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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,173 posts) Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:58 AM Oct 2017

If everyone had just agreed that blacks would only be slaves on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays....

....and on alternating weekends, we could have avoided the entire Civil War!

Why didn't anyone ever think of that before?

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If everyone had just agreed that blacks would only be slaves on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.... (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 OP

That wouldnt work jberryhill Oct 2017 #1

Let Kelly serve time with hard labor and see if he still like slavery. BSdetect Oct 2017 #2

A poll in Mississippi showed that some think slavery should be legal still. I worry about my Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #3

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

1. That wouldnt work

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:08 AM

Oct 2017

Unless you assigned a MWF crew. Maybe assigned by even/odd birthdate.

I see what you mean, there are compromises they probably even didn’t think about.

If only we had John Kelly around then.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)

2. Let Kelly serve time with hard labor and see if he still like slavery.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:57 AM

Oct 2017

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)

3. A poll in Mississippi showed that some think slavery should be legal still. I worry about my

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:06 AM

Oct 2017

daughter and her Black boyfriend that some rightwing asshole will try to hurt them...I live in Ohio and there are righty assholes here. She is looking for an apartment as they are moving into together. He is a nice young man, and her father and I like him. I worry knowing how despicable some people are and since the election Trump has unleashed the very worst in them.

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