What should the House apologize for? (Slavery and Jim Crow Laws)

michellemalkin.com ^ | July 29, 2008 | Michelle Malkin

[Heartland Mom]

Yep, people always can make time for what’s important to them.

[Steely Tom]

Which political party fought to retain slavery?

Which political party instituted the Jim Crow laws, and went to the matresses in it's fight to keep them on the books?

[goldstategop]

Liberals want to apologize for evils that no longer exist. But they won't apologize for failing to acknowledge the present-day evil of Islamofascism! That says it all.

"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

[Glenn]

Pandering in an election year. Imagine that.

Some silk-suited lawyer will, sooner or later, make us white devils pay.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I wonder, if a reparations bill ever passes, would Barack Obama himself, who is a descendant of slaveholders and not of slaves, receive reparations?

[zavvone]

I thought Bubba Clinton already took care of this!!

[jrd]

i believe as long as they think of them selves as African-Americans “ and not “Americans” they will have these problems!

[goldstategop]

Nancy and Dingy Harry don't speak for me! I will NEVER apologize for something I never did and for acts for which my ancestors weren't responsible. Keep your frakkin' phony, politically correct, guilt trip apology to yourself!!!

"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

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Talk about quick glancing headlines. I first read it I thought it said the House was going to appologize for Sheryl Crow.

[marron]

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.

[freekitty]

Send them all packing. We don’t need them. There are better people out there that love America.

[ladtx]

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.

[Sybeck1]

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.

[Wil H]

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.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

You hit the nail on the head. As long as “hyphenated” Americans exist there will always be some whackey liberal apologizing for something we did or didn't do for them. Of course, their vote is expected in return.

[muawiyah]

No doubt the Grandchildren and Greatgrandchildren of the freed slaves are going to cherish Nancy's apology, but I bet they'd like to be able to fill the tank without having to borrow money.

Now, about Nancy apologizing for the Mafia? When's she going to do that?

[polymuser]

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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...

[tbpiper]

What should the House apologize for?

How 'bout 9%?

[ctdonath2]

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’.