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JPZenger

(6,819 posts) Tue Jun 25, 2013, 10:24 AM Jun 2013

Va. Repub. Lt. Gov Candidate Keeps Saying Really Stupid S*** - Slavery Kept Black Families Together

http://www.dailykos.com/news/E.W.%20Jackson

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/20/1217548/-E-W-Jackson-says-slavery-wasn-t-as-bad-for-black-families-as-the-post-civil-rights-era-has-been

.... uhhhh... by the way, I just sold your sister.

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Va. Repub. Lt. Gov Candidate Keeps Saying Really Stupid S*** - Slavery Kept Black Families Together (Original Post) JPZenger Jun 2013 OP

Not VP, Lt Governor atreides1 Jun 2013 #1

wtf..its a known fact SummerSnow Jun 2013 #2

Speechless Vietnameravet Jun 2013 #3

atreides1

(16,091 posts)

1. Not VP, Lt Governor

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 10:25 AM

Jun 2013

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

2. wtf..its a known fact

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 10:29 AM

Jun 2013

Slavery divided families. Family members would be sold to other plantations

Oh so slavery promoted family togetherness? Stupid shit.

Vietnameravet

(1,085 posts)

3. Speechless

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 10:38 AM

Jun 2013

How in hell can someone who ought to know better be so damn stupid? Does anyone need to be told the horrors of slavery? Or is the man just a crude opportunist who sees a big future playing this role?

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