Aunt Bea on the issue of slavery

[splat@14]

http://www.kpbj.com/opinioneditorial/articles/2006-03-13-EDT-02.html
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Remember Ronald Reagan’s story about the kid who had to shovel a huge pile of manure? He went about it with such joy he was asked why and said, “With all that manure, there’s got to be a pony in there somewhere.”

The pony hidden in slavery is the fact that it was the ticket to America for black people. I have long urged blacks to consider their presence here as the work of God, who wanted to bring them to this raw, new country and used slavery to achieve it. A harsh life, to be sure, but many immigrants suffered hardships and indignations as indentured servants. Their descendants rose above it. You don’t hear them bemoaning their forebears’ life the way some blacks can’t rise above the fact theirs were slaves.

Besides freedom, a job and a roof over their heads, they all sought respect. But even after all these years, too many have yet to realize that to get respect, you have to give it.

The treatment given President Bush at Coretta King’s funeral was shameful. And these weren’t poor, uneducated black people who “dissed” him. They were among the country’s top-drawer blacks, there to bury black royalty. While Bush got the cold shoulder, former President Clinton was welcomed as if he still held the office

[ThomCat]

What drugs is she on?

:wtf:

[Kurovski]

17. Probably a whole host of 'em: atorvastatin, phentermine, prednisone,

hydroxyzine...perhaps nine or ten more.

The dear, sweet, old-fashioned, cookie-baking darling of a racist.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. She is a vanishing breed

in a fading generation.

[CottonBear]

2. She sounds very old fashioned. She'll probably never change her mind.

Adele Ferguson can be reached at P.O. Box 69, Hansville, Wa., 98340.

[Sequoia]

3. Clinton welcomed as if he were still President!!

The last real presidnet we had.

[sasha031]

4. she calls herself Aunt Bea

from "The Andy Griffin Show"

well doesn't Aunt Bea know the entire cast of the show were a bunch of pinko libruls

[MindPilot]

13. IIRC, she was...um...shall we say...very difficult to work with

I recall tales of several occasions when other cast members walked off the set because of her raging bitchiness.

[sasha031]

16. that I didn't know

what I do know is Griffin, Knotts and Howard are Dems'

[splat@14]

27. This isn't the actor that played Aunt Bea, I just saw a similarity!

Sorry, should have put quote marks on the moniker! What was the lady's name that played Aunt Bea anyway?

[Kerrytravelers]

29. Frances Bavier

Frances Bavier's imbd site:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062592/






Edited to add picture.

[splat@14]

31. Thanks. Good pic..grew up with her on TV, knew little about her, thx!

[bliss_eternal]

5. There was a time that I took comfort in the fact

that those of her generation would eventually die. Sadly, they've taught many to think as they do--faux news has made a fortune doing so. Based on that, we'll still have the great misfortune to continue to hear this kind of crap...

:puke:

[hippiechick]

6. Is there any way we could put dear Adele in a slave's shoes?!

You know, so she can experience firsthand the 'hidden pony' or WhateverTF it was she thinks that the degradation, pain, suffering, loss of EVERYTHING, etc that hundreds of thousands of HUMANS went through ...

Stupid Bitch. :mad: :puke: :freak:

[physioex]

12. Yet another mythological story....

Like the one Raygun dreamed about the welfare queen riding in her Cadillac....

[Warpy]

7. indentured servants CHOSE to come here

as did wave after wave of immigrants suffering horrible conditions in steerage, as did the Irish on the aptly named coffin ships during the potato famine. Big difference here from people who were sold to slave traders in Africa, loaded onto ships like cordwood against their will, and resold to rich plantation owners here in America to work their lives away against their will with no human rights whatsoever.

Little Caesasr got treated exactly the way he deserved and fully in the spirit of the work Mrs. King spent her life doing, and Aunty Bea needs to recognize her little tin Jesus is not loved by all sorts of people in this country for a slew of very good reasons.

[malaise]

20. The first groups of Africans started out as indentured servants

then Virginia changed the law to make them indentured for life. The rest followed.
Oh did I say Fugg Aunt Bea.
add.

