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McCain: Senate should apologize for slavery
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| 10/18/07
| Bill Sammon
Posted on 10/18/2007 9:13:32 AM PDT by freespirited
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To: RightWhale
The Constitution was both written and ratified years after the United States won independence.
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:22:51 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: RC2
"What good will this do? Other than people asking for payment for something that happened 200 years ago. To do something like this will just open the door to more seperation." An apology for slavery probably won't do much good.
But as for opening the door to more separation, this will help do that more so than dozens of government apologies for unflattering parts of American history.
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:26:57 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: freespirited
Thank you John McCain for killing your own candidacy. You’ve proven that you’re likely an idiot before and you removed all doubt now.
83
posted on
10/18/2007 10:28:27 AM PDT
by
Spiff
(<------ Mitt Romney Supporter (Don't tase me, bro!) Go Mitt! www.mittromney.com)
To: freespirited
The only way for us to move forward . . . is at the end of the day acknowledging those, taking ownership for it, and asking for forgiveness. No, the only way for us to move forward is to quit wasting your time and our money on cr*p like this.
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:36:41 AM PDT
by
NurdlyPeon
(Thompson / Hunter in 2008)
To: freespirited
Another silly suggestion in a politically silly year, but I'd go along if he said Senate Democrats should apologize. They were the party that supported slavery.
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:39:41 AM PDT
by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: tumblindice
"Im sorry for wearing Brut cologne in the `70s." NEVER, NEVER be sorry for wearing Brut cologne!!!! That IS the nicest smelling cologne, along with Old Spice! And, I ain't kidding!
To: freespirited
If any senate apologies are issued it should be ONLY from the senate DEMOCRATS as a group. Theirs is the party of slavery, secession and the KKK.
STFU McLaim!
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:44:28 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: All
How about apologizing to us for all the babies killed by abortion? Or for what they did to Terri Schindler?
To: freespirited
McCain has Campaign Tourettes.
89
posted on
10/18/2007 10:47:33 AM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: freespirited
Where has he been the last couple of decades?
To: freespirited
I thought the Welfare State was the apology for slavery...
91
posted on
10/18/2007 10:48:52 AM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(265 pound Lemming with attitude for Thompson!)
To: jackibutterfly
Hey how about Hi Karate? Don’t forget English Leather and British Sterling (shaken not stirred).
92
posted on
10/18/2007 10:49:09 AM PDT
by
Jigajog
To: ASA Vet
""I think he did a little too much LDS" Captain James T. Kirk"
You mean, "LSD", right?
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Was actually intending to stop posting on this thread (already posted a glut), but people of a same 'skin color' are not apologizing, nor is this proposition that people of a particular 'skin color' should apologize.
What is being proposed is that a non-people, an institution, the Senate, should apologize. You can check, but the Senate does not have a 'skin color,' and neither are all the Senators of European descent.
You've actually sort of shed light on why people are getting so worked up over what should practically be a non-issue on this thread. You think that they are asking for 'white' people to apologize to 'black' people for slavery.
They aren't. They are asking for the an abstract entity, the Senate, to acknowledge that it failed a people under its authority and jurisdiction.
The same for calls for the nation to apologize. It is a recognition that the nation--which is not solely of European descent--to acknowledge it permitted something bad to happen on its watch.
As stated earlier, an apology could be almost pointless. It probably won't do much good. However, contrary to what many freepers here seem to be going into a conniption fit about, it probably won't do much evil, either. The odds of a reparations bill passing don't hinge on whether or not the government issues an apology.
It's basically an empty statement, and probably won't affect things either way for those of African or European descent. Those on either side who hate the other side won't change their opinions based on a government apology.
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:52:11 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Don't you realize freeper consensus seems to be that the Armenian genocide should be denounced and Turkey forced to recognize it while an apology for slavery should be out of the question?
Actually, from what I've seen, most FReepers, while they agree the Turks' genocide was evil, think that bringing this resolution up NOW was an extremely bad idea, as it will screw over our realtions with Turkey, where 70% of our military supplies get to our troops in Iraq.
As for American slavery, I wasn't comparing it to the Turks' genocide, I was just pointing out that Congress seems to think they're morally superior enough to bring up every bad event that happened in history and condemn it when people are smart enough to see for themselves what is evil (except for lib voters who advocate abortion and stuff like that).
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:53:29 AM PDT
by
G8 Diplomat
(Star Wars teaches us a foreboding lesson--evil emperors start out as Senators)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
The Constitution Rev 2.0
The Declaration would not have been adopted without the South, and the South would not have signed off if slavery had been abolished then and there. The Federal Constitution was ten years later and many of the Founding Fathers were still around and still there. Patrick Henry too, although nobody listened to him anymore. Trade-off came back to bite a couple generations later and still hasn’t quieted.
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posted on
10/18/2007 10:58:29 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(50 years later we're still sitting on the ground)
To: freespirited
Every big town in America already has a “apology monument” for slavery....the welfare office.
97
posted on
10/18/2007 11:06:23 AM PDT
by
Bogtrotter52
(Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
To: jackibutterfly
No, I quoted Capt Kirk correctly. Jim of course meant LSD,
and it was supposed to be a humor moment in the movie
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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posted on
10/18/2007 11:07:01 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
The national government did apologize when they corrected slavery being allowed to stand at our nation’s founding. They passed the 14th amendment.
Political climates and media ventures to inquire about a further apology from various institutions a hundred and forty years past the Civil War are code word constructs meant to harden hearts, convince mascot groups of the leftists that they continue to be in a new form of slavery and made to make people feel guilty enough to grant special interests.
McCain, Nixonian to the last, constantly looks for media love and hence, latches on to such ploys as one more bid for stardom.
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posted on
10/18/2007 11:09:51 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
To: freespirited
"Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday the Senate should apologize for slavery and segregation..." Don't these 100 fools have ANY work to do?
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