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Beck Responds to Smithsonian Exhibit Depicting Thomas Jefferson as ‘Slaveholder’

On Saturday The Blaze reported that the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in our nation’s capital is currently featuring an exhibit that classifies Thomas Jefferson as “a slave holder.”

As a precursor to entering the exhibit, museum-goers are presented with a five-minute long video that describes Christopher Columbus as a colonizer and conqueror of others who “talked and acted differently” and refers to Jefferson as simply, a “slave holder.”

The narrator of the video says that race “is a powerful idea that was invented by society.” He continues:

“Many of the ideas we now associate with race originated during the European era of exploration. Europeans like Christopher Columbus traveled overseas and encountered and then colonized and conquered peoples in Africa, Asia and the Americas who looked, talked and acted much differently from them.

“In the American colonies, the first laborers were European indentured servants. When African laborers were forcibly brought to Virginia beginning in 1619, status was defined by wealth and religion, not by physical characteristics such as skin color. But this would change.

“By 1776 when “All men are created equal” was written into the Declaration of Independence by a slave holder named Thomas Jefferson, a democratic nation was born with a major contradiction about race at its core. As our new nation asserted its independence from European tyranny, blacks and American Indians were viewed as less than human and not deserving of the same liberties as whites.”

Watch the video for yourself below:

Now when Glenn Beck caught wind of the arguably skewed message being presented by the Smithsonian, he weighed in with his thoughts during his Monday radio program.

“That’s how you are going to describe one of the greatest men in history?” Pat asked.

Glenn noted that while Jefferson may have in fact owned slaves, that was not the sum total of the man who, in the end, actually laid the groundwork for ending slavery in America.

The Smithsonian also made certain to share some rather subjective views on “race science” yet failed to mention that the ideology was spawned by progressives.

“The rise of race science supported the common belief that people who were not white were biologically inferior,” the film explains.

“How come they didn’t mention that that was the progressive movement that did that?” Glenn asked.

Glenn then addressed some of the radical progressive (and racist) actions of the past, including Woodrow Wilson screening KKK lauded “Birth of a Nation” film in the White House, FDR’s Japanese internment camps, and Andrew Jackson’s rounding up of the Indians. For some reason, none of these were mentioned in the Smithsonian film.

Watch Glenn’s take on the outrageous new Smithsonian exhibit and the message it is sending:

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:47pm

    The whole of Washington is obsessed with race because trash like obama and holder are racists. Who cares if Jefferson had a few slaves.? There were black planters in the South that had slaves to…admittedly they were in the minority (pardon the pun) but there were quite a few of them. After the civil war, crazy Abe sent back a boat load of freed slave to west africa and dropped them off (Liberia), One of the first things they did was to make slaves out of the blacks that were there. I am tired of hearing about ‘slaves’ and ‘slavery’…………………….I don’t care nor feel guilt.

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    • No Race Is Superior
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:56pm

      thegreatcarnac
      Of course you don’t care. It‘s painfully obvious that you don’t care. And that is exactly why black people can never forget that slavery existed and that they are living with the residuals stemming from it. People like you, who don‘t care don’t matter. Evil is a non factor.

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:04pm

      I wasn’t alive during slavery and my great grandparents were Canadian. I had nothing to do with it, nor did I benefit from it. My great grandfather was a poor boat maker. My grandfather was a roofer who moved to America in the early 1900′s. None of my descendants ever had a slave.
      It’s simple to demonize Republicans and Conservatives. Liberals say, “All Republicans are white and rich.” A lie. Then listen to the Smithsonian demonize the Founding Fathers and the simply say whites did all these racist acts. The entire time ignoring that it was Progressives and Liberals that did them. They put 2 and 2 together to get 5.
      Ignore that it was actions of racist Progressives and Liberals and say Republicans are all rich, white guys and BOOM! Republicans are responsible for all the evil Progressives have done.
      They still do it today. They paint all Conservatives as “flat earth” Christians, but they place Liberal Christians on an altar at the same time. Hypocrites.
      On the next page, I talk about the Lenin Socialist writer Richard Hofstadter because someone brought up Social Darwinism as if it was a Conservative’s idea. It wasn’t. Hofstadter was just another dishonest Progressive.

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    • GardenoftheGods
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:05pm

      I’m with you! I never owned a slave, my ancestors never owned slaves or anyone else…so I have ZERO guilt. The part in the whole discussion that drives me bonkers was hit on by “Onion”….What about all the Africans who sold their OWN FAMILY to the slave traders? When do their descendents go back to Africa & pull the “race card” on them? I’m proud to know a number of slave descendents who have moved on and are PROUD to be Americans. Kudos to them!!! They’re moving beyond the Democrat Plantation!!