[Salviati]

8. WTF"

"While Bush got the cold shoulder, former President Clinton was welcomed as if he still held the office"


In my world, people get respect because they deserve it as an individual. I do not offer people respect because of their last name, their job title, the balance of their bank account, or the fact that they wear a funny hat or special uniform. Everyone starts off with the same base of respect due any human being, and where they go from there depends on their conduct. While there's a lot I may not nessicarly agree with Clinton about, he's certainly earned my respect, while Bush has shown nothing but contempt for the people of this country and the ideals it is founded upon.

I absolutely hate these neo-monarchists.

[xchrom]

9. clinton was ELECTED president.

bush was not.

[splat@14]

11. No small point, but often forgotten! n/t

[Bluebear]

10. "slavery.... was the ticket to America for black people." DISGRACEFUL!!!

This is THE most offensive 'justification' I have ever heard.

[Deb]

14. omg, I thought this was a joke

:wow: Lord have mercy, Aunt Bea dun pickled her soul!

[Kurovski]

18. Hehehe...

:D

[Horse with no Name]

15. Where to begin

I think stoning someone for obvious tripe is something we should visit again or perhaps using a bullwhip on her naked back.
How about killing her grandkids if they learn to read since that is what they did to slaves who learned to read.
Can't let "them" get too smart you know.
Perhaps understanding what slaves actually went through might be nice.
The women were routinely raped by the mastah's--now there is a hardship.
Their kids were bought and sold.
What doesn't this evil bitch understand about the evils of slavery?
I just don't know where these ideas come from but I sure as hell wish they would go back from whence they came.

[shadowknows69]

19. Top drawer blacks?

I'm speechless.

[Nashvilliberal]

30. Yeah, me too. All I could think of is Archie Bunker. n/t

[goclark]

34. I can think of some other names but I won't go there~

[Kerrytravelers]

21. Someone (not me) has written a song in "honor" of adele:

http://www.correntewire.com/hey_why_not_dude

HEY, WHY NOT, DUDE?

Thank you god for slavery
Thank you oh, so much
Thank you for your loving hands
And for your loving touch

Ain’t no reason for the blacks
To agitate and be ragin’
Thanks be to the lord
He was their travel agent

Thanks be to the sky god
Or there would never be
A nation full of black folks
Thank you for slavery

Thanks be to Lord Yahweh
For shipping us the blacks
He saw they needed travel
And he liked the way they stacked

(chorus)
The Jews walked out of Egypt
Into the promised land
When they got their ticket punched
It was the good lord’s hand
He liked the way they said goodbye
To involuntary servitude
He turned his mind to Africa
And thought, hey, why not dude?

When he saw them on the farm
He chuckled with a grin
For god so loved the black man
He created the cotton gin

He loved to hear the crackin’
Of the whips and then the screams
When you have a master plan
Got to be on the Master’s team

Why these people complained so much
You’d think that they weren’t brave
The depths of all their pettiness
Put them all in shallow graves

When Mr. Lincoln came along
And Civil War commenced
God killed half a million
Of brother Americans

(repeat chorus)

(repeat opening stanzas)

(repeat chorus)

[Kurovski]

24. Beautiful. Makes her look like the pathetically clueless crackpot she is.

Thanks for bringing it.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. I'm sure she makes these arguments to her MANY black friends all the time.

[goclark]

37. Does she still have teeth in her mouth?

If she does, I don't think she talked to any of my friends. :eyes:

[Joanne98]

23. I love Aunt Bea. I dont' care what party's she's in.

[splat@14]

26. Guess I should have put quote marks around "Aunt Bea",

This isn't the actor that played Aunt Bea. Follow the links, this is a editorial from some wing nut up in Washington state. I just thought she looked like Aunt Bea....sorry for the confusion!
Splat!

[walldude]

25. Once again a pampered white woman rises to the

occasion to tell people how blacks should think and feel. And why not? Nobody could possibly have a better perspective on it. :eyes:

[splat@14]

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Splat

[deadparrot]

32. Well, doesn't that make you feel all warm and cuddly?

:eyes:

[Catherine Vincent]

33. Sigh! White People.

:eyes:

[Elwood P Dowd]

35. If Barney was still alive and Andy gave him his bullet back

Aunt Bea would be in a heapa' trouble.

[roseBudd]

36. I wrote to the paper and got an email back immediately, I urge DUers

to also express their thoughts in a cogent reasoned logical manner.