An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
I Don’t Apologize!
I’ve done NOTHING to warrant an apology!
A historic Congressional apology for slavery and Jim Crow discrimination passed this evening on a voice vote.
The apology resolution, introduced shortly after U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., reached Washington in 2007, would be a first step toward racial reconciliation, he said in an eight-minute speech during debate on the House floor.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who has sought to create a commission to study the possibility of reparations for descendants of slaves, and U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, were the only others to speak in a half-hour debate.
Cohen’s lengthy resolution, which picked up 120 bipartisan co-sponsors, deals with all aspects of slavery’s horrors and the legal system that evolved in the segregated South after the Civil War and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments prohibiting racial discrimination.
In his speech, Cohen noted that a form of slavery, the convict-leasing system, existed up until World War II and that the Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed in an era of “colored” and “white” drinking fountains.
“This is a symbolic resolution but, hopefully, it will begin a dialogue where people will open their hearts and their minds to the problems that face this country — from racism that exists in this country on both sides, and must end if we’re to go forward as the country we were created to be and which we are destined to be,” Cohen said.
Well, that’s peachy. And I’m all for moving forward. However, if this kind of thing continues, we’ll NEVER move toward the future.
I’ll repeat: I do NOT apologize! I have nothing to apologize for at all. Neither does anyone in Congress. Not one single person alive today was either a slave owner, or a slave. NONE. ZERO. ZIP.
Are the African countries going to apologize? No? Well, then why should we?
I’m going to hear the accusation of “racist”, so will others who find this is a ridiculous idea. Racism has absolutely nothing to do with how I feel about this. I find it insulting for our paid “representatives” to waste time in the past when we have so many issues, like national security, the price of gas, and other issues that evidently aren’t high on the list of Congress’ priorities.
Silly me. Cohen is running for re-election, facing two blacks in the primary. Priorities.
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You don’t seem to “get it”. The House of Representatives is run by liberals/Pelosi. They/she is merely feeding some red meat (or vegan substitute) to one constituency. (the African-American or Negro or black or Colored or ????? insert new p.c. word here). Nothing has been accomplished, except keeping racial politics alive. I’m willing to give ONE BILLLLLION dollars in cash to any former legal (now illegal) SLAVE that served on a Southern plantation. The first former black slave who was abused during the pre-Civil war era to come to my door, will recieve ONE BILLLLLLLION dollars in cash. Who freed the slaves? What did it cost?
This very evening, I finished a book that I bought a couple weeks ago at Antietam battlefield in Maryland. “MARYLAND SEPTEMBER” by Thomas McGrath. 23,000 casualties on ONE DAY in 1862 at Hagerstown/Sharpsburg Md. Sept. 16, 1862-Sept.17 1862. 4776 UNION SOLDIERS ALONE, from that day are buried at Antietam National Cemetary. Far, far, far, far, more lives were lost in the United States effort to abolish slavery than were ever murdered on lynched via RACISM. I’m from Antietam Maryland. Ergo, I am a NATIVE AMERICAN.
I will not apologize for the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES that were lost or crippled as MY PEOPLE……Americans…….freed slaves and established blacks as full fledged Americans like you and me.
Liberals fight their battles with their MOUTHES and with YOUR tax money.
Their policies have kept a large portion of black America from achieving the American dream. But it’s also kept libs in office in every urban American neighborhood.
@gus:
Oh, I “get it” alright. Not to worry about that. The actual HISTORY has been lost, and you’re right, it’s nothing but a political ploy. The War of Northern Aggression wasn’t really about slavery at all. Slavery was becoming a thing of the past already, and was dying a justifiable death.
Oh, and btw, a good chunk of my ancestors were here before the first white man set foot on the continent too.
The tribes of Florida suffered horribly at the hands of the settlers. I don’t see anyone apologizing to me for the past, NOR to I expect, or want one.
Did they happen to get descendants of the Africans that kidnapped and sold their fellow Africans to slave traders to contribute to the apology?
@Sam Pierce:
Whoa….wait a minute… you can’t insert broad based COMMON SENSE into the argument! You mind mess up their tiny little minds!
just to insert a little humor.. i leaned over to my coworker and asked him.. “have you ever been a slave? Do you know anyone who was ever a slave?” .. he looks at me and says “No, but i’ll take my 40 acres and a mule”… what a smartass.. lol