This is utter hogwash. There's not a single person alive today who was a slave or who was a slave owner. Those around today ought to be thanking those who brought their ancestors here. Otherwise, they'd still be on that craphole of a continent known as Africa...
The Senate passed a resolution apologizing for slavery, but a disclaimer has drawn criticism from black lawmakers in the House.
BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS McClatchy News Service WASHINGTON -- The Senate passed a resolution Thursday calling on the U.S. to apologize officially for the enslavement and segregation of millions of blacks and to acknowledge ``the fundamental injustice, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws.''
The resolution, sponsored with little fanfare by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, passed on a voice vote. It now moves to the House of Representatives, where it may meet an unlikely foe: members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Several CBC members expressed concerns Thursday about a disclaimer that states that "nothing in this resolution authorizes or supports any claim against the United States; or serves as a settlement of any claim against the United States.''
The CBC members think that the disclaimer is an attempt to stave off reparations claims from the descendants of slaves. Congressional Black Caucus Chair Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said her organization is studying the language of Harkin's resolution.
Other CBC members said they've read it and don't like it. ''Putting in a disclaimer takes away from the meaning of an apology,'' said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. "A number of us are prepared to vote against it in its present form. There are several members of the Progressive Caucus who feel the same way.''
Thompson and other Black Caucus members noted that a 1988 apology issued to the ***anese-Americans held in U.S. camps during World War II had no disclaimer and didn't prevent them from receiving compensation.
Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., the Senate's lone African-American, went to the floor after the Harkin resolution passed and said, "I want to go on record making sure that that disclaimer in no way would eliminate future actions that may be brought before this body that may deal with reparations.''
Such concerns could slow a resolution that many lawmakers and civil rights groups considered such a slam-dunk that plans are already under way for an elaborate signing and apology ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda next month. The resolution states that Africans and their descendants were forced into slavery in the U.S. and "were brutalized, humiliated, dehumanized, and subjected to the indignity of being stripped of their names and heritage.''
To that end, the resolution "apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws.''
I wonder if the morons who seek reparations will also seek them against the descendants of the Africans who sold their ancestors into slavery. The sellers should be every bit as "responsible" as the buyers...
yet another whistle-stop in the socialist apology tour....
While congress disavowed any tendency towards reparations, being vote-prostitutes of the first order,
just wait and see....
Note that it is only the Senate version that said it cannot be used to pursue a reparations. The House version does not contain such a disclaimer. So... it goes to committee...
Both Carter and Clinton have already apologized to blacks for the slavery period, this gesture by Congress is nothing more than vote pandering. Reparations have already been paid during The Reconstruction, nothing is due any of their decendants.
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wait and see....they bought votes by subsidizing ACORN....with the reparations scheme, they can buy
those votes directly and legally. I cannot say what something like that would do for race relations in
this country...like setting it back 150 years....
Congressional Apology Tour
