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State Rep. Garofalo (R-Meraux) at it again...
Posted on 4/28/21 at 2:17 am
Posted on 4/28/21 at 2:17 am
His Bill regarding the teaching of divisive topics in Louisiana schools was killed in committee... so now he’s exclaiming that schools should teach “the good” of slavery
Democrats have gone nuts and the video went viral, but he’s term-limited, so who cares
He probably wasn’t going to run for anything else
Democrats have gone nuts and the video went viral, but he’s term-limited, so who cares
He probably wasn’t going to run for anything else
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Posted on 4/28/21 at 5:46 am to chalmetteowl
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“the good” of slavery
Why can't folks keep their brains engaged?
Don't we teach the "good" of Egypt, Sparta, Rome, even things like German military engineering, tactics and operational art of the 1930s and 1940s?
Just because something is mostly bad doesn't mean it doesn't have anything good to teach us, does it? What am I missing?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 5:50 am to Ace Midnight
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Don't we teach the "good" of Egypt, Sparta, Rome, even things like German military engineering, tactics and operational art of the 1930s and 1940s?
Well that's different than teaching "the good" of Roman slavery or "the good" of the holocaust.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 5:59 am to jonnyanony
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Well that's different than teaching "the good" of Roman slavery or "the good" of the holocaust.
Maybe I'm using inartful language and maybe I don't understand Garofalo's point directly.
But bad things can have good consequences. I'm speculating, but wouldn't it be fair to suggest the average American of African descent has it better in 2021, than they would, say, in Niger, Togo or Sierra Leone?
Or that, however involuntary, African slaves form an integral part of the American experience, from a language, cultural, music, cuisine, etc., standpoint?
Or would those be racist suggestions?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:11 am to Ace Midnight
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Or that, however involuntary, African slaves form an integral part of the American experience, from a language, cultural, music, cuisine, etc., standpoint?
Or would those be racist suggestions?
No. In fact, where American History is still being taught these things are taught.
Of course, to mention that the standard of living and freedoms of blacks in the USA (even those in "poverty") are light years ahead of their cousins that are still living in Africa...that is racist.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:16 am to chalmetteowl
The Spaniards not Europeans (Whiteys) introduced slavery to the New World that is today's America. History somehow forgets to mention this
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:19 am to chalmetteowl
Isn’t there inherent good and knowledge to be learned from events that were bad?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:20 am to WhiskeyPlease
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Spaniards not Europeans
Wut???
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:25 am to chalmetteowl
Garafalo said “we need to talk about slavery, “The good, the bad, and the ugly.”
Another rep said “there is no good to slavery,” and Garafalo responded “well however it may be.”
Another rep said “there is no good to slavery,” and Garafalo responded “well however it may be.”
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:52 am to brewhan davey
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Garafalo said “we need to talk about slavery, “The good, the bad, and the ugly.”
Which is a pretty generic statement and hardly an "endorsement" of slavery.
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Another rep said “there is no good to slavery,”
Silly virtue signaling is silly.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:54 am to Ace Midnight
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Maybe I'm using inartful language
Don’t sell yourself short as your point here is well articulated. On a similar note, supposed “good things” can have bad consequences.
With that in mind, the legacy of the progressive Welfare State has actually been more detrimental to the true welfare of black Americans than the legacy of slavery. Dr. Thomas Sowell explains:
A Legacy of Liberalism.....
....If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on “the legacy of slavery” with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals.
Nearly a hundred years of the supposed “legacy of slavery” found most black children [78%] being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent [66%].
Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning. That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned, in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions.
This was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals. We all know what hell holes public housing has become in our times. The same toxic message produced similar social results among lower-income people in England, despite an absence of a “legacy of slavery” there.
Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and “war on poverty” programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960. This was before any of those programs began.
Over the next 20 years, the poverty rate among blacks fell another 18 percentage points, compared to the 40-point drop in the previous 20 years. This was the continuation of a previous economic trend, at a slower rate of progress, not the economic grand deliverance proclaimed by liberals and self-serving black “leaders.”
If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed “legacy of slavery” they talk about....
Posted on 4/28/21 at 6:57 am to chalmetteowl
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“the good” of slavery
It kept a minority of the population from committing the majority of violent crimes and being dependent on government welfare. It also kept them from voting barely functioning retards into Congress.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 7:00 am to Ace Midnight
This is why reparations is a negative number.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 7:39 am to brewhan davey
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Another rep said “there is no good to slavery,”
It's almost like blacks are the only group in human history to be subjected to slavery....I guess they speak for us all??
Posted on 4/28/21 at 7:44 am to WhiskeyPlease
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The Spaniards not Europeans (Whiteys)
Como que? So Spain isn't considered a Western European nation?? Smfh.
So where does the Spanish Royals fall in your color spectrum?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 7:52 am to TOSOV
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So where does the Spanish Royals fall in your color spectrum?
White Hispanic?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 7:56 am to chalmetteowl
quote:What's the context of that though? Many black scholars would tell you that this nation was built by slaves. An appalling practice that eventually yielded the freest, greatest nation in the world.
schools should teach “the good” of slavery
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:11 am to WorkinDawg
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White Hispanic
"Hispanic" are people from countries that the European Spaniards colonized. That's like calling the British Royals "White Americans/Aussie's/etc"
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:29 am to doublecutter
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Spaniards not Europeans
Wut???
Remember, AOC said that Hispanics are Black, ergo...
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:49 am to chalmetteowl
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State Rep. Garofalo (R-Meraux) at it again...
Bought and paid for shill. Overwhelming majority of his constituents wanted him to support open water access for fishing but he did not.
This post was edited on 4/28/21 at 8:51 am
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