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| Black Florida Lawmaker Thanks God For Slavery |
| 2018-04-07 |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Up there with the Cherokee who survived the Trail of Tears to end up on oil lands? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-07 15:59 |
| #6 "Rumble in the Jungle." In any case, after the fight was over and the victorious Ali returned to America, he was asked by a reporter what he thought of Africa. He replied, "Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat." |
| Posted by: Airandee 2018-04-07 13:46 |
| #5 Back in the day, a newspaper columnist, William Raspberry if memory serves, caught holy hell for writing (I'm paraphrasing) that while it sucked for his ancestors, without slavery he would have grown up in sh1thole Africa rather than being born in America. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-04-07 12:52 |
| #4 I wonder if she will get a lot of flak from the the usual noise-makers (Sharpton and other race huxsters)? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-07 11:26 |
| #3 Think of the MLK Avenues, the NFL, Oprah, Don King, CBC, Sheriff David Clarke, Godfather's Pizza, Tuskegee Airman, Peanut butter..... that might have never been. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-07 10:34 |
| #2 That why I posted it - rare to meet an "African - American" with that much realism. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-07 08:11 |
| #1 Truthfully she would not exist if not for slavery. Just like I wouldn't if not for WWII. |
| Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846 2018-04-07 07:39 |