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Funny the black college I went to said it was the 10th.
Yes it was an outrage.
If you think the only massacre of Indians was Sands Creek you are sadly mistaken.
After they beat the 10th Texas Cavalry in Texas they headed back east.
The 10th Texas went after them for revenge.
In route the (what our history professor claimed was the 10th) went through a relatively small Cheeroke village and massacred the indians who were home. You don't know about it because no action was taken against them by our government. You do know that for some reason the Cheeroke men joined with the 10th Texas to hunt them down, well that is the reason. The massacre at pillow was begun by the indians out of revenge.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
Of course with the left, because they would be less likely to care about her not being a U S citizen.

So I'll rephrase. Greta, if you were a U.S. citizen of Chinese heritage, and you wanted to be a congressional intern in 2016, who do you think you would have a better shot with-the right or the left?

I have no ambition of being a congressional intern in the US, but I have a feeling, these days, republicans might be more welcoming towards minorities to show diversity in their party too. They love the black republicans.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
Of course with the left, because they would be less likely to care about her not being a U S citizen.

So I'll rephrase. Greta, if you were a U.S. citizen of Chinese heritage, and you wanted to be a congressional intern in 2016, who do you think you would have a better shot with-the right or the left?

I have no ambition of being a congressional intern in the US, but I have a feeling, these days, republicans might be more welcoming towards minorities to show diversity in their party too. They love the black republicans.

Did you even look at the link I posted?

NM, you'll just find a way to explain away the absurdly disproportionate representations to fit your narrative.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I know you have libertarian views and are a Gorean, so thats all good, have you decided on Stein? over Johnson?
what makes you lean more green if you dont mind me askin....
Im genuinely interested.
I dont seem to be able to take a liking to Stein herself, but maybe Im missing something...beyond the platform.


Ive been used to multi parties all my life and often voted for smaller ones, Im just wondering what the difference is in your eye

I do not have Libertarian views -- I think they have nice sounding but totally impractical and unrealistic ideas.

I'm 98% in agreement with the Greens platform.

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ORIGINAL: Awareness

The probability of a discussion in this forum being completely fucking useless commences at .9 with the initial posting and then advances by .1 every time a fucking idiot posts.

A good 80% of you are fucking idiots. This means that - barring exceptional circumstances - most discussions here are completely fucking useless by the end of the second page.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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Funny the black college I went to said it was the 10th.
Yes it was an outrage.
If you think the only massacre of Indians was Sands Creek you are sadly mistaken.
After they beat the 10th Texas Cavalry in Texas they headed back east.
The 10th Texas went after them for revenge.
In route the (what our history professor claimed was the 10th) went through a relatively small Cheeroke village and massacred the indians who were home. You don't know about it because no action was taken against them by our government. You do know that for some reason the Cheeroke men joined with the 10th Texas to hunt them down, well that is the reason. The massacre at pillow was begun by the indians out of revenge.

OMG, you are pathetically confused. Now you claim it was the Tenth Texas not the Tenth US Regiment and that Ft Pillow was a revenge attack by some Cherokee Indians, not an attack by Gen. NB Forest. All told to you by your history professor. One of you must have been drunk and the other delusional. The shit you write is embarrassing.

vML

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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Funny the black college I went to said it was the 10th.
Yes it was an outrage.
If you think the only massacre of Indians was Sands Creek you are sadly mistaken.
After they beat the 10th Texas Cavalry in Texas they headed back east.
The 10th Texas went after them for revenge.
In route the (what our history professor claimed was the 10th) went through a relatively small Cheeroke village and massacred the indians who were home. You don't know about it because no action was taken against them by our government. You do know that for some reason the Cheeroke men joined with the 10th Texas to hunt them down, well that is the reason. The massacre at pillow was begun by the indians out of revenge.

OMG, you are pathetically confused. Now you claim it was the Tenth Texas not the Tenth US Regiment and that Ft Pillow was a revenge attack by some Cherokee Indians, not an attack by Gen. NB Forest. All told to you by your history professor. One of you must have been drunk and the other delusional. The shit you write is embarrassing.

vML

It was the 10th Texas vs what my black history professor claimed was the 10th US, why can't you follow something that simple? I said the maasacre WAS BEGUN BY THE CHEEROKE FOR REVENGE I never even implied that the Confederates did not participate. Do you understand the differance between starting something and being the only participants?

