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CatKnight 
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Posted on: Jul. 19 2002,22:35 |
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well you are changing your definition of slavery while comparing the two situations so your argument is moot really. you can't compare slaves in bondage forced to pic cotton fields or else get whipped to blacks in the inner cities who are not in bondage, not in forced labor, and are free to do whatever they want. just because the government gives them money to buy crack, well, that is their decision isn't it?
slavery still exists in some parts of the world but not in the united states
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Dysorderia
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Posted on: Jul. 20 2002,00:03 |
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Aside: isn't it amazing how CK didn't even answer my post..  
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Bozeman
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Posted on: Jul. 20 2002,04:41 |
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| Quote (CatKnight @ 19 July 2002,14:35) | | well you are changing your definition of slavery |
Call it...creative license. I didn't mean ACTUAL slavery, but it's similar. They don't really have a choice other than poor or crime.
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Jul. 20 2002,06:46 |
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lol you don't get creative license when we are talking about facts! see, this is why i dislike liberal thinking very much so. you put a spin on everything.
oh, i do agree with you though. most of them don't have a choice. i'll give you two guesses as to who took their freedom to choose away.
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demonk
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Posted on: Jul. 20 2002,07:04 |
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Rich white old men? That's my first guess 
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Bozeman
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Posted on: Jul. 20 2002,15:42 |
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THAT'S ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
(bells and sirens go off)
Demonk, you win.... A COOKIE!!!!
(crowd goes wild)
Oh, and btw CK, if I can't have "spin" then why are all us liberals "racist" for not mentioning slavery? You took a liscence there for that joke. Are we not allowed to be funny? Are we not allowed to see things from a different angle? You seem just like Bill O' Reiley, proclaiming a "no spin zone" when in fact he distorts issues just as much, if not MORE than other media.
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Jul. 20 2002,17:08 |
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oohhh, so you were simply joking when you said "I didn't even think of slavery, because it's still around...", and in actuality you agreed with me? oh ok, my mistake.
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Bozeman
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Posted on: Jul. 21 2002,13:50 |
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| Quote | | (Bozeman) Slavery isn't gone, it's changed. |
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I thought it neccesary to change the definition, becuase the nature if it has changed. It wasn't really a joke, per se, it was seeing things from a different perspective.
I used up a whole bottle of windex cleaning the sarcasm off my monitor for your last post CK, thanks a lot.
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kuru
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Posted on: Jul. 21 2002,16:33 |
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There was a Saudi Princess in FL who was recently charged with slavery for abusing servants, but she went back to Saudi Arabia and will probably not return for trial.
Slavery exists in some parts of the world legally, but not here. These are places like Sudan, where Wahaabist Islamics are still enslaving others.
Anyone who claims it still exists (legally) in present day US, please provide cites.
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Bozeman
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Posted on: Jul. 21 2002,18:25 |
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*sigh*
It's not really slavery, it's LIKE slavery. Blacks are still not social equals.
- According to a study conducted by the economists Richard Vedder, Lowell Galloway, and David C. Clingaman, The average income for a black american is 61% less per year than the average white american. This is the same percentage difference as it was in 1880. Blacks have been on the bottom rung of the economic ladder the whole time. Want more?
- About 20% of black males age 16-24 are neither in school not working, compared with 9% white males.
- Black unemployment has been roughly twice white unemployment since 1954, despite the majority population being white.
Slavery may not be here in PERSON, but we've got a legacy left behind.
(facts courtesy Stupid White Men by Michael Moore)
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