I reckon Cotton would say the "noblest" country was also brought to great heights by the extermination of Native Americans, and all the high-seas piracy perpetrated to fill its coffers...
so every once in a while I like to go to foxnews dot com and troll them in the comments, on their story on this today I left a couple of comments, 1. I think it's a good thing for the federal goverment decide what's approved for teaching our kids, just remember, by january it looks like it'll be chuck and nancy making those decisions for you2. so slavery is our tiannemen square now
..."by the late 1850's most white Southerners viewed themselves as prisoners in their own country, condemned by what they saw as a hysterical abolition movement."
Can you imagine what the Civil War would have been like if the government required everyone to wear masks?
If Cotton thinks slavery is a "necessary evil" that makes our country noble, the patriotic thing for him for him to do is become a slave maybe in Alabama.
In 1787, the year when the constitution was written, the year Lincoln was talking about: it looked very much as if slavery was on its way out.From 1792 (Whitney's first experiments with the cotton gin) to 1802 (South Carolina invests in Whitney's final model and actively promotes it) the economics radically changed, and after that the resistance to eliminating slavery became intransigent.
Well, in the 1780's few of the abolition-minded actually expected racism to end: they did not think free blacks would ever integrate into white society, and favored schemes to ship them back to Africa (resulting in Liberia) or set aside some out of the way places conquered from the Indians or the Spanish (maybe in the Caribbean or Central America rather than contiguous to the US) to move them to. Even "Enlightenment" thinkers were not all that progressive by our present standards: but they did not foresee slavery continuing for another "fourscore and seven years" let alone growing westward into a wide swath of new states.
In 1860, Lincoln was remarking about how, DECADES EARLIER, it had once been normal to expect that slavery would just wither away naturally, and was lamenting that things had changed so seriously.Stephen is trying to say that Lincoln was wrong. He was not.
Is Tom Cotton a necessary evil?
♪♫ O, I wish I was in the land of Cotton / Old times there are not forgotten ♪♫
In the Roman Empire, the definition of absolute poverty for a free citizen is if you couldn't even afford one slave.
I reckon Cotton would say the "noblest" country was also brought to great heights by the extermination of Native Americans, and all the high-seas piracy perpetrated to fill its coffers...
so every once in a while I like to go to foxnews dot com and troll them in the comments, on their story on this today I left a couple of comments, 1. I think it's a good thing for the federal goverment decide what's approved for teaching our kids, just remember, by january it looks like it'll be chuck and nancy making those decisions for you2. so slavery is our tiannemen square now
..."by the late 1850's most white Southerners viewed themselves as prisoners in their own country, condemned by what they saw as a hysterical abolition movement."
Can you imagine what the Civil War would have been like if the government required everyone to wear masks?
If Cotton thinks slavery is a "necessary evil" that makes our country noble, the patriotic thing for him for him to do is become a slave maybe in Alabama.
Lectures on slavery from a racist senator named Cotton seems a little on-the-nose, even for The GOP.
In 1787, the year when the constitution was written, the year Lincoln was talking about: it looked very much as if slavery was on its way out.From 1792 (Whitney's first experiments with the cotton gin) to 1802 (South Carolina invests in Whitney's final model and actively promotes it) the economics radically changed, and after that the resistance to eliminating slavery became intransigent.
But that’s just it. By 1860, the idea of slavery just going away looks, in retrospect, ridiculous.
Well, in the 1780's few of the abolition-minded actually expected racism to end: they did not think free blacks would ever integrate into white society, and favored schemes to ship them back to Africa (resulting in Liberia) or set aside some out of the way places conquered from the Indians or the Spanish (maybe in the Caribbean or Central America rather than contiguous to the US) to move them to. Even "Enlightenment" thinkers were not all that progressive by our present standards: but they did not foresee slavery continuing for another "fourscore and seven years" let alone growing westward into a wide swath of new states.
In 1860, Lincoln was remarking about how, DECADES EARLIER, it had once been normal to expect that slavery would just wither away naturally, and was lamenting that things had changed so seriously.Stephen is trying to say that Lincoln was wrong. He was not.
Or the war they fought with it.
He should get sent to Russia.
That is from a wrestler Freddie Blassie, he called his opponents "pencil necked geek".
That and his base see things as a zero-sum game if others win, they lose