Wyoming lawmaker suggests there were two sides to history of slavery

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Nick Reynolds
Mar 17, 2021 Updated 1 hr ago



CHEYENNE – A freshman Wyoming legislator suggested Wednesday that there are two sides to the history of American slavery, and that Black Americans are “stuck” in a mentality he called “worse than slavery itself.”

“Slavery was something that shouldn’t have happened in America, but it did. But we’ve created slavery into a place that has created a position of being stuck, in my opinion, for a people group,” Rep. Jeremy Haroldson, R-Wheatland, told lawmakers Wednesday. “And that’s a sad place to be. And that was probably, in my opinion, worse than the slavery itself, because we have created a place where people cannot get free from because of their past.

“So slavery needs to be discussed,” he added. “It needs to be brought forward and the different views, that slavery was not maybe what it has been painted in this nation completely.”

Haroldson made the comments as he presented members of the House Education Committee with HB-177 – Education-Understanding federal and state government, a bill that would rewrite parts of Wyoming’s public schools curriculum.

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These white, entitled, willfully ignorant dumbasses just need to sit down and shut up.

[soothsayer]

1. Good grief

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. What a jackass

[marble falls]

3. Looks like he's awfully proud of being stupid. Danced all around slavery without mentioning race.

[spooky3]

4. Appalling whitesplainin'. How about you undergo a lifetime of slavery, and then

we’ll listen to “your side of the story”, bub.

[Claire Oh Nette]

25. word salad with white splaining dressing

It's jibberish.
The only people who are stuck are the racists.
Black people are trying to be free, and racists in a racist society won't let them.

That's whitey's problem.

[lagomorph777]

5. The right side and the wrong side.

Simple, asshole!

Nice skinhead 'do, by the way.

[struggle4progress]

6. "Let's not forget all the happy times down on the Old Plantation!"

[Arthur_Frain]

7. Apparently English was an optional class when he was a freshman in high school.

Cuz his words make sense no ways. Choice no good to convey his forwardness. Hyperbole blah, blah, blah, platitude, hyperbole.

[PCIntern]

8. Rewriting history again!

Hey Rep Haroldson: before you go to sleep tonight I want you to think about all those men who slept with your mother before the man she claims is your father did. Now I don’t want you to be a prisoner of that history for even a minute. But it needs to be discussed because there are two sides to every story...

[jcgoldie]

9. Fucking idiot or a complete asshole

Most likely both.

[dweller]

11. the idiot asshole

people group


✌🏻

[abqtommy]

10. I agree. But then history tells us about the early "civilizations" of the Indus valley in India,

Sumeria, Egypt, Greece Rome, Europe and The Americas and we're seldom told that all these "civilizations" were founded on and maintained through slavery. We need more
accurate history, better schools and better people. For sure.

[abqtommy]

32. Thanks for posting that. Of course slavery is everywhere. There was the Muslim-controlled

slavery on the East Coast of Africa and I've also read about the White Slavery that the
Muslim Arabs practiced. Let's not leave out the Greeks and the Romans. It's a sad old
world we live in.

Knowing all the history doesn't excuse the existing systemic "racism"/ethnic bigotry that
still exists after all these years.

[LakeArenal]

12. Two sides?

Well his side has slave owners.

And the other side is millions of humans being enslaved and their “side” silenced.

Geez us.

[Baked Potato]

13. He's saying nothing remarkable or new, yet he gets national attention.

There will never be a point in time in which the ignorant bigots among us cease to be.

And also, there will never be a point in time in which a bigot’s views aren’t cooked and served as though it’s some kind of new recipe that needs to be tried, just to have folks say, “Nope, still tastes bad.”

[brush]

14. This is a prime example of white manplaining 101.

That claptrap makes not sense and he needs to sit his ass down.

[Thomas Hurt]

15. Christofascist newspeak: being "stuck" equals not being white or conservative enough to suit them.

You have to be just like me to truly be free says the bigot.

