Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Woods A Nonapology Apology: Will Legislature At Least Express Regret for Slavery?
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM
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Good grief! These goofballs have to get their knickers in a twist about just saying slavery was a bad thing? How do these people get elected? No, don't tell me. Their constituents are even stupider.
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Legislators are not just being asked to say slavery is a a bad thing. Apologizing implies that they're somehow responsible for slavery. However, institutionalized slavery is part of the very distant past. I could take this line of thinking to its absurd conclusion and ask, when are the Normans going to apologize for conquering and enslaving my people 1000 years ago? I think everyone would be better off directing their energies toward ending the international slave trade that persists to this day. To say I'm responsible for your problems because of my white skin is merely a different color of bigotry.
slavery has been happening for thousands of years, why the big deal now?
I say if they're going to "regret" slavery they should also regret the native americans killed off over the last 500 years. Catawba, Cherokee, Chiaha, Chickasaw, Mosopelia, Muskogee, Natchez, Shawnee, Tali, Tuskegee and the Yuchi tribes were all in Tenessee in the 1700s, how many are left? Is the legislature regretting what happened to them too?
Of course not. Can't we just focus our attention on going forward and stop focusing attention on what happened 160 yrs ago? No one today was alive back then, so what good will a bunch of politicians saying "we regret it happened" do? I think there are bigger issues to worry about that affect us today that they should be focusing on.
Kudos to Joe Carmen! The vast majority of slaves in this country today are white and Hispanic women, so I guess these people don't matter to those who demand apologies for something that started nearly four centuries ago. Go to the Spanish monarchy for your apologies! They just want to perpetuate their fake victim status and make the fat cash grab from those who need to feel guilty about something. Free black men owned thousands of slaves back in the Antebellum South, so maybe the race hustlers should start by apologizing themselves. It's a variation on the same theme.
