Excerpt from Obama's 13th amendment speech-major hypocrisy alert

[groundgrid]

I was listening to the speech yesterday by the President given on the anniversary of the 13th amendment which abolished slavery.
I'm wondering if anyone else caught this statement:

"...Newly freed slaves may have been liberated by the letter of the law, but their daily lives told another tale.  They couldn’t vote.  They couldn’t fill most occupations.  They couldn’t protect themselves or their families from indignity or from violence. "

So it was important that former slaves could protect themselves from violence but it is now not important that the rest of us be able to protect our families. Remember this line when you get into discussions with anyone in the anti-2A crowd.

[Hawkeye]

Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't it the democrat politicians in the south that pushed this and it was enforced by the KKK which was started by democrats? 

[SturmRugerSR9]

Absolutely Hawkeye. And it was a Republican named Abe Lincoln that gave them their freedom. It was the Kennedy brothers in the 60's that decided to use "Martin Luther" (not his real name) King to seduce black voters to the Democrat party. Most were Republican before that.