General Election 2015

[Kirkland Laing]

I see. So all those slaves had exactly the same rights as every other person in America. That's an interesting take on American history and not one shared by many historians.

So 100% of black people were slaves? If you hopped in a time machine and told that to Anthony Johnson I'm certain he would be shocked.

And when you use a word like "phyletic" do you really think that people reading it who know you believe you know what you're talking about or do you think they start giggling?

Aww honey, if the question was too complex and you wanted me to break it down for you then you should have just asked princess....I didn't mean to bruise your ego.

Come here Kirkland, sit on my knee and let me tell you a story.....you see phyletic gradualism is a slow drawn out dare I say GRADUAL (see where that comes from, GRADUAL-ism....oooh we're learning...it's fun!) process where an organism undergoes changes in order to best adapt to the challenges the environment presents it with. After a while these changes lead the organism to become an entirely different species from it's ancestors. Kind of like the way some dinosaurs are believed to have slowly and steadily developed into birds.

Now on the other hand we have punctuated equilibrium which is a quick dynamic form of evolution happening over a short period of time where an organism quickly separates from it's ancestors into an entirely different species.

....but I interrupted you....you were being condescending

So we can agree that it was only the black people who were enslaved who counted as 3/5ths of a person as far as the US constitution was concerned. Excellent.

And yes, I'm going to continue laughing at you until you eventually go the full Al Gore. Then I'm going to laugh even more.

[El Kabong]

Hey, puddin' pop.....whenever you choose to answer my question I'll be....

[El Kabong]

So we can agree that it was only the black people who were enslaved who counted as 3/5ths of a person as far as the US constitution was concerned. Excellent.

And yes, I'm going to continue laughing at you until you eventually go the full Al Gore. Then I'm going to laugh even more.

See Kirkland, words have meaning and when you say "all black people" that would mean ALL black people. Just to make certain you understand what "all" is.

All - used to refer to the whole quantity or extent of a particular group or thing

For example if there was 1 apple in a room and you ate that 1 apple in the room then you would have eaten ALL the apples in that room.

There were slaves oh yes no doubt...were ALL slaves black? No. Were all blacks slaves? No. So your statement is false.

Anna Murray wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was a FREE black person for example. James Forten a Philadelphia businessman black, FREE. Robert and Joseph Purvis also FREE blacks. Paul Cuffee FREE black.....and I can go on and on and on depending on how many times you would like for me to hammer home the 100% undeniable fact that you are wrong. Thank you for playing, good day

[El Kabong]

Phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium?