A Bunch Of People Who Never Owned Slaves Apologize To A Bunch Of People Who Were Never Slaves

• February 25, 2007

So dumb…

RICHMOND, Va. – Meeting on the grounds of the former Confederate Capitol, the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously Saturday to express “profound regret” for the state’s role in slavery.
Sponsors of the resolution say they know of no other state that has apologized for slavery, although Missouri lawmakers are considering such a measure. The resolution does not carry the weight of law but sends an important symbolic message, supporters said.
“This session will be remembered for a lot of things, but 20 years hence I suspect one of those things will be the fact that we came together and passed this resolution,” said Delegate A. Donald McEachin, a Democrat who sponsored it in the House of Delegates.

People remember the Emancipation Proclamation. They remember the ratification of the 13th amendment. They remember the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They’re probably not going to remember some pandering, meaningless apology for something that ended well over a century ago.
The states apologized for slavery when they each ratified the 13th amendment. That legislation meant something. This doesn’t. Outside of a vehicle for posturing by a bunch of self-righteous politicians.

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http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

IGNORANT, OUT OF CONTROL POLITICIANS!

I have never owned anyone…..
I owe NO ONE an apology for this!

Of course there is always Robert Byrd (DEMOCRAT)….
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

The trillion spent on “the (not so)great society” should be more than enough of an apology.
JimH

CRAP!! I sit here and think about my ethnic backgrounds. I’m so mixed up i could apologize to my self for hours. It really really upsets me when people do things in my behalf that i wouldn’t do i person. I myself never not one time in my life owned a slave. Never even considered it. I cannot with a straight face think of apologizing to someone for owning slaves to someone who was in fact never a slave. This was a total wast of taxpayer money.
Troy_Pineri

It’s time the Jewish community took their fair share of the responsibility and blame of the Holocaust that was perpetrated against the black population of the world, instead of covering it up through their control of the media.

What the hell are you talking about?
2Hotel9

I want a detailed explanation from the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, and the Nation of Islam as to why they continue to refuse to condemn slavery TODAY. Muslims in Africa, ME and Asia are practicing slavery TODAY. Right this very minute, and these groups refuse to even acknowledge it, much less condemn it and call for an IMMEDIATE end to slavery in Muslim countries.

Well, when you think they are going to man up?
Bat One

What’s the matter with you two, anyway? Forget the apologies and go straight for the reparations! Spring is just around the corner. Balmoral is nice in the spring. Demand the castle.
2Hotel9

OK. First, dropped in to this post that had “no comments” and yet there is quite the string of comments. Whas’up wid dat!!!!

As for all this fake outrage about slavery, why are none of these fucking cocksuckers doing ANYTHING, ANYFUCKINGTHING AT ALL to end slavery TODAY!!!!!

Lying assed duplicitous cocksucking Democrat fucks. Every single one of them. Fuck them and their greasy assed whore mothers.
jimmypop

My ancestors (Germans) were attacked and were forced to fight the Romans and the Mongols. I want reparations. Italy owes me money. So does Mongolia but they’d probably pay in yaks or something, so nevermind.

REPARATIONS NO

x2. Plus i want the blacks that owned my people to pay me back for all my ancestors toil on the pyramids.
ProudinNC

You know who REEEAAAALLLLY needs to take responsibility for slavery? Black people. Because it was blacks who rounded up their fellow countrymen and sold them to the slavetraders. Without that, black people wouldn’t have been enslaved.

Blamery fail.

Right on, Kenny.
sayanything-4625

Slavery was a universal horror and needs to be recognized as such by the world. No culture is untainted by ties to slavery. That said, apologizing for something we no longer condone or practice is addled to say the least.
Buzz

They should be apologizing to the Caucasian people for bringing them here, not the other way around.
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

Would they rather be George Obama, living in an African hut?
2Hotel9

Robert Byrd, Grand Kleagale of the KKK. To become that he had to kill a Negro. With his own hand. And recruit others who had to kill a Negro, with their own hand. And he has not spent a single day in jail for those crimes. And woofie, sannitized, realitydenyingboob, et al hold forth Robert Byrd as their personal, Democrat Party hero. Racist is as racist does. And nobody, with the exception of fundamentalist Muslims, is more racist than career Democrat Party politicians. And their “rockribbed” Democrat supporters.
AR-15

I have a relative who was a soldier for the North.
I want Earl Pomeroy to come up with a resolution that states, “All blacks must thank every white family who had a relative fight for the North and helped free the slaves”
I’m waiting Earl, you PC loving liberal.
sayanything-4625

I’m not Scottish, can I have some of you single malt scotch if you win?
badlands4

My ancestors ( Scotts ) were enslaved by the English.
I want an apology from the Queen of England and a home bordering the hallowed Old Golf Course at St Andrews.

