Arkansas Legislator, Says Slavery May 'Have Been A Blessing'

[doggie]

Another GOP Christian asshat spout off about all of the Christian values we are loosing. Well if he is an example of Christian values I hope we use them.

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has written a new book in which he says slavery was "a blessing" for African-Americans, among other questionable statements.

Hubbard, a first term Republican from Jonesboro, Ark., makes a series of racially charged statements in the self-published book, including saying that integration of schools is hurting white students, that African slaves had better lives under slavery than in Africa, that blacks are not contributing to society, and that a situation is developing the United States which is similar to that of Nazi Germany.

The questionable statements in Hubbard's book, "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative," were first reported by Arkansas Times and TalkBusiness.net.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/0 ... 43661.html

[Guest Anonymous]

Wow, this is like a bingo card of racist conservative nonsense.

[doggie]

Wow, this is a bingo card of racist conservative nonsense.

But these are the true Christian values America is loosing. Well I say spread your legs America and loose them fast.

[DarkAnts]

Another GOP Christian asshat spout off about all of the Christian values we are loosing. Well if he is an example of Christian values I hope we use them.

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has written a new book in which he says slavery was "a blessing" for African-Americans, among other questionable statements.

Hubbard, a first term Republican from Jonesboro, Ark., makes a series of racially charged statements in the self-published book, including saying that integration of schools is hurting white students, that African slaves had better lives under slavery than in Africa, that blacks are not contributing to society, and that a situation is developing the United States which is similar to that of Nazi Germany.

The questionable statements in Hubbard's book, "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative," were first reported by Arkansas Times and TalkBusiness.net.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/0 ... 43661.html

They equate biblical slavery to American slavery. Biblical slavery is what we would equate to indentured servant. (or graduate student). You serve your master for a time for a specific debt and then are set free. American slavery meant that you are a slave because your family was captured as slaves. No time limit, no benefits to being a slave. It sucked to be a slave in America.

These people make me sick.

[Sola]

And people voted for this man?

[Deleted07]

Oh yes it was such a blessing for the Men and Ladies who were shackled and beaten to be sent out into blazing heat to pick crops all day from sunup to sundown, with little if any water or food and whippings while they worked. Only to be beaten some more come night-time and possibly raped, as they lay in their rags on their dirt floor shacks.... :x

:evil: SUCH A FUCKING BLESSING!!! :angry-cussingblack:

:angry-screaming:

[Childless]

Blacks are not contributing to society? Our president is black! How many blows to the head has this guy taken, because it's certainly killed most of his brain cells.

[debrand]

They equate biblical slavery to American slavery. Biblical slavery is what we would equate to indentured servant. (or graduate student). You serve your master for a time for a specific debt and then are set free. American slavery meant that you are a slave because your family was captured as slaves. No time limit, no benefits to being a slave. It sucked to be a slave in America.

These people make me sick.

Foreign war prisoners were slaves in the bible. Only Jewish people were set free after a certain time period. Many Christians that I know haven't read the bible all the way through. Or if they did read the bible through, it was a one time, done in a year thing. Many of them have no idea what the bible actually says.

Yes, it was horrible to be a slave in America. I don't understand why some people deny that it was bad.

[Guest Anonymous]

May the shades of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth haunt this guy every night, for the rest of his life. he deserves it for being a fuckwit.

[Witsec7]

A fresh latte with a Bailey's nudge to the first member of FJ who can find a photo of Josh and this dipwad :lol:

[Libby Liberal]

Biblical slavery is what we would equate to indentured servant. (or graduate student).

This made me laugh.

How does one state produce Bill Clinton, and then also produce the Duggars, Huckabee, and this disgusting bit of humanity?

[linnea27]

Another GOP Christian asshat spout off about all of the Christian values we are loosing. Well if he is an example of Christian values I hope we use them.

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has written a new book in which he says slavery was "a blessing" for African-Americans, among other questionable statements.

Hubbard, a first term Republican from Jonesboro, Ark., makes a series of racially charged statements in the self-published book, including saying that integration of schools is hurting white students, that African slaves had better lives under slavery than in Africa, that blacks are not contributing to society, and that a situation is developing the United States which is similar to that of Nazi Germany.The questionable statements in Hubbard's book, "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative," were first reported by Arkansas Times and TalkBusiness.net.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/0 ... 43661.html

Well, I agree with this. But if the extreme right would just shut up and quit trying to oppress everyone else, we wouldn't have this problem. Mmmmkay, Mr Hubbard?

[jaynie]

Well, I agree with this. But if the extreme right would just shut up and quit trying to oppress everyone else, we wouldn't have this problem. Mmmmkay, Mr Hubbard?

I do so hate to Godwin, but it seems to me that HE is the one saying a certain ethnic group is not contributing to society, that they it was better for them to serve the majority ethnicity, that they are taking away educational opportunities and so on. It does sound mighty familiar, but not in the way he thinks.

