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freshwest

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7. Okay, I will quit after this:
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 07:18 PM
Jun 2014

Last edited Sat Aug 15, 2015, 07:10 PM - Edit history (1)

And I'm speaking as someone who grew up in a state which had an official holiday for Jefferson *fucking* Davis!

Jefferson Davis said after the Emancipation Proclamation that in every free state they marched into, they would kidnap all free blacks and return them and keep all of their descendants to slavery FOREVER.

What kind of person would condemn an unborn child to a life of slavery? The 'life is so sacred we have to get rid of birth control' group?


BTW, I don't want anyone to take my words for that. So here are Jefferson Davis' own words:


"...Now, therefore, as a compensatory measure, I do hereby issue the following Address to the People of the Non-Slaveholding States:

"On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever. (RE - ENSLAVE ALL BLACKS EVER FREED)

"All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipsofacto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered...


http://davisspeech.blogspot.com/

I bid you Adieu for a time...

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