[Mr. Silverback]

Well, I don't want to steal Chuck's thunder, but you can read the President's speech right here. Do yourself a favor and read it, it's really good.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[Lee'sGhost]

That's pretty awesome. It reminds me of one of my favorite questions: Why don't black people do something to recognize all the POSITIVE that a lot of white people have done on their behalf, instead always focusing on the negatives. Not to discount the trials and tribulations, but the bottom line is, if ALL the white folks in America had said, sorry, we're not going to let you share in our society and our dream -- they would all be second class citizens at best, slaves at worst.

If Klintoon gave the apology for slavery, then where is the black "thank you" in response to all those who made their present day status as equal members of these United States possible?

[Lorianne]

Beautiful comments.

[jordan8]

Bush's little speech was total crap, it could have come out of the mouth of Jimmy Carter. (I wonder what the reaction of people on this forum would have been if there had been no publicity on this speech and I had posted it here claiming that it was a speech Jimmy Carter had made in Africa a couple of years ago.)As starving men will eat grass and worms, so the favorable mention of Christianity (a public rarity, as the author noted) has apparantly so enthralled Colson that he is willing to overlook its faults. One of the oddest of those faults is its peculiar theology. According to Mr. Bush "there were men and women who clearly saw this sin and called it by name" and "Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice". Jesus Christ himself didn't condemn slavery as a sin, but luckily He now has Bush and Colson to set Him straight on the matter. The remarks in fact are a backhanded swipe at Christianity (I wonder who wrote this speech, it certainly wasn't GWB). As I say, starving men . . .