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Senate Backs Apology for Slavery
Washington Post ^
| 6/20/2009
| Krissah Thompson
Posted on 06/19/2009 6:19:13 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: mikelets456
There is still slavery in the Sudan. Black on black slavery. If these black people really cared about the issue of slavery they would want to end what is going on in the Sudan. Apparently an apology to them is worth more than the enslavement of fellow black people.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:39:42 AM PDT
by
rick11
To: Blue Turtle
An apology??? hmmmm, are we being set up for more $$$$$ donations to the minority community ?
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I hope so. They need the money to pay me for invading Portugal years ago.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:39:53 AM PDT
by
Radl
(sai)
To: mikelets456
To be blunt, if the black community ever wants to achieve true equality, then a very big first step would be to stop portraying themselves as victims.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:41:04 AM PDT
by
mquinn
(Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
To: mikelets456
What most never seem to understand about slavery, is that the vast majority of slaves throughout history were captives of conflicts. If there had been no financial incentive to keep them, they would of just been slaughtered, which is what happens today in places like Rwanda.
Personally, if I was on the losing end of a war and had the option of living as a slave or being executed on the spot, I'd have chosen life. I understand that some, possibly many would choose death, but is it really more humane to outlaw slavery than to remove the hope of the defeated to at least continue to live, even as slaves?
To: mikelets456
Harkin will be signing copies of his new autobiography, “Wings Over Hanoi.”
To: mikelets456
No surprise that Harkin, the Vietnam fighter Pilot Liar, is in the middle of this farce.
To: mikelets456
You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago, Because back in 1861 we apologized for it at a cost of more lives lost than all other wars fought by this country before or since. Hows that for an apology Senator Harkin?
To: Non-Sequitur
If the Democrats pass any legislation giving cash reparations to blacks as payment for slavery that will result in the immediate death of the Democratic Party.
Don’t be so sure about that. The same thing could have once been said for Gay Marriage or any manner of idiocy. The fact is that once these loony ideas have been around for sufficiently long, they tend to get adopted. They better watch it on this issue though.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:56:56 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: ridesthemiles
Maybe we should do it to finally to shut off the debate give each former slave $1,000,000,000. I'd be all for that, every 150 year old ex slave line up at the White House and have Barry write them out a check.
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To: mikelets456
I have never owned a slave. Nor would I want to.
I have nothing to apologize for.
To: mikelets456
Good grief. This crap will never end.
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posted on
06/19/2009 7:03:04 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
To: Blue Turtle
An apology??? hmmmm, are we being set up for more $$$$$ donations to the minority community ?
Yup. It'll make the billions of dollars that ACORN has stolen look like chump change.
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posted on
06/19/2009 7:04:12 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
To: mikelets456
The apology would have been more historically accurate if it had mentioned the role of the Democratic Party in supporting and enforcing both slavery and segregation.
Send the reparations bill to the DNC.
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posted on
06/19/2009 7:05:24 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
To: 4rcane
“Democrats still practice the ancient tradition of fathers sin becomes the sons sin”
Not exactly. You see, the Democrats were the party that supported both slavery and Jim Crow.
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posted on
06/19/2009 7:06:54 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
To: 4rcane
Actually...the Constitution prevents Congress passing crimes through bloodlines.
Of course, now that we have a wise Latina woman on the Court I can see reparations being upheld 5-4.
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posted on
06/19/2009 7:07:38 AM PDT
by
kjo
To: mikelets456
My ancestors fought to free the slaves. I’m holding out for a ‘thank you’ from the slaves descendants...
Frankly, I think the only apology needed was given during the Civil War.
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posted on
06/19/2009 7:09:53 AM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
To: mikelets456
So descendants of those who fought and died fighting for the Union have to apologize for slavery?
So the majority of the country descended from immigrants who came here after the Civil War have to apologize for something they nor their ancestors had a part of?
The current Dems are total buffoons...of course we all here know that.
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To: Comanche
Maybe we should do it to finally to shut off the debate give each former slave $1,000,000,000.
We're all becoming slaves to the government. The productive part of society, that is.
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posted on
06/19/2009 7:16:37 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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