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:14pm

      Well you have the “black people had slaves too” talking points down. Liberia was founded much earlier than the Civil War (hint: the capital is Monrovia) and African colonization was the most prevalent strain of early abolition. However, you are inadvertently supporting the very argument that the Smithsonian is trying to make. American slavery was different than just about every other form of slavery in world history because it was happening in a democratic society and it was solely about race. American slavery wasn’t about debt, religious difference, prisoners of war or tribal rivalry, it became about skin color and nothing more. Colonization was supported by abolitionists who hated slavery but were still racist and wanted nothing to do with black people. That is the point that the Smithsonian is making and it is pretty hard to deny.

      Sure, they could have spread some blame around – Wilson’s belief in a Southern narrative of Reconstruction, Progressive eugenics, Jackson’s gross abuse of executive power during Indian Removal – but how does that make their history “controversial”? Jefferson was a slave holder and famously said that “all men are created equal.” Isn’t the continuing realization of the Declaration of Independence what the history of civil rights in this country is all about? How can you express outrage at trying to better a fundamental contradiction in the founding of the United States?

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    • minuteman912
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:18pm

      Yes, the USA used to have slavery, however we have been learning from our past mistakes. Just like any country in the world we all have made mistakes. I say suck it up, times have changed. Any man judging another by the color of their skin is ignorant. And any man saying he can’t make it because of the color of his skin, is sitting in his own pity party, especially in today’s world. This goes for whites, blacks, and any human beings in the USA. I have seen more, black on white discrimination as of late. I am getting tired of hearing the statement “You are racist” if you don’t agree on issues.” Obama was supposed to be the one to “Unite,” however he has caused more division through his own racist actions or lack of action. Being poor has nothing to do with RACE, it has everything to do with self-accountability, along with other factors. Life is tough!, even for white people trying to get ahead. It is hard to pull yourself out of a hole. however, with faith, family, strong, morals, work ethic, etc… Hopefully life gets better, however that’s not guaranteed.

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    • HowardSternIsABigot
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:50pm

      I suppose it matters not that slavery ended 150 years ago? I suppose it doesnt matter that no one alive was ever a slave? It doesnt matter that even the slave owners were left absolutely crushed and broken by the civil war. The primary beneficiaries of slavery in so far as lasting wealth were northern insurance companies, slave shiop ownerers/slave dealers, and of course the carpetbaggers. Never mind that the oppression of blacks was every bit as bad in the industrial north as the south after the war. Never mind that racism was just as prevalent in the north after the war. Never mind that somehow the things being called the legacy of slavery never started to befall the black community until after the civil rights act was enacted. oh yes lets continue to demonize the founding fathers.

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    • waggie
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:03pm

      They obviously don’t know the truth about Mr. Jefferson. Read your history, idiots!

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:13pm

      Shiroi – How exactly were conservatives vilified in that video? How does pointing out that the person who said “all men were created equal” actually owned some of those men attack a modern conservative political stance? The point is that American attitudes towards race provided a fundamental contradiction with the democratic values of this country. How does listing examples of state sponsored racism target conservatives? Stop playing the whiny victim. Not everything is a liberal attack on your precious ideas.

      A more interesting facet of Beck’s argument is his consistent apologies for the founding fathers. I love the excuses: Jefferson was poor, Jefferson was conflicted, Jefferson worried about the country with slavery. Why can‘t Glen just confront the founders’ flaws and deal with them? The founding fathers weren’t perfect, they don’t have to be.

      I’d say Jefferson is another example of a liberal racist. Why doesn’t beck condemn the liberal Jefferson for his Deism and his support for the “soak the rich” attitudes of the French Revolution? Jefferson was an ardent supporter of Revolutionary government and their systematic confiscation of the aristocrats’ private property and only showed minor doubts when the murder of aristocrats became widespread.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:27pm

      @Shiroi

      “ Liberal Christians”

      That’s an oxymoron.

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    • Thisnameistowarnyouthatyouwillhatemycomment
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:32pm

      @Eddard

      Dang man, I think you might be getting a little too sophisticated for the folks at this site. Complex racial history that paints the founders as dimensional, flawed figures who developed both the positive AND negative aspects of our society is a bit more than people here can stomach. Ask half of the people here and they’ll tell you that the Founders were practically Christian prophets who only supported slavery because they were trying to free blacks from the horrors of living in Africa… =/

      Great name btw. Unfortunately, like the character, I fear your ideals (as right as they are) will be lost on those around you.

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    • LubbockRN
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:57pm

      In addition to what Abe did, race baters and those hung up on the fact tha slavery even existed in colonial America, fail to mention that many and probably most of the slaves were sold into slavery by the black Africans in Africa. Would there have even been slaves here had not they been provided by their own people? Probably not.

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    • Sigil
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:56pm

      Don Jordan/Michael Walsh White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America.

