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You really are a moron who is ignorant of history, Bonehead Bob. All you have to do is look at the US census of southern states (or even northern slave states like Delaware) to see that the census takers differientiated between black slaves and free blacks. You will also see in those census records where free blacks sometimes owned slaves themselves.

Right here in Beaufort County, we had two thriving communities of free blacks prior to the War Between the States, one at Keysville, north of Washington, and the other a grouping of blacks who owned small farms in the eastern part of the county. There was even a shipyard on the waterfront in downtown Washington owned by a free black man.

While you are correct about slaves, you ignore the free blacks, who generally had more rights in the south than free blacks in the north. That was because of the draconian "Black Codes" of many northern states of the period that greatly suppressed the rights of free blacks. Indeed, the harshest was probably Illinois, which passed a statute in the 1850s that prohibited black people from even living in the state.

Bonehead Bob is full of stereotypes, false notions, and conspiracy theories but what he is constantly short on is facts.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 8:50 am By: Conservative Voter

You are so sick. An African American in the south pre civil war could consent to nothing. Dude you are a twisted freak.

Commented: Saturday, April 13th, 2024 @ 8:31 pm By: Big Bob

Either you can't read or are ignorant of history, Bobbie. The words you get your panties in such a twist over were written in 1861 by a very prominent black historical figure, Frederick Douglass and he uses terms that were common and non-controversial at the time. Maybe you should read Douglass' autobiography, which I have, an enlightening account of being born into slavery, escaping, teaching himself to read, and becoming a top leader of the abolitionist movement. Douglass wrote of blacks serving as soldiers in the Confederate army in addition to cooks.

And you seem not to know the difference between a free black and a slave. In the South in 1861, 20% of blacks were free blacks and indeed, 10% of free blacks owned slaves themselves.

While the quote from Douglass uses the "colored people" term, it is not one that I use myself. However, a virtually identical term "people of color" is currently in wide use by the left today.

Commented: Saturday, April 13th, 2024 @ 6:17 pm By: Conservative Voter

Speaker Johnson exposed his inner Paul Ryan on this issue, moving left to get Democrat votes instead of standing up for liberty to get conservative Republican votes. He is following the same path as that turncoat McCarthy.

Commented: Saturday, April 13th, 2024 @ 1:06 pm By: John Steed

Ask the black southerners.

Commented: Friday, April 12th, 2024 @ 5:52 pm By: Big Bob

Southern voters are NOT, for the most part ok with the cancel culture against our history, and from the polling a lot of people in other parts of the country may not be either. The problem is that attacks on our history are only part of the woke culture and globalist culture being thrust at us, and there are a lot of things like Bidenflation, illegal immigration, and crime that are on the front burner more than cultural matters.

Commented: Friday, April 12th, 2024 @ 5:41 pm By: Rino Hunter

Murphy voted to take away the name of Fort Bragg and other military bases named for Confederate generals. He has piled on to cancel culture against Southern heritage. After his first vote on that position, his congressdional district GOP committee voted unanimously to urge him not to do it again, but not long after, another such vote came up and Murphy ignored his local party committee to again vote for cancel culture against the South. Greg Murphy is what during Reconstruction would have been called a scalawag.

Voters should have figured that out in the primary, since in the legislature he was nicknamed "Medicaid Murphy" for his liberal views.

The other option to Murphy in November is a Libertarian but I do not know much about him. If the Constitution Party is successful in getting back on the ballot, that might give another option.

Commented: Friday, April 12th, 2024 @ 1:30 pm By: John Steed

Van Zant - Absolutely Agree.

Country Girl - Since I'm from Pitt County, I follow Mr. Murphy closer than most representatives. I have listened to him speak on a number of occasions; I have written to his office to express my opinions on various issues and responded to some of his online "polls." I'm not saying he's all good or all bad, but he is one that we have to watch. I receive his monthly newsletter and he's very, very, good about pointing out his great support for our military bases and service men and women. However, when the EVIL cabal known as the Federal Renaming Commission started erasing anything Confederate related across our state and our nation, I doubt he did anything to stand up for our Southern heritage and our honorable Confederate soldiers and sailors that were designated years ago by the U.S. Congress as U.S. veterans. Personally, I'm very proud of my family's ancestors who stood in the face of overwhelming odds to protect their friends and family, their livelihoods, and their homeland.

Mr. Lincoln reminds me quite a bit of Joe Biden. He was driven by wealthy industrialists and corrupt politicians like a puppet, to do their bidding to economically rape the Southland and destroy our peaceful way of life.

JMan

Commented: Thursday, April 11th, 2024 @ 10:41 am By: JMan

Noticed that Greg Murphy is NOT on the list of 19 that voted against the bill. Really does not surprise me in the least his voting record speaks for itself.

Commented: Thursday, April 11th, 2024 @ 8:50 am By: Countrygirl1411