Oh, and throw in a bottle of single malt whisky.

Amen. My family also came from Scotland, run out by the English. Where can I get a full set of Royal Doulton Country Roses dinnerware, presented to me by the Queen instead of liquor to go with my apology. Feel free to leave off the Haggis
http://unreligiousright.blogspot.com/ UNRR

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Mickey

My ancestors ( Scotts ) were enslaved by the English.
I want an apology from the Queen of England and a home bordering the hallowed Old Golf Course at St Andrews.

Oh, and throw in a bottle of single malt whisky.
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

(There….. fixed it…..)
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

This isn’t pre-civil war times, so let this drop and everybody move on with achieving their American dream.

Because, dear Badlands, the Left loses steam when there is no injustice to rail against. The kernel at the core of the Leftist programming is hatred.

They are not the mirror image of Right Wing America.

In truth, there are Americans, and then there are the domestic-born adherents to that imported pestilent evil called Socialism (although they will call it everything but that until they reach a certain level of critical mass) — Leftists.

This sort of thing helps stoke the fires of resentment — not gratitude, forgiveness, unity or reconciliation — and thus is good for the Left.
bill-tb

Now we need to move on, the current world slave trade is mostly Muslim sposored … Barry is in a perfect position to apologoze to the world on behalf of Muslims, and then work to stop the slavery.

Actions speak louder than stupid words.
Neiman

BackToBlack: Your raging anti-Semitism is just as ugly as other people that have seen blacks as being inferior to whites, it is all racism.

The Talmud is a collection of Rabinical teachings, and they are not considered inspired by God. In the Old Testament, as slavery was commonplace in the known world, God placed very strict codes for how to treat slaves (decently) and a limit on how long they could be kept (seven years).

Slavery is repugnant, but until the 1800′s it was very common all over the world and even Jews were at various times enslaved.
jimmypop

I have a relative who was a soldier for the North.
I want Earl Pomeroy to come up with a resolution that states, “All blacks must thank every white family who had a relative fight for the North and helped free the slaves”
I’m waiting Earl, you PC loving liberal.

Another good point.

Also, what do we do about the free blacks that owned blacks?
Mickey

I’m still waiting for that scotch
http://www.gopunditgo.com/ Terrence

This story prompted the ridiculous headline of the day:

“Assembly expresses ‘regret’ for slavery, passes roads bill“
BackToBlack

I know this won’t be a popular post among certain people, but the truth in slavery is deeper than the casual reader of history will know. The major perpetrators of slavery were Jewish.

As a black American, I feel that there should be more accounting from the Jewish community for their involvement in slave trade. The Jews were the predominate figures that created the African slave trade. All this is proven fact by such notable Jewish historians and scholars as: Lee M. Friedman, Marcus Arkin, Herbert I. Bloom, Cecil Roth, Wilfred Samuels, Isaac and Susan Emmanuel, Seymour B. Liebman, and Moshe Kahan. You can read about it here: http://www.blacksandjews.com/Jews_and_Slavery.html

To say that the Dutch, British, or Portuguese were responsible for the slave trade is a sugar coating of history. The Talmud, the most holy of Jewish books marked the Blacks as a people to be enslaved. The Talmud goes back a few thousand years before there ever was a British, Dutch, or Portuguese empire. The vast majority of African slaves were sent to Brazil, where literally every single Jewish person owned Black slaves. The same os true for North America and all of the Caribbean islands. Much of the European slave trade was financed by many Jewish banks, such as the Rothshilds.

It’s time the Jewish community took their fair share of the responsibility and blame of the Holocaust that was perpetrated against the black population of the world, instead of covering it up through their control of the media.
badlands4

There is a difference between acknowledging evils and continuing to live in them.

The fact that the president is black shows how far we have come, so why do this now? I mean why do it at all, b ut particularly, why do it now, when you have someone who would have been a slave if this was the time before the civil war, and would have to use a different water fountain and sit on the back of the bus.

This isn’t pre-civil war times, so let this drop and everybody move on with achieving their American dream.

I could not live in bitterness. It is a choice and I choose to look ahead, not to the past wrongs. Women were treated as property with no rights, but you don’t see me saying “apologize” it is a ridiculous idea. times have changed, those things no longer happen in this country and that is that. Move on with the life you have NOW…it’s the only one you get
Pilgrim

This whole thing is ridiculous and pointless. It’s simply politcal posturing at its worst. But…to say that is political suicide for any politician. They get swept along in this inanity because they don’t dare say, “Hey, this is bullshit!”

