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The Right Way To Apologize For Slavery
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| December 13, 2015
| Jeff Jacoby
Posted on 12/14/2015 6:35:11 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: fruser1
Those reparations will come due but not in this world.
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:24:29 AM PST
by
xp38
To: Kaslin
The history of the world is filled with exploitation, tragedy, cruelty and misery. Its filled with people taking advantage of other people. Its filled with people acting cruel to other people, sometimes for centuries. Picking out Western slavery and apologizing for it is silly in the grand scheme of things. No one alive today owned a slave or was a slave. No one should buy into historic, collective guilt.
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:26:11 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Steamburg
The best apology for slavery is to stop treating blacks as 'special'. The best apology for slavery is to stop treating blacks as âspecialâ. They are special; just not in the way they imagine it.
Today, I'd rather dis the subhuman muslims. Talk about modern 21st Century Africans!
Come and get me, DOJ!
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:27:06 AM PST
by
publius911
(IMPEACH HIM NOW! evil ignorant stupid or crazy-doesn't matter!)
To: goldstategop
Its race-baiting, pure and simple. Word.
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:27:46 AM PST
by
DungeonMaster
(Democrats have covens, not conventions.)
To: Vermont Lt
If we gave them forty acres and a mule, they would have no idea what to do with them.We did!
They never could find the 40 acres and ate the mule...
Delayed gratification has never been their strong suit!
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:29:44 AM PST
by
publius911
(IMPEACH HIM NOW! evil ignorant stupid or crazy-doesn't matter!)
To: Kaslin
Yeah, I've never enslaved anyone. Neither has any ancestor in my family's recorded history, but that's neither here nor there - I'm not answerable for any misdeeds done by other people at their own behest, even if those other people were my ancestors.
And no person alive has ever been held in legally sanctioned slavery in the US. No person alive in the US is entitled to claim any compensation as a result of some wrong-doing that happened to other people, even if those other people were their ancestors.
If this were to be the case, not only would that person be entitled to reparations, so would every descendant of that person - after all, what's so unique about the descendants of slaves living now? Why shouldn't their children and grand-children also demand reparations in their turn? And if we're now going to follow this novel legal precedent, then I can with perfect logic demand that the children, grand-children, and great-grand children of the guy who robbed me 20 years ago all continue to compensate me and my descendants forever.
To: Old Sarge
"GIBS-ME-DAT" (n.) 1. Annuities, in the form of goods, services, or material, given predominately to blacks, in exchange for their tacit agreement to reciprocate by not burning down America's cities [their own neighborhoods].
There.
Fixed it.
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:34:21 AM PST
by
publius911
(IMPEACH HIM NOW! evil ignorant stupid or crazy-doesn't matter!)
To: Kaslin
Before I apologize, have the NSA prove I purchased and beat any slaves.
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:52:30 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Kaslin
None of the present day backs were evr slaves.
none of the present day whites were ever slaveowners.
So, sit down and STHU already.
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:53:24 AM PST
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: Kaslin
I already apologized not just to every slave I owned but also to all the slaves my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, and great-great-great-grandparents owned. That didn’t seem like enough, so I also bought each and every one of them 40 acres and a mule. I’m done. I’ve made restitution for everything done by the past six generations of my family. Let’s move on and in the words of that famously politically incorrect leader known for his microaggressions, judge others not “by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
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posted on
12/14/2015 7:58:14 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: Arm_Bears
If the US as a whole apologizes for slavery, will Blacks shut up about it? Probably they won't, but they should since they are as much a part of the whole as any other citizen. It seems to me that the act of repentance is just showboating as there are no slaves left alive to accept an apology nor any slave holders left to offer such.
To further complicate the issues, there were black slave owners. There were voluntary immigrants who were indentured to their employers when they borrowed to pay for their passage, they were held as bonded servants until their debt was expunged.
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
12/14/2015 8:35:08 AM PST
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, but it's OK. They all know me here.)
To: Arm_Bears
I never owned slaves. I have no need to apologize.
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posted on
12/14/2015 9:57:57 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: Kaslin
Slavery was not a uniquely American barbarity, of course. It existed in every epoch and was a universal norm long before European colonists brought it to the New World. Another ahistorical myth.
Slavery existed in the New World before the arrival of the Europeans.
The Native Americans practiced slavery just as much as the Europeans. They may have had different slavery traditions such as their slaves could eventually become members of the tribe. But the took slaves just the same.
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:18:39 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Kaslin
Slavery existed in the past. Slavery is as old as humanity.
Slavery exist in the present.
Slavery will exist in the future. Slavery is a fundamental part of Islam so it will exist as long as Islam infects humanity.
So get used to it and if you want to extinguish slavery from humanity first extinguish Islam.
Otherwise get over it and be thankful you live in the United States. A country that went to war with itself to free all of those that lived in bondage within its borders.
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:34:08 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: goldstategop
True words
Singing from the same hymnal
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posted on
12/14/2015 12:53:16 PM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Kaslin
meaningless tripe
but blacks aren’t looking any verbal appolgiese...
THEY WANT DA MULLA AND MORE FREE STUFF....
my advice.... get an education, get a job and keep a family unit
verus
living like subhuman wild animals
owned by the libtards
seems to me the blacks continue to take the free stuff for generations
rahter than stand on their own two feet ...
ironically the enslave themselves..... willingly
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posted on
12/14/2015 1:10:42 PM PST
by
zzwhale
To: goldstategop
They'll demand reparations, affirmative action and the whole kit and kaboodle.Give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
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posted on
12/14/2015 1:15:41 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: goldstategop
It doesn’t make any sense at all. There should be no African Americans lacking in jobs, education and advancement. They are promoted, hired and/or accepted into schools above everyone else. Why this apologizing, it makes no sense
To: publius911
Surely there are some Viking raiders waaaaaaaaaaay back in my bloodline. NOT SORRY. Hahahahahaha.
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posted on
12/14/2015 6:35:23 PM PST
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: Kaslin
Never owned a slave.
While slavery was legal in the USA most of my ancestors could not vote on the matter so had zero voice.
Chances are that the ones further back who did own slaves did not own Africans.
But even if the last two statements are not true as long as the first is true you owe no apology to anyone.
Unless you happen to own a time traveling Delorean there is diddly squat you can do about the past.
Build a bridge and get over it.
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posted on
12/14/2015 6:45:12 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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