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Sanders: 'We have got to apologize for slavery'
The Hill ^ | July 08, 2015 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 07/08/2015 3:46:12 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday said the nation owes an apology for slavery.

“As a nation — I don’t think as a president, but as a nation — we have got to apologize for slavery,” the 2016 Democratic presidential contender told host Joe Madison on Sirius XM’s “The Black Eagle.”

“As a nation we have got to apologize for slavery, and of course the president is the leader of the nation,” he added.

Sanders said that slavery had caused too much suffering to remain unaddressed.

“Obviously nobody in this generation was involved in slavery,” Sanders said.

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To: Clintonfatigued

The number crunchers have raised the number of men dying in the Civil War on both sides to 750,000. Now, Bernie, you idiot, maybe you own them an apology.


61 posted on 07/08/2015 4:09:41 PM PDT by odawg
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To: GreyFriar

“The Democrats need to apologize for their post civil war repression and attacks on African Americans by creating and sustaining the KKK, Jim Crow Laws, segregation, “separate but equal,” “ etc...

Exactly.

Saunders is engaging in demagoguery.


62 posted on 07/08/2015 4:09:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Clintonfatigued

I will never understand the logic of one group of people who did not commit the offense apologizing to another group of people who did not suffer the offense. Now, if Sanders can organize a mass seance and have the dead apologize to the dead, well alright.


63 posted on 07/08/2015 4:10:58 PM PDT by gusty
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To: Clintonfatigued

I never owned any slaves. My parents never owned any slaves. Same for my great grand parents, and so on. Piss off, Commie.


64 posted on 07/08/2015 4:13:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Clintonfatigued
“Obviously nobody in this generation was involved in slavery,” Sanders said.

Damn, Sherlock...you be sharp, huh?

You freaking idiot.

65 posted on 07/08/2015 4:13:09 PM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

We should apologize for slavery just as soon as Bernie apologizes for the Che t-shirts and for allowing American communists legitimacy.


66 posted on 07/08/2015 4:14:11 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

How many times?


67 posted on 07/08/2015 4:15:02 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Clintonfatigued

You Democrats can apologize and pay reparations all you want.


68 posted on 07/08/2015 4:15:39 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

Do not give them any ideas. The Democrats always pay the bill with other people’s money.


69 posted on 07/08/2015 4:16:45 PM PDT by gusty
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To: Clintonfatigued
Bernie, I never held slaves. There is no reason for me to apologize.
70 posted on 07/08/2015 4:18:32 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Forty-Niner
Under Obama......It’s already there!

Not yet it isn't. The agitators still only practice their street theater in places where they know they'll be given "space to destroy". They still know they likely won't survive a skirmish outside of those boundaries.

71 posted on 07/08/2015 4:22:25 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

OH PLz . Bernie..Go jump in a volcano.. Appease your anguish.

Stuff happened. OK? We need to get real and stop this mentality of its all our faults.ITs not.

150 years have passed.

Unfortunately, Folks who prize vengeance more than mercy yet all the spotlights.


72 posted on 07/08/2015 4:27:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

No.

My people, as well as what I suspect is a majority of today’s citizenry, came to this Nation AFTER the war between the states.

I owe nobody ANYTHING due to slavery.


73 posted on 07/08/2015 4:27:25 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
"I thought we already did that."

Yeah, but you really didn't mean it.

74 posted on 07/08/2015 4:27:59 PM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That 22 trillion wasn’t just for black folk.. It was spread across the nation.. Appalachia to FLorida, Detroit to LA..
Some ROI, huh?


75 posted on 07/08/2015 4:29:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Democrats need to apologize for bringing hoards of third world illegals into our country. Let’s start there.

That said, if Sanders can find a living American slave we’d all be happy to apologize. Personally.

If instead Sanders wants an apology given to the great grandchildren of slaves then blacks too can thank the children of white Americans who freed the slaves. Really, there’s more to this than one side. The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and it was fought to free the ‘ingrates’...

Then let’s put the civil war behind us... There’s plenty of pride and hurt feelings on both sides...


76 posted on 07/08/2015 4:30:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (How about 'Sanctuary Cities' for people who don't want to pay taxes? All illegals should be equal.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
This is WHY COMMUNISTS SHOULD BE BARRED FROM BEING IN THE UNITED STATES !
Bernie Sanders should be STRIPPED OF HIS CITIZENSHIP and DEPORTED out of the United STATES, and BANNED FROM EVER RETURNING !
77 posted on 07/08/2015 4:32:52 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Clintonfatigued

no apology is necessary

payment to the race has been made in the form of genes


78 posted on 07/08/2015 4:33:44 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

You do it bud. I had nothing to do with it.


79 posted on 07/08/2015 4:34:35 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Scr*w you, Bernie. My family never owned a slave but did lose men who were Union soldiers during the Civil War.

How about we get the Muslim slave traders and the black African tribes who sold their captives to these slave traders to be sent to the Americas apologize? In fact, our esteemed President has direct roots to that slave-trading crowd.

Did you ever wonder why there are so few Negros in the Middle Eastern countries when they all had lots of slaves, Bernie? The slaves sent to the Americas were the "lucky" ones. The slaves who went to the Muslim societies in the Middle East had their genitals removed before sale (no anesthesia in those days, Bernie) so they couldn't reproduce and be a threat to Muslim society. Of course, about 90% died of the operation but the remainder bought a nice price.

Riddle answered, you Commie schmuck...

80 posted on 07/08/2015 4:34:46 PM PDT by Gritty (The wicked strut freely about when what is vile is honored among men - Psalm 12:8)
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