The Bush slavery doctrine

TownHall.com ^ | Thursday, July 10, 2003 | by Cal Thomas

[JohnHuang2]

There was no domestic political benefit to the speech President Bush gave in Senegal last Tuesday (July 8). African Americans are not likely to abandon their support of the Democratic Party because Bush said the right thing about slavery and its terrible aftermath, though for 100 years following the Emancipation Proclamation slavery's descendants mostly voted Republican in the North and in the South when Democrats were forced to allow them to.

The Bush speech - as potent in print as in delivery - was about morality and redemption, two subjects that are this president's strong suit. He delivered his sermon-like address with conviction, passion and humility. A weak man unconvinced of his country's ultimate goodness could not have delivered it.

Bush didn't apologize for slavery, as some black and white Americans have requested, but he came pretty close. Following the briefest acknowledgment to Senegal's president and first lady, Bush quickly got to his point: "For hundreds of years on this island, peoples of different continents met in fear and cruelty .. At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold. Human beings were delivered, and sorted, and weighed, and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return."

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, July 10, 2003

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[DPB101]

(blacks) voted Republican . . .in the South when Democrats were forced to allow them to.

Come on Cal...don't give us the dime store history. Republicans need to know we could once cheat even better than Democrats did in 2000.

"Statement of facts relating to the election in Louisiana, November 7th, 1876". By E.A. Burke (Democratic and Conservative party counsel)

"From commencement of registration to close of election characterized by gross violations of law; arbitrary and unjust rulings, refusal to register citizens entitled thereto; discriminations against whites in favor of colored. Closing of offices during office hours, when the closing delayed or prevented Democrats from registering.

They were supplied with a force of police in citizen's clothes, who had free access to registration offices, and passed colored men in improperly, and delayed or prevented whites.

Knew of my own knowledge one old white man, aged 55....(who) remained in line all day from 8AM until 3PM of the next...while Republicans were registered in six minutes time"

[BIGZ]

Bush didn't apologize for slavery, as some black and white Americans have requested, but he came pretty close.

The inference is that the United States was responsible for Slavery. Slavery was started by the Mulims and the Original slaves were moved East from Africa to the Muslim countries. Slaves that reached The United States accounted for 5% of the total slave traffic, let the other 95% own up. The Dutch, English, Portugese, and other sea-going nations were responsible for the Slave trade.

The United States Stopped the practice.

[DPB101]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[NetValue]

The President (as Chief Executive of the US Governement)cannot apologize for slavery since the United States Government did not engage in slavery. Individual plantation owners and slave traders and the southern states held humans in slavery and committed this inhuman crime. The United States government opposed slavery at the same time that several states made it legal. When those states were challenegd by Lincoln, they tried to resign from the United States and establish their own Confederacy.

It seems to me blacks should embrace the United States for emancipating their ancestors from the inhumanity of slavery instead of acting like personally involved victims.

[DPB101]

A good point which is always overlooked.

[FreedomCalls]

Bush: "At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold."

I wonder who made him change the phrase from "bought and sold" to "stolen and sold." Rove maybe?