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By: ebdoug

ebdoug — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:17:34 +0000

“The Last Slave Ship from Africa” or something like that. These are educated (not literate) Africans. Slavery in Africa was not a bad thing. You were abducted and made part of the family. In this country Africans were considered less intelligent-a different breed, not the same as what we evolved from. We can then turn them into slaves to do bidding as a horse does if they aren’t the same species that we are. White men do not vote for Obama. White Democratic men do not vote for Obama because there is no such thing as an intelligent slave person otherwise we could not have enslaved them. Rational for slavery which continues to this day. Two whites came from one of the Carolinas to work in a factory up here and was surprised to find white people talking to black people “You are talking to those two black people.” The Republican party in the south is what the Democratic party used to be. I listen to an ad on the radio funding by BC. “Come to Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana et” Not a sonorous black voice on the ad. Go to the home site of Alabama. “Move to Alabama” No “of color” in any pictures. Also, of course, there can’t be intermarriage as they are a different species. And certainly can’t get married in our White Church as we can bring our dogs to church and blacks can come but they aren’t our species.

As a descendant of Abolionists, I get very het up about this. As as a descendent from Africans.

Then again you may be referring to the Republicans wiping out anyone who isn’t white. Hitler didn’t show his hand right away. These people come up with no plans so we don’t know. No 500 promises as Obama said in his first campaign.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:28:47 +0000

IK, Possibly, just possibly, I can explain the reasoning for comment #8. I grew up in Texas surrounded by people who believed some pretty strange things. Creationism is linked to using the Bible as a history book (but not the real history it represents — just the history that some folks like to justify!) I was told by my fundamentalist grandfather that “the reason black people were slaves was because one of Noah’s sons was black and he saw his father naked — therefore black people are punished by being slaves.” Until we shake some of the cobwebs (like this particular lie) out of the racism closet, EBD’s statement will seem strange; but sadly, it isn’t!

By: Don in Waco

Don in Waco — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:05:47 +0000

Wait. I’m confused. Kentucky R’s want critical thinking taught and Texas R’s feel threatened by critical thinking and want schools to cease teaching those skills.

By: Iron Knee

Iron Knee — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:51:27 +0000

Eva, I don’t follow your reasoning.

By: ebdoug

ebdoug — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:58:51 +0000

Creationism is not ignorance. Creationism is justification that some races are more intelligent than others (Obviously not the Republicans in Kentucky) How else can you take a Doctor/Iman/educator from Africa and put him/her to work in the fields? They are still justifying slavery in Kentucky.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:41:25 +0000

Wow. Just, wow.

Is there any evidence that main stream Republicans and/or conservative parts of the media are repudiating this spectacular exhibition of ignorance and its association with the Republican party at large?

By: Arthanyel

Arthanyel — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:56:56 +0000

As Neil deGrasse Tyson so aptly said, “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

Ansd he also said, “People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”