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9. I am not going to blame Trump for Kelly

Reply to Ukapau (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:35 AM

Oct 2017

I think he's showing his true colors.

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They raped my Grandmother, lynched my Uncle, broke up my family-you find honor, you racist prick? [View all] kpete Oct 2017 OP

Was your Granny wearing something provocative? MagickMuffin Oct 2017 #1

I'll fill in the blank rainin Oct 2017 #2

Dark skin has provoked whites to violence many times throughout history IronLionZion Oct 2017 #10

Yep. Dark skin can still be pretty provocative. maddiemom Nov 2017 #51

Muffin saidsimplesimon Oct 2017 #26

They consistently use the tactic of accusing the other side of things they themselves are guilty of. StrictlyRockers Oct 2017 #3

The trouble with history is that it is not personal packman Oct 2017 #4

In order to be ok with slavery one has to think of slaves as something less than human. Ligyron Oct 2017 #21

Remarkably stupid and heartless of Kelly! And certainly racist! Ukapau Oct 2017 #5

I am not going to blame Trump for Kelly tulipsandroses Oct 2017 #9

Agree Meowmee Oct 2017 #29

I blame Trump for choosing racist loser Kelly as his chief of staff. yardwork Oct 2017 #38

Certainly! Some call him an oaf, a buffoon DesertRat Oct 2017 #25

What the hell compromise could have avoided the civil war... HopeAgain Oct 2017 #6

This? Submariner Oct 2017 #11

The "Missouri Compromise"? maddiemom Oct 2017 #14

Exactly, still involved slavery and didn't work HopeAgain Oct 2017 #16

I believe he was referring to the Crittenden Committee Yupster Oct 2017 #37

There was no compromise possible. yardwork Oct 2017 #39

Remember Lincoln ran on the platform that he was no threat to the south's system of slavery Yupster Oct 2017 #40

And that was not enough for the slave-owning states. yardwork Oct 2017 #41

All I can think of is that they would agree treestar Oct 2017 #24

Oh, really? Perhaps counting slaves as two-fifths of a person Ellen Forradalom Oct 2017 #7

Conservative Compromise rpannier Nov 2017 #43

At a loss peggysue2 Oct 2017 #8

"Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" Lee's traitorous behavior Ukapau Oct 2017 #12

also, why even bring it up or make the comments onit2day Oct 2017 #17

Right, you are peggysue2 Oct 2017 #22

It's simple atreides1 Nov 2017 #46

I'll admit MichMary Oct 2017 #28

Swept into this sewer? RandomAccess Oct 2017 #31

Kelly was in the Fucking sewer long before he started maxrandb Oct 2017 #32

Keep it up, keep it up SCantiGOP Oct 2017 #13

K & R SunSeeker Oct 2017 #15

An excellent comment at the bottom of the page with the Ta-Nehisi Coates piece: scarletwoman Oct 2017 #18

Lee was a traitor who got off way too light. 47of74 Oct 2017 #19

We should have tried Lee and the traitors. Initech Oct 2017 #20

Money. End. Of. Story. ChubbyStar Oct 2017 #23

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2017 #27

The only compromise should have been Progressive dog Oct 2017 #30

Ta-Nehisi Coates shredded John Kelly's statement on twitter w/ a very informative thread. SaschaHM Oct 2017 #33

These neo confederate racists are the enemy workinclasszero Oct 2017 #34

With malice toward none, with charity for all... Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2017 #35

If Lincoln would have lived Yupster Oct 2017 #42

Lincoln didn't mean to "enoble" the South, just forgive them, basically. maddiemom Nov 2017 #47

I meant "ennoble" in the sense of making them see themselves as better than they were. Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2017 #48

Interesting. Food for further thought. maddiemom Nov 2017 #49

White Supremacists zentrum Oct 2017 #36

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Ken Burns... pokerfan Nov 2017 #45

AKA "States' Rights." maddiemom Nov 2017 #50

My high school US History teacher tried to teach us that crap pokerfan Nov 2017 #52