Democrat senator BRILLIANTLY explains why he just switched REPUBLICAN

[GandD 5,966]

So what will work? Please tell me your ideal. And I am not being sarcastic

I don't think anything will fix it. I think what we've been doing since the 60's has helped a lot. Time will do more than anything. Personal responsibility and protesting societal inequalities when exposed is the best and most effective course of action.

[smilesammich 10,727]

reparations?

Tax payers

I though my escalade 300 bit was hilarious

you still ain't got nothing on dave

[Janelle2002 3,865]

The civil war was between the United States an a rogue group of states that tried to succeed from the United States. The United States was nearing the abolition of slavery mostly due to popular opinion in the North. The United States Army defeated the traitors and then the United States government freed the slaves.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_davis_1.html

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America

November 6, 1861

Who was president during the Civil War? If you were from a Northern state, you answered Abraham Lincoln. If you were from a Southern state, you may have answered Jefferson Davis.

On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president, not of the United States of America but of the Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed and was elected to serve for a six-year term. Davis had already been serving as the temporary president for almost a year.

How do you think President Lincoln, who had earlier been elected president of the United States, reacted to the Southern election?

But again, slavery was the law, yes? Which made it governmental, yes

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

My people were brought overy as indentured serve the " that's white people slang for slave" to work in silk farms

I want my money

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

I don't think anything will fix it. I think what we've been doing since the 60's has helped a lot. Time will do more than anything. Personal responsibility and protesting societal inequalities when exposed is the best and most effective course of action.

TBH man, I think people are tired of marching and protesting the basics. But centuries of this and I can't expect it to go away overnight.

[Ban Hammer 13,713]

The civil war was between the United States an a rogue group of states that tried to succeed from the United States. The United States was nearing the abolition of slavery mostly due to popular opinion in the North. The United States Army defeated the traitors and then the United States government freed the slaves.

ahem...........

i assume you meant "secede"

[GandD 5,966]

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_davis_1.html

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America

November 6, 1861

Who was president during the Civil War? If you were from a Northern state, you answered Abraham Lincoln. If you were from a Southern state, you may have answered Jefferson Davis.

On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president, not of the United States of America but of the Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed and was elected to serve for a six-year term. Davis had already been serving as the temporary president for almost a year.

How do you think President Lincoln, who had earlier been elected president of the United States, reacted to the Southern election?

But again, slavery was the law, yes? Which made it governmental, yes

You want reparations from the Confederacy?

ahem...........

i assume you meant "secede"

I did. Handphone....... and basic annunciation problems.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

My people were brought overy as indentured serve the " that's white people slang for slave" to work in silk farms

I want my money

Indentured servitude was 7 years

After finished, given lands, indentured servants and mules

[Janelle2002 3,865]

You want reparations from the Confederacy?

I did. Handphone....... and basic annunciation problems.

Please read.

The Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.

[smilesammich 10,727]

My people were brought overy as indentured serve the " that's white people slang for slave" to work in silk farms

I want my money

come on man, are you really comparing the effects of indentured servitude vs slavery on a family, multiple generations? if you had to pick one - which would you go with?

[GandD 5,966]

Please read.

The Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.

And later a constitutional amendment was added. If your argument is that the handling of the ending of slavery wasn't done properly, I agree with you. There should have been none of the separate but equal stuff and there should have been reparations from the owners to the newly freed slaves. But there weren't and now its too late for a money solution.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Isn't there another solution? Alternatives? Options?

And later a constitutional amendment was added. If your argument is that the handling of the ending of slavery wasn't done properly, I agree with you. There should have been none of the separate but equal stuff and there should have been reparations from the owners to the newly freed slaves. But there weren't and now its too late for a money solution.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

And later a constitutional amendment was added. If your argument is that the handling of the ending of slavery wasn't done properly, I agree with you. There should have been none of the separate but equal stuff and there should have been reparations from the owners to the newly freed slaves. But there weren't and now its too late for a money solution.

It's never too late to do the right thing.

The reason reparations gets such a pushback is because no one wants to take the blame in something they feel they had nothing to do with.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

And later a constitutional amendment was added. If your argument is that the handling of the ending of slavery wasn't done properly, I agree with you. There should have been none of the separate but equal stuff and there should have been reparations from the owners to the newly freed slaves. But there weren't and now its too late for a money solution.

So, the government was for slavery until the last amendment.

Thank you

[GandD 5,966]

So, the government was for slavery until the last amendment.

Thank you

It was for it, then it was against it. Enslaved, then freed.

Edited November 30, 2015 by GandD