• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

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

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

I grew up in rural Louisiana. I didn't have that much trouble. I get along with southern whites better than I do northern whites, actually. I'm the only black person at my job, working with whites, Mexicans and one El Salvadoran. I have more trouble with the Mexicans than anyone else.
Interesting bit of information. THanks.






Uh, yeah! Believe that! :lamo
Experienced it, more than once. Fifteen or so arrests, no convictions.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

I bet you would trade laces with Denzel Washington. Oh wait, he's very Conservative; maybe you wouldn't. You wouldn't want your Libbo pards calling you 'Uncle Tom'.

I would trade with a young Michael Jordan. Mostly because I'd love to be able to fly. The MJ of today, not so much though.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Why is this not a surprise.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Well I didn't find it very humourous that the ERA didn't pass. But enjoy yourself. It didn't.

I think I might have been misunderstood. I didn't mean to imply the failure of the ERA to be ratified was humorous but rather the doing on 150 years it took for Mississippi to ratify the 13th long after it didnt matter anymore in any practical sense.

Question, what rights in 2013 do you believe women are being deprived? I think of myself as an advocate for women and the only things in 2013 that I can think of are issues having to do with special protection. For example women are prohibited from joining the NFL and get their own ladies only restrooms and fitness center shower and dressing facilities. Other than things like that I can't think of anything. Do we at this point need a constitutional amendment to ensure rights that aren't being deprived? I for example don't think we need a constitutional amendment to ensure the right for me to have a pet, go on vacation at my own expense or watch TV because these are things I already can do without hindrance.
 
Last edited:
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

not nearly at the rate black males do


52% of the murders in the USA are committed by about 6% of the population

and w
rhen it comes to Africa, the racist south africans were minor leaguers compared to the genocide perpetrated by black on black murderers

Excellent point, apartheid was well publicized and has been used as an example to civil rights causes all over the world.

Edi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Charles Taylor or General Abacha, true dictators and the architects of mass killing are not worth mentioninng because their tyranny cant be used to advance a cause.......well other than the cause to rid the world of evil African Dictators.....

Hey wait, Obama's taking up that cause. He's heading up The Cause To Oust NORTH African Dictators To Enable The Installation Of Islamic Theocracies.

You know, T.C.T.O.N.A.D.T.E.T.I.O.I.T.

Just rolls of the tongue doesn't it ?

So who's next on his list ? Mugabe ?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

It seems the base line has been moved. Now fair representation isn't enough, it has to be majority representation.

With this criteria every state in the union would be racist, sexist, homophobic or whatever.

I have no idea what you are talking about, and your comment makes absolutely no sense the context we were discussing.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

You worte exactly what I responded to and this post confirms it. Claiming that all white people are to blame for racism is hate speech in itself.

What I find most shocking, is how some folks think that black people are so weak minded, that a simple thing like racism will keep them down.

Well, it succeeded pretty well for a 150 years.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Well, it succeeded pretty well for a 150 years.
With another hundred years of lynching and separate bathrooms, water fountains and lunch counters to follow.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

With another hundred years of lynching and separate bathrooms, water fountains and lunch counters to follow.

So, there are still lynchings and seperate bathrooms now and for the next 100 years?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

So, there are still lynchings and seperate bathrooms now and for the next 100 years?

1864 until 1964 = 100 years of Jim Crow.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

1864 until 1964 = 100 years of Jim Crow.

You're still not getting, but whatever.

1864? Are you referring to the Battle of Cold Harbor? :lamo
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

Bar Harbor wut?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

1864 until 1964 = 100 years of Jim Crow.

It's ironic that the term Jim Crowe still exist in contemporaryl conversation.

It's apparent that those who repeat it are the least intersted in a world free of racism.
 
Re: Mississippi just got around to ratifying the 13th Amendment.

So now all of those mississippi slaves can go free out into the shrinking economy and not find jobs ?
...
Yes, if they had owners they'd have jobs.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

It's ironic that the term Jim Crowe still exist in contemporaryl conversation.

It's apparent that those who repeat it are the least intersted in a world free of racism.
You'd be taken more serious on the issue if you knew how to spell Jim Crow. However, since you don't, I figure you know little or nothing about it.
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanks for playing.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

It's ironic that the term Jim Crowe still exist in contemporaryl conversation.

It's apparent that those who repeat it are the least intersted in a world free of racism.

Like you just did?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

You'd be taken more serious on the issue if you knew how to spell Jim Crow. However, since you don't, I figure you know little or nothing about it.
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanks for playing.

That makes sense. But weait, isn't that how the Torries spell it?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

You'd be taken more serious on the issue if you knew how to spell Jim Crow. However, since you don't, I figure you know little or nothing about it.
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanks for playing.

You don't know much about it either, since you think Jim Crow started in 1864.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

So, there are still lynchings and seperate bathrooms now and for the next 100 years?

No, thanks to Lyndon Johnson and a liberal congress, those things are a thing of the past. However, should Ron Paul ever be elected President and the Civil Rights Act repealed, we could see it again.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

You don't know much about it either, since you think Jim Crow started in 1864.

I used it as a marker for roughly when the 13th was ratified (it was actually official in 1865), it being 100 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. You got a problem with that?
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

I used it as a marker for roughly when the 13th was ratified (it was actually official in 1865), it being 100 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. You got a problem with that?

No, you said Jim Crow was inacted in 1864, which is historically inaccurate.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

No, thanks to Lyndon Johnson and a liberal congress, those things are a thing of the past. However, should Ron Paul ever be elected President and the Civil Rights Act repealed, we could see it again.

Ye of so little faith.
 
Re: After 148 years, Mississippi finally ratifies 13th Amendment, which banned slaver

No, you said Jim Crow was inacted in 1864, which is historically inaccurate.

Uh, no. Not what I meant nor really said, exactly. But, I can see where that would be interpreted as such. I mean, sure, life was a grand old party for a few years during reconstruction, but it was so short-lived, I don't really see how that would count. For all intents and purposes, Blacks went from being enslaved to being forced to live in apartheid.
 
Back
Top Bottom