[FeministShrew]

Oh yes it was such a blessing for the Men and Ladies who were shackled and beaten to be sent out into blazing heat to pick crops all day from sunup to sundown, with little if any water or food and whippings while they worked. Only to be beaten some more come night-time and possibly raped, as they lay in their rags on their dirt floor shacks.... :x

:evil: SUCH A FUCKING BLESSING!!! :angry-cussingblack:

:angry-screaming:

But they became Christians, so it's all good! Better a Christian slave than a free heathen!

I hear the revisionist Happy Slave/Kind Masters crap here all. the. time.

[gardenvarietycitizen]

Rushdoony talks about slavery being okay, too - his view is that if God explains how to do it "correctly" in the Bible, then God must be okay with the concept. He (or more often his followers) then goes on to suggest we bring back essentially debtors' prisons that would implement such slavery (or if you prefer, some extreme indentured servitude, either way, it's all about the free labor).

Which is just to say, unfortunately this guy probably has some company way out there on the fringe.

Blacks are not contributing to society? Our president is black! How many blows to the head has this guy taken, because it's certainly killed most of his brain cells.

Somehow I suspect most of the sincere fans of this guy's book would not take "but Obama is president" as any sort of good contributing to the society though. I mean, him being the Evil Mooslim Furrin' Socialist Commie That's Wrecking This Country and all that. :roll:

[SPHASH]

May the shades of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth haunt this guy every night, for the rest of his life. he deserves it for being a fuckwit.

And the ghosts of Dred Scott and Harriett Tubman

[themadapple]

Yes. What a blessing for the original slaves to have been captured from their homes and everything they knew, taken to a distant land, made to suffer atrocious indignities and wholly subservient to their masters.

Oh yes. And what a blessing it was for others to create a climate where these people had extremely limited to no opportunities in the first place. What, did the slaves somehow create it for themselves? Right, sir.

Sojourner Truth was indeed a badass. I too would like to see her ghost haunt this bastard.

[SPHASH]

Yes. What a blessing for the original slaves to have been captured from their homes and everything they knew, taken to a distant land, made to suffer atrocious indignities and wholly subservient to their masters.

Oh yes. And what a blessing it was for others to create a climate where these people had extremely limited to no opportunities in the first place. What, did the slaves somehow create it for themselves? Right, sir.

Sojourner Truth was indeed a badass. I too would like to see her ghost haunt this bastard.

John Brown was an even bigger badass.

[shesinsane]

And the ghosts of Dred Scott and Harriett Tubman

Add in all the ghosts of those who didn't survive the Middle Passage, and this guy will give up on sleeping altogether.

[Mela99]

That's it, I don't want to live on this goddamn planet any more. Christ I need a drink. Who's coming with me?

[themadapple]

That's it, I don't want to live on this goddamn planet any more. Christ I need a drink. Who's coming with me?

Count me in. Hell, why don't we invite Christ as well? He may want a drink. Something stronger than wine, perhaps.

[PennySycamore]

Add in all the ghosts of those who didn't survive the Middle Passage, and this guy will give up on sleeping altogether.

THIS!

Those ghosts number in the millions.

[Alecto]

From the bottom of my heart, I apologize on behalf of Arkansas. Sadly, there are a lot of racist douchecanoes here.

[CallmeChaCha]

From the bottom of my heart, I apologize on behalf of Arkansas. Sadly, there are a lot of racist douchecanoes here.

They're everywhere, not just Arkansas. I work with people that likely believe this stuff. Actually, just yesterday somebody at work said it was Obama who was raising gas prices in California. Nothing to do with the fact that California basically can't get gas from refineries outside the state and two refineries were down in the state (one exploded, the other had a power outage). Yep, they're everywhere.

[jenny_islander]

This made me laugh.

How does one state produce Bill Clinton, and then also produce the Duggars, Huckabee, and this disgusting bit of humanity?

And Biblical slavery has never been practiced in this country.

Not even the Romans descended to the depths Americans plumbed with their "blessing" of slavery. Even the Romans accepted that slaves desired freedom and that a slave determined enough to scrape together the money to buy himself out should be let go. It was left to good God-fearing American Christians to assign one and only one ethnic group the "blessing" of slavery, legally deny those "blessed" people the tools that could get them free, such as literacy, and furthermore make even free people subject to being rounded up and enslaved again without recourse to legal protection if they stepped foot out of their own yards, on the grounds that anybody who looked like them belonged in shackles.

Somewhere on the web there is a photo of a man enjoying the "blessing" of slavery. His belly literally hangs down over his thighs. Because his internal organs have oozed out past his abdominal muscles. Because his master wouldn't buy him a goddamn hernia truss. IIRC that man lived with that pain for ten years before anybody off his master's property could be made to listen.