Bill would create panel to study effects of slavery

Kingsport (TN Times News ^ | April 10, 2009 | Hank Hayes

[Zionist Conspirator]

Legislation advancing in the Tennessee House aims to create a special legislative committee to study the “continuing effects of slavery and segregation” on African-Americans in the state.

I can tell you what the main "continuing effect" is without having to study a thing:

The right to interpret the Bible literally without being made fun of by liberals.

[OpeEdMunkey]

It’s a foregone conclusion that reparation payments are the only thing that can eliminate this trauma. We are so screwed.

[pnh102]

...they were Irish (ANOTHER enslaved group!) ...

I know! My wife and daughter are both of Irish descent. Where are their checks?

[Verginius Rufus]

They are playing fast and loose with the facts. How can they use 1555 as the starting point when the first English colony wasn't started until 1607 (and the first recorded mention of "Negroes" there was in 1619, although it isn't clear if they became lifelong slaves)?

Tennessee definitely did not have a million slaves in 1860--the total population of the state at that time was about 1.1 million people and it wasn't 90% black. The percentage of slaves in Tennessee was lower than in the Deep South states (the first seven to secede). Only two states, South Carolina and Mississippi, had a black majority in 1860 (in Louisiana the ratio was almost exactly 50-50), and even S.C. had a lot less than 90% of the population as slaves. Slaves were a bit over 1/3 of the population of the Confederacy, but the percentage of white families who owned slaves is generally put quite a bit lower than 1 in 3.

Lincoln in his second inaugural address could only say that slavery was "somehow" the cause of the war...how can anyone prove that a present-day problem is definitely the result of an affliction which ended in 1865, long before anyone alive now was born? Obviously they aren't going to go by any rigorous standards of proof.

[Verginius Rufus]

They are also wrong about Virginia, which did not have 1.5 million slaves in 1860. It had only slightly more than 1.5 million total population (1,219,630 in present-day Virginia and 376,688 in the counties which later became West Virginia).

The people pushing this must have seen population figures and not have realized that they were figures for the total population. Idiots.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

just go to Africa and all the Arab countries...PLENTY of slaves! Still going on today....How do you think they got to the US? Oh, i forgot, Africa is the pure romantic primitive land...Kumbaya and Kwanza!

[BatGuano]

Ain’t NONE!

We will continue to see this crap for a long time. The dems will not let us ever forget slavery. Egypt has a better time with their past then we do. Slavery produces Knavery and the Dems are riding it as hard as they can!
Standby for a reparations plan for the Blacks that will cost Trillions. Oh, never mind, the dems just passed it!!

[pnh102]

... and the first recorded mention of "Negroes" there was in 1619, although it isn't clear if they became lifelong slaves ...

Or if those blacks themselves owned slaves. For those of you who didn't know this, there were in fact black slaveowners in the USA.

[bornred]

The psychological end of slavery is devastating. ... Please keep an open mind. ... Culture is to a people what water is to a fish. If you take a fish out of water, the fish will die. African-Americans have been taken out of their culture. We’re like a freshwater fish been put in saltwater. When we’re in saltwater we don’t swim right. ... If we’re allowed to get back in freshwater, our color will come back. We’ll be agile and we’ll be able to support ourselves.

Is this code for "please send us back to Africa"?

[Popman]

“In 1555, the first African-American was brought to this country, and from 1555 to 1865 we labored without wages.

WE??? Is he 400 years old?

[Popman]

David L. Acey, professor of African-American Studies at the University of Memphis,

“It’s manifested today when you look in our neighborhood and see teenage pregnancy and murders, and all the other things that affect us.

Before the sixties, these problems were not an issue except for what was considered normal.

The good professor is full of BS

[OneWingedShark]

>How do you think they got to the US?

Maybe I could look at the Mexican border with Ir goggles...

[bonehead4freedom]

Wasn’t the first slave in America owned by gasp,a black man? If I remember correctly it was in colonial Virginia and the slave ran away and he sued in court for his return as chattel property.

[DLfromthedesert]

Is he asking to go back to Africa?

[Fireone]

Being a White American Male, I have suffered my whole life from the affects of slavery. Since my first days in elementary school, the message of the evil slave owners and their mostly well treated workers has been that it’s my fault.
No people on earth of African descent have had life so good as the generations living in the United States. It is the
White folks that have had to hear about it, and pay for it, for 200 years since that are suffering.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

It’s manifested today when you look in our neighborhood and see teenage pregnancy

"The Man" is responsible for all those pregnant black teenagers?

Then why aren't their babies half-white?

[pnh102]

"The Man" is responsible for all those pregnant black teenagers?

He must be one very busy man.

[Winstons Julia]

“African-Americans have been taken out of their culture.”

I suggest instead of reparations, repatriation?

They should be put right back into African culture to remedy this horrible, horrible situation.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!

I’m sure they will also investigate the rotten-to-the-core positions on civil rights that plagued the Democrat party.

[Winstons Julia]

I’m trying to think like a liberal here. Were you expecting me to make sense?

I saw Barack bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, that brought back traumatic memories about being followed around by menacing packs of Morroccan boys when I lived in Europe.

I am damaged. I want reparations.

[Chode]

i guess slavery genetically altered them into welfare dependent livestock...