Posted on 08/19/2009 1:41:38 PM PDT by pissant
The Senate voted to apologize for slavery on June 18. The House apologized last summer. The first family -- descendants of Africans, of enslaved Africans and of slave-holders -- visited a slave fort in Ghana.
These were historic occasions, and they occasioned the kind of hue and cry that always accompany the subject of slavery and whether we still need to reckon with it.
I believe we do need more reckoning, and a little more love and a little more logic would help that process.
Logic first: There's this quasi-math problem in which things don't add up. Many African-Americans naturally feel as if there is unfinished business from the past, while many European-Americans (and others) don't think they should inherit burdens from a past not of their making. So there's this generational equation to be worked out, and it will take big hearts, eager hearts, to do so.
The calculation is a bit easier for me at first glance. I'm the seventh-generation descendant of the worst slave traders in American history. I found out from my grandmother when she was 88 and I was 28, a few years before she died.
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Not to be too blunt, lady, but you can suck your apology out of my you-know-what.
From which Barak Hussein Obama, Sr. was likely descended.
Slavery got way more than an apology. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge of history knows that. The idea that in 2009 something needs to be done about slavery is ludicrous.
40 ACRES AND A LEXUS!
I'd say my family's dues have been paid in full.
How about reparations from Black people for their high rate of criminality?
Some people need to shut up, quit whining, and get their butts to work.
OK, Anyone that is or ever was, personally, a slave in the United States of America (Not your ancestors) please step forward.
Every people group has been enslaved at some point or other through out history.
Its just white leftist that can’t deal with it.
The Jews deserve the first one from the Arabs about 3000 years ago.
Ok where is the Katrina guy ?
I read as much of it as I could stand. What a load of rubbish....
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Now that we have a marxist in the white house, I’m working too many hours and way too broke to give a rat’s arse about kissing the posteriors of millions who have every advantage I don’t.
This woman is all torn up that her family were slave traders SEVEN GENERATIONS AGO. I hope she feels guilty every day. Now leave me alone. Like most Americans, my ancestors weren’t here yet and I sure as heck wasn’t.
“Slavery needs more than an apology”
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Well both sides of MY family were still a part of the abused European peasant class during the American slavery era, but if this race pig wants it bad enough, I guess I could slit open my leg and let it bleed all over the floor for an hour or so.
I’m guessing whitey blood ain’t near as good as an unending stream of cold hard cash.
Reparations in the trillions, of course, have ALREADY been well underway since the 1960’s.
I have nothing to apologize for, nor should I care what happened 150 yrs ago because the times have changed.
To the minority, all this is about is compensation beyond food stamps and public housing and medicade for the kids of single, unmarried mothers.
What the hell do they want me to give them??? The key to my house?? My car keys??? F em.
Honey, I'll see you "the worst slave traders in American history", and raise you Torquemada, Hitler and Stalin.
How about a one way, expenses paid boat ride??
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