House poised to apologize for slavery

[Bent]

F-ing bleeding heart liberal morons are just pandering, again.

 

[Darky]

I'll keep this short and sweet:

If African Americans truly want equality, they need to stop bringing up the inequalities of the past.

Let it go. When I talk to an African American, I don't see them as a victim of slavery, I see them as another human being. If they bring it up constantly, though, that's all America will see them for.

I prefer black, thank you very much...

 

[TheAlmightySam]

Blah blah blah. Just a bunch of bad noise, that's all you are, Bent. Do you have anything constructive to say on these topics, or are you just the 5-year-old who busts into the room to interrupt the adults and shout his opinion?

 

[RichP]

Hey, I want an apology from the government too, back in the 60's thanks to those 'heroes' MLK, JFK and LBJ I was bussed to a inner city school an hour away in 6th grade, there I was stabbed twice and slashed once, won't even go into the times I was beatup. :rattle: :rattle: :rattle: :rattle:

 

[Darky]

Well, he's probably right...Its nothing but a case of pandering to a particular group to appease them, nice coincidence that the first black man to ever run for president is running this year...

 

[Bent]

Do you have anything constructive to say on these topics?

Nope, just accurate.

 

[TheAlmightySam]

Well, he's probably right...Its nothing but a case of pandering to a particular group to appease them, nice coincidence that the first black man to ever run for president is running this year...

It is just pandering, I agree. But it's not just the Democrats doing the pandering. From the CNN article:

"In April, the Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, that apologized to Native Americans for "the many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect."

In 1993 the Senate also passed a resolution apologizing for the "illegal overthrow" of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893.

In 1988, Congress passed and President Reagan signed an act apologizing to the 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were held in detention camps during World War II. The 60,000 detainees who were alive at the time each received $20,000 from the government."

Both sides are guilty of these wastes of time.

 

[Bent]

Both sides are guilty of these wastes of time.

True.

 

[TheAlmightySam]

You know, it's amazing, Bent - I'll bet when the Democrats are in power, like now, conservatives bitch that nothing gets done. When Republicans in power, progressives bitch that nothing gets done.

I'll bet you we're both right. It's not that the Democrats don't get anything done or the Republicans don't get anything done - nothing ever gets done by either side. And a lot of that is due to little bullshit things like this. It's not that I have a problem with them apologizing - what I have a problem with is that we're spending so much effort in Congress to apologize, rather come to a resolution on say the housing crisis or high fuel prices or the war or...

 

[Bent]

It's not that I have a problem with them apologizing...

There is no need for apologizing for something we abolished and in part went into a civil war to do so. Should an apology be issued to the descendents of the southern plantation owners for property and economic losses? Should an apology be issued to England for stealing their colonies? Should we apologize to Mexican immigrants for not keeping Mexico and making it part of the US?

 

[TheAlmightySam]

Simply put, Bent, I agree.

 

[welldone]

i'd say to the ones that want reparations. send them back to africa and give them a stick and tell them to have a good-one. don't they know that when they had their tribial wars the loosing tribe was placed in slavary. and all the slave traders did was go over and trade for them. they where already in slavery. so they should be getting that apologize for from what ever country they came from.

 

[JNickel101]

Thats just the thing - the US basically BOUGHT a country in Africa and offered to send any former slaves back to their homeland....

I wonder how many actually took the gov't up on that deal...

 

[RichP]

Thats just the thing - the US basically BOUGHT a country in Africa and offered to send any former slaves back to their homeland....

I wonder how many actually took the gov't up on that deal...

About the same number of celebrities who vowed to leave the US if GWB got relected.... none.

 

[JNickel101]

:roflmao:

 

[Bent]

About the same number of celebrities who vowed to leave the US if GWB got relected.... none.

I want my vote back!

 

[Tom R.]

...nice coincidence that the first black man to ever run for president is running this year...

Eh, just wanted to point out a minor correction… there were at least six others who ran for prez before Obama.

Also, Obama is multiracial (I hate that word since we are of one race, but it gets the point across). Multicultural Psychologists say Obama is actually less "black" than "white" due to miscegenation on his father’s side. So, technically, he has more European lineage (chiefly English) than he does African (Kenyan). So, in that sense of the term he's not a black man, though he remains a man of color.

 

[Darky]

Eh, just wanted to point out a minor correction… there were at least six others who ran for prez before Obama.

Also, Obama is multiracial (I hate that word since we are of one race, but it gets the point across). Multicultural Psychologists say Obama is actually less "black" than "white" due to miscegenation on his father’s side. So, technically, he has more European lineage (chiefly English) than he does African (Kenyan). So, in that sense of the term he's not a black man, though he remains a man of color.

Who else ran? I never heard of any...

 

[ECKSJAY]

Who else ran? I never heard of any...

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton come to mind in recent years. :gee: Oh yeah, Alan Keyes too...

 

[Darky]

So they actually did run? I thought it was a joke!
Didn't know Alan Keyes was black, but I never paid much attention to him as I think I must've young enough not to care...