<p>BTW, Ludacris is for Obama here are lyrics from his new rap song about Obama:</p>
<p>Hillary hated on you, so that b@#@ is irrelevant," “McCain don’t belong in ANY chair unless he’s paralyzed Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped.”</p>
<p>I’m sure Obama supporters love it, but the middle America not so much.</p>
<p>Why do you think you speak for Middle America? Whether or not Obama wins in the area, he will have plenty of supporters there as well. I’m one of them.</p>
<p>Er, Obama condemned the Ludacris song yesterday – he said Ludacris should be ashamed of them… don’t you guys even bother to read the news? (Or maybe Fox and Rush Limbaugh haven’t mentioned that part?)</p>
<p>interesteddad, good luck if you are waiting to here something from these guys. They remind me of the saying; “Guys meet the new boss, just like the old boss”</p>
<p>I can’t believe I was once a member of the Democratic Party. I really believed that the party was better than the other party.</p>
<p>I hear ya. Even though I disagree with most of their policy positions, I actually respect the Republican Party more. At least they stand up for their principles.</p>
<p>Oh, and which “principles” are those? is the Republican party now officially the pro-deficit, pro-torture, pro-bribe-accepting, pro-gay bathroom sex party?</p>
<p>Now you see, that statement explains a great deal. Had you even a cursory knowledge of American history, you would know that the vast majority of African Americans were illiterate in 1874 (heck, a large percentage of white Americans were illiterate in 1874), because the education of Southern blacks, either slave or free, had been strictly prohibited by law since the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion. And prior to this, the practice had been widely discouraged for many decades. The vast majority of African Americans lived south of the Mason Dixon Line in 1874, and even for those living north of it, educational opportunities were extremely limited. </p>
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<p>Surly you know you’re being coy here. The supposition made by Newjack and others was that the woman probably harbored some racial prejudice, given the racial zeitgeist of the culture of her upbringing. Yes, it’s possible that she was one of those rare individuals unaffected by America’s cultural pre-supposition of White Supremacy, but the odds are against it. The odds were greatly against any individual black person knowing how to read and write in 1874 too, especially in The South but it did occasionally occur. Just as Fredrick Douglas (as well as Phyllis Wheatly) defied the odds to become an extremely literate negro during his time, the aforementioned old gal may have left this mortal vale, never having harbored any racist convictions—but the odds are against it. A cursory study of history and sociology backs this rather simple hypothesis. Why are you so vested in denying it?</p>