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    • The Blu Morpho
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 12:13am

      If you owned slaves, you were a SLAVEHOLDER. Period. I don’t give a flying FART what else you might have done, it does NOT outweigh OWNING SOMEONE. Nor does it outweigh RAPING Sally Hemmings. Sure I know there are nutbags on this site who will allege that the relationship between a SLAVE MASTER and a SLAVE was CONSENSUAL, but some idiots will justify ANYTHING.

      Let’s put an end to the Glenn Beck conservo-bs lies, shall we? And I say this as one who is MORE CONSERVATIVE than you all! But my allegiance is to TRUTH not party for only the TRUTH shall set you free.

      Folks like Beck and many of the commenters here like to excuse the racism of the founders as being a “sign of the times”. You people (lol) like to say things like, “It’s UNFAIR to judge them based on the morality of today”! This is your usual poorly thought out “dodge”. But let us take you at your word, let us not judge them based on the morality of today. Let’s use the morality of 1776!!!!
      Who were the QUAKERS? Religious people who railed against the EVILS OF SLAVERY!
      Who were the ABOLITIONISTS??? White folk, who RAILED AGAINST THE EVILS OF SLAVER and even put their LIVES on the line to try and hide runaway slaves! For the dimwitted among you, of which there are plenty, that means that there were TWO MORALITIES alive and well back in the day. The men you have chosen to idolize simply practiced the “morality” of SLAVE OWNING, instead of the Christian morality, present in their day, that sai

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 1:24am

      @HowardSternIsABigot

      “I suppose it matters not that slavery ended 150 years ago? I suppose it doesnt matter that no one alive was ever a slave?”

      That would only matter if you wanted to heal the country and move forward. But to a certain element of our society, we’ll call them leftists or democraps, keeping a wound open is politically advantagious.

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    • Wilbur D Pig
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 3:52am

      @Eddard and theguywiththereallylongnamethatthinksheissmarterthaneveryoneelse

      Eddard,Your comment was well stated and persuasive. It gave me lots to think about and consider (mind you, I’m a pretty right-wing guy). The way you present it is the appropriate form of dialogue and I commend you for being one who debates honestly. It is refreshing to see. Otherpeopleoftenrelyonunderhandedadhominemattacksthatoneseessomuchinthosewhoconsiderthemselvestohaveacorneronthemarketforintellect.

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 4:17am

      @ NO RACE IS SUPERIOR

      You sure do seem to think that YOU are superior, don’t you? Nothing worse than a narcissist who is also trying to be a rétard. Fake, empty ethics. You are a fake and a ********.

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    • Wilbur D Pig
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 4:27am

      Sorry, re-post.
      @Eddard and theguywiththereallylongnamethatthinksheissmarterthaneveryoneelse
      Eddard,Your comment was well stated and persuasive. It gave me lots to think about and consider (mind you, I’m a pretty right-wing guy). The way you present it is the appropriate form of dialogue and I commend you for being one who debates honestly. It is refreshing to see. Otherpeopleoftenrelyonunderhandedadhominemattacksthatoneseessomuch
      inthosewhoconsiderthemselvestohaveacorneronthemarketforintellect

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    • EddardinWinter
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 6:20am

      Actually, it is not surprising that Jefferson did little in response to the bloodshed in France during the French revolution since he was a revolutionary himself and had spent much of his time in France and considered the french kindred spirits. Jefferson saw what he wanted to see and turned a blind eye to the ugly truth. The reason there was no corresponding american bloodshed of aristocrats was due to the absence of a significant american aristocracy to be butchered. Jefferson was a flawed man to be sure, but I don’t think his possession of slaves overshadows his other contributions. To apply our morality of today to a man of the late eighteenth century is somewhat unfair. The statement that it was a fundamental contradiction in our nations foundation, however, is entirely fair and supported by the price america paid for this flaw during the civil war. Jefferson was a bit more than a liberal racist. I have no issue recognizing his flaws, many here do not seem to recognize his contributions, nor does this exhibit. It would be unfortunate to remember this statesman as solely a hypocritical slaveholder.

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    • robert
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 8:16am

      No Race Is Superior
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:56pm
      thegreatcarnac
      “Of course you don’t care. It‘s painfully obvious that you don’t care. And that is exactly why black people can never forget that slavery existed and that they are living with the residuals stemming from it. People like you, who don‘t care don’t matter. Evil is a non factor.”

      Blacks don’t want to forget slavery, because they like to use it as an excuse for not being able to compete in a first world society. Plus it allows them the advantage of a white whipping boy to hate.

      Anybody who dwells on something that happened two hundred years ago is a bona fide idiot. Like many others I’m sick to death of blacks making excuses for ther failures by blaming a situation so many years ago it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with black failure today.

      Blacks can’t achieve, because of their own lack of abilities. Nothing else. Anybody who attempts to spin some fantastic tale of lies, using slavery as a factor, either doesn’t have the intellect to understand anything and is just another gullible moron who can be manipulated any way a propagandist wants to manipulate him/her, or he/she works for the US Justice Dept. where AG Holder refuses to prosecute crimes fairly if they involve a white victim and a black perpetrator.