Political correctness is the winner here.
http://www.sayanythingblog.com/ electnixon

Calculus Entropy: Our families go back for hundreds of years – your great-grandparents owned my great-grandparents and that’s how it all started.
Fletch: You ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Calculus Entropy: Well I heard something about it, but I don’t recall exactly. It didn’t get too much publicity around these here parts.
Fletch: I’ll bet.
Houston

At least it wasn’t a non apology which starts;

“To all the people who might have been offended by their bondage, we apologize that you misunderstood the point of the work you were doing.”

Regardless, the people who are rabid about demanding an apology won’t take notice unless “Reparations” are kicked around.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

Ummm, what are the ancestors of the Slave-owning Blacks supposed to do? And how will Al rent-a-mob Sharpton handle them?

The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves.
sayanything-5371

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for the wrongs of slavery.

The stimulus plan is reparations. So was “the great society”. It never ends.
Neiman

From a time a century or so before the end of slavery in the United States, we have all rightly viewed slavery as being repugnant and in our country a violation of our National Charter which proclaims all men [women too] to be equal. While many Christians were involved in the slave trade around the world, it was also Christians that led the fight to end slavery, one being William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 — 29 July 1833) who was a British politician, philanthropist, abolitionist and a Christian minister; who was the leader of the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade, as was John Newton, writer of Amazing Grace, who was at one time a slave trading ship master.

But, while we all rightly hate slavery, apartheid and any diminishing of the full humanity and equality of every human being, I must say that slavery was common from the very beginning of human history. It was most often used to pay off a debt to someone, in early Judaism there were time limits, and of course it was often used by countries using defeated enemies as slaves for various reasons. So, up until the abolition movement was launched slavery was commonplace and not thought to be immoral at all. Thank God time changed our perceptions and uplifted the human spirit.

That all being said, I don’t owe any slave any apology, as I do not owe any Native Americans any apology, as I was not involved. Further, while racism always exists to varying degrees, in the West slavery has been abolished and every man, woman and child has every opportunity to succeed and contribute to the human race, if they desire. We have made amends for our prior ignorance and with few exceptions most Americasn have nothing to apologize for.
http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

It’s time the Jewish community took their fair share of the responsibility and blame of the Holocaust that was perpetrated against the black population of the world, instead of covering it up through their control of the media.

You know who REEEAAAALLLLY needs to take responsibility for slavery? Black people. Because it was blacks who rounded up their fellow countrymen and sold them to the slavetraders. Without that, black people wouldn’t have been enslaved.

Blamery fail.
Pilgrim

My ancestors (Germans) were attacked and were forced to fight the Romans and the Mongols. I want reparations. Italy owes me money. So does Mongolia but they’d probably pay in yaks or something, so nevermind.

REPARATIONS NOW!!!!!
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

These types of pointless apologies work best if you can bite your lower lip a little as you give them.
Old Retired Petty Officer

I don’t owe any apologies to anyone.
1. I wasn’t even around.
2. Most of my ancestors had yet to reach this country. From places like Norway, Germany, Flanders and the British Isles.
3. Twenty years of active service.
Troy_Pineri

Much of the European slave trade was financed by many Jewish banks, such as the Rothshilds.

Most everything was financed by the Jews, because loaning/borrowing (usuary) money was considered a sin by Christians.
Eneils Bailey

I apologize to everyone for everything.
To those who find my remorse not genuine or doubt the sincerity, YOU CAN KISS MY ASS.
Thank you and have a wonderful day.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

So some Jewish-owned banks funded the slave trade. Big whoop. Every single demographic on this planet, every single culture, race and creed, has some slavery to apologize for in its past. Including tribes in Africa.

Those in glass houses shouldn’t cast stones.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

I too have Scottish blood. Let’s get a class action suit going for a case of 18 year single malt.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

Balmoral is nice in the spring. Demand the castle.

i’m not a full-blooded, sheep-fucker scott, as i have some slavic blood. i would settle for a case of a nice, old, peaty scotch… to help ‘smooth’ things over a bit. he he he.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M3TCZQTN3ST5EJWMRKQZRYPIQA C.D.

. uh … ah …… well ……..hmmmm
http://sayanythingblog.com Mountainmouth

Oh good – all is well now.

I am so pleased we finally got past this stuff.
Finally fulfilling the post-racial promise that was part of the Obama – hopey changey thing

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