In my hometown, there was once a rumor that a guy had sex with a cat.
Virtually everyone 3-5 years older and younger than this man knew of the rumor.
Despite the fact that it's been roughly thirty years, if you mention this guy's name in the presence of nearly anyone in the age range, they'll respond with a "meow".
There is no right to be forgotten and their probably shouldn't be. There should be the right to dispute lies told about you.
It's rich white people pushing that "manufactured toxic" culture to black people. But, never let something as insignificant as the truth come between you and your race baiting.
Your ancestor could have been free, had sex with a white woman and then that child was later sold into slavery. Lots of scenarios that will probably never be known are all possible.
That scenario is *technically* possible but no. A child conceived in such a union wouldn't have been allowed to live. It would have been killed at birth.
I hate to break it to you, but mulatto means part-Black; this term does not equate to rape per se (nor was mulatto reserved for those with a female Black ancestor).
Yes, thank you for disputing a claim that I never made.
Mulatto is a term for someone is of African and European ancestry, sure. The reality of that period of time is that the only way a person could have such ancestry is if they were born to an African mother after she had been with a European man. If it had been a European woman bearing the child of an African man, the child wouldn't have been allowed to live and the father would have been lynched.
I am not denying that some slave owners did rape their slaves; I'm just saying be careful with how broad a brush you paint.
I didn't say that all slaves were raped nor that all slave owners were rapists. I said that my ancestor had been raped by a slave owner because that's the only way my ancestors could have been of mixed race at that period of time.
Can you imagine death threats and having homes and property destroyed for wanting to end slavery?
Yes. Thank goodness for people of conscience who were willing to sacrifice their own comfort and safety to end such an abhorrent practice.
I have been able to trace my ancestry back to the mid 1800s. My great-grandfather's grandfather was born shortly after slavery ended.
Census records from 1870 through 1920 list that branch of my family as "mulatto". What this means is that at least one of my female ancestors was raped and impregnated by her owner. For me, this isn't a thought exercise or an academic question. It's a part of my family's history.
Until the 20th century approximately every married woman was a piece of property, much like the livestock, with little or no legal recourse or protection for any physical abuse (short of being the victim of actual murder). So it was not just Sally Jennings to whom this broad brushstroke reasoning applies to, but Abigail Adams and Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln, too.
I can't stop you from doing it but I am not going to pretend that life experienced by the actual, literal, chattel property of Thomas Jefferson had anything in common with those of the free, willing wives of Washington, Adams or Lincoln.
Because she was his property, Jefferson would have been free to hang her or her children to induce her to submit to his will. That's not the case with any of those other women.
How's this one for you? "Anti-Semite" isn't just someone who hates all semitic people, it's someone who hates Jews. Even non-semitic Jewish people can be the targets of "anti-semitism".
There are certain traits that can allow someone to identify an Ashkenazi, Mizrahi or Sephardi Jew.
If someone spends enough time around them, they're as recognizable as the "Roman Nose" some people of Italian descent have or how it's usually easy to tell the difference between people of African descent and those of East Asian descent despite both groups having brown skin.
Jefferson's legitimate (white) descendants denied the claims of Sally Hemmings' offspring until DNA analysis made it impossible for them to continue that denial. In all honesty, I have heard of a few holdouts who claim that it wasn't Thomas Jefferson who sired her children but another of his male relatives.
She could have easily killed him in his sleep, for decades, but she didn't. They also fell in love while in France, where mixed race relationships where no big deal.
It's also not fair to use modern values to judge those from a different culture and era.
These two statements are contradictory.
Sally Hemmings was a SLAVE. She had been born into circumstances where her every thought was molded by the institution that forever bound her as the property of another human being. You understand that the way people thought about the world was different then, so have you considered the possibility that she never tried to kill him in his sleep because she was afraid of the consequence of that action?
Theirs was not a great love affair. It was regular and habitual rape. A slave can't give consent because a slave isn't free to reject. We don't allow prison inmates to "consent" to sexual relations with prison guards for the same reason.
I get the feeling that this Dallas May character is someone who screams "RAPE" at the top of her lungs when people won't let her cut them in line at the grocery store.
She'll justify it by saying that they're "raping" her time by making her stand in line, just like everyone else.
