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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ Nobody is going to give you a dime. Even if they did, nothing would change and you would still have a million excuses. Maybe you could learn something from immigrants who came from far more challenging circumstances.[/quote]

Far more challenging?  I'm reading a book called "White Rage" by Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory.  She tells a story of a black man who worked for a brutal plantation owner in the 1920s in Valdosta, GA.  He beat the men who worked for him.  One day, a man fought back and killed him.  In retaliation, the white people lynched 20 random black people.  Including a man and his wife.  The wife was 8 months pregnant.  Her name was Mary Tyler.  They tied her up and burned her while she was alive.  They cut the baby from her and then when it fell to the ground, it cried.  A white man talked over and stomped its head.

None of the white mob got tried or went to jail.  Learn some history before you come on her talking about circumstances.  You don't know sh!t.

Whether you like it not, black people built this country for free.  Did immigrants do that?  You clearly don't know your history and sound ignorant.  It's sad really.[/quote]
400,000 soldiers died to set slaves free. Almost a million were horribly wounded.  I’d say that debt is well paid. Maybe you can take your lynching story to unsolved mysteries and get some justice for the vics? It will give you a better result than posting here[/quote]

NP. Blacks built the south for free, that’s clear. But lots of our ancestors were subsistence farmers in tough places like upstate New York. Lots of immigrants helped build the country in factories and sweat shops. [/quote]
Oddly, the South's insistence on maintaining the plantation system hindered development there, permanently making the South the poorest region of the US.  Except for a few plantation owners, everyone in the South would have been better off without slavery.  [/quote]

I wonder if they sold their economic plan to others as “trickle down“ when all it did was collect money for the 1%ers. No wonder Trump loves the Confederacy. 
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