{"id":26763,"date":"2017-12-08T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26763"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:24:32","slug":"that-did-it-moore-equates-slavery-with-u-s-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26763","title":{"rendered":"That did it! Moore equates ‘slavery’ with U.S. ‘greatness’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roy Moore shouldn’t have said it. But he did. Now it’s out there.<\/p>\n

The controversial Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama fielded a question earlier this year about American greatness. Someone asked Moore when he thought this country was truly great. He said:<\/p>\n

“I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery — they cared for one another … our families were strong, our country had a direction.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Even though we had slavery?<\/em> Is this fellow suggesting that slavery was part of the formula for greatness?<\/p>\n

Moore does it again<\/a><\/p>\n

Why in the name of rhetorical clumsiness did he have to add that qualifier?<\/p>\n

As I look at his statement, the candidate — who’s also been accused of sexual misconduct with children — could have omitted the slavery reference altogether. He didn’t. He tossed it out there.<\/p>\n

From my standpoint, the notion that this nation would allow the level of human bondage and captivity that it did prior to the Civil War is a mark of supreme condemnation. It never — ever! — should be included in a discussion of American “greatness.”<\/p>\n

American greatness effectively began when African-Americans were emancipated, freed from the hideous bondage of slavery.<\/p>\n

This is yet another reason why Alabama voters should reject this man’s candidacy for an important public office.<\/p>\n\n

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Roy Moore shouldn’t have said it. But he did. Now it’s out there. The controversial Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama fielded a question earlier this year about American greatness. Someone asked Moore when he thought this country was truly great. He said: “I think it was great at the time when families were united … Continue reading That did it! Moore equates ‘slavery’ with U.S. ‘greatness’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1008,1014,4037,4234,4286,5051],"class_list":["post-26763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-civil-war","tag-roy-moore","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-slavery","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26764,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763\/revisions\/26764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}