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The original text of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was written in the vernacular of the time and maybe next on the list.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
The original text of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was written in the vernacular of the time and maybe next on the list.
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If you read the books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, you will see that the boys treated the Negro characters as equals despite the official attitudes of the time.
 
Lion Eyes said:
You are the queen of excuses for liars, pinheads & haters. Great group of stooges you defend.
You maybe right regarding false equivalency...
The ruling against the sitting President was much more important than the contempt charges against a county sheriff....

Washington Post
In a biting, 32-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright of Arkansas said Clinton gave "false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process" in Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit. She specifically cited Clinton's assertions that he was never alone with Lewinsky and that he did not have a sexual relationship with the former White House intern.

Wright, who personally presided over Clinton's January 1998 deposition in the Jones case, acknowledged that no court had ever taken such action against a president but said it was important to act to "protect the integrity" of the judicial process.

"Sanctions must be imposed, not only to redress the president's misconduct, but to deter others who might themselves consider emulating the president of the United States by engaging in misconduct that undermines the integrity of the judicial system," she wrote.

"It's the first time in this whole case that he's been held accountable -- and it's a legal ruling, not a political decision," said John W. Whitehead, president of the Virginia-based Rutherford Institute, which helped finance the Jones lawsuit. "It was an important test of whether we're going to have a rule of law. It was an important ruling."

Wright had the option to order more severe penalties under her civil contempt authority and had the power to summarily find Clinton guilty of criminal contempt.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/contempt041399.htm
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I have no issue with you taking people on for the issues. I just am wondering when you became such a bitter prick.
 
Sheriff Joe said:
Sounds about right.

TENNESSEE THEATER CANCELS ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’ SCREENING AFTER 34 YEARS OVER ‘RACIST’ CONTENT COMPLAINTS
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...fter-34-years-over-racist-content-complaints/
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Tennessee. Not Hollywood. I think a comparative study of the romancing of the Civil War that happened during the Jim Crow era and through the first half of the 1900's and what really happened during the Civil War times. It would be a good couple of evenings at UT.
 
Andy Dukes said:
Tennessee. Not Hollywood. I think a comparative study of the romancing of the Civil War that happened during the Jim Crow era and through the first half of the 1900's and what really happened during the Civil War times. It would be a good couple of evenings at UT.
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We do try to ignore/forget things from our past that are painful to remember, personally and as a nation.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
The book burners are here.
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Do you see Trump as complicit in anyway as he, in an apparent attempt to equate owning slaves with going to war to preserve that right, has brought in the idea that now all representations of an ugly past should be erased if the ones honoring Confederate soldiers are to be taken down?
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Do you see Trump as complicit in anyway as he, in an apparent attempt to equate owning slaves with going to war to preserve that right, has brought in the idea that now all representations of an ugly past should be erased if the ones honoring Confederate soldiers are to be taken down?
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The far left PC fanatics will push as far as they can.
Unfortunately this cheapens real debate and solving the issues & problems....
 
Lion Eyes said:
The far left PC fanatics will push as far as they can.
Unfortunately this cheapens real debate and solving the issues & problems....
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The extremes shouldn't be allowed to set policy or lead the debate. I simply feel that by Trump equating the protesters with those they protest, and by equating national hero's with those that wanted to tear the nation apart he is complicit in an attempt to render the right to speak up for oneself or group useless . . . and to judge those past national figures by their worst actions. Although slave owners, Washington and Jefferson helped forge and develop a nation. What did Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and many others do to further this grand experiment? What did they do to deserve to be honored by statues erected decades after their deaths? Don't destroy these statues, put them in museums. Those statues only stand as reminders of the repression of slavery and dishonor those whose ancestors were held in chains. It would be like erecting statues of hitler (which the KKK and their brethren would love to do).
 
Hüsker Dü said:
The extremes shouldn't be allowed to set policy or lead the debate. I simply feel that by Trump equating the protesters with those they protest, and by equating national hero's with those that wanted to tear the nation apart he is complicit in an attempt to render the right to speak up for oneself or group useless . . . and to judge those past national figures by their worst actions. Although slave owners, Washington and Jefferson helped forge and develop a nation. What did Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and many others do to further this grand experiment? What did they do to deserve to be honored by statues erected decades after their deaths? Don't destroy these statues, put them in museums. Those statues only stand as reminders of the repression of slavery and dishonor those whose ancestors were held in chains. It would be like erecting statues of hitler (which the KKK and their brethren would love to do).
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Or a statue of Che Guevara
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Or a statue of Che Guevara
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Exactly, what has he done to merit any honors. We don't want to erase history, but we don't want honor those who don't deserve it either. There were/are fights over crosses on public property (prompting devil worshippers to want to erected, and have tax payer money fund maintenance of their symbols), we shouldn't have religious symbols or symbols of repression on public property either.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
The extremes shouldn't be allowed to set policy or lead the debate. I simply feel that by Trump equating the protesters with those they protest, and by equating national hero's with those that wanted to tear the nation apart he is complicit in an attempt to render the right to speak up for oneself or group useless . . . and to judge those past national figures by their worst actions. Although slave owners, Washington and Jefferson helped forge and develop a nation. What did Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and many others do to further this grand experiment? What did they do to deserve to be honored by statues erected decades after their deaths? Don't destroy these statues, put them in museums. Those statues only stand as reminders of the repression of slavery and dishonor those whose ancestors were held in chains. It would be like erecting statues of hitler (which the KKK and their brethren would love to do).
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Facists are Facists. Same Same
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Exactly, what has he done to merit any honors. We don't want to erase history, but we don't want honor those who don't deserve it either. There were/are fights over crosses on public property (prompting devil worshippers to want to erected, and have tax payer money fund maintenance of their symbols), we shouldn't have religious symbols or symbols of repression on public property either.
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How about money?
 
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