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Virginia Delegate Offends Blacks, Jews (Re Slavery: Says Blacks Should 'Get Over It')
Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 01/17/2007 | PAMELA STALLSMITH and OLYMPIA MEOLA

Posted on 01/17/2007 5:59:26 AM PST by ItMatters2Me

After two black legislators denounced his comments yesterday on a proposed state apology for slavery, a Hanover County delegate told a Jewish lawmaker who also was upset that his skin was too thin.

Del. David L. Englin, D-Alexandria, who is Jewish, took Del. Frank D. Hargrove Sr., R-Hanover, to task for "inflammatory" comments Hargrove made to the Charlottesville Daily Progress.

Hargrove was quoted as saying that asking the state to apologize for slavery would be akin to asking Jews to apologize for killing Christ.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: hargrove; slavery; virginia
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1 posted on 01/17/2007 5:59:30 AM PST by ItMatters2Me
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To: ItMatters2Me
[ Virginia Delegate Offends Blacks, Jews (Re Slavery: Says Blacks Should 'Get Over It') ]

Socialism is Slavery by Giverment..
AND MOST Blacks and Jews want MORE OF IT...

Go figure..

2 posted on 01/17/2007 6:02:38 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: ItMatters2Me

A statehouse is not a watering hole and referencing blood libel is just a bad move.


3 posted on 01/17/2007 6:06:00 AM PST by wideawake
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To: ItMatters2Me
No one should have to "get over" slavery.

It is wrong and as far as I am concerned and if Mr. Dwight Clinton Jones was in fact enslaved then he deserves a full apology.

4 posted on 01/17/2007 6:06:03 AM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: ItMatters2Me

"thin skin" is an anti-Jewish epithet?


5 posted on 01/17/2007 6:06:41 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: expatguy

Get over it. ;-)


7 posted on 01/17/2007 6:10:12 AM PST by verity (Muhammed is a Dirt Bag)
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To: ItMatters2Me

A better choice of words would have been to "Move on". It was the Democrats mantra 6 months after Clinton was caught with the busty intern.


8 posted on 01/17/2007 6:11:34 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: ItMatters2Me

Hargrove has been a great Hanover County Delegate. His quotes originated from a Charlottesville newpaper interview. It's not as if he stood up in the Va Assembly, pounded his fist on the podium and snarled these opinions with caustic intent. He made these comments in response to a current proposal to use the Jamestown 400th Anniversary as an opportunity to apologize to all blacks and all indians. HE HAS A POINT! (How long before the Revs. (Jesse and Al) descend on Richmond?)


9 posted on 01/17/2007 6:12:30 AM PST by ItMatters2Me
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To: Teacher317

No, the blood libel reference was the ambiguously anti-Semitic part.


10 posted on 01/17/2007 6:12:40 AM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake
A statehouse is not a watering hole and referencing blood libel is just a bad move.

It's a bad move only because the Press and the Professionally Aggrieved will misrepresent it. The statement is, in fact, accurate. The current government of the Commonwealth of Virginia is no more responsible for plantation slavery than any currently alive Jews are responsible for the Crucifixion. Less, in fact; if you are a Christian, you'll agree that ALL of us bear some 'responsibility' for Christ's sacrificial death.

11 posted on 01/17/2007 6:15:30 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ItMatters2Me

The Jews killed Christ? I thought it was Pontius Pilate?


12 posted on 01/17/2007 6:15:52 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: ItMatters2Me
I demand that the Michigan Legislature pass a resolution condemning the treatment of serfs by their feudal lords in the 1400s.

I also want an apology from the Roman Empire regarding the invasions of Gaul and Britain.

13 posted on 01/17/2007 6:15:59 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Teacher317

I think "thin skin" is anti-white epithet.
Look how bad white boxers bleed. I saw Rocky 1,2,3,4,5.
He bleed like a pig in all of them.


14 posted on 01/17/2007 6:21:50 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: ItMatters2Me
Someone call a Whaaaaambulance

I'm offended that Englin is offended because Hargrove offended two black legislators who were offended because Hargrove offended them which then offended Englin because Hargrove won't apologize for offending the two blacks.

Sheesh, get a FREAKING Life. Being perpetually 'offended' is childish and STOO-PID™.

And if this offends you, here's a quarter -- call someone who cares.

15 posted on 01/17/2007 6:22:11 AM PST by Condor51 (The demoncRATs don't want another 'Vietnam' - they want another Dien Bien Phu.)
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To: Calpernia
The Jews killed Christ? I thought it was Pontius Pilate?

The nails and spear were wielded by Roman Soldiers, who were "chust vollowink orrrdersss."

Pontius Pilate issued those orders.

The Sanhedrin and Herod put him up to it, and raised up a loud, angry mob in Jerusalem for backup.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John did a pretty good job of recording the whole sordid affair. And Moses did a pretty good job of recording why it was all necessary, and how we ALL are in some way responsible for it.

16 posted on 01/17/2007 6:23:09 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
I've read the bible. 3 different 'interpretations'.

I was bringing attention to Hargrove's analogy
17 posted on 01/17/2007 6:26:02 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: expatguy

did john deere apologize for making hand labor obsolete?


18 posted on 01/17/2007 6:27:03 AM PST by himno hero
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To: Tokra

I demand an apology from Norway for the Vikings sacking the home of my Irisu ancestors sometime in the last 1,000 years.

I also want reperations :)


19 posted on 01/17/2007 6:28:03 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Let's make this an Obamagasm free zone)
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To: ItMatters2Me; EveningStar
Hargrove was quoted as saying that asking the state to apologize for slavery would be akin to asking Jews to apologize for killing Christ.

CARTMAN: "Not all the Jews have to apologize. Just Kyle."

20 posted on 01/17/2007 6:28:51 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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