Posted on 07/29/2008 11:24:53 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Talk about warped priorities. The do-nothing/14 percent approval-rated Congress, led by Nancy the Navigator Pelosi, refuses to allow debate on drilling; the appropriations bills are in limbo, and judicial vacancies abound.
But hey, they’ve found time to take action on that all-important apology for slavery and Jim Crow laws:
The House of Representatives was poised Tuesday to pass a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.
The nonbinding resolution, which is expected to pass, was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen, a white lawmaker who represents a majority black district in Memphis, Tennessee.
While many states have apologized for slavery, it will be first time a branch of the federal government will apologize for slavery if the resolution passes, an aide to Cohen said.
By passing the resolution, the House would also acknowledge the “injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow,” the period after slavery was abolished in which African-Americans were denied the right to vote and other civil liberties. The resolution states that “the vestiges of Jim Crow continue to this day.”
“African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow — long after both systems were formally abolished — through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity,” the resolution states.
Next stop: Reparations!
Yep, people always can make time for what’s important to them.
Which political party instituted the Jim Crow laws, and went to the matresses in it's fight to keep them on the books?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Pandering in an election year. Imagine that.
Some silk-suited lawyer will, sooner or later, make us white devils pay.
I wonder, if a reparations bill ever passes, would Barack Obama himself, who is a descendant of slaveholders and not of slaves, receive reparations?
I thought Bubba Clinton already took care of this!!
i believe as long as they think of them selves as African-Americans “ and not “Americans” they will have these problems!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Talk about quick glancing headlines. I first read it I thought it said the House was going to appologize for Sheryl Crow.
One party consistently opposed slavery and Jim Crow and race repression, and one party consistently fought to uphold those things.
The Jim Crow, slavery, race-obsessed party wants us all to apologize so they don’t have to admit that it was them, all along.
I say, let the Jim Crow, slavery, lynch-mob, fire-hose and attack-dog party apologize for themselves, and I’ll be glad to give them a polite hearing if they are sincere and contrite.
Send them all packing. We don’t need them. There are better people out there that love America.
I agree with this apology thing. Apologies for the house, on me. Personally I think the chinese should apologize for all the deaths caused the Genghis Khan and the mongol hordes.
Cohen is just looking for a way not to be unemployed next January. Memphis will not turn out for him. It’s too racist. He won by the black vote being severely split in 2006.
Only the DEms need to apologise.
The Republicans gave lives to free the Slaves, and have been the driving force for civil rights ever since.
Now, about Nancy apologizing for the Mafia? When's she going to do that?
Next apologize for the income tax, the welfare state, the education fiasco, the eminent domain fiasco, the housing mortgage fiasco, the mid-east oil fiasco, the immigration fiasco...
How 'bout 9%?
Apologies and reparations have been dolled out ever since the Emancipation Proclamation. Heck, the nation of Liberia exists as it does precisely to be a “wanna go back? here ya go” ‘reparation’.
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