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re: State Rep says Declaration of Independence is racist

Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:49 am to
Posted by tiger chaser
Birmingham Ala
Member since Feb 2008
7635 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:49 am to
Probably black. ... Pitiful
Posted by Superior Pariah
Member since Jun 2009
8457 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 11:07 am to
I find this bill to be very Nazi Germany-esque
Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 11:12 am to
Didn't we let them all go? How come we never hear a "thank you" for that?
Posted by ATL-TIGER-732
ATL
Member since Jun 2013
2291 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 11:27 am to
quote:

Louisiana State Rep. Barbara Norton (D) said, "For the Declaration of Independence, only Caucasians [were] free.

Is this something else we have to apologize for?

Do we need to destroy all copies of the Declaration of Independence to atone for something someone did 240 years ago?
Posted by drunkenpunkin
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
7659 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 12:45 pm to
I knew who it was before even opening this thread. This is by far the most ignorant member of the legislarure of all time. What an embarrassment. The sad part is she and most of her constituents are too dumb to be embarrassed.
Posted by TJGator1215
FL/TN
Member since Sep 2011
14174 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 1:08 pm to
She's right you know. Women, native Americans, poor whites and blacks were either property or second class citizens.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30627 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 2:17 pm to
The video of her talking about the DOI is to the right of the other Youtube video of her.

"I know all men are not created equal."... Listen until she says, "All mens are free."

Representative Hodges looks like a bitter woman.
Posted by montanagator
Member since Jun 2015
16957 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 2:34 pm to
I mean you could make a pretty good case for the original unamended US Constitution being at least a bit racist but the Declaration didn't have any racist stuff in it at all.

Now it's pretty obvious that America didn't come anywhere one to living up to the promise of its ideals at the time of its founding, but that's kind of the story of American history-- struggling sometimes violently to live up to the promise of its founding. Hell, the Confederacy quite specifically was founded on rejecting the promise of America in favor of entrench in in word and deed the idea of eternal white supremacy.
This post was edited on 5/29/16 at 2:41 pm
Posted by bgtiger
Prairieville
Member since Dec 2004
11451 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 4:42 pm to
i was going to say something very racist, but true.

Never mind.
Posted by BamaFan70
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2009
1568 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 7:26 pm to
Too bad that bitch wasn't a slave. Then she'd realize just how good she has it now.
Posted by Jim Smith
Member since May 2016
2915 posts
Posted on 5/29/16 at 9:13 pm to
Barbara Norton could be one of the biggest idiots alive. And fwiw, it looks like someone punched her in the nose and it never healed.
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