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Title: Northam Refers to Slaves as ‘Indentured Servants’
Post by: Local5th on 02 11, 19, 10:01:00:AM
Blackface-wearing Democrat Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam kept digging himself a deeper hole on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” continuing possibly the worst string of public relations work in the recent history of American politics.

Host Gayle King pressed Northam on what she described as a “very difficult week for [Northam] and state of Virginia.” She opened the floor to Northam, asking him where he wanted to begin, and immediately he launched into a historical tirade, which quickly derailed

“We are now at the 400-year anniversary — just 90 miles from here in 1619. The first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores in Old Point Comfort, what we call now Fort Monroe, and while—” he said before King cut him off.

“Also known as slavery,” King said.

“Yes,” Northam replied sheepishly.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-northam-refers-to-slaves-as-indentured-servants/

Northam was wise to stop when he did.


Title: Re: Northam Refers to Slaves as ‘Indentured Servants’
Post by: Oscar_LaVista on 02 11, 19, 12:10:58:PM
remember when you used to spew that bullshit about white people being slaves in this country, when really they actually were indentured servants, which is not even close? 


Title: Re: Northam Refers to Slaves as ‘Indentured Servants’
Post by: Local5th on 02 11, 19, 08:50:13:PM
Actually in the US the first blacks bought from slave traders were treated as indentured servants. Once they served their time as an indentured servant they became free men.

Then it went downhill from there.


Title: Re: Northam Refers to Slaves as ‘Indentured Servants’
Post by: Sadie402 on 02 11, 19, 08:57:33:PM
That’s what I learned about the evelotion of slavery in the USA. Local is right.


Title: Re: Northam Refers to Slaves as ‘Indentured Servants’
Post by: Local5th on 02 11, 19, 09:14:21:PM
We didn't start as racist. IMHO I think greed was the driver and we adopted racism to justify our greed.

What do you think Sadie?


Title: Re: Northam Refers to Slaves as ‘Indentured Servants’
Post by: omiaqt on 02 11, 19, 11:16:40:PM
All black slaves were freed when Republican President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and later Republicans passed the 13th Amendment. Sadly, in 1965, Democrats passed the Great Society which re-enslaved Black Americans to poverty, gang violence and drugs.


Title: Re: Northam Refers to Slaves as ‘Indentured Servants’
Post by: Oscar_LaVista on 02 12, 19, 05:38:33:AM
omiaqt is so stupid she thinks trying to help folks who need help is enslaving them, and somehow, this enslavement of people being helped to live and raise kids out of abject poverty conditions, only works with black people!!  white people, who receive the same benefits if they qualify, are not enslaved by social programs that are designed to help them get back on their feet, to keep their family together, fed and housed, so that the cycle of poverty can be broken.  dumbass racist omiaqt believes helping those who need help, regardless of color or ethnicity, somehow only enslaves blacks even though white people get more of these benefits overall and racist goddamn pigs like omiaqt do not accuse them of being slaves on any democratic plantation...

why is that, racist pig omiaqt?  besides your goddamn racism, asshole?

if you count farm subsidies, tax breaks to incredibly profitable corporations that make no sense, an odd tax structure that allows hedge fund managers, some of whom make a billion dollars a year, pay less percentage of income tax than their secretaries, to welfare benefits, and most of these benefits go to rich white people, the rich white guys are the ones living on a plantation, like kings, on the republican plantation, and you silly ass trump voters are all for it!!  but for a poor person?  HELL TO THE NO!!  IT WARPS POOR PEOPLE TO GET BENEFITS!! IT MAKES RICH PEOPLE MORE PRODUCTIVE!!