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House poised to apologize for slavery

The U.S. Govt. didn't start the slavery - it was going on long before the U.S. became a nation.
However, they didn't stop it right away either.
But they did stop it - it just took a while.


What I'd really like to see would be the Egyptians apologizing for enslaving the Israelites.

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BS. I could care less about slavery, as far as getting an apology from anyone today or getting reparations. Offer reparations, and I'll take em :D, but I don't see a reason for any of that stuff...No one alive today owned a slave or was a slave. Get over it.
 
Darky said:
BS. I could care less about slavery, as far as getting an apology from anyone today or getting reparations. Offer reparations, and I'll take em :D, but I don't see a reason for any of that stuff...No one alive today owned a slave or was a slave. Get over it.
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Very well said. How long must this crap keep going on? Shit happened, it was bad. We need to move on as a nation of equality. Same goes for the Indian crap, enough is enough! I want my own Casino, And I don't want to pay taxes, oh wait, I am white. Should it really matter.
 
FordGuy said:
Very well said. How long must this crap keep going on? Shit happened, it was bad. We need to move on as a nation of equality. Same goes for the Indian crap, enough is enough! I want my own Casino, And I don't want to pay taxes, oh wait, I am white. Should it really matter.
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Yeah, I remember a news story a while back about the gaming casinos in Mass. When people found out they could get free money all of a sudden 3/4 of the population had Indian blood.

Enslavement of a human being is wrong, wrong, wrong......

But reparations?
 
I know how I feel about it and it's BS. The U.S. as a country didn't cause slavery to start. If they do this, mark my words, it will be the beginning of a long list of wants from certain individuals (caugh Jesse caugh Jackson). U.S. taxpayers will end up paying for something they don't agree with nor had any control over and that is certainly NOT the type of drag on the economy and spending we need right now.

This makes my blood boil.
 
I didn't do it, I'm not appologizing for it. I don't like the fact that it happened, but at this point in time it is just an excuse for not having to take personal responsibility for ones actions and status in life.

I left home at 15 and have been on my own ever since. I worked my way through engineering school. A month before I graduated, I found out I would have qualified for "head rights" and could have had all my schooling paid for and had a stipend to live on. I think that because it was my hard earned money paying the tuition, I took extra care to get my money's worth. I also found out later that I could have qualified for food stamps. Hell I thought I was living pretty good.
 
Read the article and they also are apologizing for Jim Crow, but even then, I say its nothing but a political maneuver...won't change anything, and pretty much anyone affected is either dead or has made their own way already.
 
you guys are all wrong

I think that they should pass the resolution, have it say that anyone who owned a slave be required to give reparations to anyone who was a slave. end of story.

None of this, you were rich you must have had, or my grandfather was so I deserve, direct responsibility only. No slavery no entitlements, the sad part is if they never pass a resolution saying this, the idea will never go away.
 
FordGuy said:
Very well said. How long must this crap keep going on? Shit happened, it was bad. We need to move on as a nation of equality. Same goes for the Indian crap, enough is enough! I want my own Casino, And I don't want to pay taxes, oh wait, I am white. Should it really matter.
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I live in CT. We have both Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casino's. They are not required to pay taxes, but they are very generous with their money. They give out more money to causes, to the state and such than they would have been required to if they were paying taxes. Plus those New Yorkers have to drive through CT and pay for gas, food and anything else they need. The casino's are good for the state.

~Alex
 
alex22 said:
I live in CT. We have both Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casino's. They are not required to pay taxes, but they are very generous with their money. They give out more money to causes, to the state and such than they would have been required to if they were paying taxes. Plus those New Yorkers have to drive through CT and pay for gas, food and anything else they need. The casino's are good for the state.

~Alex
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Do you not think they give to keep the heat off? Not to say giving is not giving. My opinion is that it should be a level playing Field for all of us, and its not.
 
my family were slaves to the crown and English Lords almost a 1000 years ago, get over it and move on!!!
 
I think they ought to give them restitution. We could pro rate it according to how dark their skin is. The darker your skin the more money you get. Though this method could kind of screw with the whole equality thing and maybe the "all men are created equal" philosophy.
Somebody is going to have to explain to me how constantly pointing out the differences, is going to help achieve equality?
 
wolfpackjeeper said:
I think that they should pass the resolution, have it say that anyone who owned a slave be required to give reparations to anyone who was a slave. end of story.
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Hm. I like this!

Giving reparations to anyone who was not directly and personally involved sets a bad precedent. Personal responsibility is just that - personal.

The United States did not sponsor or force slavery, and slave-run plantations were around before the United States was a country.

And, these people were sold into slavery by their own people - we wouldn't have been able to buy slaves from Africa if they weren't sold by someone.

Ergo - if reparations are to come from anywhere, they should come from the collective economy of Africa. If we're going to go two places removed to pay reparations from slavery (at least two generations are as close as anyone can get to slavery as of now...) then we should go two places removed to fund them - slaves were sold in Africa, taken to England, and sold again (in most cases. I believe Spain also had a slave market - and there may have been a few more "intermediate" markets in the Caribbean as well...)
 
I'll keep this short and sweet:

If African Americans truly want equality, they need to stop bringing up the inequalities of the past.

Let it go. When I talk to an African American, I don't see them as a victim of slavery, I see them as another human being. If they bring it up constantly, though, that's all America will see them for.
 
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