Facebook has been engaging in obvious and blatant suppression of conservative viewpoints and they were shocked by the 2016 election's results. I'm sure they'll be doing a lot of steering leading up to this mid-term.
Plastic 3d-printed guns that you can only get maybe 1-2 shots off before they're destroyed. You only need one bullet to kill one person, so 3d-printed sniper firearms is likely what people who have the means to print weapons will aim for. Not plastic handguns.
Highly unlikely. High powered rifle rounds produce substantially more pressure than handgun rounds. We don't have commercial technology that can safely handle those pressures with plastic, a homebrew solution that can isn't likely in our lifetime.
Like the old Liberator pistols from WWII, they're intended to relieve an occupying soldier of his commercially manufactures weapon.
I make my own guns. Over the weekend, I made another one. You don't need a 3d printer, just a vice, a drill press, a Dremel (or a knockoff) and the knowledge.
If they could restrict or ban 3D printers, I would STILL be able to make guns in my spare time.
I will continue to make guns because I like the idea that they'll never appear on any list. The government can't force you to turn in something they don't know that you have.
You're both silly people and law doesn't actually say what you think or work the way you want it to. Go ahead and find that out IRL, you're wrong. Manufacturing firearms without a license is not covered by the 2nd. Fact. Deal with it.
Where are licenses mentioned in the Second Amendment?
I was the only one who used it. When I got my next computer in 1990, I was the only one who used it. When I was an adult, I had my own computers. My children have a bank of family computers to use. They have their own accounts but I'm the admin and I respect their privacy unless they give me a reason not to.
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What does R. Kelly have to do with this?
My car didn't start this morning.
Is there any way I can implicate Trump in causing this?
Of course not!
Well, that is unless you want to blame the Russians too.
LK
In my hometown, there was once a rumor that a guy had sex with a cat.
Virtually everyone 3-5 years older and younger than this man knew of the rumor.
Despite the fact that it's been roughly thirty years, if you mention this guy's name in the presence of nearly anyone in the age range, they'll respond with a "meow".
There is no right to be forgotten and their probably shouldn't be. There should be the right to dispute lies told about you.
LK
BET was sold to Viacom in 2001.
It's rich white people pushing that "manufactured toxic" culture to black people.
But, never let something as insignificant as the truth come between you and your race baiting.
LK
why in the hell aren't the police facing the same charges?
They are the ones who pulled the trigger(s) and ended this person's life.
LK
I spend $34.99 per month on my internet access and I stream like mad.
LK
Your ancestor could have been free, had sex with a white woman and then that child was later sold into slavery. Lots of scenarios that will probably never be known are all possible.
That scenario is *technically* possible but no. A child conceived in such a union wouldn't have been allowed to live. It would have been killed at birth.
LK
I hate to break it to you, but mulatto means part-Black; this term does not equate to rape per se (nor was mulatto reserved for those with a female Black ancestor).
Yes, thank you for disputing a claim that I never made.
Mulatto is a term for someone is of African and European ancestry, sure. The reality of that period of time is that the only way a person could have such ancestry is if they were born to an African mother after she had been with a European man. If it had been a European woman bearing the child of an African man, the child wouldn't have been allowed to live and the father would have been lynched.
I am not denying that some slave owners did rape their slaves; I'm just saying be careful with how broad a brush you paint.
I didn't say that all slaves were raped nor that all slave owners were rapists. I said that my ancestor had been raped by a slave owner because that's the only way my ancestors could have been of mixed race at that period of time.
Can you imagine death threats and having homes and property destroyed for wanting to end slavery?
Yes. Thank goodness for people of conscience who were willing to sacrifice their own comfort and safety to end such an abhorrent practice.
LK
I have been able to trace my ancestry back to the mid 1800s. My great-grandfather's grandfather was born shortly after slavery ended.
Census records from 1870 through 1920 list that branch of my family as "mulatto". What this means is that at least one of my female ancestors was raped and impregnated by her owner. For me, this isn't a thought exercise or an academic question. It's a part of my family's history.
LK
Until the 20th century approximately every married woman was a piece of property, much like the livestock, with little or no legal recourse or protection for any physical abuse (short of being the victim of actual murder). So it was not just Sally Jennings to whom this broad brushstroke reasoning applies to, but Abigail Adams and Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln, too.
