Memorial eyed for slaves who helped build Capitol

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[LouAvul]

"It's so apropos that America says, 'Yes, a wrong has been committed, and let's educate people that black people have made a significant contribution to America,' " Ballard says.

And how many times, and for how long, must we repeat it?

I, for one, never owned a slave and never shot an indian. Therefore, is it necessary for me to feel guilt?

[Howie66]

Remember "Pappy" Boyington first........

Failure to do so, means that anything else is "PC" Bravo Sierra.

FACT.

[texianyankee]

The capitol is a memorial for those who built it. Put a plaque on it commemorating that fact. Enuf already!

[Loud Mime]

He's up to it again:

Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (Introduced in House)

HR 40 IH

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 40

To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 4, 2005

Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. CLAY, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. LEE, Mr. MEEK of Florida, Mr. NADLER, Mr. OLVER, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. RUSH, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. WATERS, Mr. WATT, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Ms. NORTON, Mr. OWENS, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. TOWNS, and Ms. WATSON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

[starfish923]

And how many times, and for how long, must we repeat it? I, for one, never owned a slave and never shot an indian. Therefore, is it necessary for me to feel guilt?

The world does the same with Germany. The sins of their mostrous 13-year-history (1932-45) will be visited on them and their entire progeny until time stops.
Mind you, Italy, Russia and Japan, lockstep with Hitler, have been forgiven already. But, the Germans will be punished forever.

YOU and we other non-minorities will be whipped forever for the sins of our ancestors. Never mind where the slave trade started, who the slaves got captured and sold BY or that the slave trade still exists, the sins SHALL be visited on the sons until time stops.

That's human nature. Racism, bigotry, that is, all elitism is a TWO-WAY STREET, but only to people with common sense, straight, clear thinking and a sense of justice.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

OK. So slaves helped build monuments and buildings in WDC. This, of course, should be acknowledged in some appropriate manner (such as a plaque, monument, etc.).

Now, let's get on with the discussion about how Democrats are putting at risk our national security.

[VastRWCon]

More salt on the wound, these race pimps/agitators wont stop. Maybe we should turn MLK day into African American Day and be done with it like they did GWashington and ALincoln birthdays... come on.. good enough for the white guys.... should be good enough for the AAs. Oh, wait dont they have a whole MONTH??? Geesh...

[eeriegeno]

What was a 'slave'? I don't seem to remember that term in my lifetime? Was it from the medieval ages?

[longtermmemmory]

They have a whole shakedown memorial for black americans going next to the washington monument. They can put something there.

of course they will make it so that the ENTIRE original DC was made by slaves and abraham lincoln was whipping them with the help of George washington.

[Sofa King]

I think we should build the memorial.

They we should build a memorial to the people who built it.

The people who build that memorial will get a plaque on the wall and a street named after them.

[Sofa King]

*Then we should build a memorial to the people who built it.

[yankeedame]

"It was seeing history in the form of discarded old faded photostats lying on top of filing cabinets, and saying, 'My God, this is incredible. Why hasn't anybody done anything about it?' " Hotaling says.

What? You mean clean up the place?

[stylin19a]

Time to hold the Rats feet to the fire.
At every turn, any Rat running for office should be asked a question like this:
"Senator Clinton, should blacks get reparations ?"

[yankeedame]

OK. So slaves helped build monuments and buildings in WDC. This, of course, should be acknowledged in some appropriate manner...

Why? Where do you draw the line? With what group? With what time frame/monument? IMHO this whole thing smacks of the implication that w/o slaves working on the monument [ oh, shades of "Ben Hur"!] it -- and just about everything else in this country -- would have never gotten built. That it was the slaves that found the straw for bricks.

[solitas]

"It's so apropos that America says, 'Yes, a wrong has been committed, and let's educate people that black people have made a significant contribution to America,' " Ballard says.

You've got a whole month that we patiently suffer through all that re-hashed doo-dah. STFU.

…he figured out that by hooking a rope into an iron eye on its crown and instructing men to gently pull on it, the statue would come apart in its original sections, according to records at the Capitol.

A genius, that one.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***"It's so apropos that America says, 'Yes, a wrong has been committed, and let's educate people that black people have made a significant contribution to America,' " Ballard says. ***

How about a memorial for those buildings built by freed slaves in Little Rock, Ark. that were destroyed to make room for X42's trailer house LIE-brary!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I was referring to the constructions of the era which might have been produced using slave labor. I see no problem with acknowledging that.

[peggybac]

"In the late 1700s, when a federal commission began planning to build the Capitol, it hired slaves to work alongside free black and white workers."

Will these white workers be included??????