Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Your ignorance knows no bounds, Bolshevik Bob. Twenty percent of southern blacks in 1861 were free blacks, and ten percent of free blacks owned slaves themsellves. Indeed the percentage of slave ownership was somewhat higher among free blacks than among southern whites. In Beaufort County, there were two main communities of free blacks in 1861, Keysville, north of Washington, and a farming area of small farms east of Bath. Some were quite succesful in beuiness such as the free black man who owned a shipyard on the Washington waterfront. You are the one putting black people down by writing them off as all being slaves. They weren't.

A remember an article in Confederate Veteran magazine some years ago profiling one black Confederate hero, Moses Dallas, who prior to the war had been a free black man with a lucrative and challenging occupation as a river pilot guiding ships in and out of the port of Savannah. When the War Between the States came, Dallas enlisted in the Confederate navy and received an officer's commission. He was serving on the ironclad CSS Savannah, flagship of the Savannah squadron, when he and other officers on that warship decided to take the battle to the yankee blackade in an unconventinal way. With his detailed knowledge of the river and estuary, Dallas was one of the principle planners. They picked out a yankee warship on blockade duty, the USS Waterwitch, and romwed out in three small boats, boarding and capturing it in a surprise night time attack. It was the only capture of an enemy warship by boarding from small boats in the whole course of the war. Unfortunately, Dallas, who commanded one of the boats was killed in action before the ship was subdued.

Since regiments were organized on both sides by states rather than national governments, policies on free blacks serveing in the Confederate army varied somewhat by state. One very unfortunate example was in Louisiana, where the free black community organized a regiment for Confederate service when the war broke out but were turned down by the state government. Insulted by that rejection, after the nankees captured New Orleans, they offered their regiment to the north, which accepted their service.

Your narrative is not based on history. It is based on ideoloy, Bolshevik Bob, and it is totally ignorant.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 6:43 pm By: John Steed

You do not seem to get what that black professor in Florida, which you blame on deSantis, was saying. Even in something that is overwhelmingly bad, like slavery, there may be a few aspects that are positive. Those do not change the overall situation that it is overwhelmingly bad, but it takes real tunnel vision not to even recognize those aspects. To give another example, while a hurricane is overwhelmingly bad, it may bring enough water to end a drought. That does not make the hurricane good, but only someone with tunnel vision would not recognize there might be some smasll benefit.

Commented: Monday, August 21st, 2023 @ 12:34 pm By: John Steed

That is really rich! A pro-China loony left internet troll calling a bunch of scientists, including two Nobel prize winning scientists liars on a statement within their area of expertise. Contradicting the globalist political narrative does not make something untrue, Little Bobbie.

Commented: Saturday, August 19th, 2023 @ 7:08 am By: John Steed

You continue to misattribute that statement and take it out of context. Of course, there were lightyears more detriments to slavery than benefit, and in the whole it was, every aspect considered, an extrenekt negative experience, but this black educator who wrote that statement is right that there were a few benefits involved, too. You progs distort the black educator's statement by falsely portraying that he said slavery was overall a benefit. Of course, it wasn't, and nobody in Florida government has said it was. This is just a typical distortion by the left.

Commented: Friday, August 18th, 2023 @ 2:42 pm By: John Steed

You are a moron, Little Bobbie. Do you realize that statement in Florida's curriculum was written by a BLACK education professor, NOT the governor? While in some respects it is probably true, it was not a wise statement to put on paper because the political attacks should have been predicted.

Commented: Friday, August 18th, 2023 @ 8:13 am By: John Steed

So, the only big time race hustler on this board calls someone else a "racist"? How amusing.

Commented: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 1:30 pm By: John Steed

What the self-styled "progressives" are trying to do to American society is all too similar to Mao's Cultural Revolution in Red China.

