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Dude, dude, dude...cool it. I, of all people you run off at the mouth at, do NOT need a geography or history lesson from YOU. Nor do I need to know about the Negroes' plight AFTER being SOLD by their own tribal chieftains to the Amsterdam, Holland slave traders in the 1600s. Nor do I need to know all about your ancestors who are all buried in Mississippi. Nor do I give a flying turd.
I'm talking TODAY. NOW. And this **** is happening every day in this country.
WHITE GIRL BLEED A LOT
Did you READ IT? Of course you didn't. You don't want to know.
Ah. You're deep inside the right-wing echo chamber, dug in like a tick. You read that book and think to yourself that oh, no, the blacks are terrorizing everybody, everybody run!!!!
But are you objective enough to look at that book with a critical eye, with the cynicism that should be applied to any work making wild claims?
But what happens when the federal government does little to nothing to either speak out against the laws of the states, nor upholds the expectations of an American citizen to be granted Constitutional protections, or in fact takes the action to decree that those laws are in fact Constitutional (thus giving permission to the states to adopt similar laws, because it is now sanctioned) At the least, the federal government tolerated the abuses of the system against American citizens, and at worst, was an instigator in subjecting American citizens to a life which did not believe they had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You really don't want to answer the question, do you? You know better than to do so, huh? I asked you first, and you're trying to distract with the question. Please directly answer the question, and then I will answer yours.
Those videos and the lack of reporting by the national drive-by media speak for itself. No, I don't need bleeding hearts, such as yourself, brainwashed by our public school system, telling me anything about the perfect behavior of our black citizenry in this country. Or how bad they are treated by whites. Videos say it all. Along with the LOCAL news reports. I moved my family out of St. Louis city, 37 years ago, in July. FOR A REASON. The city of St. Louis peaked just short of 900,000 in the early 1950s. Today it has about about 310,000 residents...about 250,000 of which are black. There is a REASON for that. But, without doubt, you wouldn't understand it...dude.
Tell it to someone who gives a crap.
I answered the question. Again and again. I think maybe you don't want to accept the answer.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
I chose option #2, from the end of the civil war until WWI, because we are talking about the nation as a whole, aka on a federal level. Once slavery was abolished, everyone in America had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A black person's vote was finally counted the same as a white persons vote, and just after WWI women received nationally, the right to vote.
Our freedoms have been disappearing little by little ever since and things are worse today than they have ever been.
No, you did not. You tried to answer with a question, but that question did not answer my question at all.
But that's okay - I understand - you don't want to answer that question because you know the position it would put you in. Don't worry - I'm used to it.
That is a good question. Obviously some freedoms have been expanded, such as ending slavery and expanding the vote, but others have been reduced, such as keeping more of your income, commerce without a license and untaxed/unlicensed traveling on public roadways and waterways. I would say that, on balance, more people now enjoy less freedom - does that make sense?
I didn't mark a poll option because you didn't give me my option which would be between the end of the Revolutionary War to roughly the Teddy Roosevelt Administration that started the ball rolling back into the people being subjects to their government instead of the other way around. It then took some decades after the TR Administration for government to make the transition from a government of the people, by the people, for the people to a massive and growing ever more totalitarian entity that mostly serves itself and assigns the rights that the people are allowed to have. That transition started off very slowly but has been gaining mass and momentum ever since.
Between the end of the Revolution and TR administration women were considered second class citizens and didn't have the right to vote. Is that your idea of freedom?
Make marijuana legal for adults and I'll say now.
We're getting there. BTW, you know it's YOUR side that's trying to stop legalization of marijuana. Maybe you should think about which side is more about freedom, and which side is more about enforcing their particular brand of morality on the rest of us. From the Denver Post:
According to a Denver Post analysis of data provided by the Colorado Judicial Branch, the number of cases filed in state court alleging at least one marijuana offense plunged 77 percent between 2012 and 2013. The decline is most notable for charges of petty marijuana possession, which dropped from an average of 714 per month during the first nine months of 2012 to 133 per month during the same period in 2013 — a decline of 81 percent.
That may have been expected — after all, people over 21 can now legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana. But The Post's analysis shows state prosecutors also pursued far fewer cases for marijuana crimes that remain illegal in Colorado.
For instance, charges for possessing more than 12 ounces of marijuana dropped by 73 percent, and cases alleging possession with intent to distribute fewer than 5 pounds of marijuana dipped by 70 percent. Even charges for public consumption of marijuana fell statewide, by 17 percent, although Denver police have increased their number of citations issued for public consumption.
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Marijuana advocates, meanwhile, praised the drop in prosecutions — even for things that remain illegal under state law — because it lessens what they say is the racially biased impact of marijuana enforcement. A report last year from the American Civil Liberties Union found that blacks in Colorado were arrested for marijuana crimes at a rate nearly double that of whites. Overall, the report found arrests for marijuana possession in 2010 made up more than 60 percent of all drug-offense arrests.
"We're talking about not only saving the state time and money," said Art Way, a policy manager in Colorado for the Drug Policy Alliance, a supporter of legalization, "but we're no longer criminalizing primarily young adults, black and brown males primarily, with the collateral consequences of a drug charge."
"My side"? I don't have a side.
"Conservative". That's on your profile.
Between the end of the Revolution and TR administration women were considered second class citizens and didn't have the right to vote. Is that your idea of freedom?
I don't know any conservatives who think something different than I do. All of my conservative friends also want pot to be legalized for adults. I'm not on a side. It's not a contest.
I guess you can say that I'm guilty of hyperbole, but you completely dodged the point about both sides opposing freedoms that the other side supports.And every single American conservative who complains that America's a tyranny now...has no clue what a tyranny is. Maybe y'all should read some history, familiarize yourselves with life under REAL tyrannies, and then sit down with a beer and think to yourself if we're living in a tyranny.
When you can go almost anywhere you want and do almost anything you want (with almost anyone you want)...you're NOT living in a tyranny. For every single thing you can think of (that's not obviously felonious or stupidly dangerous) that you can't do, I can give you many, many examples of things you CAN do...
...and that is never, ever the case in a tyranny.
So...do yourself a favor and get away from the hyperbole - it doesn't reflect well on you.
I guess you can say that I'm guilty of hyperbole, but you completely dodged the point about both sides opposing freedoms that the other side supports.
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