Bill O'Reilly says slaves were well fed

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  1. FreshAir

    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    kinda like my lawn mower gets plenty of gas.... they owned black people, they were tools they feed to use them, simple as that.. slavery is wrong

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  2. tomander7020

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    Yes, I am sad to say that you are correct on that. Even many who viewed slavery as inhuman weren't prepared to go so far as to recognize blacks as equals. There was a feeling that they were indeed humans with certain rights, but an inferior class of humans compared to European Americans.

    When I was a teenager, I was with a group of other boys when we stopped by my house. I invited them all in, but the one black boy in our group refused to enter even though I insisted. He stayed on the front porch. I didn't ask him his motive, but it seemed that he felt he shouldn't enter a white family's house.

    Even much later, when I was in high school in the 1950s and had a number of black classmates and friends, almost everyone, most blacks as well as almost all whites, considered marriage between a black and a person of another skin color to be an abomination. It wasn't a belief that they could explain. It was an ingrained prejudice that few people could logically think about much less discuss.

    Today, in my neighborhood at least, no one finds interracial marriage the least bit unusual.
     
  3. glloydd95

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    Their statements don't suggest anything of the sort. If anyone is being obtuse it's you.
     
  4. The Wyrd of Gawd

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    That's not true because if those events had never happened American black people wouldn't exist. American black people are biracial and have European ancestors as well as various black African ancestors.
     
  5. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Blacks and whites have been marrying each other since 1620. White guys married black women, white women married black guys. The people who got upset about it were the bigots.
     
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    Is he calling them fat??
     
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    What you presented was an intellectually dishonest portrayal of the facts.
     
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    It is completely downplaying the horrors of being a slave.
     
  10. Matt84

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    Who the hell is "we"?

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    Will your next statement condemn slavery or will you do like the other righties and dance around it?
     
  11. Matt84

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    Facts? Lol

    So when are you going to condemn slavery?
     
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    Look anywhere, on any forum, Twitter feed, Facebook feed, Yahoo, or just ask someone in real life.
     
  13. glloydd95

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    I don't have to condemn slavery any more than I have to condemn the eating of dead babies.

    Bill O'Reilly doesn't have to defend himself either. He doesn't condone slavery and nothing he said does. It's only the willfully stupid who look for racism any and everywhere who don't understand this and it is because they don't want to understand it.
     
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    I always start off, when mentioning this issue, I'm not defending slavery, in any way. However IMO, the first indentured servants included many blacks, from Africa, not necessarily captured to send to the America's, They were leaving places, where a third died before puberty, the rest on average died from old age, under 40. Some gained citizenship and as servants, after 10 years, given 50 acres and in turn had their own slaves. Said another way life in Africa was terrible, and the few that made it into the new world, especially the future USA, have been well rewarded, no less than any other race and many of them were also indentured. Descendents from Africa and again anyplace, should be grateful, to their ancestors for whatever they or their children will have.

    Those that helped build anything, or worked the fields as slaves, their children and those to old to work, were Fed, were housed, many educated and lived out lives, not even thought about in Africa, India or any number of places. They and their owners, had doctor's of sort (usually dentist in those day's) and most those owners were good people, again some black and cared about people. This hold true in "Share Cropping" after the CW and wasn't until the 1960's, that the last were forced to get off the land, fending for themselves.
     
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    Where did you come up with this twisted ass his-story from?
     
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    So when they were being raped and beaten they should have been thankful they did not have to endure the "terrible" life in Africa? You know....I think a few slave owners said this to themselves so they could sleep at night....being good Christians and all.
     
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    Never argue about anything that can be proven.

    "Clotilde (slave ship)
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    History
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    Name: Clotilda
    General characteristics
    Class and type: Slave ship
    Length: 86 ft (26 m)
    Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m)
    Sail plan: Schooner
    The schooner Clotilde (or Clotilda) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States,[1] arriving at Mobile Bay in autumn 1859[1] (some sources give the date as July 9, 1860[2][3]), with 110-160 slaves.[1] The ship was a two-masted schooner, 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 ft (7.0 m). The vessel was burned and scuttled at Mobile Bay, soon after. The sponsors had arranged to buy slaves in Whydah, Dahomey on May 15, 1859. [1][2]


    Many descendants of Cudjo Kazoola Lewis,[1][2] the last survivor of Clotilde, still reside in Africatown, a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama. A memorial bust of him was placed in front of the Union Missionary Baptist Church there.[2]"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotilde_(slave_ship)

    An article from May, 1918. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/4734462136/in/album-72157624036175005/
     
  18. Matt84

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    Ahahaahaha, I must admit, it had me going for a while!
     
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    This was my quote "What you presented was an intellectually dishonest portrayal of the facts". There is no spin on that. You claimed New Jersey was a slave state when you knew that they had abolished slavery in 1802.
     
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    One of the dumbest points that could be made. He could have gotten technical and pointed out that no part of the existing structure was built by slaves (which is true), but to excuse it because they were well fed? The ****.
     
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    Dude, like I said...New Jersey had Slavery until after the Civil War was over. That was 1865. Sorry but the truth is heavy, some just cant carry it.
     
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    Was someone saying that they were poorly fed thay we has correcting?
     
  24. Matt84

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    They could even put him up in a Marriot like those well taken care of slaves were housed!
     
  25. Vegas giants

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    No he just wanted to highlight some of the benefits of slavery. Always look on the bright side of life.....LOL
     

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