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Dave Michael Harriot
8/24/18 12:57pm
He had nothing to do with slavery nor was he fighting to defend it. He was fighting to protect his homeland that he was told was being invaded by the northerners.
Dear Dave, I was like you once. (Admittedly, I was 10 years old) I bought that noble bullshit sold part and parcel in South. Then, I read a fucking book. (I turned 12, apparently you haven’t.) Turns out, a lot of poor white boys died so a bunch of rich motherfuckers could get richer while insuring they would stay poor and stupid. It would be like, oh say, fighting for Donald Trump’s ability to get richer while making your poorer and dumber...oh...now I see it...
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  LegHumperDave
  8/24/18 2:15pm
  I was a dumb thirteen-year-old libertarian (the dumb part is redundant, I know) and somehow managed to get better. I often wonder what separated me from guys like DrummerDave or my dumbass infowars reading brother. And can we put it in the drinking water?
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  TaichouLanceDave
  8/24/18 2:35pm
  Straight facts there. I managed to overcome that brainwashing and saw the truth in history and feel all the better because of it.
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NopeNopejustNopeMichael Harriot
8/24/18 12:46pm
Does nobody care about the poor white southerners who fought to defend Oregon from being invaded from those damn yankees? GOSH, crack open a history book, Michael!1
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  RastaNopeNopejustNope
  8/24/18 1:20pm
  I was wondering the same thing too.
  What “southern” heritage was being celebrated in Oregon?
  I suspect that the heritage being celebrated was Oregon’s anti black history. The black exclusion law that said that black people weren’t allowed to live in Oregon, and it included the Lash Law that said that black people would be publicly whipped every six months, up to 39 lashes, until they left the state.” Due in large part to the inhospitable nature of its constitution, by the 1920s, Oregon had developed the largest Klan membership per capita of any state in the Union.
  What better way to reminisce on that history but to fly the stars and bars.
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  NopeNopejustNopeRasta
  8/24/18 1:36pm
  Right, it literally has nothing to do with “southern heritage” since Oregon isn’t the south and wasn’t ever a confederate state. These mouth breathing cousin fuckers don’t even know the history they claim to try and preserve.
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Bowl Better TalkMichael Harriot
8/24/18 12:57pm
I would legit buy a ticket to The Caucasity of Dopes.
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  boredalwaysBowl Better Talk
  8/24/18 1:53pm
  Me, reading The Caucasity of Dopes:
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carlvenkmanMichael Harriot
8/24/18 8:36pm
“DrummerDave: I’ve seen several black people flying the Confederate flag”
I swam with mermaids in Atlantis. I rode a unicorn for 8 seconds in Calgary. I drank Fireball shots with Sasquatch in Ukiah. I have even heard Donald Trump tell the truth (can’t remember exactly where...). But never, ever, have I seen a black person fly that dumbass rag.
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  A Drop of Hell, A Touch of Strangecarlvenkman
  8/25/18 10:54am
  I met an old black guy who wore it on a belt buckle. He was a trucker and had seemingly been fully accepted into the white redneck all-trucker tribe his wife belonged to. I observed this first hand. Imagine Uncle Ruckus as a hillbilly.
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  GreatScottcarlvenkman
  8/28/18 9:42am
  You touched me. Please accept this star as a token of my esteem.
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MangoMojitoMichael Harriot
8/24/18 1:53pm
I knew a white woman named Ayesha. To this day, I’m still shook, as the youths of today say. Shook.
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  Bowl Better TalkMangoMojito
  8/24/18 2:17pm
  I met a white woman named Keisha recently. Boomer-age woman from a white suburb in the Bay Area. I have no idea what her parents were thinking.
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  SistayogaBowl Better Talk
  8/24/18 2:51pm
  I met one through work whose middle name is Keisha, but that’s the name she goes by.
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Cylontater: Bowling Green SurvivorMichael Harriot
8/24/18 1:20pm
There’s a white woman named Tamisha!
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  PooJavelinIsSickOfLosingBurnerPasswordsCylontater: Bowling Green Survivor
  8/24/18 8:15pm
  I was expecting some Steve Martin-level shit…
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sTalkinggoat, first and last of his nameMichael Harriot
8/24/18 2:13pm
A private in the Confederate Army made $11 a month in 1864. We know that because they kept excellent personnel records. So Dave should be able to give us the name rank, pay scale and war record of at least one black confederate.
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  A Drop of Hell, A Touch of StrangesTalkinggoat, first and last of his name
  8/25/18 10:48am
  In my state there have been serious proposals to build a monument to these non-existent black Confederates. Thankfully it doesn't seem to have moved forward. I would not have been surprised if it had.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZA Drop of Hell, A Touch of Strange
  8/31/18 8:14pm
  Well, no, because it would’ve involved wypipo voting or raising funds to build a monument to blackpipo, and the kinds of wypipo building monuments to Confederate soldiers weren’t going to have their heart in that in the first place. So no, that doesn’t going to happen.
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Cali4lifeMichael Harriot
8/24/18 5:15pm
“20 years ago nobody cared about the confederate flag”...
Ha ha ha ha ha. See, wypipo who just watched the news for the first time in their lives say stupid shit like this... and wypipo who are young and who only know history as told by their stupid teachers, churches, and families write garbage like this.
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  capeoCali4life
  8/24/18 6:54pm
  Translation: “nobody” = “me”. It’s this bizarre myopic attitude that just because it was never controversial or hurtful to the people in their orbit then clearly “nobody” found it controversial or hurtful.
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UglyTenguMaskMichael Harriot
8/24/18 8:38pm
I love how Dave fell back on the “overly sensitive snowflake” insult, when he’s the one offended enough to write an actual letter about how wrong someone is. I’d wonder if he saw the irony, but we all know he didn’t.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZUglyTenguMask
  8/31/18 8:16pm
  He didn’t. Cold, white, melts under pressure = snowflake.
  We know he didn’t.
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ForEverySeasonBurnBurnBurnMichael Harriot
8/24/18 1:28pm
I think Michael misinterpreted Maria’s comment. I didn’t read it as a criticism of using “slave” instead of “enslaved person”. Her point was that slaves living in America were brought from Africa, but they were not slaves in Africa. I agree that racists will argue that American slavery was an extension of existing slavery in Africa (which somehow makes it not bad?), but I don’t agree that Michael’s original wording was somehow giving credit to that line of thinking.
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  The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerForEverySeasonBurnBurnBurn
  8/24/18 1:50pm
  I think his point was that the people being trafficked probably weren’t giving a lot of thought to what label we might put on their predicament.
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  ForEverySeasonBurnBurnBurnThe Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
  8/24/18 2:10pm
  Agree. My point was that he framed it as a response to Maria’s letter, but Maria’s letter never asserts that “enslaved” is preferable to “slave”. Her emphasis on the “EN” I took as pointing out that it was the action of the American slaveholders to made these people slaves, not to highlight an improved title.
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