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To: Crackingham
The left must be concerned, they are starting their 'twisting' of news against Allen.
2 posted on
05/01/2006 9:12:31 AM PDT by
mnehring
(http://abaraxas.blogspot.com)
To: Crackingham
Oh great, an institution (Congress) that didn't hold slaves apologizing on behalf of long-dead people who did hold slaves to people who were never slaves during their lives.
How helpful.
Maybe next, Congress can move on to less important issues, like a balanced budget amendment to the constitution, or real border control, etc.
3 posted on
05/01/2006 9:16:54 AM PDT by
Elpasser
To: Crackingham
Is this something like the Greaseman's "Apology Tour?" ;) ;) ;)
To quote Anthony Cumia, "Waddle doodle, I apologize! Bone dry!"
4 posted on
05/01/2006 9:18:27 AM PDT by
detsaoT
(Proudly not "dumb as a journalist.")
To: Crackingham; All
Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) said he believes a congressional resolution expressing remorse for slavery would be a "powerful, worthy" idea. Didn't Bill Clinton already do that during his term? Doesn't Senator Allen have anything else to do?
6 posted on
05/01/2006 9:20:22 AM PDT by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: Crackingham
Allen should keep his apologies "personal", personally apologizing for any slights he might have personally committed. I will not support him if he falls into the endless quagmire of "racial group guilt", as I not only have never owned slaves, I have never owned a Confederate flag or memorabilia, etc. Even though it has no bearing on any personal responsibility I may or may not have, my ancestors fought to liberate southern slaves, and to preserve the Union, at least most of them. It is irrelevant, as I am responsible only for what I personally do, nothing else. Those who exploit the fallacious concept of "Group" or "Racial Guilt" are engaging in racism.
To: Crackingham
What about Robert KKK Byrd??
8 posted on
05/01/2006 9:23:59 AM PDT by
petkus
To: Crackingham
The current congress had nothing to do with slavery. How can they express remorse for the actions of those long dead. If they do, they are embracing responsibility and then will come the demands for reparations. This is meaningless pandering that gains no friends. It just sharpens the appetite of your enemies. I expected better from Allen.
9 posted on
05/01/2006 9:25:26 AM PDT by
isrul
To: Crackingham
What a girlyman
My President Allen is Geena Davis.
10 posted on
05/01/2006 9:27:12 AM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain)
To: Crackingham
I don't ever want to hurt people or in any way make them feel bad about one thing or another."
Isn't that sweet??
Guliani slapping around Arafat and then that Saudi with his 12 mill is lookin better every day.
11 posted on
05/01/2006 9:28:53 AM PDT by
Blackirish
(Hillary is angry AND brittle.)
To: Crackingham
Please don't do this. You're a Republican. That means you are one of the good guys; your party fought slavery, and opposed Jim Crow all during the bad old days.
This is a teaching opportunity, to educate a generation that doesn't, thank God, really remember the bad old days, to remind them that while the Democrats still engage in ethnic politics and still pander to racial stereotypes, the Republicans continue to believe in color-blind citizenship. We are right where we have always been.
So for God's sake, don't apologize. Educate.
12 posted on
05/01/2006 9:41:39 AM PDT by
marron
To: Crackingham
Oh great, more apologizing. Here's a reality check for all the black people in this country, who are five to ten generations removed from slavery at least as we sit here in the 21st century:
YOU are dang lucky that your ancestors were brought to the U.S. to be slaves hundreds of years ago. For one thing, it was your black brothers in Africa that sold your great great great great great great great grandparents to the white Europeans who brought you to the United States, before there even was a United States. There were no slave ships in the time after the U.S. Revolutionary War. All slave ships predate the U.S..
