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!
Also, the Democrat party committed the only succesful coup in US history in Wilmington NC in 1898.
This was to get the succesful black Republicans out and install the White Democrats back into power.
"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
Sheryl Crow has a lot to apologize to me for! One piece of TP my foot!
When did their approval creep back up to 14%? Last I heard, it was 9%.
President Lincoln wanted to send them away, he said the races would never get along.
The Union apologized when it gave 300,000 lives to end slavery.
The South apologized when it lost 300,000 lives as punishment for holding slaves.
End of discussion.
I’m not apologizing. My family has nothing to apologize for, although we’re white, several members of the family came to the American colonies from debtors’ prison as bond slaves.
The Dems ought to apologize for slavery—and pay compensation.
I suppose a roll call vote on this would be too much to ask . . . .
They could apologize for the Midnight Basketball thing.
Who exactly are you referring to? Congress?
The REAL punishment suffered by the Republic — is the fact that even after the Civil War losses, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights legislation, Affirmative Action, Set asides, quota hires, quota admissions, lowered standards, reverse discrimination, uncountable BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS spent on welfare and their disproportionate representation in everything from sports, entertainment and politics —— what has been the outcome?
America’s native born blacks represent the LEAST accomplished, least self sufficient, least responsible, most dependent upon welfare to this day of ANY ethnic group in America!
Even those - INCLUDING BLACKS - who come to America from far worse circumstances in their OWN lifetime -— become PRODUCTIVE and LAW ABIDING citizens who raise families attending universities in a single generation...
In addition America’s native blacks are responsible for violent, property and drug crimes way out of proportion to their numbers in the population... Their illegitimate births to unwed mothers is worsening. They continue to drop out of schools in numbers that promise worse problems in the future... Their crime gangs flourish in nearly every major and mid size city.
No nation on the planet has done more than America to “atone” for slavery of the past — and no nation on the planet has been more punished by the descendants of those slaves..
Time for the modern whining blacks in America to look elsewhere for sympathy or compassion — they’ll get NONE from me.
“I’ve already given at the office — and abused for the effort”...
A favorite weapon in the armory of multiculturalism is the lowly hyphen. When we speak of an African-American or Mexican-American or Asian-American these days, the aim is not descriptive but deconstructive. There is a polemical edge to it, a provocation. The hyphen does not mean “American, but hailing at some point in the past from someplace else.” It means “only provisionally American: my allegiance is divided at best.” (I believe something similar can be said about the feminist fad for hyphenating the bride’s maiden name with her husband’s surname. It is a gesture of independence that is also a declaration of divided loyalty.) It is curious to what extent the passion for hyphenation is fostered more by the liberal elite than the populations it is supposedly meant to serve. How does it serve them? Presumably by enhancing their sense of “self-esteem.” Frederick Douglass saw through this charade some one hundred and fifty years ago. “No one idea,” he wrote, “has given rise to more oppression and persecution toward colored people of this country than that which makes Africa, not America, their home.” Roger Kimball at “Affirmative Action,” hyphenated Americans, and other conundrums
Also
“Neither my father nor my father’s father ever saw Africa, or knew its meaning or cared overmuch for it...there is nothing so indigenous, so completely `made in America’ as we are.” W.E.B. Du Bois
“The Negro is an American. We know nothing of Africa.” Martin Luther King
Let the Democraps apologise for it. It was their policy!
But no -- you're not a racist -- no sirree...
They could apologize for receiving a paycheck.
The apology concerns Jim Crow, which only came into existence 20 years after the Civil War.
Bringing up past wrongs
denigrates and undermines our society.
Ignoring the threat of Islam
undermines our society.
I see no inconsistency at all.
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