House Apologizes for Slavery, Jim Crow

I am Irish decent....I demand an apology from all of Britain and the "Queen Mother" herself for all the injustice brought on my family and many many others in the past....and I think they should send me a big check also......

Reparations need to be paid to the families of the Northern Army soldiers who lost their lives in the Civil War.

In the year 2148 the House of Representatives votes to apologize for the inaction and politically induced gridlock that kept the Congress of 2008 from accomplishing anything meaningfull that constituted the actual work of the people. In its next act in 2148, the Congress decided that because we could no longer pay the interest on our debt to China, that the US Navy would be turned over to China, along with the state of Hawaii. Congress apologized to current citizens and blamed Nancy Pelozi for approving all the politically inspired budget actions.

There is nothing to apologize for. Slavery was the law of the land at the time, and was recognized throughout the world. African and Muslims were the ones doing the selling, and the rest of the world was buying. Was it right? Not by todays standards, but it was then. No apologies or reparations should be awarded.

never, never, never will i pay reparations for something I AM NOT responsible for. the whole idea is about political correctness and anti-white sentiment. it's racism in reverse and it's sickening. african-american? how about "american OR african"?? the term african american is offensive. apparently, african americans are not proud to be american, and to be living here. how unappreciative.

If Obama wins the Presidency, he has stated that reparations are not the best way to "fix" the past sins of white Americans against African Americans. His idea is that we must lift up all people by providing better education, housing and healthcare. It was a nice gesture by the congress, but reparations is totally impractical with our economy in crisis right now. I'm sure Obama agrees.

Let it go...... will we be apologizing for the next 300 years? Get on with life, crap happens, the whites were slaves, every race were slaves at one time or another, i want an apology too (I'm white)

I don't know who these people are speaking for but it's not ME. Everyone that I know wasn't even BORN yet when that cool stuff was happening. All I know is in the times I have grown up in , I have seen my generation give away more Money and Create more laws agains't the White Man. Even with all these new ANTI WHITE LAWS the fools still don't get it. We gave them CRACK and PISTOLS and most CITIES. WELFARE AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION and JESSIE JACKSON. just to name a few. How much more do we need to give ?? The Mexicans crawl under the fence and work harder than any Black I have ever worked with. I guess we should give them a lot of FREE STUFF too. after all didn't we take New Mexico and California from them. We should give California back to them . PLEASE TAKE NANCY PELOSI.....

What most white people don't understand is that we are still benefiting from slavery, even if we personally did not own slaves and had nothing to do with that horrible injustice. There are injustices all over the world and throughout history, but that doesn't make them right. It might be too little, too late, but anything that we can do to rectify the situation will help, and we should make financial reparations.

I'm not black or Native American. One thing I sure wish would happen, is blacks and Native American's set the past aside, and STOP PLAYING VICTIM ROLES. Not too long ago in Western Europe, people were being beheaded, quartered, tortured in chambers...My God people have done horrible things in recent history. I am well read when it comes to the injustice done to Native American Indians. I am the first to say what was done to these people and blacks (slavery) was not only evil, but it happened. NONE OF US HAD A THING TO DO WITH IT.

THIS IS ALL ABOUT M O N E Y . I really like the comment made by a descendant of IRISH. Just for giggles, I wonder if any blacks or Native Americans have any idea of the injustices done to whites...I doubt it. The ignorancce lies in those who know little about history, because it does not serve their purpose of continuing being a VICTIM.

I wonder when blacks will appologize for living off the hard earned tax dollars of whites. It's called WELFARE...........

:35AMJul 30th 2008

If Obama wins the Presidency, he has stated that reparations are not the best way to "fix" the past sins of white Americans against African Americans. His idea is that we must lift up all people by providing better education, housing and healthcare. It was a nice gesture by the congress, but reparations is totally impractical with our economy in crisis right now. I'm sure Obama agrees.

dfalso8-No Obama doe's NOT agree. he wants to push a bill through congress agreeing to pay afican americans 777 Billion (Notice the number figure he came up with) in reparations. that's 777 BILLION. think about it. and why is it anyone would vote for this clown ??? let's agree on one thing, a one way ticket back to africa if you think your "Owed" anything.

A Covenant With Life: Reclaiming MLK’s Legacy


By Dr. Alveda C. King – Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In light of the emergence of a black man as a presidential contender this election season, we might do well to take note that it is not the political party or the man, but the message that is imperative.

