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Smalls was given the trust of the people who owned him like an animal.

So really, whose the party of stupid here? "Look, I know we sold your wife and kids to some plantation owner who will rape them and then work them to death, but could you take care of this ship for us? We need it to fight the people who are trying to stop us from raping and whipping your wife and kids to death."

I'mma gonna pretend you're making parody because anything else is just too painful to comprehend.

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If you had bothered to read the entire 6 pages of his speech instead of cherry pickin a paragraph and deciding who and what those people were at that time, I might respect you a little. I am sure the people that lived way back then knew who they were. Who are you to say who they were. I am a descendant of the founders 1600s, you have followed us here and claim you are entitled to tell us who we are. lmao.

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Black privilege, black power, black KKK is the only reason this article ever could be printed. Smalls was a traitor to the good people who raised him up to the level that he was trusted and he betrayed them. This is NOT a good example of a good black or white person.

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BS SMALLS was given the trust of the people he was born and lived with. They taught him all he knew and he deceived then and stole their ship. Smalls was a TRAITOR! The statue should read the biggest traitor in town.

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Stephen Robinson prove you are NOT an SOB and print the ENTIRE SPEECH all 6 pages. I dare you. I will never ever read another thing that he was written, and never will I ever go to this communist wonkette site again. (It would be another 40 years before black students could enroll.) he wrote and I do pray that only worthy decent ones only can enroll. NO THUGS!

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Oh FFS. *eye roll* The term for someone doing what you're doing in this thread is concern trolling. Google it.

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Both are true. Peak racism and white supremacy happened when the bastards felt blacks were gaining ground toward equality and justice for all (1910s & 1960s).

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Wow. I have a different view from most on this board. I express it as respectfully as I can. And that makes me a troll? I enjoy many of the articles on "Wonkette", but I must say that the orthodoxy of opinion enforced in the Comments would put the Soviet Politburo to shame. How exactly do you hope to learn anything if you are so averse to engaging with anybody who doesn't think exactly as you do?

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Concern troll.

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Maybe... Maybe having the choice of what happens without consulting any white people would take some of the sting out.

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I believe he's not intended to represent a specific individual, but rather the entire gang of shameful traitors who fought to secede from the union.

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Again, a principled, consistent stance has to include actual moral judgment; all things are not equal.

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Worse! They were Frenchified Celtic Vikings!

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Yes, I thought of that as well. Too awful to be reminded of. Maybe a traveling statue that would only be in place for a month or so?

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Should have taken the sportsball major track, complete with no-show classes.

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Absolutely. And to make it worse, the Normans (Northmen) were just Frenchified Vikings!

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