Posted on 04/10/2008 5:54:11 AM PDT by stan_sipple
This is an affront to all those who slaved in the wheat fields under the cruel whips of Nebraska plantation owners.
Notice that they are going to ban racial discrimination against African Americans. But apparently racial discrimination against other groups will be okay.
All former slave-owners in Nebraska should be required by law to apologize profusely to any of their former slaves still living in Nebraska.
Everyone else should get a frickin’ life!
Why on earth is this happening in Nebraska of all places? People never fail to disappoint me. Yes, slavery was wrong; yes racism is wrong. But this is ridiculous. At this rate, we will be spending all our energy on apologies and never actually building up the black communities, which must come from within that community. It will not happen with apologies from white people who were born 150 years after slavery ended and most of whom do not have ancestors who owned slaves.
Im regretting every day that ancestors I never had owned slaves, but its bad enough that i am white
I want appologies from Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, etc. for balck men raping and sexually assulting white women.
Black folk supporting such an apology feel as though they are owed something by America. They are not. They have all of the same opportunities that the rest of hold dear.
If you think someone owes you something, the chances are you are failing in life; and there’s little chance that you will amount to anything worthwhile.
These people are so FREEKING PC is funny. There is no way anyone who wasn’t born prior to the civil war should have to say “I’m SORRY” for anything to do with slavery.
Ernie Chambers. One of the most racist people I’ve ever heard of.
There’s enough wrong with this kind of legislation without bringing a strawman into the mix. Try to keep the apples separate from the oranges.
There are already federal laws in place that do that, with the exception of discrimination against whites.
I don't think most blacks understand that this is the sort of thing that creates huge resentment among whites (and other colors, in my experience). I apologize when I'M the one who did wrong. Suppose you slapped someone in the face, and I said, "I'm sorry". It would be ridiculous.
What an 'apology' is meant to convey is "I'm sorry I haven't done enough to make blacks happy - please take my wallet and maybe my job." Screw that. I've never said a rude word to a black in my life, but I've been on the receiving end plenty of times. Hell will freeze over before I apologize to anyone for slavery. I'm more likely to tell someone to get on their knees and thank God their ancestors were taken as slaves to a country as good as this - that otherwise, they might be starving in Zimbabwe, or being hacked to death by their neighbors in Rwanda!
IMHO it's not meant to. It is merely the thin edge of the wedge viz. reparations.
And what about the thousands of blacks who were slave owners? Their ancestors don’t have to apologize?
Only if you’re white do you have to apologize for something your ancestors probably never did. It all makes sense. LOL
The only thing I’m sorry about is that my great uncle died fighting for the Union in the Civil War. Especially since we whites don’t get any credit for it.
Slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, December 6, 1865. Nebraska became a State in 1867.
“The simple question I ask is, What will this hurt? Who will this hurt?”
Sen. Vickie McDonald of St. Paul offered an amendment that would allow an apology for racism, the after effects of slavery.
Is Pedersen going to issue an apology for the high rates of crime and illegitmacy in the black community and the impact that these factors have on society in general?
Ernie Chambers has been a clown his entire career in Nebraska’s Unicameral.
I’m upset that Nebraska, as a Territory, failed to issue an official apology for all the Indian tribes that enslaved some white settlers! ;-)
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