No. Just. No.

[moragmacpherson]

I thought I was inured by the end, thought there was no mistake that could send me back to the liquor cabinet.  Then I read this:

The American Colonization Party [sic] focused on the enlightenment of Africans.  Converting Africans to that of American ways proved to be successful yet difficult when it cam to convincing Africans to move to American land.  Nevertheless, with locations such as Liberia founded, Africans would still become a part of the United States growing reformed change.

Seriously.  Now they're just fucking with me.

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[morgentau.livejournal.com]

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[jedibuttercup]

0.o

Not even going to touch that one. =)

[booster17.livejournal.com]

I know absolutely nothing of the background details, but even my second or third hand history knowledge is going all WTF here.

[moragmacpherson.livejournal.com]

From the not-horrible wiki entry on the American Colonization Society:

This steady increase did not go unnoticed by an anxious white community that was ever more aware of and anxious about the free blacks in their midst. The arguments propounded against free blacks, especially in free states, may be divided into four main categories. One argument pointed toward the perceived moral laxity of blacks. Blacks, it was claimed, were licentious beings who would draw whites into their savage, unrestrained ways. These fears of an intermingling of the races were strong and underlay much of the outcry for removal.

Along these same lines, blacks were accused of a tendency toward criminality Still others claimed that the supposed mental inferiority of African-Americans made them unfit for the duties of citizenship and incapable of real improvement. Economic considerations were also put forth. Free blacks, it was thought, would only take jobs away from whites. This feeling was especially strong among the working class in the North.

Southerners had their special reservations about free blacks. It was feared that freedmen located in slave areas would act as an enticing reminder of what freedom might mean and encourage runaways and slave revolts.

While the colonizationists in the South were, in some cases, motivated by racism and fear of slave uprising, the white colonizationists in the North did not accept the notion of white-black co-existence. The proposed solution was to have this class of people deported from United States and colonize parts of Africa.

You can perhaps see how this little lie- er, I mean error crossed the line from amusing to down-right offensive for me.