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Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Commented: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 @ 1:42 am By: Will Simmons

I had online classes in high school; would have rather beat my head against the desk: Did.

Went to a university, found out I was graded on scavenger hunts and essays about imaginary mythological beasts: didn’t make it a whole semester.

Back to community college, it was online. Absolute torture to me personally. Tapped out for good. Would absolutely do the same thing again considering a good college educated person can tell me the scientific name and genus of a turkey buzzard but couldn’t jump start a car battery.

Society needs to scrap every policy and idea relating to education going back 40-50 years.

Commented: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 @ 1:16 am By: Will Simmons

Good grief Bob how old could you possibly be? You act like you lived through the height of the Klan in the 1920s

Commented: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 @ 12:10 am By: Will Simmons

I guess Bigot Bob is just stuck on stupid. If the real historical facts do not fit with his narrative, he just makes up his own. Free blacks had control of their own lives and many of them joined the Confederate army and navy, like Moses Dallas, a black Confederate naval officer on the ironclad CSS Savannah, who was instrumental in planning and helped lead one of the most daring exploits of the war, the capture of the Union warship USS Waterwitch while it was on blockade duty off Savannah in a surprise nighttime attack boarding from small boats. Dallas, a free black man had worked as a harbor pilot for the port of Savannah before joining the navy.

Bobbie might be surprised to learn that in 1860, there were more free blacks in the South than there were in the North - 261,000 in the South compared to 226,000 in the North.
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When I was growing up, the KKK was regarded as a bunch of meatheads that nobody had any respect for. If they put out anything on history, they must have copied it from somebody else.

It is simple enough to learn the truth about free blacks in the antebellum South. Go find a library that has copies of the US census of 1860, 1850, 1840, and earlier and you will find the numbers of whites, free blacks, and slaves per county. You just reinforce the opinion that you are a blowhard moron when you keep posting inaccurate nonsense

Commented: Monday, April 15th, 2024 @ 5:23 pm By: John Steed

When I was a kid the KKK would print this garbage and then place the pamphlets on cars all over town.

Same crap. Slaves can’t consent.

Commented: Monday, April 15th, 2024 @ 3:48 pm By: Big Bob

Biden almost makes Benedict Arnold look like a loyal American. DOWN WITH BIDEN.

Commented: Monday, April 15th, 2024 @ 12:34 pm By: Bubba

Having been certified as an International Election Observer is eight foreign elections, one of the big red flags that election fraud is happening is one side kicking out the election observers of opponents. With no valid reason to do that, it is usually a very strong signal that fraud is going on and this is an effort to try to cover it up.

In the 2020 election in the US, there were multiple swing states where Republican election obervers were either kicked out of the vote counting rooms or as in Fulton County, Georgia, tricked out of them, while vote counting continued. This happened in multiple places about the same time, always in major urban counties in swing states. Some may believe in coincidence theories, but as an experienced election observer, that was a huge red flag that fraud was occuring and a very thorough examination needs to be done in those places. If I were an election observer of the 2020 US election, there is no way in hell I would have certified it as free and fair until such a thorough examination of what happened in those counties was conducted. Of course, no such examintations occurred. In one major urban county, not only were the Republican election observers kicked out, but the election officials then taped paper over the windows so no one could look in.

Commented: Monday, April 15th, 2024 @ 12:21 pm By: Steven P. Rader

How pathetic! Little Bobbie is now a HISTORY DENIER. The facts don't fit his warped ideological narrative of history so he pretends they don't exist. It appears clear that the issue is not about the slaves but about the free blacks, so LIttle Bobbie puts his blinders on and pretends they did not exist. GROW UP, LIttle Bobbie!

Here is another inconvenient truth from the War Between the States about slavery. When Lee surrendered to Grant at Appamatox, one of the two generals was a slaveowner. Little Bobbie, I am sure, would immediately jump to the conclusion it was Robert E. Lee, but he would be wrong. Lee wrote in 1859 that "slavery is an institution of moral and political evil" and when he inherited hundreds of slaves from his father-in-law, he freed them all when he finalized the estate. Grant, on the other hand, with his wife owned slaves in Kentucky, which was not under the Emancipation Proclamation, and Grant continued to be a slaveowner until late 1865, months after the ware was over when adoption of the 13th Amendement finally freed the Grant family slaves.

Commented: Monday, April 15th, 2024 @ 10:16 am By: Rino Hunter

Wow, Bigot Bob's War on History goes beyond his cancel culture against historic monuments. Now he wants to erase the memory of what actually happened in our country's history if it does not fit his extreme left tunnel vision. And, again, Bigot Bob would not know a fact if one jumped up and vit him in the ass. It is not about facts with BObbie, only avout the ideological narrative.

Commented: Monday, April 15th, 2024 @ 7:24 am By: John Steed

Voter fraud is rare.MAGA will work hard to convince you otherwise. They know what happens if most of us vote.

Commented: Monday, April 15th, 2024 @ 12:33 am By: Big Bob

One of the problems in North Carolina is the pitiful state of our election records. The federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requires boards of elections to place the last four digits of the social security number or drivers license on the voting record. One of the reasons for this is so that boards of one county can check other counties against duplicate registrations. In North Carolina, over 224,000 voting records lack this data that is required by federal law. As a result, there are thousands of likely duplicate registrations on the books, and state election officials are doing nothing to clean up that problem.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 6:50 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The facts don't fit your narrative, so you turn to personal attacks, Little Bobbie? Maybe it is time to study some real history instead of the far left narrative you constantly parrot. You might even start with that book by Frederick Douglass, who you apparently did not even know who he was. The only racist on this board is you, Little Bobbie with your racist anti-white views. You want to sweep the free blacks of the antebellum south under the rug because they are inconvenient to your far left political narrative. We southerners celebrate all people of the south, and therefore reject your stereotyping.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 6:17 pm By: Conservative Voter

I agree. Everyone should carry all the time Do you? Why not? Be the good guy with the gun. When the shooting starts, be ready.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 9:50 am By: Big Bob

And you are a sick racist freak. Peddle that crap to your white apologist.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 9:53 am By: Big Bob

The greater the turn out, the more likely republicans lose. Then they wonder why their policies aren’t that popular. Everyone needs to vote like your life depends on it. In some ways, it does.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 1:49 pm By: Big Bob

Buying influence at elections boards in large cities in swing states around the country was one of the keys to the left corrupting the 2020 election. The "lawfare" of Democrat shyster Marc Elias was the other big key. If there were any true justice, those involved in both of these operations should be investigated for criminal prosecution.

Stopping the flow of this corrupt money is critical to the honesty of the 2024 election.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 2:19 pm By: John Steed

Modern education: Too much emphasis on made up pronouns and too little emphasis on quotation marks.

I am really concerned that this dumbed down generation doesn't know enough to see the danger of FISA's Section 702.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 7:48 am By: Van Zant