[CurtEastPoint]

16. Ohhhh...he got Pentecostal Jeebus on his side.

Haroldson serves as lead pastor for Impact Ministries, an Assemblies of God affiliated Pentecostal church.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. This guy is an idiot

Link to tweet

?s=20

[The Magistrate]

23. So He Has Form, Sir

"What a nimrod! What a ultra-maroon!"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. This guy does not restrict his ignorance to only one topic

[dalton99a]

18. It's hard work to own slaves

[Hortensis]

43. True. I read that Jefferson found keeping them working optimally

was something he had to work at constantly.

[Solly Mack]

19. Blinded by the white.

[dalton99a]

20. Hey, he went to Bismark State Collage

[UpInArms]

22. Wow! A collage!

I wonder if it was mixed media?

[UpInArms]

21. Such a shame

that his forefathers and foremothers were not shackled an put in the galley of some rickety ship, taken to a faraway land, forced by whip and chain to perform manual labor, deprived of owning anything, especially themselves, for generations ...

After hundreds of years, whoever was left could then be “freed” to be persecuted and vilified, or perhaps pulled from their home in the dark of night to be hung by sheetwearing hatefilled maniacal hoards of murderous men ...

Maybe, if those things had happened to him ... he would understand ...

But, no ... he’s an entitled white buffoon who knows less than nothing

[Hortensis]

44. Some probably were. Most people were in bondage in the middle ages

and before, and chattel, and of course sexual, slavery was practiced on various continents.

We don't identify with that past.

[Claire Oh Nette]

24. The Oppressed and the Oppressor.

why do these asshats all look the same?
this model, the phat phuck model, and the thousand mile stare model?

[sop]

26. He thinks racism ended in the US with the 13th Amendment in 1865, refusing to acknowledge

the next 100 years of Jim Crow laws, the KKK, lynchings, lack pf civil rights, segregation and every other form of injustice and cruelty imaginable.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

33. 👆🏽This 👆🏽

[Bucky]

28. See? Watch enough Fox, you can be an expert on *anything*

Too much face, not enough palm

[Bucky]

30. I hope all of you realize by criticizing him, you become an anti white racist

... and you are therefore literally worse than Hitler !!!!!1!!

[ancianita]

31. No, we are antifa. We defend those on the right side of history, not white revisionist fascists,

people backed by corporations using them as tools as they try to advance their fascist control of a democratic government.

[azureblue]

34. as a matter of fact, there are two sides to the story

and maybe somebody should sit this idiot down and tell him the slave's side of the story.

[Grokenstein]

35. Was he in a serious accident?

Or did he go for that look on purpose?

[Evolve Dammit]

36. Another douch. So many, so stupid, so harmful to any progress. nt

[zentrum]

37. Dangerously stupid.

[BobTheSubgenius]

38. OF COURSE there were "2 sides."

The enslaved and the enslavers. C'est tout.

[Martin68]

39. Racist.

[JHB]

40. Hey chuckles, facts and horsedump are not "two sides"

[Marcuse]

41. The oranges of the modern white supremacist people group:

“Slavery was something that shouldn’t have happened in America, but it did. But we’ve created slavery into a place that has created a position of being stuck, in my opinion, for a people group,”

[patphil]

42. Nick Reynolds, just another face of white supremacy.

Slavery was not what it has been painted?

Just what are the "different views" you are suggesting Mr. Reynolds?
Are you suggesting that white supremacy has gotten a raw deal?
That maybe being a slave owner wasn't all that bad for their slaves?
That a "liberal" education is somehow wrong? Remember, if Jesus was alive today he would most certainly be a liberal.

Looks like he's all in for a bit of right wing brainwashing of the children in the education curriculum.

[soldierant]

45. Two sides, sure. The right one and the wrong one.

There are always two sides. Sometimes one of them is pure evil.

[maxsolomon]

46. When you're a state rep in WYOMING, keep your fool mouth shut.

Odds are, as a White Guy in an overwhelmingly White state, you know shit about shit.

There's zero reason to discuss Slavery or that "people group" at all.