Even Bill Clinton backed off on making a P.C. "apology" after a storm of protest shot down the idea.
As I recall, B.C. did "apologize" for slavery and was equally warm to the idea of "reparations" for descendants of slaves.
Didn't the president run as an opponent of "reparations" to descendants of slaves? Governor Perry did, but Democrat Tony Sanchez merely said that he would "study" the question of reparations were he to have been elected.
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2 posted on
07/10/2003 8:05:53 AM PDT by
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To: Theodore R.
So this is our conservative President from Texas huh. Sheesh!
3 posted on
07/10/2003 8:06:02 AM PDT by
Joe Hadenuf
(RECALL DAVIS, position his smoking chair over a trapdoor, a memo for the next governor.)
To: Theodore R.
It was stated beautifully on a thread yesterday. Bottom line...some of those of African ancestory want reparations to account for all they've suffered. Fine, if they feel that way...but no reparations without repatriotation to the lands of their ancestors and revoking US citizenship.
4 posted on
07/10/2003 8:07:14 AM PDT by
grania
("Won't get fooled again")
To: Theodore R.
Maybe the repriations folks should have to pay for the priviliges they've come to know or take their money and be forced to return to their origins....
5 posted on
07/10/2003 8:07:43 AM PDT by
Jumper
To: Theodore R.
NEWSMAX might want to edit the title so they don't look so stupid.
Bush was never in and never gave a speech in Liberia
6 posted on
07/10/2003 8:08:09 AM PDT by
MJY1288
To: Theodore R.
As I recall, B.C. did "apologize" for slavery and was equally warm to the idea of "reparations" for descendants of slaves.
It appears that you are correct.
(From Thomas Sowell)
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Guns Before Butter.
10 posted on
07/10/2003 8:19:52 AM PDT by
End Times Sentinel
("Europeans lost the will to live the moral life long ago." - Ben Shapiro)
To: Theodore R.
NewsMax gives way to hyperbole too often to be taken seriously. Their spin is destroying their credibility....what little they have, that is.
11 posted on
07/10/2003 8:22:14 AM PDT by
OldFriend
((BUSH/CHENEY 2004))
To: Theodore R.
"If we are recognizing this as one of the greatest crimes in history, there had to be criminals," Fields said. Very true. But what Jesse, Inc. will never admit is that those criminals were black Africans themselves. And their descendants have no money to pay reparations.
To: Theodore R.
Unless the president makes taxpayers cough up millions or billions, according to Booker, "Bush is almost making light of the severity of slavery. Absolutely not true. Pres. Bush acknowledged the realities of past slavery, but the thrust of the speech was forward, future. The input of Africans on American shores continues to help our country as a whole become a land of justice and freedom for all. He ended with the words: "This untamed fire of justice continues to burn in the affairs of man, and it lights the way before us."
The irony here is that modern reparation-seekers are doing exactly what slave owners did in the past--profit from the toils of working men and women.
17 posted on
07/10/2003 8:38:47 AM PDT by
twigs
To: Theodore R.
"If we are recognizing this as one of the greatest crimes in history, there had to be criminals," Fields said. Yes, and they are all dead.
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