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    • mrsmileyface
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 10:26am

      @ No Race Is Superior Of course you don’t care. It‘s painfully obvious that you don’t care. And that is exactly why black people can never forget that slavery existed and that they are living with the residuals stemming from it. People like you, who don‘t care don’t matter. Evil is a non factor.

      I dont see you mentioning the Jews. The Jews slavery for over 2000 years makes your argument pale in comparison. But then again your racist yourself. Its easy to pick on an easy target like the Jews and Israel. I STAND WITH ISRAEL and with the JEWS.

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    • gtrdone
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 10:31am

      America is the boiling pot of all colors, blacks are still unfortunately “slaves” to the government. Many are are welfare and live out the “slave” with television, house, and food provided to them. Most come from places where others take care of them and they are used to it. Not all blacks, but many. Look what the blacks are doing at the fairs with knife and fist. Muslims won’t change their ideas of Europeans, naturally whites are the demons. The blacks can’t change the fact that they still have slaves to themselves, like in the past. The racism card is as old as history itself, those that throw it are ignorant of the facts, or just plain ignorant.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 10:59am

      Hey no race,
      It was over 150 years ago when slavery ended less than 10% of the population owned slaves at any giving point. The first slave ever owned in America was owned by a black man and lots of other blacks owned slaves after him. But you some how feel that give black the right to be grudge and hate whites.
      Well if that’s the case than any white family opr white owned business that has been affected by black crime today should have that same rioght to hate and be grudge blacks for the actions of other blacks….RIGHT
      I mean surely if you can judge a society today for the action of 10% of a society 150 years ago then you most certainly can justify a society of today judging a scoiety for actions of a small percentage of it’s population……..RIGHT
      or are you just another racist hypocrit like every other racist in your community of perpetual victimhood

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 11:46am

      @ Eddard

      “The reason there was no corresponding american bloodshed of aristocrats was due to the absence of a significant american aristocracy to be butchered.”

      No Eddard, the reason is that the American Revolution was in the name of Chrisitainity and the French Revolution wasn’t. It was quite the opposite.

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    • ying
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 3:58pm

      It’s not really about slavery. It’s about them hating themselves. They are trying to cause people to not see race, and see them as equal to everybody else, which people actually believe because of the propaganda concerning race. Why are they doing this? Because they want to make it easier for you to mix with them. They want to become white, and will never be happy until the day they do. They won’t actually become white, but they will make whites become like them; misery loves company. Doesn’t cancer of the human body work in the same way? Of course it does, as the cancer cells seek to turn good cells into cells which “act” like the cancer ones, and use those ‘acting’ cells to help them destroy those who have not turned into cancer yet, much like liberals they use trickery and deceit. Eventually, the body is destroyed of cancer if you allow it to happen and do not stop it in it’s tracks. In the case of race, blacks will eventually destroy the earth and all races thereof who do good things for the earth. They will destroy all tame and docile animals, through abuse. They will destroy all plants which cannot grow on their own. They are cancer, and it DOES correlate. God gave us clues and has correlated everything. Even black holes in space are cancer, as they are anti-matter and matter destroyers. Two is to four what 8 is to 16.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 10:02pm

      Agreed, Carnac.

      Slavery ended about 150 years ago. No native American living today was a slave, and no native American living today ever owned a slave.

      The whole discussion is designed to assuage the unproductive and unambitious of their guilt. Anyone who works hard and has a positive attitude can prosper in this country.

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  • Flag Raiser
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:41pm

    It’s the far Left thinking Smithsonian. Remember the display at Air And Space of a part of the Enola Gay? It was a presentation that presented late 20th century PC thinking that the people of Hiroshima were “VICTIMS” when the real reason was to stop WW2 in the Pacific before the Red Russian were to come and “Help” like they did in Eastern Europe. The blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended a war. The LEFT/Progressives/Socialists/Communists can call them what they want, but it does not portray thinking of Aug., 1945, it represents revisionist history of 2011. Tell me what actually happened in plain words, not as you see it in PC Prism of 2011.

    Jefferson was more than a slave owner, but the Leftists will never let you know.

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    • SLEUTH
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:23pm

      FLAG RAISER, you re right. all these progressive liberals from the 60′s are still taking acid. their thinking/actions proves it.

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:41pm

      @flagraiser

      Were British civilians killed during the blitz casualties or victims? Classifying civilian casualties of war as victims is far from some type of PC conspiracy to revise history.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:34pm

      @EddardStark

      The British were attacked by Germany without provocation. Japan had attacked the U.S. In the first case they were British civilian victims, and in the second case they were Japanese civilian casualties.

