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After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slavery

Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

it matter not if Mississippi ratified it on day 1, ratified it years and years later... or never ratifies it.....

it changes nothing.



this is a non-issue... entirely.

Somewhat, but this is a more consequential matter. It should have been a procedural process done with pride of correcting the wrong (as smaller consequential subjects also have happen to them), but of course, it is met with mockery now. On a much smaller level, North Dakota removed the poll tax language from its Constitution just this past fall.
 
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Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

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Mississippi is not the sharpest pencil in the pack, is it>
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Yeah. I'm just trying to lighten things up. :2wave:

funny .... but that's an AP headline:lol:
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Its a really dumb point then. Culture or the benefits of someones perception of culture is subjective.

If there were actual slaves in Mississippi, then I could see the OPs point.

Sounds like he is race baiting. Is that Culturally backwards ?

Mississippi failed to ratify freeing slaves for over a century and you think that the person not being pleased with that is the race baiter? You couldn't possibly be more assbackwards if you tried.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Mississippi failed to ratify freeing slaves for over a century and you think that the person not being pleased with that is the race baiter? You couldn't possibly be more assbackwards if you tried.

I guess this means Mississippi has to free their slaves now?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Yeah. I'm just trying to lighten things up. :2wave:

I hear ya bro... levity is a good thing sometimes.

as an aside, I'll probably be heading to Vegas in June....
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

I guess this means Mississippi has to free their slaves now?

Well if the states rights crowd had their way they sure as hell would.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Well if the states rights crowd had their way they sure as hell would.

those states rights folks are evil and stupid.
it's almost like they think there are 50 separate states that the make up the nation or something..... pfft, idiots.

so, what do they do about all those slaves in Mississippi that y'all pretend still exist?... do they pretend-free them, or pretend-keep them?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Mississippi failed to ratify freeing slaves for over a century and you think that the
person not being pleased with that is the race baiter? You couldn't possibly be more assbackwards if you tried.

No I think your ilk needs as much illegitimate ammunition as possible to perpetaute as many race baiting stories as is currentlty possible.

Kind of like your President pushing gun control and Immigration reform when the economy is taking a nose dive.

Unless you agree that racebaiting is a legitimate tactic in perpetuating a bankrupt ideogy ?

Honestly ,Mississipi's racist past lies firmly with past Mississippi Democrats. Hell, I thought you might agree with me.

Truth is that those Democrats didn't stop with burning white crosses and standing around in silly white hats.

They ( and their ilk) instituted policies that would help tear apart the black family and put generations of people on Govt assistance.

Wait, it kinda makes sense now. Only thing is those policies are being doubled down on and are being extended out to our illegal guest and just about everyone who ask for Govt assistance.

You think it was just a ratification for the sake of ceremony ?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

those states rights folks are evil and stupid.
it's almost like they think there are 50 separate states that the make up the nation or something..... pfft, idiots.

so, what do they do about all those slaves in Mississippi that y'all pretend still exist?... do they pretend-free them, or pretend-keep them?

I've not big issue with states rights to an extent but you have a guy in this very thread saying that states rights are supreme. If that's the case, their not following federal slavery abolition in his eyes means that slavery is still in existence there legally. Of course its not. And of course it would be rather symbolic but to a black family in Mississippi, I think it's symbolism worth showing and that it had a hard time getting through is definitely the wrong symbol to show.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

I've not big issue with states rights to an extent but you have a guy in this very thread saying that states rights are supreme. If that's the case, their not following federal slavery abolition in his eyes means that slavery is still in existence there legally. Of course its not. And of course it would be rather symbolic but to a black family in Mississippi, I think it's symbolism worth showing and that it had a hard time getting through is definitely the wrong symbol to show.

well, I'm just glad slavery is finally abolished in Mississippi.... 150 years after it was abolished in Mississippi (and every other state).

that black family in Mississippi can symbolically rest easy knowing it is symbolically free from symbolic slavery that doesn't exist. :lol:


whomever believes states are supreme on any and every topic is an idiot...so are folks who think ratifying the amendment 150 years after it was adopted is something special.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Well, I guess now that Republicans have a majority in the Mississippi House, for the first time since the Reconstruction, ratifying the 13 Amendment is a relatively safe thing to do ;)
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

You mean I could have had me a slave to do all my housework, up until 1995???? Damn.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

The entire point of a tread of this nature is that liberals have lists of things that they are told to hate. When things that are on the Hate List are mentioned, the loon's estrogen/emotion generator kicks in and they feel hate and as we all know, when loons feel something, it must be expressed immediately and any nearby loons must be rallied to join the braying.

Mississippi is on that Liberal Hate List so that is why we have a thread of this nature desperately searching for a reason for existence, yet filled with directionless emotion. Topics such as this, while pointless to normal people, are immensely satisfying to the ever bleating loons. This is part of their unusual, but fascinating, pathology.
 
