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In order to really give foundation to your South-bashing, you should ask cakes if he/she thought this before moving to the South, as St Louis is in the North.
So according to the poll, about 14% of the people here are complete racists.
Being against interracial marriage is an absolute sign of racism, there's no other reason to be against it.
Seriously, name one rational reason to be against interracial marriage that's not based in ignorance or hatred.
Look, I'm black. I don't hate caucasians. I'll work with them because I have to, but at the end of the day, I just don't want them around me and I sure as heck wouldn't want to date their daughters either...
Look, I'm black. I don't hate caucasians. I'll work with them because I have to, but at the end of the day, I just don't want them around me and I sure as heck wouldn't want to date their daughters either...
You automatically dismiss people because of their color? Do you feel the same about mixed-race people too?
Judging people by skin color is just as despicable from one race as it is from another. Feelings like that are at the very root of the social problems we have throughout the world, and I just don't understand the point in anyone feeling that way.
You automatically dismiss people because of their color? Do you feel the same about mixed-race people too?
Judging people by skin color is just as despicable from one race as it is from another. Feelings like that are at the very root of the social problems we have throughout the world, and I just don't understand the point in anyone feeling that way.
They're not to be trusted. That's the point I'm trying to make.
All of the states in New England had slaves in them in the 18th century, and that means all of them. If you don't believe me, please look at a source. And all of them had abolished slavery by the beginning of the 19th century (NJ was last--1804). The reason for that is largely understood to be the Enlightenment thought that ushered in the Revolution.
My point is and has been--can we have a discussion of race in the U.S. that is both honest and that does not devolve into either regional or personal bashing? I'm hoping we can, but I see little evidence of it here.
Slavery was not completely abolished in NJ until the 13th amendment in 1865. There were still 18 slaves in Jersey in the 1860 census. They called them apprentices, and they were old because they were born before the 1804 date after which point any slaves born had to be freed at 25 for males and 21 for females.
Rhode Island had a riproaring slave trade business going. Some of the descendants of the the biggest slave importer in Rhode Island got together and made a documentary about it (see link). In the town records of Bristol, Rhode Island, a shopkeeper asks that the local area for whipping slaves be moved because blood kept splashing onto his store windows.
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Slavery was not completely abolished in NJ until the 13th amendment in 1865. There were still 18 slaves in Jersey in the 1860 census. They called them apprentices, and they were old because they were born before the 1804 date after which point any slaves born had to be freed at 25 for males and 21 for females.
Rhode Island had a riproaring slave trade business going. Some of the descendants of the the biggest slave importer in Rhode Island got together and made a documentary about it (see link). In the town records of Bristol, Rhode Island, a shopkeeper asks that the local area for whipping slaves be moved because blood kept splashing onto his store windows.
That's all I was trying to say--people were acting like there was never slavery in the North. In another post, I mentioned NJ and the 1804 date too. And when I pointed out that Missouri had slavery until 1865--Missouri Compromise, anyone?--people misread what I was saying and accused me of saying the midwest and mid-Atlantic were southern. I can't believe how easily some people misread simple English. And in any case, some parts of rural Missouri feel very southern, kind of like rural Penntucky.
That's all I was trying to say--people were acting like there was never slavery in the North. In another post, I mentioned NJ and the 1804 date too. And when I pointed out that Missouri had slavery until 1865--Missouri Compromise, anyone?--people misread what I was saying and accused me of saying the midwest and mid-Atlantic were southern. I can't believe how easily some people misread simple English. And in any case, some parts of rural Missouri feel very southern, kind of like rural Penntucky.
Southern Illinois is the same way.
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At least that's what Nelly says.
I can't believe how easily some people misread simple English. And in any case, some parts of rural Missouri feel very southern, kind of like rural Penntucky.
