Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying and the press and politicians are trying to bury our history in a major way too. Yesterday, Michael Steele went on Fox News Sunday and made quite a strong statement about how Harry Reid's "lightskinned" comments harken back to the 1950's and 60's. Again, Steele totally botched a perfectly good opportunity to really show how totally racist those comments were and here's why. Steele should have said those comments harken back to the 1850's, not 1950's. Those comments clearly go right back to traditional antebellum southern plantation slavery. For those of you who don't know why, let me break it down for you. Within the slave trade there were different "types" of slaves that were worth different amounts of money. Now I will use the term "slave" where other more offensive terms would have originally been used as I think this is a horrible stain on our history. When slaves were traded, they had different tiers of value. For a plantation there would be slaves to work the fields, and slaves to work in the house. A typical field slave would usually be a darker skinned men, and the rule of thumb was the bigger the better. Slaves to work in the house were more often women to attend to the women of the house, but some men would work in the house too as cooks butlers, etc. A typical plantation owner did not lift a finger when a slave could do the work. A "House slave" was often chosen to be so because they were thought to be more intelligent. Such attributes that slave traders and slave owners tied to intellect were being well spoken and often lighter skinned. See for yourself:
In many households, treatment of slaves varied with the slave's skin color. Darker-skinned slaves worked in the fields, while lighter-skinned house servants ...
At slave auctions, such designations were made and prices varied because of just such stereotyping. Now when a story comes out that Harry Reid decides Americans will accept Barack Obama because he has just such attributes, it not only shows his racist viewpoints, it screams to the rest of America that he thinks WE still feel that way. For a century, our forefathers fought and died to end slavery and to promote equality, so that the words "All men are created equal..under God" in the Declaration of Independence and such language in the Constitution was more than just writing on a piece of paper. Yet liberal elites like Harry Reid call the masses of Americans racist with total impunity. If you weren't furious about this before I hope now you have given it a little more thought. Then to add insult to injury, Reid comes out and apologizes to mr. obama, and to "African-Americans" that may be offended, but the people that he really called racists are the rest of Americans. Now he and fellow Dems are claiming that those comments are nothing like the comments Trent Lott made regarding long time Senator Strom Thurmond's failed segregationist 1948 presidency run in 2002 that caused him to lose his speakership. Fellow race pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson agree saying that Reid's liberal voting record regarding civil rights excuses him from responsibility for making such comments. LIKE HELL IT DOES!!!! I will do everything in my power to wake America up to just how gross of an insult this was, to all Americans who have bent over backwards for generations to reverse the mistakes of our forefathers. I hope you will too, no matter your skin color.
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