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?
Remember "Pappy" Boyington first........
Failure to do so, means that anything else is "PC" Bravo Sierra.
FACT.
The capitol is a memorial for those who built it. Put a plaque on it commemorating that fact. Enuf already!
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.
Now, let's get on with the discussion about how Democrats are putting at risk our national security.
What was a 'slave'? I don't seem to remember that term in my lifetime? Was it from the medieval ages?
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.
What? You mean clean up the place?
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.
***"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!
"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??????
My mother is Jewish, my father is Catholic. I have both guilts.
The elitism never ends.
"The D.C. commissioners, charged by Congress with building the new city under the direction of the president, initially planned to import workers from Europe to meet their labor needs. However, response to recruitment was dismal and soon they turned to African Americans – slave and free – to provide the bulk of labor that built the White House, the United States Capitol, and other early government buildings."
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/05/subs/05_c.html
"Often working seven days a week during the high construction summer months alongside white workers and artisans, black laborers proved vital to the work force that created both the White House and U.S. Capitol."
Wot?!
White workers?