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(35,059 posts)It's such a generalized term, that's why it appeals to so many 'intellectuals' on the right.
Time to take our country back... to like it was how in the 1950's, it'll be like Leave it to Beaver again and there are no uppity minorities and women know their rightful place.
Time to take our country back... away from the pot-smoking, flag-burning, Trotskyist pinko liberal servants of the USSR.
Time to take our country back... from the homosexuals who think they should have the same rights as us.
Time to take our country back... to the time before some foreign born Muslim black man was President.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)no frikken idea.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)They actually were sold, separately, like slaves
http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/4-children-for-sale-the-rest-of-the-story/
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Just......
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)However, as any good libertarian capitalist knows, you shouldn't have to sell your KIDS. Just your ORGANS, for transplant.
griloco
(832 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)Which is why conservatives also tend to hate Sesame Street.
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=30393&d=1363523560
In fact, if you've got a strong enough stomach, take a look at the blog page where I found that picture from Sesame Street.
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?73633-Sesame-Steet-Is-Racist
Flatpicker
(894 posts)Is what they want.
An America that never existed.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Where the dude is whining about the minority makeup of Sesame Street.
I'm kind of amused by his comments because of the TV commercials that I see. It doesn't matter what product they're advertising on TV - if there are two people one will be a minority, if there are three, two will be minorities.
When we look back on TV commercials in 50 years - future people will believe that all races have gotten along for a really long time.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Children and negroes knew their place
Blocks of happy families
With Moms and Dads all in love
Or are these wholesome memories
Really from reruns on TV
Volaris
(10,270 posts)I really want to say to those people:
"Id be happy to help you get it back. But first you need to tell me who you think took it from you."
When the answer is anything and everything EXCEPT multinational corporotists and their idiot GOPers (and fairly, some democrats) in Congress, NOW we can play the kind of ball that we Liberals should be really good at---changing minds.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)"and before de-segregation".
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)But they think it sounds better than displaying their racism proudly on their back bumper.
kcr
(15,315 posts)They think they'll live like this
longship
(40,416 posts)Ahhh! That's better.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)Make them say it out loud. In front of lots of people. The subject gets changed really quick. so tiresome.
renate
(13,776 posts)Luckily for me, I don't ever run into the kind of people who say anything like that, but if I ever do I will use your question. Thanks!
Mira
(22,380 posts)After that I don't proceed to a new topic. The entire interaction ends.
niyad
(113,263 posts)kairos12
(12,852 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)about 'freedom of choice,' and freedom to discriminate.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Standing in reverse order just to thow us off.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)But we're not fooled.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)even back then the rich were taxed way more than they are now. and we wonder why the debt is so high. because some people in Government don't want the above to happen again..
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)My sentence of the week is: Teach a man to think, and lose a Republican.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)on it diligently.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)Trick question. Arrests are made every year for violating anti-slavery laws.
Maybe the question should be how long before we legalize slavery?
(Another trick question. Look up prison labor.)
Mira
(22,380 posts)and if immigrants be they legal or not work for even less than that in order to somehow survive - it's quite entrenched as I see it.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)It dissects the conservative - in this example the platform of the New Jersey Libertarian Party - philosophy and shows why it's insane and will lead to exactly what is in the OP.
It's a must read for evaluating what is so wrong with conservative thinking.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)by reciting Langston Hughes' poem, Let America be America Again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free."
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet todayO, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand
I came To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again
The land that never has been yet
And yet must bethe land where every man is free.
The land that's minethe poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes, I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain
All, all the stretch of these great green states
And make America again!
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)armed_and_liberal
(246 posts)That is what these ignorant assholes are really saying
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I can drive an hour north, south, east or west and take a picture of a family in similar circumstances. So very sad that this is what Americans offer to those without. No one in this country should be living in these conditions.
That picture is not a part of the past, it is the present for scores of people right here in the good old US of A.
Mira
(22,380 posts)off the beaten path a bit.
Sadly, many of them are the ones with Jesus signs / Flags / Guns and if they vote they vote against "big Government" and their own best interests. (please note I said many - not all by any stretch)
Oh for a country where parents are educated enough to have and hold good jobs. Where one parent can stay with a newborn til it is 3 years old and can go to good, free pre-schools ect. ect. ect.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I truly don't care about their signs, flags, or voting patterns. All of that could change through the proper funding and education of their children. Many are uneducated and told what their best interests are, it is not of their own thinking. The cycle could be broken if we put the same emphasis behind poverty as we do the MIC. <- Just elaborating with my own thought, not making any assumptions of what your wrote.