The U.S. Senate apologized for slavery last night by a unanimous voice vote. How soon before a chunck of the economic stimulus is bitten off for reparations?
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Slavery Apology
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Posts: 1695 (06/19/09 7:08 AM) |
TexasEd62 wrote:The reparation bit has been tried before with no success. |
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Posts: 413 (06/19/09 8:50 AM) Active Member |
lid9cog wrote:Yes but we have never had an uncle tom in the whitehouse before either. Rad
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Posts: 7347 (06/19/09 9:18 AM) MODERATOR |
Why must I apologize? My grandparents were sharecroppers and dating all the way back to the old country on all lineages I can trace, none were slave owners.
Therefore, I have no need to apologize.
In fact, since I have been the victim of affirmative action, somebody owes me an apology, big time. When all else fails, BLAME BUSH! |
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Posts: 19 (06/19/09 9:51 AM) |
If everyone has to apologize for the actions of their ancestors based on today's morality, apologies are the only the Tip of the ice berg.
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Posts: 1696 (06/19/09 9:56 AM) |
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Posts: 235 (06/19/09 1:41 PM) |
Yes, it has been tried before. In fact it has come up now and again for at least the last two decades.
Wonder how they would respond to wrongful death lawsuits by the descendents of KIA Union veterens.
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Posts: 553 (06/19/09 4:47 PM) |
The way I see it if I have to apologize for my Great-Great who ever, then I should get a thank you card, because if it was not for slavery, many of those
people that are crying for an apology would still be in Africa, or from where ever, and not in the Great United States.
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Posts: 318 (06/19/09 5:41 PM) |
BWCRITCH wrote:........in Africa smearing cow dung in their hair, burning witches,and raping pygmies to get their "magical powers"! 
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06/19/09 5:46 PM.
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Posts: 4127 (06/19/09 6:43 PM) MODERATOR |
I really wonder if they remember who sold the slaves to the traders?
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Posts: 555 (06/19/09 7:23 PM) |
pepperbelly wrote:Good point, I forgot to mention there own kind being just as bad as anyone.
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Posts: 254 (06/20/09 11:38 AM) Active Member |
There's a lot of excellent points made. Anyone familiar with Job Corp? I might have the name wrong-but it is a Federally funded program that takes high
school dropouts(not sure if they keep them in a dorm & feed them), makes them earn a GED, teaches them a skill, and make them work. Comrade Obama tripled
funding for this program. Anyway, I've heard it is a backdoor slavery reparations deal.
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Posts: 557 (06/20/09 2:00 PM) |
zimzim65 wrote: I doubt that it is a back door anything. I know a lot of white people who have gone, infact I know of more white people who have gone than black people.
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Posts: 7352 (06/20/09 2:15 PM) MODERATOR |
Are you thinking of Job Corp or Americorp which Obama diverted funding to? Both are socialist bent programs. Americorp is a brainstorm of the same movement
that created ACORN, for community action. Glenn Beck did an excellent expose on it last night. It goes all the way back to to SDS of the 60's and yes,
Ayers was involved then as well as now. YES, it's a conspiracy created in the minds of Marxists. Design is to build federal funded organizations for
retraining and building up for Marxist government.
Glenn Beck on Saturday is usually a rerun of his Friday program, so you still got a shot at it. When all else fails, BLAME BUSH!
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Posts: 19 (06/20/09 2:49 PM) |
Let's not forget that it was Americans who died by the hundreds of thousands to free the slaves. That seems more valuable than an apology from the senate a
century and a half later. Talk about your hollow gesture.
...Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Benjamin Franklin
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TexasEd62 |
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Posts: 237 (06/20/09 3:25 PM) |
Thats right Whiskey3. Over 300,000 Union soldiers died to end that war. Isn't that apology enough? Not to mention the actual financial cost to both sides.
The South paid and paid dearly. Again, I wonder how a class action wrongful death suit would grab these reparationists?
And peperbelly, it was usually black muslim slave hunters who provided black infidels as slaves for the slave trade. TexasEd |
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Posts: 558 (06/20/09 4:03 PM) |
Whiskey3 wrote: Then lets remember they died for States rights, not for the soul intent of freeing slaves.
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Posts: 2724 (06/20/09 6:17 PM) MODERATOR |
And going back to States Rights is the only thing that is going to stop the Federal Machine now.
Long live the Swedish Mauser!!
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Whiskey3 |
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Posts: 20 (06/20/09 6:21 PM) |
Slavery was the only item on the list of pre-Civil War complaints that was capable of igniting a war. Not denying those issues, but they were not capable of
igniting a war.
...Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Benjamin Franklin
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TexasEd62 |
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Posts: 238 (06/20/09 7:27 PM) |
"It was about slavery, that's all it was ever about" - Nathan Bedford Forrest
Of course slavery wasn't illegal then and it was a right of individuals living within the states to own such property. Most couldn't afford it, though it was a rich man's game and even a few wealthy free blacks owned slaves. There was one such gentleman in Tyler, Texas as I recall. And as it turned out it (slavery) was the only right the people of the South considered worth going to war over. It was even worth turning their backs on the epitome of "States Rights." Which is what they did when they rejected "Popular Sovereignty." Eventually many Southern soldiers would come to see the struggle as a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. |
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Posts: 620 (06/25/09 2:57 PM) |
You should also note, that Lincoln didn't feel that slavery was an issue to go to war over. However, he did feel that keeping all the States joined as one
nation under God as an issue worth going to war over. He was perfectly content to let slavery exist where it was, while prohibiting it from entering any new
States to come into the Union. The South didn't secede from the Union because Lincoln freed the slaves, Lincoln freed the slaves because the South seceded
from the Union.
"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so!"
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