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Their slaves were freed by force of arms, but keeping this off the books was tantamount to saying, "We'd totally go back to enslaving blacks if the feds weren't on our case about it." Over time, morals have changed and, as people have noted in this thread, "slavery is wrong" is a universal truth as commonly accepted as "murder is wrong."

But the fact that it took them 148 years to ratify it...!? The shear hubris exhibited by their difficulty in uttering empty words to the effect of "our bad, we shouldn't have enslaved blacks" is astounding. How the hell can anyone claim that racism is gone when there's that much resistance to platitudes that affirm such a universally accepted truth? It's like someone having resistance to saying "murder is wrong," and then hearing people say he's no more likely to murder than anybody else.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

How many Of the former Confederate states would reinstitute slavery today if they actually seceded as threatened lately?

I say at least three: LA, AL and MS. Although, I admit this would come about slowly. First we'd see Jim Crow. Then even more incarceration of Blacks...and there they would be worked like slaves.

Wait. Isn't that happening already?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, whi

How many Of the former Confederate states would reinstitute slavery today if they actually seceded as threatened lately?

I say at least three: LA, AL and MS.

Exactly none is my guess
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, whi

What a non story. NJ and PA haven't ratified the 11th Amendment. It doesn't make it less a part of the Constitution.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

The entire point of a tread of this nature is
that liberals have lists of things that
they are told to hate. When things that are on the Hate List are mentioned, the loon's estrogen/emotion generator kicks in and they feel hate and as we all know, when loons feel something, it must be expressed immediately and any nearby loons must be rallied to join the braying.

Mississippi is on that Liberal Hate List so that is why we have a thread of this nature desperately searching for a reason for existence, yet filled with directionless emotion. Topics such as this, while pointless to normal people, are immensely satisfying to the ever bleating loons. This is part of their unusual, but fascinating, pathology.

Good post.

Their list includes things that they are told to care about too.

Depending on who's in the White House of course.

Remember when they use to count dead soldiers on the Nightly News programs ? And make a stink about collateral damage ?

They havn't had minds of their own for some time.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

How many Of the former Confederate states would reinstitute slavery today if they actually seceded as threatened lately?

I say at least three: LA, AL and MS. Although, I admit this would come about slowly. First we'd see Jim Crow. Then even more incarceration of Blacks...and there they would be worked like slaves.

Wait. Isn't that happening already?

Jim Crowe laws that were implemented by Democrats ? I mean you folks fillibustered the 1964 voting rights act.

You went from that to building voter farms and destroying black families by implementing policies that enabled generational dependence and decades of poverty crime and misery.

Because a democrat by any other name is still a democrat so be careful who you call racist.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

A bit of 'larnin' for some folks

Louisiana farmer charged with "slavery peonage" - 1979 -

Your tomato's possible ties to slavery - 2011
...the U.S. Justice Department has prosecuted at least seven cases of farm labor servitude in Florida in the last 15 years.

and another even more vicious style of human bondage is sex slavery
Sept 2012 Scott Maxwell: Teenage sex slaves are an all-too-common reality in Florida - Orlando Sentinel
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

1. Jim Crowe laws that were implemented by Democrats ? I mean you folks fillibustered the 1964 voting rights act.

2. You went from that to building voter farms and destroying black families by implementing policies that enabled generational dependence and decades of poverty crime and misery.

3. Because a democrat by any other name is still a democrat so be careful who you call racist.
1. The Southern Democrats of the 60's are the modern day Republicans. They were cemented as a permanent Republican base by Nixon during the 1968 election using the Southern Strategy. LBJ lost the Southern Democrats to the GOP early on. See Barry Goldwater.

2. The Liberal Democrats of the 1970's did Blacks no favors. But, the GOP's attempts to overturn the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is as outright war on Blacks.

3. Republicans who stick to the party because of the name, regardless the level of damage the party caused the nation, are not to be admired. After W, the GOP deserved to be thrown out of office.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Jim Crowe laws that were implemented by Democrats ? I mean you folks fillibustered the 1964 voting rights act.

You went from that to building voter farms and destroying black families by implementing policies that enabled generational dependence and decades of poverty crime and misery.

Because a democrat by any other name is still a democrat so be careful who you call racist.

You mean folks like Strom Thurmond, who went from Democrat to Dixiecrat to Republican during his political career - all the while ignoring the fact that he had a daughter after forcing himself onto a family maid, how about Jesse Helms, John Connally or Elizabeth Dole.

Of course, Lee Atwater was the man who devised and led Nixon's Southern Strategy which has been discussed many times - all based on race and meant to get Republicans elected to office from city councils to the White House.

Democrats were the racists in the past but when their leaders, like Harry Truman integrated the military and of course LBJ signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, many of those Dems became Republicans
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Jim Crowe laws that were implemented by Democrats ? I mean you folks fillibustered the 1964 voting rights act.

Oh how things have changed! We, democrats, also elected the first black president. Something that the republicans have fought against tooth and nail.
 
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