Limbaugh: ‘The Confederate Flag Is the Legacy of Democrats, Not Republicans’

[DCPatriot]

You do realize there were American Indians and Free Blacks who owned slaves?  You do understand not all slaves were black?  But when you paint with a broad brush it covers the details.

Yes, of course.

But, just because...proportionately speaking, there were a 'few' Free Blacks that owned slaves, doesn't erase the overall concept that is was the White European that brought them from Africa in the first place.

...and who in the hell cares that indigent Indians owned slaves?  Geesh.   So did the Aztecs and Incas.

How far back do you want to go in grasping straws?   

[olde north church]

Yes, of course.

But, just because...proportionately speaking, there were a 'few' Free Blacks that owned slaves, doesn't erase the overall concept that is was the White European that brought them from Africa in the first place.

...and who in the hell cares that indigent Indians owned slaves?  Geesh.   So did the Aztecs and Incas.

How far back do you want to go in grasping straws?   

I'm not grasping at straws.  I'm refusing to be cowed by political correctness.   :nometalk:

[Bigun]

You do realize there were American Indians and Free Blacks who owned slaves?  You do understand not all slaves were black?  But when you paint with a broad brush it covers the details.

And the cotton producers among them pretty much all had gins but no mechanical means to plant, care for, pick, and transport the crop from the fields to the gin. Anyone who thinks that maintaining the labor force to do that 24/7/365 was free is CRAZY!!!

[Bigun]

Yes, of course.

But, just because...proportionately speaking, there were a 'few' Free Blacks that owned slaves, doesn't erase the overall concept that is was the White European that brought them from Africa in the first place.

...and who in the hell cares that indigent Indians owned slaves?  Geesh.   So did the Aztecs and Incas.

How far back do you want to go in grasping straws?   

And just who was providing them to those white Europeans so that they could be transported?

[DCPatriot]

And just who was providing them to those white Europeans so that they could be transported?

I suppose it comes down to human nature itself.

I'm sure there was an African tribal 'mafia' that enriched themselves by providing 'product' to ship.

...if the economy ever tanks like it has in Greece today, I'm sure there will be certain Americans that would get into the 'slave trade'...providing good, healthy progressives [product] to a willing, ready and able buyer.   

[Bigun]

I should also point out that the very first slave owner in what became the U.S. was a black man named Anthony Johnson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/the-first-legal-slave-owner-in-what-would-become-the-united-states-was-a-black-man/

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Do you believe there's something wrong with blacks displaying signs that state "Black Power"

Yes.

"... and that they should be prohibited from so doing?"

No.

I can easily recognize the right of someone to do something that I disapprove of, or that I am vehemently opposed to without creating a conflict in my head.

Everyone here would probably describe me as a supporter of same-sex marriage, and that wouldn't be accurate. I am happily married to a wonderful woman, and I've been married to enough women in my lifetime that I can safely say that the traditional one man, one woman version of the marriage options is what works best for me. Yet, I also easily recognize that the fact that I belong to one team doesn't mean that I think the other team should be banned from the field. My support of one team does not automatically translate into an opposition to the other.

Except in the case of the Washington Redskins.

Screw them.

How 'bout dem Cowboys!

[DCPatriot]