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DroppinScience
06-21-2008, 11:46 AM
Every third Saturday of June is marked to celebrate the abolition of slavery.

Here's Bill Moyers' take on it:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06202008/watch4.html
abcdefz
06-21-2008, 11:54 AM
We still have slavery, actually. It's illegal, but it remains. (n)
Documad
06-21-2008, 12:23 PM
The abolition of legal slavery is still worth celebrating though.

Frankly, we've come an unbelievable distance since I was a kid. I went to a seminar on race discrimination yesterday and many of the attendees in their 30s had never even heard of a sundown town.
b i o n i c
06-22-2008, 09:04 PM
juneteenth... is that a black joke?
DroppinScience
06-23-2008, 12:22 AM
juneteenth... is that a black joke?

Watch the video, it's only 2 minutes long.
funk63
06-23-2008, 01:55 AM
The abolition of legal slavery is still worth celebrating though.

Frankly, we've come an unbelievable distance since I was a kid. I went to a seminar on race discrimination yesterday and many of the attendees in their 30s had never even heard of a sundown town.

i've never heard of a sundown town. :confused:
DroppinScience
06-23-2008, 10:29 AM
i've never heard of a sundown town. :confused:

Sundown towns essentially means that if you're black, it's not a good idea to be out in public when the sun goes down because the KKK will lynch you.
YoungRemy
06-23-2008, 02:18 PM
june 19th, 1865

it was a Texas thing...
funk63
06-23-2008, 06:54 PM
Sundown towns essentially means that if you're black, it's not a good idea to be out in public when the sun goes down because the KKK will lynch you.

thats the anti-joint.
YoungRemy
06-24-2008, 10:15 AM
"Gather 'round, everybody!

we forgot to tell you that slavery ended two years ago.

our bad..."

that's essentially what Juneteenth is...
The Notorious LOL
07-01-2008, 02:34 AM
When we were moving last year all of Glenwood Avenue was blocked off for Juneteenth and I had to take a detour since we live two blocks south of it. I was about ready to be pissed until I thought that might be racist so I softened my approach.
RobMoney$
07-01-2008, 05:25 PM
and I thought Valentines Day was a made-up holiday.
NoFenders
07-01-2008, 05:51 PM
We still have slavery, actually. It's illegal, but it remains. (n)


If you look at ait, most tax paying Americans could be considered slaves in more than one way.

Who pays, for who to sit home?? Who pays for who to not work?? Who pays for who to be fed? etc

:cool:
Schmeltz
07-02-2008, 02:25 AM
NoFenders, that is some really silly crap. Paying taxes does not make you a slave in any way, and pretending it does is really reaching. Comparing the "plight" of a white middle-class taxpayer to the abuses endured by actual slaves is worse than ignorant.
Bob
07-02-2008, 09:55 AM
NoFenders, that is some really silly crap. Paying taxes does not make you a slave in any way, and pretending it does is really reaching. Comparing the "plight" of a white middle-class taxpayer to the abuses endured by actual slaves is worse than ignorant.

well-to-do people whining about taxes is probably one of the most frustrating things to listen to. i'm applying for an internship with the state department of revenue's litigation bureau, maybe i can help nail one or two of them

If you look at ait, most tax paying Americans could be considered slaves in more than one way.

Who pays, for who to sit home?? Who pays for who to not work?? Who pays for who to be fed? etc

:cool:

i'm really just puzzled about this. welfare recipients are the masters? people who earn enough money to pay high taxes are their servants? what?