Eighty of the 100 senators signed on as co-sponsors of this apology. But Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is unsatisfied. "The Senate has never issued an official apology for slavery and has never gone on the record condemning slavery. The U.S. government needs to apologize for the whole system of slavery. Lynching was just a part of it."
Sad to say, John Lewis was clubbed one too many times during the Civil Rights Era. He has become a useful idiot and an enabler of the plantation system that sets and hold blacks to lower achievement standards. Keep 'em poor, keep 'em on the plantation, and keep 'em voting Diomocrat.
After the bloodiest conflict in American history, a century and a half of struggle, billions of dollars in government redistribution of wealth including affirmative action, education, set asides, quotas, job training programs, urban renewal and outreach efforts; hundreds of plays and movies; thousands of television programs, millions of newspaper and magazine articles, operas, novels, music, ballets, Black History Month, and so on, Mr. Lewis thinks we need an "official" condemnation of slavery? Integrity leaves off where pointless posturing begins.
The preceding were excerpts from this Mona Charen column.
And if you haven't read what La Shawn Barber has to say about it, you should.
Perhaps Congress should apologize for decades of bloated socialist programs that caused the black family to disintegrate. Paying unmarried women to have babies is obscene, immoral, and the reason so many (too many) black children have no fathers to speak of. Treating blacks like dummies who require separate (LOWER) standards than every other race is offensive. I’m offended. Where is my apology?
I'm really getting sick of all this style over substance and symbolism bullshit. Goddammit! Get the fuck over it! I am so fucking fed up with the constant pity party. I never owned a slave. I never lynched anyone. I do admit to being a wealthy capitalist so obviously I must have oppressed someone in my life. And the reason I was able to ompress the dumb schmuck is that he didn't follow my three simple rules to avoid poverty. Fuck him!
I guess on the positive side that while the Senate is wasting time on a worthless symbolic apology, that's time that it can't use to pass more laws to screw up the country even more.
Fortunately, Walter Williams has given me a Pardon.
Posted by denny at June 17, 2005 12:01 PMI'm a born American with Irish heritage. My relatives came over four generations back (1840) The Klan used to string up the Irish along with the Blacks and the Jews. When the fuck will I get my forty acres and a mule? Martin Luther King wanted equality for all minorities, not just blacks. The racelord poverty pimps are only out for the brother.
Posted by: veteran from hell on June 17, 2005 02:22 PMHi Denny,
you will want to see this, it pertains to what you have been writing about.
http://grampapinhead.blogspot.com/2005/06/early-fathers-day-post.html
The Klans first lynching victims were elected REPUBLICAN officials in Louisiana and then across the South. Once the republicans were either dead or running like hell for safety the Dems (called "Slaveocrats" by the press at the time)were able to murder and intimidate blacks back into submission. By having 100% control of government at state and local level they put segregation policy into law. They maintained control by lynching and other tactics of terror.
It was Fritz Hollings who raised the confederate flag over the SC capitol building to intimidate the citizens of the state and Robert Byrd who rode with the KKK. Both were and are Democrat members of the U.S. Senate.
It's Judas Goats like John Lewis, Jesse Jackson, and Cynthia McKinney who pimp and whore for the same repressive party.
Posted by: Ric on June 18, 2005 09:29 AMI read the Mona Charen column, and she is wrong on at least one point, members of the senate in office at the time of the last lynchings. Swimmer was in office then. He bought his senate seat in 1962. I would like to know how he voted on the various civil rights legislation.
Posted by: Jeremy on June 18, 2005 11:34 AM