Arkansas Republican: Slavery Was a Blessing For Black People

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Arkansas Republican: Slavery Was a Blessing For Black People

Now Arkansas, you didn’t think we forgot about you, did you? We know, sometimes it’s hard to compete in the news cycle, what with Minnesota Republicans campaigning in liberal synagogues on Yom Kippur and Texas Representatives telling Pakistani-American law students to go back to Afghanistan.

But guess what, Arkansas? Today is your day!! Because one of your state representatives, Jon Hubbard (R-Jonesboro), has written a veritable treasure trove of derp-nuggets. And then after Hubbard wrote all those derp-nuggets, he set them down, took a deep breath, read them over again with a clear head, and decided “yes, this is exactly what I want to say; this is brilliant,” and then he sent them off to a publisher, had them bound into a book, and began selling it on Amazon. It’s called Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative. Let’s have a look!

Derp Nugget #1: Slavery was actually a blessing for black people.

“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” (Pages 183-89)

Derp Nugget #2: Wouldn’t it be great if black people stopped being so ignorant all the time?

“Wouldn’t life for blacks in America today be more enjoyable and successful if they would only learn to appreciate the value of a good education?” (Page 184)

Derp Nugget #3: Integration made white people dumber and lazier.

“… one of the stated purposes of school integration was to bring black students up to a level close to that of white students. But, ......Page 27)

Derp Nugget #4: If only black people would be more inclusive and contribute to society.

**Hubbard is up for reelection this year. Here is a link to his Democratic opponent, Harold Copenhaver, in case you want to donate. (The Daily Dolt has no association with either of these candidates. We just feel bad for the people living in Arkansas who are not actually fuck-wads, including the 16% black population there.)

http://www.thedailydolt.com/2012/10/...-black-people/

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Yeah! I’m sure it was! And in fact, as great as comets were for the dinosaurs, the bubonic plague to the Middle Ages, Syphilis for the 16th to the 18th centuries, air bombing for city populations, carbon monoxide for the atmosphere, white civilization for the natives in the Americas, fire camps for dry forests, tsunami for Indonesia and Sri Lanka and then Japan, nuclear energy for the Chernobyl region, Attila the Hun for the Roman empire, Genghis Khan for Asia, invasions of locust for ancient farmers, guns and trains for buffalos or the Khmers rouges for Cambodia… This Hubbard guy is very representative of a trend in the Republican propaganda: a total disregard, at times, for any kind of truth if it serves their purposes. And this has been the problem for progressive forces in a few decades: they feel bound by a certain honesty…

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Arkansas Legislative Candidate Calls for Death Penalty for Rebellious Kids

Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who called for expelling Muslims from the United States in his book, also wrote in support for instituting the death penalty for "rebellious children."

In "God's Law," Fuqua's 2012 book, the candidate wrote that while parents love their children, a process could be set up to allow for the institution of the death penalty for "rebellious children," according to the Arkansas Times. Fuqua, who is anti-abortion, points out that the course of action involved in sentencing a child to death is described in the Bible and would involve judicial approval. While it is unlikely that many parents would seek to have their children killed by the government, Fuqua wrote, such power would serve as a way to stop rebellious children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_1948490.html