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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (198257)8/23/2012 9:00:50 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 541344
 

He made it okay to talk/argue about this--which we need to do instead of keeping it under the table.

Bread, Murray is an ass. He made it OK to be stupid and racist. There were plenty of ministers back in the antebellum period who preached that slavery is "natural," God and Jesus himself assented to it, they certainly never condemned Abraham, for example, for having slaves, if the Bible proved anything, they said, it proved that slavery was justified.

This was complete nonsense, but it had enough "truth" in it, and was repeated often enough by the then chattering classes in the South (and some in the North as well) that it acquired the status of plausibility, and gave slave owners permission to feel good about their property and their actions.

That is what Murray does. I repeat--he is an ass. He advances nothing.
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