Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Party That Freed The Slaves...
AC W: "It's the party that freed the slaves."
No. A group of people, about 150 years ago, led by Abraham Lincoln, issued a document called the Emancipation Proclamation. It did not EXACTLY free the slaves.
Could you be so kind, in the future, to inform yourself before opening your mouth and inserting your foot?
When the Civil Rights Movement took over the Democratic Party, 1963-1968, millions of "Democrats" left the party and joined the Republican Party. Are the names Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, etc, familiar to you?
Then there's this, the Lynching Postcards part of American history. Here's a paragraph to keep in mind:
"Lynchings began in frontier communities as acts of vigilante "justice." Minority groups other than blacks--namely, Mexicans, Chinese, Mormons, white factory workers, Native Americans and Italians--were also victims. Following the Civil War, however, lynching was generally sanctioned, and often committed, by community leaders in the South; the practice was almost exclusively inflicted on black Southern men by white Southern men, and functioned specifically to enforce white supremacy after the abolition of slavery. These particular incidents were characterized by mob frenzy and extraordinary cruelty. Victims were often mutilated and murdered for minor, unproven or nonexistent transgressions. Reliable statistics were not kept until 1882, when the Tuskagee Institute began to count lynching deaths. According to its records, 3,437 blacks and 1,293 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1951. As the North and South became more integrated, the number of lynchings diminished, yet, incredibly, antilynching legislation was never enacted at the federal level."
Kill Obama Comment at Palin Rally Unfounded, Secret Service Says - October 16, 2008 10:35 AM EDT
No. A group of people, about 150 years ago, led by Abraham Lincoln, issued a document called the Emancipation Proclamation. It did not EXACTLY free the slaves.
Could you be so kind, in the future, to inform yourself before opening your mouth and inserting your foot?
When the Civil Rights Movement took over the Democratic Party, 1963-1968, millions of "Democrats" left the party and joined the Republican Party. Are the names Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, etc, familiar to you?
Then there's this, the Lynching Postcards part of American history. Here's a paragraph to keep in mind:
"Lynchings began in frontier communities as acts of vigilante "justice." Minority groups other than blacks--namely, Mexicans, Chinese, Mormons, white factory workers, Native Americans and Italians--were also victims. Following the Civil War, however, lynching was generally sanctioned, and often committed, by community leaders in the South; the practice was almost exclusively inflicted on black Southern men by white Southern men, and functioned specifically to enforce white supremacy after the abolition of slavery. These particular incidents were characterized by mob frenzy and extraordinary cruelty. Victims were often mutilated and murdered for minor, unproven or nonexistent transgressions. Reliable statistics were not kept until 1882, when the Tuskagee Institute began to count lynching deaths. According to its records, 3,437 blacks and 1,293 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1951. As the North and South became more integrated, the number of lynchings diminished, yet, incredibly, antilynching legislation was never enacted at the federal level."
Kill Obama Comment at Palin Rally Unfounded, Secret Service Says - October 16, 2008 10:35 AM EDT
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