OT Portland hotel calls cops on black guest in lobby

Very Plausible. It could also just be a PR move to avoid extending this controversy. Much like when a celeb pays off a lawsuit based on a crime that might not have ever happened, just to get it gone.

 

I thought the Europeans and Americans were supposed to be better? I guess we were at the same level despite our supposedly advanced civilization.

 

In fairness, the type of slavery practiced in the Confederacy was not common and was largely limited to Anglos. Slavery as practiced by the French, Spanish, and Belgians was pretty much indistinguishable from genocide. Slaves were seen as disposable and it was considered cheaper to replace them than care for them. You can see this from Haiti to the Belgium Congo to the Spanish colonies in the Americas to the Nazi slave labor camps.

The American view of slavery is distorted by the existence of plantain owners who saw slaves as valuable as a plow horse or mule. This minimum level of compassion has somehow grown into the neo-confederate BS about how slavery wasn't that bad. The fact that southern politicos (yes, over-whelmingly GOP) want that version of slavery taught in schools speaks volumes, but that is a separate discussion.

 

Alexander Hamilton grew up in the British West Indies where slaves were used to work the sugar cane fields. The life expectancy in those fields for the slaves was somewhere between 30 and 40. Slavery was worse than very bad it was more like horrific which I think was your point.

 

I only made that point because its been claimed that Slavery is worse than the holocaust. My serious post on that wes, racism is racism is racism and slavery is slavery and hatred is hatred and nothing is better than the other. Its all pure evils. But others are trying t0 push the narrative that genocide isnt as bad as slavery? Thats where I get lost.

 

I don't remember my room number now leave me alone I need privacy for my phone call. Which I can't pay attention to while you're bothering me but I do know somehow that you didn't question any white guests Earl.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portla...calls-cops-on-black-guest-employees-on-leave/

 

By the way, once they found out he was a paying customer they clearly should have left him alone.

My wife and her employees put up with far worse from customers on a daily basis.

Maybe Earl would have let me stay. I'd put it at 80/20 that he would. Maybe he's just a bitter old guy that feels like he shouldn't even be working.

 

Yeah...

 

Name some. I'll wait.

 

Parsing slavery now....?

"In fairness" to the American slave drivers....?

Jesus OB....

 

Why do I even engage.....

 

FTFY

 

Hey, more than half the Democrat members are women.
Uh oh, only one out of the 30 Republicans is a woman.
13 of the 40 Democrats are of a minority.
0 out of the 31 Republicans are minorities.
I wonder which party has a future.

 

Dude. First he is OMG, IM OB.

 

So, D, Since there are less women republicans than dems, does that mean that republicans are sexist too?

 

When it comes to minorities to a specific party, I do beleive that many minorities become Democrats because dems believe in more socialized government, and republicans want less government to help individuals. This isnt a racial thing either way, but I do believe minorities are dems because they want help from the government to offset the struggles they have gone through.

I understand it, but dont think it is fair. Universal health care for example. Im against it. Do I want to see my money pay for someone who wants to sit on the couch and eat potato chips? Hell no.

Also, I don't know for a fact, just basing this on my experience and observations, but I also think that many minorities have more children per family than non minorities.

Again. I'm sorry, but I don't want to pay for others to raise their children because they don't use birth control.

With that said I have chastised my own sister for doing the same damn thing. Sitting on her ass having four kids and expecting everyone else to pay for her living in America.

And yes. She is a democrat.

 

Oh God... Lol. I'm sorry. Bring your AVI back!

 

Not true. We've voted Democratic because we've known who's stood on our way of progress at every turn. Conservatives.

Now you just said blacks vote dem because they want free shit...

Nice...

 

When you say free stuff do you mean free to be treated like everyone else? Does anyone think that's asking too much?