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Old 01-10-2017, 07:54 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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Old 01-10-2017, 08:00 PM
 
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This type of stuff shouldn't be taken seriously in my opinion. With all the other outlets for information, maybe it's just this type of stuff that tends to sell because it stirs people up, when in reality, his view is in the significant minority

We have got to get off this race situation if we want to move forward as a people. Why can't we recognize each other like children do? If we didn't educate children to think differently with our own ignorance, than perhaps this would fail to be an issue.

Honestly, I don't know the solution. I'll let people continue to assume that someone that looks different than them might as well be from another planet. I mean, I'm talking about all sides. Get some exposure and I mean some real intimate exposure and you'll realize that we're all flawed and we all got issues that we got to deal with.

If you want to stop empowering these organizations to stir up irrational hatred, then ignore their material. While they have you hypnotized by racial and social issues, they are in the background robbing you blind. And I mean, some people are actually walking around with blinders on. I don't know if it's because they don't have any experience with deception, but trust me, it exists.
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Old 01-10-2017, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Pyongjang
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Lot of those folks in Chicago listening to Obama should sign up
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Old 01-10-2017, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Good thing is, even the most self-loathing New York City liberal, isn't stupid enough to be suckered in by something this dumb. Hollywood liberals-maybe. Meryl Strep might just do so.
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Old 01-10-2017, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Alaska
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I would much prefer that they make repreatations for the 60,000 whites that died in the civil war fighting for them to be free. This country was tore in half so they would would be free.
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Old 01-11-2017, 07:03 AM
 
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I would much prefer that they make repreatations for the 60,000 whites that died in the civil war fighting for them to be free. This country was tore in half so they would would be free.
More like 750,000 died.
But really,Lincoln was a racist who desperately offered to let the south keep its slaves if it would keep them from seceding, so no the civil war was not about ending slavery.
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Old 01-11-2017, 07:52 AM
 
Location: OH->FL->NJ
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More like 750,000 died.
But really,Lincoln was a racist who desperately offered to let the south keep its slaves if it would keep them from seceding, so no the civil war was not about ending slavery.
Yes it mostly was. It was mostly about states' rights... to keep slaves. You are correct in Lincoln was willing. That does not mean the civil war was not mostly about slavery. Slavery was THE issue of the day. The civil war in a sense started well before 1861. See Bleeding Kansas. Missouri raids...
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Old 01-11-2017, 08:22 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Yes it mostly was. It was mostly about states' rights... to keep slaves. You are correct in Lincoln was willing. That does not mean the civil war was not mostly about slavery. Slavery was THE issue of the day. The civil war in a sense started well before 1861. See Bleeding Kansas. Missouri raids...
No it mostly wasn't. It was about preserving the union. Whatever the spark was going to be, slavery, taxes, or banning booze, Lincoln would not allow the South to secede.
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