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ORIGINAL: Awareness
The probability of a discussion in this forum being completely fucking useless commences at .9 with the initial posting and then advances by .1 every time a fucking idiot posts.
A good 80% of you are fucking idiots. This means that - barring exceptional circumstances - most discussions here are completely fucking useless by the end of the second page.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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Funny the black college I went to said it was the 10th.
Yes it was an outrage.
If you think the only massacre of Indians was Sands Creek you are sadly mistaken.
After they beat the 10th Texas Cavalry in Texas they headed back east.
The 10th Texas went after them for revenge.
In route the (what our history professor claimed was the 10th) went through a relatively small Cheeroke village and massacred the indians who were home. You don't know about it because no action was taken against them by our government. You do know that for some reason the Cheeroke men joined with the 10th Texas to hunt them down, well that is the reason. The massacre at pillow was begun by the indians out of revenge.

OMG, you are pathetically confused. Now you claim it was the Tenth Texas not the Tenth US Regiment and that Ft Pillow was a revenge attack by some Cherokee Indians, not an attack by Gen. NB Forest. All told to you by your history professor. One of you must have been drunk and the other delusional. The shit you write is embarrassing.

vML

It was the 10th Texas vs what my black history professor claimed was the 10th US, why can't you follow something that simple? I said the maasacre WAS BEGUN BY THE CHEEROKE FOR REVENGE I never even implied that the Confederates did not participate. Do you understand the differance between starting something and being the only participants?

Well, Goddamn, you get more confused each time you write. You only mentioned the 10th Texas secondly after i pointed out the 10th US had not yet been formed at the time of the Ft. Pillow obscenity. I don't give a damned about what some unnamed history professor said to you in class fifty years ago. The US Government investigated the massacre of 300 black troops. Read the report and stop embarrassing the South. They won reconstruction but it has been downhill ever since, and you are not helping with your twisted history stories.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

I must have got totally the wrong end of the stick. I have read a number of times that Forrest's regiment was the 3rd Tennessee and the blacks in Fort Pillow were members of two artillery regiments, one light and one heavy. I admit I haven't a clue what unit the white troops in there belonged to but I vaguely remember reading someplace that they were southerners fighting for the union. I apologise profusely if I am wrong on these facts and will retreat to my library and look them up again later.

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ORIGINAL: AtUrCervix

The largest slave owner (as in...the number of slaves owned) in the U.S., was a black man.

Get over it.

It's been over for a long time.

Chinese were brought over here in the 1800's to build railroads...deplorable conditions. Barely more than slaves (some actually were).

Guess what they did....opened up businesses left and right and today (in their "off" after 16 hours a day hard labor "hours), their children today outpace whites in college scores or every kind.

Iranians came over here in droves in the early 80's, opened up a 7-11 or some such, Americans, even after the hostage crisis, gave them latitude to do their job....and within one generation, these families owned 3, 5 and 10 7-11's....and their kids are doctors and lawyers.

It's over...has been for well beyond a hundred years....awful stuff...horrible history but, we weren't the first to do it and today there are STILL a dozen or more countries that espouse slavery.

There's all kinds of horrible stuff in mankinds past....thankfully most of it has found it's rightful place in history; abolished.....anathema.

Perpetuating it only.....perpetuates it.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

Thanks Bama, I just read it again and yes, his was the 3rd Tenn Cavalry.
But basically who owned what some 140 odd years ago, really has little bearing on who owns up to what platform today, surely ? Times change, so do men's minds and beliefs...........obviously some WOMEN'S minds don't.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

Yep, 150 and more years ago, my ancestors were all robbers, rogues, thieves, pirates, mercenaries and ne'er-do-wells ................and now ? Well, I have to admit, I have never tried piracy !!!
Seriously though, what I said about my ancestors is/was true ( I still own a pair of very elaborate moccassins stolen from the Iroquois way back then) but people and attitudes change and though I never went that far myself, one of my brothers was a cop, my sister was a charity worker with the Salvoes and since my younger days, I have been a hard worker and fairly upright member of society I think. My ancestors were also titled and landed gentry; an institution I despise, possibly because I believe I know where they got their money and lands and probably their titles. Everything changes