not as bad as being forced to work at a job that you hate, for people that you hate, and having no option of quitting short of suicide.

If anything, '12 years a slave' showed the average experiences, not the worst that it could get.


I have had people send me old black and white photos of black men hanging from trees, and black men dumped in ditches, decapitated, and told that this could very easily be me for writing letters in support of Obama for President.



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06 Mar 2014, 2:42 pm

Where do you live, Khaoz?



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06 Mar 2014, 4:11 pm

khaoz wrote:
I have had people send me old black and white photos of black men hanging from trees, and black men dumped in ditches, decapitated, and told that this could very easily be me for writing letters in support of Obama for President.


Can you provide one example of someone being lynched for supporting Obama?


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06 Mar 2014, 4:30 pm

in my neighborhood there was one house with Obama signs, it got trashed and the people who lived there harassed into moving away. the neighbors openly talked about it.



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06 Mar 2014, 4:35 pm

People used to tear down my political signs,but I fixed that.I got a step ladder and put them way up on a tree.No one has got to remove one since.I think it caused a wreck,a car ran off the road into a ravine by my driveway,I think they were looking at the sign and not the road.


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06 Mar 2014, 7:32 pm

khaoz wrote:
LKL wrote:
thomas81 wrote:
Slavery is still alive and well.

The only thing thats different is that the whip has been replaced by the threat of the landlord's eviction letter.

Thomas, sorry, that's just not ok. As horrific as the current economic paradigm is (I'm a socialist, I agree with you that it's horrific), comparing it to slavery is belittling the horrific enormity of what slavery was. Being evicted from your home is not as bad as seeing your children sold in front of your very eyes. Not having work, or being paid too little, or being taxed too much, is not as bad as being forced to work at a job that you hate, for people that you hate, and having no option of quitting short of suicide.

If anything, '12 years a slave' showed the average experiences, not the worst that it could get.


I have had people send me old black and white photos of black men hanging from trees, and black men dumped in ditches, decapitated, and told that this could very easily be me for writing letters in support of Obama for President.


I know and have known several who openly (and quite loudly) support Obama and none of them, not one, has reported anything like that. Rest assured if they had I'd be one of the ones they'd b***h to, with me being a heartless conservative and all.


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06 Mar 2014, 10:09 pm

Dox47 wrote:
khaoz wrote:
I have had people send me old black and white photos of black men hanging from trees, and black men dumped in ditches, decapitated, and told that this could very easily be me for writing letters in support of Obama for President.


Can you provide one example of someone being lynched for supporting Obama?


I said that people were sending me photos of lynchings and beheadings intended to threaten and intimidate me. I did not say anyone has been lynched for supporting Obama. They are old photos from the 40's-50's and pictures of beheadings that come from African news sources in that country. It was an intimidation tactic. I live in a part of the US that even now has large numbers of KKK members.