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What about those good times when Mazza treated you kindly and just used the bullwhip made out of virgin cowhide soaked in his fine Port wine and gave you some of that ol' porkbelly to put in your bean-pot?
Conservatives angry that 12 Years As A Slave didn't portray the happier times as a slave. Jesus, these people don't have a brain or a soul.
http://politix.topix.com/story/10770-conservative-mag-slams-12-years-a-slave-for-failing-to-portray-happy-slaves
Happy Indians at Wounded Knee - Happy Jews in the Polish Ghetto - Happy 7th Calvary at Little Big Horn - Happy (the list goes on and on)
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)...all the black people he knew were just happy in the days before the civil rights movement, not like they are now.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Good fact checking, thanks
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)We could call it "Conservative Survivor." I'd like to have interviews with them individually so they could explain the virtues of slavery to us. They wouldn't last an hour picking cotton in 100 degree heat with 90% humidity. We wouldn't even have to whip them, just make them pick the cotton with their bare hands and drag the sack around behind them.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)"When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him...... personally."
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to former Illinois Attorney General Usher F. Linder (20 February 1848).
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...particularly odious.