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:47pm

      Viet Vet? Really? I‘d say Great Britain’s declaration of war on September 3rd, 1939 was provocation for Germany? Maybe the expeditionary force that they landed in France would also be provocation, or the blockade of German ports? Germany did not launch a sneak attack against Great Britain.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 1:03am

      @Eddardstark

      France and Britain had a defensive pact with Poland. This forced France and Britain to declare war on Germany. Germany knew this, an attack on Poland was an attack on France and England. We know that Germany had designs on more than just Poland. The provocation was on Germany’s part. and I think it’s safe to say that British civilians were laid waste long before German civilians were. In the first case they were British civilian victims and in the second case they were German civilian casualties. Now even a nazi must agree.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 10:12pm

      Indeed, sir! Well said.

      It‘s clear from the Nazi Worker’s Partier that he tends to disagree.

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  • mensaman62
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:39pm

    I needed to grab the duck tape listening to the Smithsonian video.

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  • jim
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:33pm

    I ended my Smithsonian magazine subscription long ago… naked tribal girls, space shuttle, antelope on the Serengeti… were replaced by lingerie football league, Stargate Universe and weekends at the dog park. You make choices.

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    • BIGJAYINPA
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:43pm

      The worst part is that I am forced to stand and watch as THEY steal my money, in the form of taxes, to pay for this mindless foolishness. How much longer are we to stand around and take this c**p from the Lib/Progressive anti-American Left??….Just askin’

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    • Xpat48
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:44pm

      I use to get it to. And I quit for the exact same reasons. It was my favorite at one time. More so then Nation Geographic.

      I don’t know, maybe I’ll go bac to Nat. Geo.

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    • Xpat48
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:56pm

      A little “home” schooling in “History” will be going on at our home.

      We will revisit “The Founding Father’s”.

      And a family trip to “Mt. Rushmore.” My parents took us there when we were much younger.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:04pm

      And the embrace if ignorance that the tea-party is wearing on their sleve is just causing their alledged hero Jefferson to spin faster in his grave.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:41pm

      @ encinom who Posted: “And the embrace if ignorance that the tea-party is wearing on their sleve is just causing their alledged hero Jefferson to spin faster in his grave.”

      Wow, Encinom, you ignorant little troll, you outdid yourself on this one–you managed to be incoherent, ungrammatical AND a lousy speller all in a single sentence. My hat is off to you. How does one “wear” an “embrace of ignorance”–on their sleeve, or anywhere else? And it’s alleged, you poor, spelling-challenged idiot, not “alledged”. Pathetic, as usual. And a new low in illogical idiocy, even for you!

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  • UrbanCombatSurvivor
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:31pm

    You want to see more of this state sponsored hate speech? Check out the Liberty Bell here in Philadelphia….look at the “displays” set up that you pass as you approach the bell itself.

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:29pm

    As long as their have been people, someone has enslaved someone else. Black have enslaved blacks too.

    Wow – Smithsonian – you need a pair of glasses and some reality?

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    • No Race Is Superior
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:58pm

      Oh really Fight for America, so tell me who enslaved white people.

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    • patrolbabe
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:12pm

      The Romans, who granted, were not all white, enslaved a whole bunch of people! You could even sell yourself into slavery to get out of debt, so why not let the past go and move on already!

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    • jkendal
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 8:32am

      “Oh really Fight for America, so tell me who enslaved white people.”

      We are all in the process of being enslaved by our government. But that doesn’t matter because Jefferson was a racist slaveholder and for that alone the stupid leftists say we should dismantle America and the Constitution.

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  • Bermuda Onion
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:25pm

    Is there a display of freed slaves that OWNED slaves? I bet that is NOT on display and they do not teach that in school.

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    • No Race Is Superior
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:07pm

      So tell me Bermuda Onion in what year did freed slaves enslave slaves. You can try to sell that crap to your next generation who you will more than likely raise to think like you, but no one with any sense is going to fall for it. So I will wait for you to google or research where freed slaves enslaved people.

      And as far as people talking about Africans having slaves in Africa, it was not quite like that. There were always tribes in Africa. The stronger ones over took the weaker ones and like in any war, the ones who were voctorious had their way. Much like the civil war in The United Stated of AMERIKKA.

      And to the person who said the slaves were freed and sent back to West Africa and sent to what is now called Libya. You so convenietley forgot to mention, why they were sent back didn’t you.
      TYPICAL.

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    • Mastermagi
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:32pm

      While almost 5% of the population of the United States held slaves, in the south the number was over 8%. However, in New Orleans, 27% of the black people owned slaves. Not the whole population, mind you, but the black population.

      It’s you, No Race is Superior, who are wrong. You can try to malign and insult, or you can learn a little history. Unfortunately, education is apparently not your strong suit.

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    • liberalsarealiens
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 8:13am

      No race is superior,
      The first Official slave owner in Virginia was a black man named Anthony Johnson who at one time was a slave himself. Read your history man
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist).

