[Crawdad]

Those recommendations include establishing a Restructuring & Development Authority endowed by governments, media and businesses -- particularly those that benefited from the riot and subsequent takeover of state government by white supremacists. The commission also recommended creating a system for hearing claims for reparations by heirs of victims.....

"Certainly, an apology is the minimum thing that is required," said Irving Joyner, a commission vice chairman and a law professor at N.C. Central University in Durham. "I would hope they would go further and look at all the recommendations in our report and seek to get all or some of them enacted by the legislature.

That sound you hear in the background is the sound of crashing county and city bond ratings in North Carolina.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I might take a flaming for this, but on it's surface, Hargrove's (R-Hanover County) "get over it" comment regarding slavery was on the mark.

It's over. Much has been done. Much left to do. But damn it, It's friggin' over. Look forward, not back. And for God sake, stop trying to extract blood money.

(Not aiming at you Crawdad-just a mini-rant at the lot of them)