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"Hachi"Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 2:57pm
Why do they insist on drawing that “parallel” to Lincoln’s party when they conveniently ignore that everything the Republican party stands for today will bring America back to 1855?
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  teamrobot2001"Hachi"
  8/12/17 3:14pm
  They conveniently leave out the part where all those racist Democrats started to become racist Republicans (a process still occurring in places like West Virginia.)
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  crouching tiger"Hachi"
  8/12/17 3:54pm
  Rhetorical convenience? That’s the best I can come up with. Lincoln is a beard for their racism, and I doubt it fools anyone.
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Raineyb1013Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 2:22pm
I don’t see any.
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  "Hachi"Raineyb1013
  8/12/17 2:53pm
  *verifies these statements as well*
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  Raineyb1013Raineyb1013
  8/12/17 2:55pm
  Oh look, the little troll is mad that Mr. Ellison speaks the truth.
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eowynsdottirStephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 2:14pm
Mr. “Should be head of the DNC” telling it like it is. If Perez stops chasing Trump voter waterfalls and steps aside in favor of Ellison, I might start donating to the dems again.
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  MisterPigginseowynsdottir
  8/12/17 4:52pm
  When Keith was made deputy I thought “Maybe things will be different. They have to have learned from Hillary.”
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MalcireStephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 2:49pm
By today’s standards Lincoln was fairly racist. He also jailed reporters. So I can see some similarities as long as I ignore moral relativism.
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  Celtic DragonMalcire
  8/12/17 3:56pm
  You’re right. He was terribly unimpressed with blacks back then.Said so. He was for secession before he knew the cost. Then he was against it. Lincoln found politics was all about the money.
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  MalcireCeltic Dragon
  8/12/17 4:38pm
  I never heard that about secession and him. Thanks for the info.
  It just annoys me that people think that him and other vocal abolitionists were all about equality and unity with other races. Some very much were, some just thought owning people over the color of their skin was wrong, and some only cared because slavery effected white working people by under cutting their ability to find work (because who is going to pay .25 a person a day for road work when you can pay it for 4 people who will work longer).
  That isn’t to say that Lincoln didn’t lean closer to equality than some abolitionists of the time. But he definitely wasn’t one of the most radical ones. And those were the only ones that could come close to not being racist by today’s standards (and most still wouldn’t).
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I_AmUStephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 2:51pm
I would if there was one. I will add Lincoln wasn’t being altruistic by emancipating the enslaved. The intent was to win the Civil War by crippling the Confederate Army.
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  crouching tigerI_AmU
  8/12/17 3:55pm
  And he didn’t even free ALL the slaves, only those in the treasonous states.
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  BiturbowagonI_AmU
  8/12/17 11:20pm
  That’s an oversimplification.
  Lincoln did not have the power to free all slaves. He also was legitimately concerned about keeping slaveowning Northern states in the Union.
  However, he could free the slaves in the treasonous states. And he did.
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KC Complains A LotStephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 2:22pm
ERROR 404
The Root can not open the lie because the lie can not be found.
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mary2957Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 7:20pm
No lies here. Not one. This is the guy that should be running the party in the first place. He just calls it as he sees it and doesn’t apologize. That is what we need. We need to stop being nice and just let it go.
No, the Democratic Party doesn’t treat us African-Americans right. But where else are we going to go? Third party which is good, but don’t have a chance in hell or stay home and don’t vote? The latter is like throwing dirty dishwater in the faces of those that gave their all for us to have the opportunity. No we are better than this.
We made the difference when there was a black man running for the highest office in the land, pulling the Pookies, Tyrones, Lakeshas and the Lajasmines off the couch to vote. And we can do it again to push whomever the Dems put in place to run because it is better than what we have now: an enabler in chief.
For proof look at whom he has round him and what they think as well as what went on last night and today in Charlottesville, Va. It is what it is.
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IMadeANewBurnerToStarThisPoopJokeStephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 9:51pm
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Fungirl91Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/13/17 2:09am
No one has clean hands. Racist people don’t need an excuse, just a lie.
2017 Democratic party is the party for ALL PEOPLE, regardless of race, gender and religion.
As a black woman, who cares about who started the 3k’s. I don’t. Because, they still exists. FTR.
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BookOBaldylocksStephen A. Crockett Jr.
8/12/17 9:02pm
Ellison proving yet fucking again that he should have been head of the DNC. Ugh.
There is no lie in anything he said. Shit, he could’ve expanded on it more and covered even more truths.
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