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She fine.

This is a very interesting thread. I did not know anything about Rabbi Scmuley's activities, but, I certainly do understand his motives.

I do not consume Leftist propaganda, so I don't consume the products of mass media.

Joe Biden.

I don't think that Ireland can vote its way out of this mess.

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Suppose the South is allowed to just walk away? What happens?

* The planters run the South into the ground. The South didn't have a strong middle class as did the north. The planters did not invest much in universities, libraries, education, etc.

* The planters focus on growing an agricultural economy and see industrialization as a threat. As the North industrialized even more, the South would have fallen even further behind. The South, though free, would eventually become an economic colony of the North.

Just look at Mississippi. The planters built universities in rural areas where only the upper classes could go to school. No urban universities were the majority of the population lived. Fought industrialization as he meant the planters in the Delta would lose power. The planters fought most reforms.

* The slaves. In several states such as Mississippi, the slaves outnumbered the whites. That would eventually cause problems.

By comparison, look at how Germany, once industrialized, left most countries around it behind.

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Great post. Thought provoking and people should read it.

I agree that in your scenarios, the wealthy Southern Plantation Owning Class would have fought all reforms, growth and industrialization because they would see all of these things as threats to their own wealth, power, prestige and the wealth power and prestige of their children and grandchildren. They would have wanted to bequeath the exact same South to their Grandchildren and their Wives would have expected them to work for nothing other than that.

Great post. I think it hits the nail on the head. I agree we can see the outlines of this exact frame of mind here today in the modern South among that demographic of people.

Important point - the white women of the South would have been very important motivators of their husbands in the work needed for the Plantation Class to bequeath the Old South on down to the Grandchildren. Anything other than that would have been seen as losing prestige and status, which would be viewed as absolutely intolerable (this attitude was a large factor in why the South went to war in the first place).

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And disclaimer: I graduated from catholic grammar & high school, college degree from Catholic college, coached and taught at a prominent catholic school.

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What Protestant denomination's church do you now attend?

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"No....it's because he's a confident legendary black man who's here to change the white patriarchy of the NFL....and the slave owners aren't drafting him because they don't want anyone on the Plantation stirring the Pot....nobody talked about Baker Mayfield's cockiness, nobody talked about Johnny Football and all his issues because they white....this is racist collusion among owners in the NFL....we gonna show Deion."

- Ryan Clark (what he's probably thinking and want he'll probably say.)

- Co-signed Mel Kiper (if he hasn't already cashed the check Deion gave him).

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Yes.

Encourage this social media narrative. It will hurt the NFL, which IMHO needs to happen.

If the GOP really wanted to help Trump's agenda, we'd be seeing a lot more action from them. As it stands, very little action from them. AND, most telling - not much talk, either.

No. This is great. We should run with it. Keep up the absurdity.

Go with it - keep the narrative going:

The NFL is Racist and works to keep Black People in their place. The NFL is like Jim Crow in that regard.

Keep it up until the absurdity causes the whole structure to collapse.