Dem infighting commences over Congressional “apology” for slavery

Yes but will they apologize for the Democrat terror wing the KKK, lynching of blacks and white political opponets? Ought to be one heck of an apology tour.

Is layering on debt so big that it can never be repaid slavery? Should they apologize for that in advance?

You have to wionder, are liberals born brain dead or is it something that happens to them at an early age.

I say pay the bill at wage levels at the time it happened. That would mean each slave (prove who and how long) would have maybe $100 coming. Put all of it in a fund and notify all the offspring (millions will claim so) they can fight for their share of the money. Millions of liars fighting over a max of $100,000 would be more of a comedy than the racist black clowns/criminals in congress provide daily. I hear there are some really smart blacks, where are they? All is see in government are those who couldn’t qualify for a job at McDonalds on they’re best day.

People are arguing over a pipe dream; there’s no way ‘reparations’ can be allotted to any descendants of slaves without the usual racial hucksters forming some quasi ‘foundation’ and stealing every dime of it. The logistics of identifying who will benefit would entail setting up a new government bureacracy with countless ‘committees’, ‘resolutions’, ‘fact-findings’ and, above all, a steep increase in taxes. That’s right, TAXES – how else would these reparations be paid?
Would Black Americans be exempt from the tax? Would it only be levied on White Americans?
What about people, like myself, who have both Black Americans and White Americans in their families? The Black Caucus is playing a shake down game where they hope to be the ones who end up with guilt money in their bank accounts.

I’m all for the party of the slave owners paying reparations out of their own pockets.

BtW, does anybody remember if Dr. King was a registered voter?

REVIEW
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-democrats-letter-from-lt-colonel.html

It’s the DEMS who owe the apology. Reps have already paid with their blood to free them.

I have a problem with reparations period. As elena points to the Irish slaves, there are many others who could sit and claim reparations of some kind. People who were indentured servants, etc. I am sure MANY can claim some kind of wrong going in their family history. If reparations were done, then every “wrong” would become a law suit using that as a basis to spring board from.

There is this black friend I have who was telling me how blacks from Africa treated black Americans badly. He explained that this happened because as far as they were concerned, black Americans were “the conquered tribes” and they were “not worthy of respect.”

He takes issue with the whole reparations issue. His stance is that if slavery wouldn’t have happened, he wouldn’t now be here in America (if he were even born for that matter).

Empty rhetoric to those who don’t care, and maybe a sense of peace to those who do. I seriously doubt that reparations will ever “truly” be on the table, we have seen public housing support, affirmative action as well as historic things done following the Civil War as well. Bottom line, it is a gesture in my opinion, a part of our history which was unsavory and now the government is on record as stating the obvious. What is wrong with that?

I agree with the notion of recognizing other groups which were also disenfranchised, who cares if it is along list.

Forgive us trespasses as we forgive the trespasses of others.

Amen!

@Hawk
This is true. My brother was in the Navy and I have a few friends that were on carriers. When they pulled into port in African, the African American sailors were strongly advised not to go into town.
The early history of our country is just that…history. There were atrocities against just about every ethnic group. American Indians, Irish, Italians, Chinese, and Africans. I remember history class and the signs they had back in the day that read, “no dogs or Irish.” American Indians were also used as slaves.
Maybe we could set up some reservations for the sons and daugthers of slaves. I’ll go out on a limb and say that after a few visit an American Indian rez, they won’t be so happy about that idea.

Maj General William Sherman issued an order granting freed slaves a quarter of a quarter section of land in Georgia and South Carolina. Pres. Andrew Johnson was the one who revoked that order and gave the land back to the original land owners.

Bennie Thompson and all the other shysters should go after the descendants of Andrew Johnson in a court of law. And watch the court toss out the suit as frivolous because the descendants of Andrew Johnson can not be held accountable for actions they did not commit.

Which is why they are trying to legislate compensation because what they are trying is illegal. And those who are supporting this attempted theft by legislative fiat are also committing a crime, providing material support to a criminal enterprise.

@blast:

“Actually, 364,511 died trying to free them, while 260,000 died trying to maintain them in slave status. “

The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:

Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc.: 250,152
Total 360,222

The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:

Battle deaths: 94,000
Disease, etc.: 164,000
Total 258,000
http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm

“Once they were freed then they were disenfranchised for the most part from the 1860’s to the 1960’s.”
by Democrats
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121856786326834083.html

“To me “hand outs” are anathema, however so is ignorance as it related to the complexity of the race problem in America.”
OK

“Boiling it down to a few charged buzz words and indicating they are better off then in Africa (implied), is a simplistic at best.”
But true, in the main. It’s an attitude thing. Without a positive outlook, no amount of knowledge will suffice to improve one’s situation.

more than three centuries of enslavement

How much of that was under British rule? We got independence and they got theres not much more or less then a century later. Im tired of ppl telling me i should “be sorry”. My ppl were slaves too, longer and under harsher circumstances, whose gonna say sorry to me?

Come on world get passed it already, it happened and for the most part its over.

yonason, you might be engagingly in dialogue, but I was responding to “BarbaraS” comment. Your numbers may or may not be the antithesis of accuracy, neither mine as well… the basic thesis is many died on both sides of the issue and just tossing out a caviler statement like BS did ” You would think that the 600,000 who died in the Civil War freeing them would satisfy the Blacks.” … as if that was accurate, nor Jim Crowe or KKK or disenfranchisement never existed. The complexity is much greater and her comments are thoughtless and uninformed AT BEST.

My hope with having a black president is he can uniquely tell “brothers, pull up your pants”. Time will tell how much an impact he will have. I am keeping an open mind in this arena.