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  • Kylestarr
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:21pm

    OMG!!! I can’t believe that this is brought up so many times, yes America has made mistakes in the past but we have come a long way. The more I see or hear stuff like this the more I believe that the only thing holding them back are themselves.

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    • RESTOREVALUES
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:46pm

      My entire adult life there have been rules to give minorities a { fair } opportunity to advance, get promoted, get a job , and so on.They call it affirmative action, and lot of things, but I call it reverse discrimination. I believe it only allows minorities to fail or to perform at a the lower standard.People should want to perform their best out of pride in their race,family,and their own honor. I have seen and worked with minorities in and out of government service and everyone has the ability to perform with the best. It only comes apart when the race card is played by them or for them or to them.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 1:13am

      @RESTOREVALUES

      And that is what many honorable blacks like Ward Connerly have been fighting for for years, to throw affirmative action to the ash heap of history.

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  • USMarine0311
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:19pm

    In the end of days it says everything will be upside down, what was once right will now be wrong and what was wrong will now be right. Evil is moving hard against God and our belief in him. The stories that I see, nearly everyday, have Christians and Jews as the ones that are evil and that Islam is the religion of peace, love and tolerance. The longer people keep there heads in the sand the worse the battle back to the light will be. This is just an example of how things are being misrepresented, the progressives do the injustices and then blame the Christians, Jews, Conservatives and Republicans for the actions and will re-write history to try and hide the lies they tell. Remember that Evil always tells lies wrapped in a little bit of truth.

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:26pm

      marine, great post but is backwards, the right lies and the left stands for truth. sorry dude (or dudette)

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    • An AmericanMom
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:50pm

      Riverdog…..you must be eating kitty litter cause your scenes have left……literally!

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    • IHateBeckIsNuts
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:06pm

      Marine I agree with everything you said in your post. Also, if you truly are a Marine as your name implies, thank you for your service to our country. Also, ignore RiverDog as s/he is only a RiverTroll. They have nothing better to do since they’re probably collecting a check sitting on their butts.

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    • SLEUTH
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:25pm

      RIVERDOG1; get off the acid and pull your head out of Obamas A$$. you ve had enough pudding.

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    • USMarine0311
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:34pm

      Most likely river dog is getting paid Spooky dude George Soros. And yes I am a Marine, or rather former Marine, but once a Marine always a Marine. Was active duty during desert storm days.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 1:18am

      The left wouldn’t know the truth if it popped them in the chops. The left has to lie on a daily basis, because if they didn’t lie and obfuscate about their true agenda, they would never get elected. Like backstabbers, they have to work behind the scenes.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:19pm

    That‘s another reason why progressive Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to think for themselves. We should send them over to other countries.

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  • PghLady13
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:15pm

    What about the slaveholders in the Bible? How do progressives justify that there is no race mentioned in the Bible? Is RACE science new? I have never heard of race science! How does DNA or Mydocardial DNA or RNA have anything to do with race except through genetics? Who is one pure race…including slave holder Thomas Jefferson…rumors, rumors, rumors….

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    • Bermuda Onion
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:31pm

      How about the African kings that actually SOLD slaves as payment for silk and cloth to the Portuguese traders? Is there any mention of that? Their own people SOLD them and now it is the whites that are the bad guys. There is blame to go around to everybody. But aren’t the progressives the ones that always mention EVOLUTION? Humans have evolved from the selling of slaves to today’s democRAT slaves inner city minorities.

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    • starman70
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:53pm

      @BERMUDA ONION:

      Unfortunately there always has been slavery in the past and it is going on today in many Islamic countries where young girls and boys are kidnapped and forced to work for slavemasters.

      Slavery was, is and never will be right but where ever there are human beings, one group will seek to dominate another group and enslave them. The new American salvery in the inner cities of the nation is the work of the progressives in Washington and is based on the premise that the inhabitants are too ignorant or incapable to learn to take care of themselves so the wonderful caretakers in Washington must keep them in total subserviance. It will NEVER be by admitted by the progressives that the premise that one race is superior to another, actually eminated from Darwin’s Theory of the Origin of Species. Hitler and many other dictators have used that premise to slaughter untold numbers of people in recent history.

      Amazingly, the Capitalist system is the only system which allows a person of any race, color or creed to rise to his or her true potential and attain the goals they set for themselves in life. No other economic system allows that.

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  • ARSILHOUETTE
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:13pm

    We made many mistakes in our history and we have been paying for them every since the 60′s. Millions have been spent trying to correct the injustices of the past with little success. We are the most tolerant people in the world…You can go to China but you will never become Chinese, You can move to Mexico but you will never be a mexican, but anyone can come to US and become an American.

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    • patrolbabe
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:16pm

      Great Post, you are so right, This is the greatest country in the world, not because we are perfect but becasue we are (or used to be) free!

