Texas GOP leaders are issuing apologies for slavery

Did you know that several Republican leaders in Texas have been issuing apologies for slavery and bigotry on behalf of our party? They are and it includes our immediate former Republican Party of Texas Chairman Susan Weddington.

Democrat liberals do this sort of thing all the time when pandering and race hustling to Jesse Jackson and his following for votes, but to see this sort of stuff from Republican leaders seems unbelievable.Since this story is so far fetched many have experienced disbelief in it at first. But rest assured, it happened and here is the evidence that could be assembled from an extensive search via GOOGLE and from other FR discussions

At the 1998 State GOP Convention Weddington hosted a "prayer breakfast at the state Republican convention by confessing to the sin of racism and urging others in the overwhelmingly white crowd to do the same." - The Houston Chronicle, June 14, 1998

"Instead of reviling their political opponents with every breath, Republicans at the convention confessed to their own racism in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a black man in Jasper. They mourned the racist sins long rampant in the white church throughout Texas and urged others to do the same. While a piano tinkled above the crack of gum on the jaw, they prayed to heaven to heal the land. This was not hypocrisy. This was heartfelt self-criticism, well-deserved."

- Editorial about Weddington's apologies from liberal columnist James Howard Gibbons, The Houston Chronicle, June 22, 1998

"For thousands of delegates, including Texas GOP Chairwoman Susan Weddington, the day began with a prayer service that ended with a call
for Jesus Christ to "rule over us again." The service offered a message of repentance for a variety of societal ills, including slavery and the misuse of religion." - Austin American Statesman, June 17, 2000

FACT 1: Susan Weddington has issued her repentance in her official capacity of Chairman of the Republican Party as our elected representative and leader. She stated so in her own words at a 2003 apology ceremony in Houston:

"I, in the authority I have as Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, Father, I repent. And I ask forgiveness and I further ask to be able to forgive the African American leaders who walked away from their party"

FACT 2: Susan Weddington has specifically said that "white Republicans" have "caused" racial wounds in our country. She stated so in her own words from a May 14, 2004 article that she wrote:

"People who were unjust like to hide their history. I knew David Barton and I said, ‘David, you’re a historian. You’ve got to hunt for this.’ I knew that God wanted me to do something with that knowledge, and I had the authority because I was in that position of power. I didn’t know all the wounds and all the breaches, but I knew that I could ask for forgiveness. And I said, ‘God, if you will forgive the injustices and the wounds caused by white Republicans in leadership rather than asking to serve along with the African leaders."

FACT 3: Susan Weddington thinks that the yankees were the "good guys" in the civil war and is embarrassed to learn that some of her ancestors were southerners. From the same May 14, 2004 article she wrote:

"A year ago I was in a car with my mother who is in her eighty’s...She said she was very moved by what she saw that day in David’s presentation of history in the church. She said to me in the car, “You do know that you’re great, great grandfather was a plantation owner in Jackson, Mississippi. He owned slaves.” I was devastated. The other part of my family that always gets talked about is from the North, so I thought we were part of the good guys."

FACT 4: RPT Vice Chairman David Barton has also participated in Weddington's apology ceremonies. Barton has attended several of the ceremonies referenced above with Weddington and stood at her side in approval as she issued her "repentance." Pictures from the 2003 ceremony in Houston show Barton standing next to a "slave kettle" when he is giving a presentation that is strongly biased against the south.

FACT 5: David Barton frequently cites the example of the notorious "Radical Republican" senator Charles Sumner as a hero for Republicans today. Barton praises Sumner at length in a presentation he does called "History in Black and White," even though most southerners to this day find Sumner to be a disreputable and repugnant figure in the history of our country. Historical Sidenote: Senator Sumner was well known as a crude, obnoxious, and foul mouthed politician whose verbal abuses contributed significantly to southern secession and the War Between the States. Many of the more mainstream Republicans even disliked him and a well known Abolitionist blamed the war on Sumner more than any other person. After the war Sumner notoriously preached an agenda of vengeance against the south in contrast to the message of the late Abraham Lincoln, who preached reconciliation. In the late 1860's he even tried to start a war with England over disputed payments from an English-built Confederate warship.

This sort of stuff is pandering, pure and simple, of the very worst Jesse Jackson Tom Daschle Hillary Clinton type and the GOP embarrasses itself by playing along.

It's exactly what DIRTXPOTUS, as he is sometimes called in these threads, did with his African trip. He wasn't even speaking to the assembled African kleptocrats who were laughing up their sleeves at his "apologies" for slavery's having existed.......he was addressing his remarks to the mostly-black citizens of the District of Columbia, who would provide any jury pool if Slick were ever to be indicted (as he so surely deserved) by Ken Starr.

The Great Pander Bear's big pander safari was all about keeping himself out of prison for selling his office to the Chinese and lying under oath about his sexual advances to Paula Jones.

..."HOLY CRAP!!!

Slavery is BANNED???
What about the family I have tending my garden and cleaning my garage???"...

You'd better hustle them out of town before Jesse shows up, crying "Let my people go!"
but, seriously, folks, I have not been able to figure out why we should all apologize for things that happened before we were born... It makes no sense whatsoever. And I really don't get how companies can be retroactively sued for doing things that were legal at the time, however morally wrong they may be now. A case in point is the Prudential Insurance Group. Yes, they insured slaves. And if any of the people who did that are still alive, maybe they could be sued but it's over and there is no case!! None.

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