Friday, September 28th, 2007
Tossin’ the slaves down the memory hole
Shorter Michael Medved (hat tip, the fine folks at Sadly, No!):
Libruls unbellyfeel the fact that slavery was the doubleplus goodest thing that ever happened to those "swarthy males." Oh, and reparations are doubleplus ungood!
See Jillian for a most excellent shredding of Medved’s crap. Meanwhile, the comments section is extra precious:
When my slave owner relatives moved, some of the slaves went with them because they wanted to be with them. One of the women slaves became the local midwife & she was buried on my family plot. I’m proud of both the slave & the slave owner, in America anything is possible.
Yeah, I’m sure your slave-owning relatives were extra nice and gave them the crumbs off their table and the sweat off their balls to convince them. 
You did not read Medved’s words close enough. He said "in the history of the REPUBLIC". The republic did not begin until 1776 so your comments about slaves coming in 1609 are immaterial.
Should the USA be blamed for things that happened before its existence? Should America be blamed for British policies? In this vein, should we today be blamed for anything done hundreds of years ago by other people? Of course the answers are no, no, and no.
Okay, if the U.S. is completely innocent for the start of slavery, why the hell was the Three-fifths Compromise necessary just to get the Southern states (you know, where the bulk of the slaves were) to sign on to the Constitution?
And to the disbelieves out there, yes the U.S. was one of the first to outlaw slavery (1865). England I think was the first in 1835.
<John McLaughlin>WRONG!</John McLaughlin>
SCROTUS stopped segregation in schools under the belief that was harming the education of blacks. Well, that theory has been totally shot down. The academic divide is as great or greater now than before.
Different strokes for different folks. You just hate the law of nature.
No, I don’t hate "the law of nature." I just hate recycled, discredited, racist BS.
If there was segregation, the public school in Jena, LA would not have been burned to the ground and there would be 6 blacks who would not be facing charges for assault.
No, you didn’t misread that. He actually said that desegregation caused the Jena 6 bullcrap! Excuse me while I 
I’m sorry. The toxicity of the place just overwhelmed me. You’re on your own from here.