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:55pm

      I’m wondering how long the black race is going to use slavery 150+ years ago as an excuse for expecting to be taken care of from the cradle to the grave? There are those black people who are smarter than the rest of you, who “get it” that sitting around whining about “it’s not my fault–my ancestors were slaves!” won’t buy them much or get them anywhere in life. And they discover that the barriers they might once have experienced are no longer there, and lo and behold, they SUCCEED and move up the economic ladder.

      But too many accept this stupid lie that they are just poor little victoms and therefore should no it is their right to be supported and taken care of for life because over a century ago, this country, like most other countries in the world, allowed slavery. Yes, it happened. Yes, it was wrong. And yes, America has been trying to make amends ever since, but enough is enough, already.

      Get OVER it!!! You can sit on your a$$es feeling sorry for yourselves and blaming everybody else in the world for your bad choices, and lack of ambition, playing the “professional victim”, or you can start making responsible choices, taking care of your OWN children (how about that 74% of black children born illegitimate?) and DO SOMETHING ON YOUR OWN. For God’s sake, the laws in our society are set up to give you every break in the world, if you would just GET OFF YOUR A$$ and at least TRY to do something on your own, instead of expecting the rest of us to do it

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 1:29am

      @ARSILHOUETTE

      “but anyone can come to US and become an American.”

      Unfortunately, multiculturalism and diversity are expressly designed to thwart The Great Melting Pot.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 10:19am

      Granny Tea-******, the senility has made you a bitter old bigot.

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  • gonzo337
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:11pm

    What’s wrong with owning salve?

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  • BenInNY
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:11pm

    SALVEholder?

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:10pm

    “SALVEholder? What type of “SALVE” did he hold? “SALVE” really?

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  • You R Wrong
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:10pm

    ““Many of the ideas we now associate with race originated during the European era of exploration”

    So up until the whites thought other races were inferior, the Hans were just getting along fine and dandy with the mongolians. That Arabs never enslaved Africans. The Japanese and Chinese never went to war. The Jewish elite always thought themselves equal to the gentiles… etc. etc…

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:20pm

      Bad examples of “progressives” being “racist.” Jackson: EVERYBODY was persecuting Indians. Wilson: I’ve watched “Birth of a Nation” in my house, does that make me a racist? And FDR: It’s Malkin and the regressive TeaBaggers who are still defending interment.

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:23pm

      wow, this SPQR guy isn’t playing with a full deck.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:58pm

      And the East Africans never made a FINE LIVING capturing and selling BLACK PEOPLE FROM AFRICA to the slavers? Yeah, right. These moonbats need to start READING history instead of rewriting it.

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  • This_Individual
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:10pm

    Marxists hard at work.

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:20pm

      ~~^^~~^^~~
      Good call but more than likely not a marxist but a progressive.

      Better yet WHO made this decision at the Smithsonian?! That is the question that should be asked. We again get caught up in the progressive propaganda and rewriting of history instead of targeting the individual(s) responsible for depicting one of our great leaders like this. We know the history we know how things were back then that these “historians” chose to leave out why would they depict Jefferson like this in the first place?

      Lets not debate this lets get some answers as to who and why it was done! Then expose them as Im sure it will lead us on an unsurprising trail! Think out of the box guys stop playing their game start playing your game http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:25pm

      “marxist hard at work”….probably not marxist, but it is the truth.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 1:15am

      Marxist….Progressive=same same.

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  • javasport
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:08pm

    Doesn’t the narrator sound like Gadahn the American Terrorist? http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/?uri=channels/451373/1359127

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    • An AmericanMom
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:16pm

      I thought the same thing…..hide the drapes….the decorator is here!

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  • Glenn is Right
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:06pm

    Why is Thomas Jefferson always mentioned as a slave holder when so many other Founding Fathers were slave holders as well?

    I am open to any opinions.

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    • BacktotheFounders
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:43pm

      Because he was from the South.

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    • ctodd_ks
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:43pm

      I think they love to pounce on Jefferson because of his supposed relationship with Sally Hemmings. This is a 2 for 1 as far as the victimization media goes. In their minds, not only did Jefferson own slaves, but he also committed sexual harrassment by supposedly seducing and fathering a child with his “employee”–Ms. Hemmings. What better way to prove that we are “all created equal” than to have the man who wrote it prove that it is so by bedding down with his African-American slave…and also, what better way to prove that The Founding Fathers were all a bunch of evil rich white men who have created an evil, sexist country full of sexual harrassment and descrimination than to invoke the example set by our third President–a man whom I’m sure any feminist will tell you should have been tried for rape–since Ms. Hemmings was still his slave after the affair. Jefferson was an imperfect man of contradictions–as imperfect as any man or any of our founding fathers. And, for that matter, as imperfect as our Constitution (remember, it says “to create a MORE perfect union–not a perfect one). But, you must remember, in the mind of liberals and of the left-wing, there is no room for imperfection. Government is their God–and it must be cleansed and made perfect. In their minds, if we could expose the rapist that existed within our founders, then we could more easily tear down the country and start over–which is just what liberals want.