I can't stop you from doing it but I am not going to pretend that life experienced by the actual, literal, chattel property of Thomas Jefferson had anything in common with those of the free, willing wives of Washington, Adams or Lincoln.
Because she was his property, Jefferson would have been free to hang her or her children to induce her to submit to his will. That's not the case with any of those other women.
LK
You're being unnecessarily pedantic.
How's this one for you? "Anti-Semite" isn't just someone who hates all semitic people, it's someone who hates Jews. Even non-semitic Jewish people can be the targets of "anti-semitism".
There, now you have two things to keep you riled.
LK
There are certain traits that can allow someone to identify an Ashkenazi, Mizrahi or Sephardi Jew.
If someone spends enough time around them, they're as recognizable as the "Roman Nose" some people of Italian descent have or how it's usually easy to tell the difference between people of African descent and those of East Asian descent despite both groups having brown skin.
LK
Jefferson's legitimate (white) descendants denied the claims of Sally Hemmings' offspring until DNA analysis made it impossible for them to continue that denial. In all honesty, I have heard of a few holdouts who claim that it wasn't Thomas Jefferson who sired her children but another of his male relatives.
She could have easily killed him in his sleep, for decades, but she didn't. They also fell in love while in France, where mixed race relationships where no big deal.
It's also not fair to use modern values to judge those from a different culture and era.
These two statements are contradictory.
Sally Hemmings was a SLAVE. She had been born into circumstances where her every thought was molded by the institution that forever bound her as the property of another human being. You understand that the way people thought about the world was different then, so have you considered the possibility that she never tried to kill him in his sleep because she was afraid of the consequence of that action?
Theirs was not a great love affair. It was regular and habitual rape. A slave can't give consent because a slave isn't free to reject. We don't allow prison inmates to "consent" to sexual relations with prison guards for the same reason.
LK
You should search on your favorite P2P tracker for the "Despecialized edition" of the original Star Wars movies.
Full HD with minimal BS.
LK
I get the feeling that this Dallas May character is someone who screams "RAPE" at the top of her lungs when people won't let her cut them in line at the grocery store.
She'll justify it by saying that they're "raping" her time by making her stand in line, just like everyone else.
LK
A 60 second look back from the time a weapon is drawn would seem reasonable to me.
LK
EXACTLY!
Facebook has been engaging in obvious and blatant suppression of conservative viewpoints and they were shocked by the 2016 election's results. I'm sure they'll be doing a lot of steering leading up to this mid-term.
LK
THIS
This guy would be beating women in a trailer park if he wasn't rich. The money just allowed him to delay the inevitable.
LK
I'm speaking of the boogie man of 3d printed plastic guns.
3d printed metal doesn't strike fear into the souls of the prohibitionists in the same way.
Really, many of us can and do fabricate metal guns right now.
LK
Plastic 3d-printed guns that you can only get maybe 1-2 shots off before they're destroyed. You only need one bullet to kill one person, so 3d-printed sniper firearms is likely what people who have the means to print weapons will aim for. Not plastic handguns.
Highly unlikely. High powered rifle rounds produce substantially more pressure than handgun rounds. We don't have commercial technology that can safely handle those pressures with plastic, a homebrew solution that can isn't likely in our lifetime.
Like the old Liberator pistols from WWII, they're intended to relieve an occupying soldier of his commercially manufactures weapon.
LK
You're being an alarmist and an unrealistic one.
I make my own guns. Over the weekend, I made another one. You don't need a 3d printer, just a vice, a drill press, a Dremel (or a knockoff) and the knowledge.
If they could restrict or ban 3D printers, I would STILL be able to make guns in my spare time.
I will continue to make guns because I like the idea that they'll never appear on any list. The government can't force you to turn in something they don't know that you have.
LK
You're both silly people and law doesn't actually say what you think or work the way you want it to. Go ahead and find that out IRL, you're wrong. Manufacturing firearms without a license is not covered by the 2nd. Fact. Deal with it.
Where are licenses mentioned in the Second Amendment?
I got mine back in the summer of 1983.
I was the only one who used it. When I got my next computer in 1990, I was the only one who used it. When I was an adult, I had my own computers. My children have a bank of family computers to use. They have their own accounts but I'm the admin and I respect their privacy unless they give me a reason not to.
LK
I was the only one in my family who ever used the computer. It was mine.
LK