Reply #10: Just in case there's someone who doesn't get it.

[Radical Activist]

It's part of a mindset left over from the days of slavery that dehumanizes African-Americans like they're farm animals.

http://newshound.de.siu.edu/fall05/stories/storyReader$1085

Hickory Hill

Construction started in 1838 on Hickory Hill, John Hart Crenshaw's house in Equality, Ill. Crenshaw bought his way into the salt business and was reputed to have constructed a system for sending freed blacks back into slavery in the South.

Jon Musgrave, a former reporter for the Harrisburg Daily Register and author of the book "Slaves, Salt, Sex and Mr. Crenshaw," said he has found ample evidence in his research to support this idea.

"Crenshaw was a kidnapper," Musgrave said.

One of the more sordid rumors about the Old Slave House involves a stud slave named Robert Wilson, also known as "Uncle Bob," who supposedly spawned 300 children while held captive by Crenshaw in the 1850s.

"He was a real person," Musgrave said. "We don't have a detailed account of his life. We know from historical research that slave breeding did take place, and there are affidavits from many people who talked to him during the twenties, thirties and forties. He told dozens of people that he was used as a stud slave."