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Texas Board of Education Revises Textbooks: Slaves were ‘Unpaid Interns’

 
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GLP is worst than stormfront ,washed up white apes sh!tts hang out to put down Blacks in order to make up for their shitty, filthy existence,
The white race has a huge karmic debt to pay and they will, just wait for it!
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In honor of the trucker protest today, I submit an image, and humbly beg a reg or mod to embed.

[link to www.outlawhobbie.com]

What you are looking at is a toy version of a tractor pull sled. hooked to a toy semi.

You are supposed to develop a well engineered machine, the right amount of power and traction. You also have to do it with a budget. You bring it to a fair, to bring safe enjoyment to a crowd of spectators. No Spectator ever got killed at a tractor pull. Unlike Monster Trucks, NASCAR, F1, even baseball with foul balls, hockey pucks, or riots after a basketball game.

You consent to let somebody sit in that cab on the back of the sled. They actively work to make you get stuck by moving the ballast box. It is subjective, but remember, you consented to it, and it is a great time. If you are good you can overcome even the best person trying to drag you down.

In the modern western system of taxation and regulation. Without any type of representative government, you are playing this exact same game with your life choices. Except nobody is rooting for you, and Lois Learner is in the literal "retard seat" on the back.

Slavery never went away. It just got more sophisticated, more subjective, more cloaked, and with far longer generational impacts.

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to change official nomenclature regarding slavery. In Texas, students will now be taught that slaves were not kidnapped and exploited against their will, but were actually “unpaid interns.” -


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At-Will vs Just-Cause


nice.... ;)
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Slavery is involuntary servitude, taking an internship is voluntary servitude. With slavery you can only hope to some day be free, in an internship, with the right company, you usually get offered a job when you graduate.

A lot of professions use "the new guys" to do all the grunt work, many a lawyer and/or doctor has slept at the office/hospital cause they are stuck with making sure everything gets done. With both systems imploding will be interesting to see how big law and big medicine deal with the newbies.
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The average slave was married and lived in a house provided by his master. He typically made money on the side by either farming a plot of land which his master owned and allowed him the use of, or else he would work odd jobs. Most slaves reported to work on their own. Slaves had every Sunday and most holidays off.

Masters who beat their slaves were ostracized and made outcasts in their communities. The truth is that the vast majority of slaves were never whipped and were born, lived, and died among their own families. Slaves were huge investments and were typically well cared for. In todays dollars a slave cost over $10,000.
 Quoting: Unixlike


You have got to be the absolute dumbest motherfucker to have ever posted on this site and buddy, that's saying something.
This is so stupid, I can't even find the compassion to try to help you. Just...wow. Your parents must be siblings and you must live below the Mason Dixon line.
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Jesus AC. Chill out. Does the truth hurt you that much?
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it is about time the text books told the truth.
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That's the truth!

Love the part about the Indians sitting down with the 'Pilgrims", and about Columbus, etc. Har. Har. How many years I believed that shiz.
Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world.

Whatever feels good to your soul, do that.
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Texas has largest prison population too. They choose to interns! haha fuck texas and im from texas
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WHY is this stupid topic pinned? It is NOT a real story!
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DALLAS — The Texas Board of Education has drawn scrutiny in recent years for its efforts to revise its curriculum to favor more conservative-friendly versions of history and science. After revising textbooks last year to emphasize Christian influences on the Founding Fathers and introduce Intelligent Design to biology classes, the Board voted nine to zero today to change official nomenclature regarding slavery. In Texas, students will now be taught that slaves were not kidnapped and exploited against their will, but were actually “unpaid interns.” -

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 Quoting: Frank Rizzo


And ENOUGH with idiots posting junk to make Texas look like some kind of bozo state.

There are many intelligent, freethinking individuals in the great state who do not rely on a work of religious fiction or political party affiliation to direct their thoughts and actions.

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The average slave was married and lived in a house provided by his master. He typically made money on the side by either farming a plot of land which his master owned and allowed him the use of, or else he would work odd jobs. Most slaves reported to work on their own. Slaves had every Sunday and most holidays off.

Masters who beat their slaves were ostracized and made outcasts in their communities. The truth is that the vast majority of slaves were never whipped and were born, lived, and died among their own families. Slaves were huge investments and were typically well cared for. In todays dollars a slave cost over $10,000.
 Quoting: Unixlike


You have got to be the absolute dumbest motherfucker to have ever posted on this site and buddy, that's saying something.
This is so stupid, I can't even find the compassion to try to help you. Just...wow. Your parents must be siblings and you must live below the Mason Dixon line.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31854497


Everything I said is 100% fact.

I never said that any of that made slavery ok. Slavery is the removal of all the freedoms we cherish. Slaves could not come and go as they pleased, nor could they earn money as they saw fit. Terrible indeed.

However, the point I was trying to make is that the popularized image of slavery in the South is false. It was not a bunch of slaves being driven to exaustion at the threat of a whip. It was a bunch of bought and paid for hands being provided for in exchange for labor.

Often the relationships between slaves and their owners were actually good and those feqw slave owners who were not financially ruined after the civil war and the carpetbaggers often employed the very same men they had once owned. The former slaves thought it good enough to earn a wage and to not have to pick up and move.

The stories of beating slaves, stripping sons and daughters from their parents, excessive laboring, and all the other really bad stuff (that makes great propaganda for libtards) represented reality for only a tiny fraction of slaves.
 Quoting: Unixlike

Shoot I was writing a reply and lost it.

I'll try again but shorter cause I don't have time sorry.

There is a really fascinating book called "The Great Black Jockeys". For the first 150 years of American life, the number one, perhaps only, spectator sport was horse racing and it was huge. ALL of the jockeys were black with very few exceptions. Some were slaves, some were free, they had careers and traveled and made money. After Emancipation some set up their own training stables and raced horses all over. One guy went to Europe and rode for royalty in Russia and France if I remember right. Wonderful stories and they show that there was a lot of grey areas in slave history, those were real people with real lives, some were highly skilled, they were not all field hands picking cotton.
 Quoting: Vision Thing


And there really is a book written by a free black man who was kidnapped and illegally sold into slavery that gives us a more accurate picture of slave life in America. It's called "12 Years a Slave" by Solomon Northrup. Of course, there is a movie now, but that's not what I'm talking about. The point is that there are probably a million wacky conservatives who feel as if they need to justify their racist views by making slavery appear as less cruel than it actually was. And there are probably millions of wacky liberals who also write books about how awful the slave trade was to advance their agenda too.

But we're not talking about liberals/conservatives now. We're talking about history. And to truly understand an aspect of history, you need to do your OWN research, and it needs to be thorough. Not some Wiki page or the odd book you read that you assume is true.

It IS historically accurate that most slaves in the south lived on huge plantations and most were treated inhumanely: they were dehumanized with inspection, with the whip, with rape, etc. Slave owners truly valued their slaves--that is true--but only for their economic value, not as human beings. Simply because they valued slaves economically, does not mean that they treated them humanely. You don't need to read a textbook to "discover the truth." But I'm sure you can find some exception to the rule.

If any of you actually want to learn something about the realities of slave life in the South instead of basing your misconceptions on your racial prejudices or that-one-book-you-read-that-one-time, I suggest you look up actual documentation from the 18th and 19th centuries. Then try reading work from historians like David Brian Davis, David Eltis, and Eric Williams. But don't take my word for it. Do your own research. And then you may sound like you actually know what you're talking about.

P.S. 100% fact???? You spoke too soon.





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