Posted on 02/10/2015 11:40:12 AM PST by cotton1706
Will President Obama – the leader of the Democratic Party – formally apologize for his party’s role in slavery and Jim Crow? Will the Republicans now controlling both the House and Senate pass resolutions calling on the president to apologize for his party’s role in slavery and Jim Crow?
The question arises in the wake of the president’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in which Mr. Obama says:
Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
Let’s put the Crusades aside. Scholars of the period have quickly corrected the appalling lack of historical understanding in President Obama’s now infamous comments at the National Prayer Breakfast. Thomas F. Madden, a professor of medieval history and director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University as well as the author of The Concise History of the Crusades has pointedly done so at National Review, writing that the president got his history exactly backwards. In fact, the Crusades were a response by Christians “to save Christian people and restore Christian lands” after “more than four centuries of attacks on Christian peoples by Muslim powers.”
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An apology you have to ask for isn’t worth anything.
Obama is still pissed about ALLEGED Christian transgressions of around 1,000 years ago. He sure holds a grudge well......: )
That is interesting. The Democrats were the KKK
What a monumental waste of time for both parties. Plus, if there is some form of apology, how long before clowns like Al and Jesse use that as an argument for reparations? Bad idea on all sides.
Slavery is justified by an ideology of Islam that has entire countries behind it. This slavery has taken the worst toll of any: 112 million people at least, and continuing.
Entire cultures have been enslaved under this ideology.
The democrats will never apologize for the years of slavery, bigotry and racism they spawned in this nation.
Au contraire my friend. His black half is East African Muslim, the same people who kept the slave markets of Basra, Baghdad and Damascus full of merchandise for hundreds of years. His ancestors existed for the sole purpose of slave trading. It was their business.
Well, whatever. His white half can give reparations to the black half.(Taxpayer provided of course.)
As his family is Muslim and NOT African-American, his family was likely involved in slave trading. A good portion of Muslim Africans were collaborators to Arab slave traders, selling competing tribes to them, and converting to Islam themselves, as this prevented the Arabs from enslaving a believer. He has no more relatives that were slaves than I do.
You’re pointing out facts that an honest media would bring to the public. Unfortunately the honest part is lacking.
As his family is Muslim and NOT African-American, his family was likely involved in slave trading. A good portion of Muslim Africans were collaborators to Arab slave traders, selling competing tribes to them, and converting to Islam themselves, as this prevented the Arabs from enslaving a believer. He has no more relatives that were slaves than I do.
It is more than dereliction, it will a betrayal to the American people if the GOP leaders do not demand an apology from Obama for his party atrocities committed against Blacks, including slavery, the KKK, among other inhumane behavior.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (FROM BLACK WOMEN)
Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,
“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:
Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,
Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,
Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,
Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,
Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,
Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,
Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,
Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,
Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:
(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,
(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,
(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,
(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,
(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,
(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and
(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,
Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,
Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,
Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,
Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,
Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,
Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,
Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,
Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.
Also not talked about are the Free Blacks that owned slaves.
Because then someone might point out in recrimination that Obama's Moslem ancestors were the instigators and profiteers of the East African slave trade that flowed like a river for long centuries up the Zanzibar coast to the slave markets of the Persian Gulf, Damascus, Baghdad, and Persia.
Obama's baby-daddy's baby-daddy (2) probably took a financial hit deluxe, when first the United States andf then Brazil (without a civil war, mind you) made slavery illegal.
That's assuming that Obamas baby-daddy wasn't FMD instead.
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