Posted on 01/29/2007 8:35:24 AM PST by CNS
How about free drinks for descendants of slaves and of slaveholders, so they have a big party and reconcile?
You mean like making "June-teenth" a legal holiday in VA?
Declare Juneteenth a national holiday, in addition to MLK Day?
GMTA!
What's next? A paid week off for Kwanzaa?
No wait! That would be VNS, not, uh, CNS. Confusing, was VNS now CNS????
Do I get to take the day off too?
My family was in Italy at the time but I am sure they were repressed too.
"How about free drinks for descendants of slaves and of slaveholders, so they have a big party and reconcile?"
Hmmm. That'd be like me and two friends showing up at a Jackson State/Grambling game.
Ok, I apologize.
By all means - please have a drink on the State Legislature!
My family wasn't involved in the slave trade. I believe we helped them to Canada... therefore I expect reimbursement from those slaves who they'd helped at their own expense.
He apologized on behalf of the federal government. He did not apologize on behalf of the Democratic Party.
I would say that an apology would not be enough in the case of the Democrats. They need to pay reparations.
Who knows who is which?
Just exactly how does one separate the descendents of slaves from the descendents of black slave owners? Is it the same way that the descendents of white slave owners are separated from the descendents of white abolionists?
One other thing. My guess it's not really an apology they are after, but cash...
The rest of us that actually work for a living, will just get harangued for not being 'diverse' enough by those that actually have something to celebrate.
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