Does the Democratic Party still feel the guilt of their slavery supporting past?

So you're open to reparations?

 

Who is "YOU all?"

 

Which WOULD be reparations!

 

When did the government promise reparations?

 

Special Field Orders No. 15 - Wikipedia

 

The land was confiscated and passed onto to enslaved people wasn't it?

 

Sort of, I mean, why would your thought:

but I'm just wondering if they feel any sort of 'inherited' guilt,

even occur to you if you weren't doing just that?

 

Your false premise was in laying slavery and it’s aftermath at the feet of the Democratic Party. It is meant to deflect the fact that the Republican Party has become the home of the Confederate tradition, and its inequalities.

Anyone who studies American political history knows that by the late 1960’s, the Democratic Party had mostly purged itself of racists and had adopted a platform of achieving equality between the races.

It was never the Democratic Party that supported slavery as much as it was Southerners. White Conservative Christian right wing Southerners.

 

Here we go again American’s assuming that the ‘Founding Fathers’ were Americans. The word America had been around for two hundred years before and simply meant ‘New Land’ and was given to South America not to the north.
The ‘Founding Fathers’ were NOT American they were first and second generation British subjects. Of course no record of how they spoke exits but it was undoubtedly with a British accent as they were British. George Washington’s father’s house has been turned into a museum in England and is visited by many Americans.
The War of Independence went on for eight years with the majority of the fighting between the Patriots and the Loyalists. Washington only confronted the British first line troops once and lost a third of his army.
What’s has this to do with present day Americans? Absolutely nothing, your ancestors did not arrive until seventy years after.

Lastly a word to the gun nuts. Washington never gave the right for every American to bear arms. He disbanded the patriot army at the close of The War of Independence as the cost of a standing army was too expensive. Instead he established militias to guard the boundaries of the colony. The idea that he gave the right of every man and woman to bear arms is frankly ludicrous.

 

Perhaps you can direct me to the relevant post, but I won't be holding my breath!

I don't disagree with that.

White Conservative Christian right wing Southerners who supported the Democratic Party, right?

 

It was just a question!

 

Seems to me the question wouldn't have occurred to you if you didn't believe their should be guilt.

 

So any time in your life that you have asked a question on a subject, you had an opinion about that subject?

 

Allow me to rephrase the question to pinpoint with stellar precision the exact state of my mind when I asked the question......

In this particular case, giving this circumstance from which the question arises, it seems to me.......

(i.e., therefore, you can't extrapolate the question, noting that I'm not firmly making the claim, I'm merely suggesting it, pushing it gently a tad more in the same direction, but while simultaneously giving you plenty of room to repudiate it, again, in a kind of 'double checking the thought' fashion, thus --- all you have to do is just say 'no, not really, it was just a question, you don't have to read more into it than that, okay?' or something similar, and that would be the end of it)

 

Yes, it SEEMS to you. Which means that any time in your life that you have asked a question on a subject, you had an opinion about that subject. You've never asked a question on a subject which you've had no opinion on. I must say, that ASTOUNDS me!

 

Not really relevant to the original point.

 

Well it just means that you accused me of something, which you yourself have SURELY been guilty of.

 

Whats to feel guilty about? They still control blacks. Not much has changed

 

No, first, it's not that big of a deal, and it doesn't matter, really, and this whole damn thing doesn't rise to the import of 'guilty'.

Don't have a frickin' conniption. I swear.