[goldstategop]

I am sure Cliff Stearns has good intentions. But if there's a more offensive way conservatives can get black support, I have yet to see it. And as Tom Sowell points out, the GOP can't beat the Democrats at the game of race baiting and establishing quotas nor should it try. The very worst thing the Republican Party can do is reinforce black victimhood, that's destroyed a lot of lives. Sure, slavery was a blight on America's Founding but its not something people need to remember at government behest. Most white Americans never owned slaves. A slave memorial would leave that fact out and it would perpetuate the worst evils of racial division and resentment. Of which we've had enough of already. Appalling idiocy? Yes, and shame on some Republicans for signing up with the Randall Robinsons and John Conyers of this country who want to do nothing better than to portray all white people as forever wicked.

[MHGinTN]

A much more fitting 'memorial' would be to end slavery around the world. Islam is enslaving more people today that were blacks enslaved prior to the British emancipation and our Civil War. Fight slavery today in the diverse places, to 'build a monument' recognizing the wrong done to slaves across the ages! And while were at it, where's the monument to the little ones sacrificed upon the democrat party altar of choice? Al Goreghoul could lay the first wreath as sinkEmperor and his albatross hold the sides.