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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,022 posts)
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 12:13 AM Oct 2012

Moron politician calls slavery a 'blessing in disguise' for blacks

I swear you can't make this shit up.

You think politicians can't dumbfound you anymore, even after Rep. Todd Akin says "legitimate rape" can't get women pregnant and Rep. Paul Broun calls evolution a lie from the "pit of hell." But then, Arkansas State Rep. Jon Hubbard goes and writes a book. It’s called, "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative," and inside it he espouses a unique view of African-American history, asserting that slavery — and we quote here — "may actually have been a blessing in disguise." Sure, there was all that lynching, beating, raping, shackling, etc. — that part obviously sucked. But once that was over, black people were — and again we quote — "rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth." Yeah … we’re sure that made it all worth it, Jon

http://now.msn.com/jon-hubbard-calls-slavery-a-blessing-in-disguise-for-blacks/

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Moron politician calls slavery a 'blessing in disguise' for blacks (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2012 OP
Well then, maybe Rep. Hubbard can volunteer for slave-hood quinnox Oct 2012 #1
Shit just gets more and more unreal every day. n/t JTFrog Oct 2012 #2
Real karma would for him to be reincarnated as a black in the Antebellum South. hobbit709 Oct 2012 #3
 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
1. Well then, maybe Rep. Hubbard can volunteer for slave-hood
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 12:21 AM
Oct 2012

for one year on a farm somewhere, without any pay but room and board of course. I mean, if its really a blessing then it should do him some good...

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