A brief history lesson can reveal how we got to a place of looking to man instead of God for answers. In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy defeated sitting Vice President Richard Nixon in the bid to become president. The black vote swung the tide!

My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or “Daddy King”, was a Republican and father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican.

Daddy King influenced a reported 100,000 black voters to cast previously Republican votes for Senator Kennedy even though Kennedy had voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law. Mrs. King had appealed to Kennedy and Nixon to help her husband, and Nixon who had voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Law did not respond. At the urging of his advisors, Kennedy made a politically calculated phone call to Mrs. King, who was pregnant at the time, bringing the attention of the nation to Dr. King’s plight.

Moved by Mrs. King’s gratitude for Senator Kennedy’s intervention, Daddy King was very grateful to Senator Kennedy for his assistance in rescuing Dr. King, Jr. from a life threatening jail encounter. This experience led to a black exodus from the Republican Party. Thus, this one simple act of gratitude caused black America to quickly forget that the Republican Party was birthed in America as the antislavery party to end the scourge of slavery and combat the terror of racism and segregation. They quickly forgot that the Democratic Party was the party of the Ku Klux Klan.

Forgotten was the fact that it was the Republicans who started the HBCU’s and the NAACP to stop the Democrats from lynching blacks. Into the dust bin of history was tossed the fact that it was the Republicans led by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen who pushed to pass the civil rights laws in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968.

Removed from memory are the facts that it was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil rights commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation.

Meanwhile Democrats in Congress were still fighting to prevent the passage of new civil rights laws that would overturn those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that had been enacted by Democrats in the South.

No one batted an eye when President Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King. Hardly a ripple of protest was uttered when President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated on suspicion of being a Communist.

Little attention was paid to the fact that it was a Democrat, Public Safety Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Conner, who in 1963 turned dogs and fire hoses on Dr. King and other civil rights protestors. No one noted that it was a Democrat, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, who waved ax handles to stop blacks from patronizing his restaurant. Nor was heed paid to the fact that it was a Democrat, Alabama Governor George Wallace, who stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” None of those racist Democrats became Republicans.

During this time of turmoil, completely forgotten was the fact that it was Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus who in 1954 had blocked desegregation of a Little Rock public school. To their eternal shame, the chief opponents of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrats Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd, a former Klansman. All of the racist Democrats that Dr. King was fighting remained Democrats until the day they died. How can anyone today think that Dr. King, my uncle, would have joined the party of the KKK?

There is a law of unexpected outcomes. Who could have predicted that the black exodus from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in the 1960’s would have also ushered in decades of destruction which continue to plague our communities today?

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Just what did the Yankee soldiers get for their crusade to save a Union that never was restored, one of free and equal states?

Yankees had their fat pensions after the war. Many crooked local politicians signed up non-veta & non-widows of vets as a pork-barrel provision of old-age pensions up North.

Soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic who didn't make it back home considered running off with the jewelry and silver of someone else's family as recompense for service rendered.

As well, the vandal's perverse thrill in the wanton destruction of others' real and personal property was not a negligible recompense to an army demonstrably full of vandals.

The Yankee soldier availed himself of another form of gratification through rape. It was more often visited upon black women and girls, as white females enjoyed more respect in the America of the 1860s than they do today.

Why is Congress wasting time and money on this c*r*a*p when there is a was going on and the economy is going into the dumper? There is not a person alive today who is responsible for slavery. It is time to move on.

Why is Congress wasting time and money on this c*r*a*p when there is a war going on and the economy is going into the dumper? There is not a person alive today who is responsible for slavery. It is time to move on.

Just another useless endeavor for which we didn't send our representatives to Washington.

It amazes me that this bill that helps no one is more important to this congress than allowing a vote on the drilling ban which could help everyone.

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Thank you representative Cohen for your lead in this matter. Now to our white brother and sisters. I agree with Senator Obama, with respect to reparations. I along with millions of other African Americans only want a level playing field in society.
Contrary to popular beliefs among some white folks, we are not all ignorant, murderers, thieves, lazy and all the other stereo types associaed with our race. I promise you that we have a well of scholars, intellects, over achievers, and high moral values. We may be a bit apprehensive but for the most part, we are a forgiving people. There are millions of us that hate racism and all it's negative elements. As there are millions of us that will embrace a convert from a lifestyle of hatred and strife, when they take of the mantle of love and understanding. There are millions of us that love our culture and respect yours and will not try to intrude. We understand that racism and hatred are taught. With this generation, I hope this cycle is broken. We must be United in order to succeed in the global community. We truly are the most blessed of countries.