[Tax-chick]

Thomas Sowell may be the greatest living American!

[onyx]

Who's proposal is it? Who's the father of this bastard brainchild? John Conyers? The black caucus?

Dr. Sowell only states that the proposal has GOP and Democrat support.

[chachacha]

Things like this prove that slavery was wrong for more reasons than one would expect. The fact that they are still here is one of them.

[cavtrooper21]

this will not fly on either side.
Jesse and AL want $$$$$$$, not a statue....
Time to call and write the Congresscritters and express our views and concerns, again.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Well, if it isn't time for a slavery memorial, then we can rip down Confederate monuments and the signs off schools named after prominent traitors all over the South - after all, it doesn't mean anyhing, does it?

Oh, and we ought to go ahead and put a statue of Benedict Arnold in the Capitol Rotunda, in accord with the great honors paid to Jeff Davis all over the South.

Sowell is wrong on this one, for very many reasons.

[mhking]

Hell, what would it look like, a body swinging from a rope!

Just damn!

I've been asked (via Project 21) to provide some commentary to Senator Bill Frist regarding the measure. It's been spearheaded by former Washington Redskin (and fellow black conservative) Darrell Green.

I'll post my short letter to Senator Frist as a separate post.

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[mhking]

Dear Senator Frist,

Many feel that a monument to the black slaves of America, akin to the Vietnam Memorial, has a place on the National Mall. While such a memorial or monument to the slaves of the United States' historical past would certainly be an opportunity for education for the masses, I have a personal fear over such a venture.

The black liberal intelligensia have been taking each and every opportunity to try to draw blood money out of the memories of slavery and of Jim Crow-era America.They have gone out of their way to encourage lawsuits and gone to other means to attempt to divide black and white America even further.

Their words insist that they are seeking reconciliation, and I truly believe that there are some who are forthright and honest in that belief. But for each John Lewis, there's a Jesse Jackson, waiting in the wings to find a way to turn this into something geared toward their own personal ends, the rest of black America be damned.

While Darrell Green's project is one that is certainly honorable in intent, I feel it is not well thought-out, and would be a magnet for the roadshows of the poverty pimps of America. It would provide a ready-made instant bully pulpit for every would-be race warlord who wanted to rouse the rabble of the masses. It would create the ultimate spot for a photo op for charlatans and snake oil peddlers everywhere.

I fear that liberal black academics nationwide, who are spearheading the attempts at reparations litigation, would attempt to use any monument or memorial - especially one given such high placement in our national consciousness - as additional reasoning behind their continued clogging of the nation's courts with continued lawsuits over percieved reparations. I think we can both agree that this would be folly of the highest order.

No, Senator, I think a monument to slavery in and of itself would be more folly than honest enterprise. It does not have a place on the National Mall.

I encourage you to dissuade your colleagues from pursuing this venture any further.

Sincerely,

Michael H. King
Mableton, GA
National Advisory Board Member, Project 21

[gitmo]

Here's One!

[Under the Radar]

Thomas Sowell bump!

[wardaddy]

Sowell is a good man.

[dagnabbit]

As long as it's adjacent to the "Victims of Urban Crime Memorial"

[weegee]

How about a memorial to the American taxpayer? We foot the bill after all...

[drlevy88]

shoot they should just go ahead and create a prototype 'memorial'. a humongous statue of a black slave picking cotton, with a glowering simon legree figure standing over him with a whip. the black uproar about this would make "deafening" an understatement.

[drlevy88]

the black uproar about this would make "deafening" an understatement. (and it would kill the idea forever...)

[WhiskeyPapa]

This column appeared in today's Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Walt

[Tribune7]

Every must understand this. Our Constitution in no way whatsoever established slavery. It did end it.

I've heard lots of people -- usually young, public school grads -- sneeringly insist that it did. It did not. Slap them down when you hear them say this.

[Dionysius]

When are we going to memorialize the 43,000,000 (and counting) slaughtered by Roe v. Wade.