And have you looked at Africa lately? Would you really want to live there? By all means, if past slavery makes it so impossible for you to live in this country, by all means leave. Here's what you get to look forward to in your great home called Africa; disease, famine, rampant ethnic cleansing, and more. If the muslims aren't trying to kill you there because you aren't muslim, then some tribal hundreds year old conflict is raging trying to kill you. And if not that, you'll die of hunger, or one of hundreds of rampant diseases, a large animal or any number of snakes that go where they please, or a lack of any kind of decent sanitation in most of the continent. You should thank your lucky stars your ancestors were brought here to be slaves, even though slavery was and is dead wrong and just about the worst thing one human can do to another. But bottom line, if there was no slavery, it's doubtful that even half of the blacks in the U.S. who did not immigrate here the past hundred years would even be alive, as it's quite a long shot that all those generations of their ancestors the past 300+ years would have actually survived in Africa to have had them or their parents, etc so on.
That's reality. Not popular. Not pretty. But reality. Congress has no business wasting time on an apology being made for mistakes made for people dead for over 100 years. Especially since the people who made the mistakes weren't even Americans. The people who made the initial mistakes, well their ancestors mostly live in Europe, in Spain, England, and France. Congress should be worrying about the war and rampant illegal flow across our borders which is a perfect cover for terrorist incursions across our border with nuclear or biological weapons, and certainly not wasting any time on apologies for things that the United States had no part in starting. What a waste of time. I'm disappointed Senator Allen would even consider it. All this P.C. warm fuzzy crap in the face of sheer stupidity is really getting tiresome.
13 posted on
05/01/2006 9:45:55 AM PDT by
TexasPatriot8
(Vote Republican. A conservative America, for a better future.)
To: Crackingham
What else are they going to do? Nothing much going on right now that needs their attention.
To: Crackingham
[...Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) said he believes a congressional resolution expressing remorse for slavery would be a "powerful, worthy" idea.]
Yeah, that's what we need. Forward thinking politicians solving everyday problems... like the ongoing problem of slavery.
15 posted on
05/01/2006 10:12:53 AM PDT by
spinestein
(The mainstream news media are to journalism what fast food chains are to fine dining.)
To: Crackingham
I wonder where Allen's protesting today...
19 posted on
05/01/2006 10:25:36 AM PDT by
Iscool
(You mess with me, you mess with the whole trailer park...)
To: Crackingham
Will this ever end?
Not likely any time soon, since certain race-hucksters have a vested interest in keeping the hate going.
21 posted on
05/01/2006 10:31:09 AM PDT by
BooksForTheRight.com
(what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
To: Crackingham; EDINVA; iceskater; xyz123; Mudboy Slim; Corin Stormhands; jla; Flora McDonald; ...
Allen PING..............
Here we go again.....~~~~~SIGH~~~~
23 posted on
05/01/2006 10:39:50 AM PDT by
Gabz
(Smokers are the beta version)
To: Crackingham
So what do you think of the article you've posted?
24 posted on
05/01/2006 10:41:04 AM PDT by
Coop
(Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
To: Crackingham
Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) said he believes a congressional resolution expressing remorse for slavery would be a "powerful, worthy" idea.
So much for Allen as a presidential "rising star". The GOP HAS to find a contender for '08 or we are going to be hearing "Madame President" for at least 4 years starting in January of '09.
29 posted on
05/01/2006 11:27:47 AM PDT by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: Crackingham
On a weekend pilgrimage to this town that was once the center of massive resistance to desegregation, Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) said he believes a congressional resolution expressing remorse for slavery would be a "powerful, worthy" idea
What a dumba##. Tha'st exactly what the slavery reparations crowd wants.
Why does the Republican party shoot themselves in the foot every day.
Looks like it's up to Pence in '08, this guy is a friggin' fool
38 posted on
05/03/2006 8:39:23 AM PDT by
Vision
("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
To: Crackingham
I wonder then if there we should expect to receive a big "Thank You" resolution to the descendants of all of the soldiers killed during the Civil War. Maybe even some kind of reparation for the soldiers surviving generations. Better yet, how about giving their great, great, great, grandchildren special preference for getting into college and being promoted on the job?
Nah!
That would be discrimination, and that's supposed to be a bad thing.
41 posted on
05/03/2006 11:20:47 AM PDT by
markedman
(Islam means surrender, and I will NEVER surrender!)
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