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Author Topic: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden  (Read 18119 times)

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Almost unbelievable that she was charged....and now, convicted as well. She certainly got a speedy trial. I'm not sure it's Sessions who was responsible for this miscarriage of justice however, or whether credit should go to his fellow Alabama ass hole Senator Richard Shelby, who was speaking when Ms. Farooz busted out laughing. He doesn't have much of a sense of humor either. Both Sessions and Shelby need a pie in the face.




Well, I AM SURE! And you are being willfully BLIND by even questioning whether or not the Attorney General of the U.S. is not BEHIND THIS UP TO HIS thin skinned, bigoted RACIST EYEBALLS.

Well, I AM SURE! And you are being willfully BLIND by even questioning whether or not the Attorney General of the U.S. is not BEHIND THIS UP TO HIS thin skinned, bigoted RACIST EYEBALLS.


People who are always very SURE about everything are frequently completely wrong. I'm the last person to stick up for Sessions, but I'd bet five bucks Shelby pushed for the arrest. At the time she was arrested, Sessions wasn't even sworn in as AG.




Agelbert NOTE: I see. Sessions was just sitting around fat, dumb and happy, blissfully unaware of who was laughing at his own swearing in ceremony. And after he was sworn in, they had to twist the General's arm to authorize criminal chargers against those "disrespectful mockers". ;D Speaking of people who are SURE of things (I.E. your CERTAINTY about the "true cause" of the Civil War and the "irrelevance" of slavery to it):

Contemporary Confederate sympathizers who are SURE that the civil War was "not about slavery" are obscuring Civil War history in hollow romance. They are entitled to their opinion of the cause of the Civil War, regardless of how erroneous it is, but documented history by BOTH Southern and Northern historian scholars correctly brands hollow romance as magical thinking.


April 08, 2015
AMERICAN TALL TALES   

For the last time, the American Civil War was not about states’ rights

SNIPPET:

Northern racists, Southern racists 

In a last-ditch effort to deny the integrality of slavery to Southern secession, a contemporary Confederate sympathizer will inevitably raise the issue of the Corwin amendment. Proposed in the US Senate by William H. Seward of New York and in the House by Thomas Corwin of Ohio in 1861, it was intended to lure seceded states back into the Union (and convince border states to remain) by promising to protect slaveholders from federal interference. Its reference is meant to convey a fallacious argument: that the impetus for secession could not have been the preservation of slavery because a few Northern politicians were willing to forgo abolition to keep the Union intact.

The Corwin amendment was never actually implemented. Only three states—Ohio, Illinois, and Maryland—ratified it. But its mere proposal indicates that the North, like the South, was no ideological monolith. There were men who fought for the Union that believed in the institution of slavery, who believed blacks to be inherently inferior to whites. Likewise, there were men who fought for the Confederacy that never owned slaves (the vast majority, in fact), who didn’t wish to, and who believed in the inherent equality of all men.

But while the Civil War was fought, on the ground, by these ordinary men of diverse opinions, it was not a conflict of their own engineering. Southern secession was not a guerrilla insurgency nor a populist rebellion as the neo-Confederate romantics prefer to believe. It was a conflict between two well-heeled establishments: one that depended—economically and spiritually—on the continued enslavement of black people, and another that did not. Extant racism among Northerners does not extinguish this fact.

Ultimately, the debate over motives for Southern secession trivializes the true shame of antebellum America: the existence of an institution of slavery all together. Which is why the effort to debunk Civil War myths must avoid becoming an exercise in elevating the morality of white Northerners. That too is beside the point. As history inarguably demonstrates, life for free African Americans in the postbellum North was subject to just as many miseries and injustices as in the South. And although one region outpaced the other in the formal abolition of slavery, neither was immune to the informal perpetuation of inequities established by slave-trade.

Obscuring Civil War history in hollow romance, refusing to recognize the true heritage of the Confederacy—these are just two of its many manifestations.

https://qz.com/378533/for-the-last-time-the-american-civil-war-was-not-about-states-rights/



He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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