Commented: Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 @ 1:51 pm By: John Steed

Nobody is going to "cook". The Earth has been through these centrueis long warm periods repreatedly. which alternate with cooling periods. The last one, the Medieival Warm Period was warmer than today and a period of prosperiy. Your Climate Scientology pagan religious cult is just wrong, and part of the globalist totalitarian movement.

China is helping fund the globalists' push for wind and solar because they are making money hand over fist both from selling the equipment to us and from making our industry less efficient and competive with theirs. But then you seem to be a cheerleader for everything China wants to do, Little Bobbie. You are one of their trolls. Are you based out of Beijing or some other city?

Commented: Friday, August 11th, 2023 @ 8:25 am By: John Steed

HMMMM! There are some recent reports Obama told his college girlfriend that he fantasized about sex with men. Obama is one weird dude in a lot of ways.

Commented: Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 @ 7:53 pm By: John Steed

Mandy Cohen is a Covid fascist who lets power go to her head. She is a threat to freedom in any governmental position she holds, just what one would expect from the Biden regime.

Commented: Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 @ 2:24 pm By: John Steed

When facts do not git your far left narrative, it does NOT mean the facts are untrue. It means your far left narrative is full of crap, Bolshevik Bob.

Commented: Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 @ 7:18 am By: John Steed

There are a lot of traitors in the Biden regime who need criminal charges for what they have done or not done on our southern border, from accessory to human smuggling to high treason. Hang 'em high! This new knife cuts two ways.

Commented: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 @ 9:42 pm By: John Steed

I remember when Italy's stastics bureau decided on its own that it was dishonest to publish numbers of people dying "with Covid" and revised its numbers to include only those who died "from Covid" and that reduced the overall count by about 95%. Our politicians have been just plain dishonest in a lot of ways on this Covid business, and I trust deSantis more than Trump in this area. While I think Trump got played by Fauci and others, deSantis caught on earlier and took solid action to stop the nonsense.

Commented: Monday, July 31st, 2023 @ 11:39 am By: John Steed

Our own senator, RINO Jim Perry is one of those who took the gambling special interest money and is pushing for casinos. That is par for the course with Perry. He took special interest wind and solar money and special interest utility monopoly money, and pushed the Green New Deal for NC. Perry took special interest money from Big Medicine and pushed the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and the approval of our biggest medical insurer, Blue Cross, looting its own reserves. Jim Perry is pay-to-play on steroids.

Hooray for Keith Kidwell and the conservatives who oppose selling out to the casino special interests.

Commented: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 9:53 am By: John Steed

Wow! A woke joke is miffed that a council candidate is trying to get the goods on a corrupt act by Washington city government. Go get 'em Ceres. You know you are on target when they squeal like stuck pigs.

Commented: Friday, July 28th, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By: John Steed

It was Biden's weakness that caused Putin to go ahead with his invasion of Ukraine, first shown by the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, then by Biden making comments that made it appear he was okay with Putin invading, like saying "Putin's got to do something". Trump, on the other hand supplied Ukraine with real weapons in contrast to Obama only sending non-lethal equipment.

It is also worth mentioning that when Russia first invaded, the Biden regime offered to evacuate Zelensky from the country, and Zelensky shamed them by replying, "I don't need a ride, I need ammunition". Until Zelensky stood up to fight, Biden seemed okay with Russia taking over Ukraine.

As to how Americans see Trump and Biden, on weakness and strength, the major British news magazine, "The Economist" just did a poll on that. 54% of Americans see Trump as a strong leader while 60% of Americans see Biden as a weak leader.
www.breitbart.com

Commented: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 9:17 pm By: John Steed

The Climate alarmists are notorious for deliberately falsifying data as well to try to back up their theory. They were caught openly discussing altering historic data in email exchanges in the Climategate emails, and after they came to light, the University of East Anglia admitted that for one important set of data, the real data had been destroyed and did not even exist anymore, only their altered version. The climate alarmists are dishonest crooks trying to sell us a bunch of snake oil.

Commented: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 3:57 pm By: John Steed