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:34pm

      I think because he wrote the
      Declaration of independence. All men
      are created equal. I’m not being
      sarcastic. Ive thought about that a lot.
      He’s the only one who is always ripped
      for it.

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    • MONIFICENT
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 12:23am

      Because he owned slaves . Thomas Jefferson owned people he has his face on money and a To joe: Jared has the Monument ! And his face in a moutain he was human just like MLK . What is problem with that

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 11:57am

      It was a normal fact of life to own slaves at that time in our history.

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    • Lee_in_PA
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 1:05pm

      There have been reports of Jefferson‘s shadow family since 1802 when Thomas Callender printed his articles attacking or attesting to Jefferson’s fathering children with Sally Hemmings.

      Were Callender‘s stories the act of a diappointed office seeker in Jefferson’s time, a muck raker paid by the opposition ( as Callender was paid obtusely by Jefferson prior to the falling out), or a reporter in search of the truth? Those who really know are long gone. We are left to decide for ourselves.

      As for other founding fathers holding slaves, TJ was the only one who wrote ALL men are created equal. What many do not recognize is that he did include a section in the Declaration addressing slave holding. Please read the Declaration of Independence in his original hand.

      Franklin, an ablolitionist, was most influential in getting the DOI passed. And he allowed that section to be removed in order to get the 13 colonies to form a unified front against Great Britian. We cannot know what all transpired to create a country, all we can do is work within their framework to make thing better.

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  • whatisay
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:06pm

    Yes. we are that different. No way in hell would I ever vote for a communist.

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  • Redistributor
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:04pm

    Sounds like Glenn has an opportunity to open his own exhibit to set the record straight.

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  • An AmericanMom
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:02pm

    “The Smithsonian also made certain to share some rather subjective views on “race science” yet failed to mention that the ideology was spawned by progressives.”

    and it still continues……

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:21pm

      Conservatives in denial of their past…. Again…..

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    • SFYMP
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:03pm

      Trolls being in denial that they are trolls.

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:26pm

      @ SPQR1

      Hey, dirtbag. If you live in the United States, then it’s YOUR PAST also. Neither of us has ever owned a slave. The only real difference here is that one of us is still a REAL American who didn’t stab his own family and nation in the back and run off to LaLa Land to join the socialists.

      The United States, even with all of its blemishes has still done more good than any other nation on this planet. Contrary to your communist stupidity, there is no utopian paradise that can claim a perfect past. If you hate America so much, THEN LEAVE. Don’t let the door hit your sorry a$$ on the way out.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:00pm

    And this is how are history books are being written. Only for the benefit of the progressives. Goebbels would be proud.

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  • NILAP
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 6:57pm

    Sally Hemmings should be given a memorial right in front of the Jefferson Memorial so our children will know the truth and honor black women and all they had to put up with in America.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:07pm

      Palin backwards, cute… Or maybe put her statue at Gettysburg to show black’s how many white men died in the civil war to free them. Then maybe all of this you “owe” me cr*p can finally come to an end.

      I like what Martha Washington did. She freed all her slaves early. George’s will stated that the slaves would be freed upon both of their deaths. After George died ahe felt it may be wiser to just let ‘em go before someone drew the short straw and would expedite her demise. Smart.

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:25pm

      Jefferson might have been able to free his slaves except that: 1. They originally belonged to his wife’s family and 2. They were kind of owned by the bank as collateral for Jefferson’s massive debt. It‘s that kind of detail that you’ll never hear from a hack like Beck….

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    • BillyPenn
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:41pm

      Sally Hemmings was not as black as you may think. Her mother was the product of a union between a mixed race female and an English sea caption. Sally‘s father was Jefferson’s father-in-law, which of course make’s Sally, Jefferson‘s wife’s, half sister.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 12:00pm

      ” Or maybe put her statue at Gettysburg to show black’s how many white men died in the civil war to free them.”

      Good idea!!

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 12:04pm

      There ya go, they kept it in the family.

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  • BrerRabbit
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 6:56pm

    Darwinism?

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:28pm

      You mean Social Darwinism, that social science dumped over a century ago. Social Darwinism still only exists in the minds of CONSERVATIVES and their Corporate masters as an excuse to massively exploit the people of the world. Try cornering one and they will actually admit it…..

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    • SFYMP
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:06pm

      Aren’t you special. Get back on the short bus SPecial QueeR1

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:20pm

      Okay. Ask a Conservative if they believe in Social Darwinism. I can go to the local church here, FILLED with Conservatives, and they happen to have a food bank and give a lot of money and time to help the poor and homeless. So… that would be a big, HUGE, ENORMOUS “NO!” They don’t believe in Social Darwinism.

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