Dear President Obama,
If you don't mind, let's please skip socialism and go right back to slavery.
The reason I say this is because
In a recent letter ( March 31, 2010, page A-4) to the editor of the Gadsden Times in Gadsden, AL, a writer made slavery sound like a great thing. In fact, in talking about slavery, he never once mentioned it!
First there were two paragraphs ranting on illegal aliens and health care.
Then the person said,
"One hundred and fifty years ago, a second great war of independence between soverign nations was fought on American soil..."
Then the person begins to tap dances all around slavery, without ever mentioning that the people he talks about were not free workers - but human beings in bondage:
"It was common practice at that time," the letter writer says, "that plantation owners feed (sp), clothe, house and provide medical care for perhaps a half-dozen persons (small children) in order to gain the labor of one or two adults."
"Look about you, Americans, and witness how little has changed except that wage earners have replaced the plantation owners as providers."
Wow, this makes the slave owners sound like such nice people. How nice it was for them to give the "adults" medical care... not to mention clothes and a house, not only for the adults... but for their "little people..."
who the nice people would later SELL or WORK THEM TIL THEIR DEATH.
It looks like the only thing they didn't have was a jacuzzi and a tennis court. Oh yeah, and one other thing: Their FREEDOM.
The writer must have forgotten that little unimportant detail.
Give them a house? Isn't it a stretch of the imagination to call slave quarters houses?
Medical attention? I never heard of a whip being good medication.
Clothes? Let's see, you can have this years rags, or last years. Which do you want?
The person who wrote the letter should be a recruiter for the neo cons.
It certainly made me want a plantation owner to take care of me.
Actually it made me wish that... in their next life, they could come back as a slave.
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