Posted on 01/17/2007 5:59:26 AM PST by ItMatters2Me
After two black legislators denounced his comments yesterday on a proposed state apology for slavery, a Hanover County delegate told a Jewish lawmaker who also was upset that his skin was too thin.
Del. David L. Englin, D-Alexandria, who is Jewish, took Del. Frank D. Hargrove Sr., R-Hanover, to task for "inflammatory" comments Hargrove made to the Charlottesville Daily Progress.
Hargrove was quoted as saying that asking the state to apologize for slavery would be akin to asking Jews to apologize for killing Christ.
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Socialism is Slavery by Giverment..
AND MOST Blacks and Jews want MORE OF IT...
Go figure..
A statehouse is not a watering hole and referencing blood libel is just a bad move.
It is wrong and as far as I am concerned and if Mr. Dwight Clinton Jones was in fact enslaved then he deserves a full apology.
"thin skin" is an anti-Jewish epithet?
Get over it. ;-)
A better choice of words would have been to "Move on". It was the Democrats mantra 6 months after Clinton was caught with the busty intern.
Hargrove has been a great Hanover County Delegate. His quotes originated from a Charlottesville newpaper interview. It's not as if he stood up in the Va Assembly, pounded his fist on the podium and snarled these opinions with caustic intent. He made these comments in response to a current proposal to use the Jamestown 400th Anniversary as an opportunity to apologize to all blacks and all indians. HE HAS A POINT! (How long before the Revs. (Jesse and Al) descend on Richmond?)
No, the blood libel reference was the ambiguously anti-Semitic part.
It's a bad move only because the Press and the Professionally Aggrieved will misrepresent it. The statement is, in fact, accurate. The current government of the Commonwealth of Virginia is no more responsible for plantation slavery than any currently alive Jews are responsible for the Crucifixion. Less, in fact; if you are a Christian, you'll agree that ALL of us bear some 'responsibility' for Christ's sacrificial death.
The Jews killed Christ? I thought it was Pontius Pilate?
I also want an apology from the Roman Empire regarding the invasions of Gaul and Britain.
I think "thin skin" is anti-white epithet.
Look how bad white boxers bleed. I saw Rocky 1,2,3,4,5.
He bleed like a pig in all of them.
I'm offended that Englin is offended because Hargrove offended two black legislators who were offended because Hargrove offended them which then offended Englin because Hargrove won't apologize for offending the two blacks.
Sheesh, get a FREAKING Life. Being perpetually 'offended' is childish and STOO-PID™.
And if this offends you, here's a quarter -- call someone who cares.
The nails and spear were wielded by Roman Soldiers, who were "chust vollowink orrrdersss."
Pontius Pilate issued those orders.
The Sanhedrin and Herod put him up to it, and raised up a loud, angry mob in Jerusalem for backup.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John did a pretty good job of recording the whole sordid affair. And Moses did a pretty good job of recording why it was all necessary, and how we ALL are in some way responsible for it.
did john deere apologize for making hand labor obsolete?
I demand an apology from Norway for the Vikings sacking the home of my Irisu ancestors sometime in the last 1,000 years.
I also want reperations :)
CARTMAN: "Not all the Jews have to apologize. Just Kyle."
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