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Jon Stewart epic Sean Hannity take-down. Truth recovered.
YogiI get that Sean Hannity has to defend himself in some way and yeah Stewart can be annoying but he's obviously funny. If you don't think he's funny you don't know comedy. Why all the weird edits?
Also Hannity should be distancing himself from this guy pretty quick right about now.
Following quote from http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/cliven-bundy-wants-to-tell-you-all-about-the-negro/361152/
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids—and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch—they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
A Brief History of the United States.
YogiOH I have to look for a specific reference of Chomsky refuting your specific French Faggot. Great more homework for me. OH Wait! I don't care what you think. Go on believing that Slaves didn't make us rich, that's fine with me, ya Racist!
I mean it's not a complicated formula. Slaves pick cotton, cotton makes textiles, textiles made by cheaper slave labor than in Egypt is more profitable. If you don't understand how raw materials can be taken out from under someone leaving them still poor and the people exploiting those materials fantastically rich than I don't know what to tell you. Maybe read the ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
The farmer who held slaves needed to feed them the whole year round, but only needed workers for a short period, and possibly would have been better off hiring low paid seasonal workers (Hmm... now where would farmers right near Mexico find low paid seasonal workers???).
The expansion from east to west was, as you say, key to U.S. wealth, but only the poor south had slaves, so how do you figure that they helped? In fact right in the middle of the slavery period, right when you would expect maximum effect, de Tocqueville compared two like for like states and found that the no slavery state was richer and more industrious. Why do you suppose this was?
If you have a specific reference to Chomsky rebutting de Tocqueville, please let me know which one and I'll check it out. I don't always agree with his conclusions, but he's usually interesting along the way.
The most racist field trip ever
YogiThat sounds like fun. Singing songs...picking cotton. Sounds like a damn good time.
Jocelyn Elders on Sexuality
qruelthis is a truly incredible lady, one of my hero's. Not only did the religious right do her in, but they also kept health education and school based clinics out of schools in Arkansas and then helped to defeat the health overhaul in the 90's. They villanized her and used their perverted sense of morality to scare and rally the base.
Dr. Elders grew up the granddaughter of slaves and the eldest of eight children in an Arkansas sharecropper?s family. She rose to become the first African American to serve as Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Elders? life experiences ? informed by the complex interplay of poverty, race, and politics -- profoundly shaped her perspective on public health.
Born in 1933 in the depths of the depression, Joycelyn grew up too poor to ever see a doctor as a child. At 15, she graduated valedictorian of her all-black high school class in Tollette, Arkansas and received a small scholarship to attend Philander Smith College in Little Rock. Her entire family spent one week picking cotton to earn the $3.83 bus fare to send her to school.