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LiberalArkie

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7. I really don't remember the passages that allowed it, but the same thing that allowed all

Reply to retrowire (Reply #6)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 08:21 AM

Sep 2015

the segregation. That the blacks were not human? the children of Satan? something along those lines. I am sure someone will come along with better memory than me. Come to think of it, it might be that they believed that blacks came from monkeys and whites from God.

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"Haters Gonna Hate" Shep Smith breaks ranks w/ Fuct Snooze, refuses to suckle @ Kim Davis media teat [View all] Miles Archer Sep 2015 OP

Ooh, Sharia law analogy. Nicely done, Shep. tanyev Sep 2015 #1

maybe i need a history lesson! retrowire Sep 2015 #2

It was religious, I remember the Baptists preaching about it when I was a kid. LiberalArkie Sep 2015 #4

eww really? retrowire Sep 2015 #6

I really don't remember the passages that allowed it, but the same thing that allowed all LiberalArkie Sep 2015 #7

Anytime people find something that disgusts them they will dig a bible verse up to justify it LynneSin Sep 2015 #9

"The God of nature made it otherwise..."< le google jtuck004 Sep 2015 #8

wow... retrowire Sep 2015 #14

Yeah. I try to be aware of where superstition of any kind creeps into my thinking, usually avoid n/t jtuck004 Sep 2015 #16

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