Posted on 01/16/2009 12:26:50 PM PST by EveningStar
...On the morning after the election, Kristin Rothballer, 36, who lives in San Francisco, kissed her female partner goodbye on the train while commuting to work. A black woman who sat down next to her turned and said she was sorry that Proposition 8, the amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, looked like it was going to pass.
“We grabbed hands,” Ms. Rothballer recalled. “And I said, ‘Well, I really want to congratulate you because we have a black president and that’s amazing.’ ”
“Our conversation then almost became about the fact that we were having the conversation,” she said.
Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.
“For two strangers riding a train to Oakland to have that conversation about race, it wouldn’t have been possible if Obama hadn’t been elected,” she said. “I always felt open with my colleagues, but to say to a stranger on the train, ‘Hey, I’m sorry about slavery,’ that just doesn’t happen.”
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Well is she apologized then its all good now, right? right?
Well if she apologized then its all good now, right? right?
HURL HURL HURL
How annoyingly facile.
"Hey, Saul! About that whole holocaust thing? Really sorry about that! I don't know what I was thinking! Anyway, glad we're over that. Won't happen again. I swear. How's the wife and kids?"
What, was she a slaveowner back in the day? These people are so nuts.
Note to self: Stay out of California.
>Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.
Why? Did she ever own a slave? Or her parents? Or THEIR parents? At what point does it cease to matter?
I sat next to an Asian at lunch today. I apologized for carbonizing his ancestors in Hiroshima.
He apologized for my Sony Trinitron that quit working in 1974.
Did she pull out her wallett and checkbook and disuss reparations?
These people’s sense of self righteousness is so infantile it boggles the mind.
“Some of my best friends are (fill in the blank)...”
And let me be the first to apologize for our first parents' slip-up in the Garden where they let loose sin into the world and unleashed all its ramifications and afflictions (murder, hatred, death, slavery, lust, diseases, etc) ... I apologize to all who are not descended from Adam and Eve. Oh wait ... that would be no one...
By the way, is the 'chosen one' going to apologize for 'probably' having been descended from slave traders?
“Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.”
What in the world is this idiot’s problem?
Her mother should apologize for procreating.
First time I’ve seen a “Tera Barf” alert. Always thought there should be some beyond just “mega”. “Vomit carnage” and “Chunder Thunder” maybe. “Mega” just wouldn’t be enough for something like a Helen Thomas calendar pinup.
Thanks for the chuckle. You just have to laugh at stupid BS like this.
What, exactly, is the point of this article? I guess if the black woman can apologize for Proposition 8, the lesbian can apologize for slavery. Does that make the conversation newsworthy? It sounds like another ultra-liberal lovefest. Exactly the kind of thing the Times would publish.
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I want to say something but I feel like I’ve lost IQ points just from reading that liberal exchange. I guess I can’t watch any TV for the next 4 years or I’ll end up a blithering idiot.
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