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2008-07-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

US House To Apologize For Slavery, Spit In Other Hand

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-29 17:28|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 these are the same people who fight to keep modern day slavery in operation. All of the same arguments used to justify slavery are the same ones that are used today to justify keeping an entire class of people without legal status. We all know that they are abused by employers who are aware that they can't complain without fear of extortion. The brothels are full of young mexican women (and boys) who are brought here with the promise of jobs and then held against their will.

Yes, many can choose to leave the country. But we all know about the child labor, the payment of wages that are below standard, the lack of basic legal protections and the other horrors these people endure because our leaders look the other way to provide businesses with a near slave-labor force. We know, but our leaders not only don't prevent it but encourage it.

It will ruin the economy. Only the little brown people will do these jobs. They are better off here than they would have been in their homeland. It keeps the price of lettuce down.

I'd gladly stop eating lettuce to prevent this legalized abuse of an entire labor force.

Posted by Bugs Elmomomp6649 2008-07-29 17:51|| 2008-07-29 17:51|| Front Page Top

#2 My great great grandmother was an indentured servant when she came across in 1902. As long as we're at it why don't they give her an apology while they're at it. Same creature, different names, everybody's gotten a shitty deal at one time or another, get over it.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-29 18:16|| 2008-07-29 18:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Not you bugs, you're right on the money.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-29 18:19|| 2008-07-29 18:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Spot on, Bugs.

I know local business types right here in Lubbock who will retroactively defend slavery when the subject comes up in private.

They are the same ones who defend open borders, oddly enough.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-07-29 18:55|| 2008-07-29 18:55|| Front Page Top

#5 So are we going to get an apology from the NAACP et al for the disproportional criminal destruction reaped upon the rest of American society by the 'other' group? If you can tag one group for the actions of a small proportion of that entire population, isn't that a principle to be applied to all groups?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-29 19:08|| 2008-07-29 19:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, and by the way, the casualty figures of the North paid in blood for the slavery issue [and check the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments what would never had occurred without that payment]. Given that our current overall population is 10x the size of what it was in 1861, all you have to do is extrapolate to understand the magnitude of that payment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-29 19:10|| 2008-07-29 19:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, I'm up for reparations. They can consist solely of a one-way plane ticket back to anywhere on the west coast of Africa and the costs of the paperwork for permanent revocation of U.S. citizenship. African-Americans in the nation's penal facilities should have acceptance of these reparations made mandatory.

The libs should love it; just imagine how empowering it will be for the recipients to no longer be hyphenated African-Americans but to again be pure, undiluted African Africans! Lift ev'ry voice and sing!

Posted by Jomock Platypus9662 2008-07-29 19:26|| 2008-07-29 19:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Here is how I would change the holidays. I would take away MLK's Birthday federal holiday status and replace it with Juneteenth. A holiday that greatly appeals to my hebraic roots. It would kick off the American Patriot Holiday Period that would end two weeks later on the Fourth of July.

Our history should be embraced through family celebrations. What better time than the end of June?

Posted by penguin 2008-07-29 19:28|| 2008-07-29 19:28|| Front Page Top

#9 My ancestors and I have never owned slaves, so I demand an apology from all black Americans who lump us in with those whites who are guilty. I also demand reparations from the British for making my ancestor's lives so miserable that they were forced to risk their lives by crossing the Atlantic in the mid-1600's and squander away years as indentured servants. I also demand an apology from the House of Representatives for accomplishing almost nothing worthy of note in recent years.

Posted by Darrell 2008-07-29 20:24|| 2008-07-29 20:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I would appreciate these "esteemed solons" in Congress to get on with dealing with the problems that face the Republic instead wasting time and money on absolutely USELESS and UNNECESSARY bullshit like this. They can't bring themselves to do anything about energy, about immigration, about defense, but they can put out this kind of crap. They should be embarrassed and ashamed about their uselessness instead of worrying about things that happened 200 years ago and that they only vaguely understand. They are either ignorant or think their constituents are ignorant or both. A pox on this House.

Posted by RWV 2008-07-29 20:36|| 2008-07-29 20:36|| Front Page Top

#11 replace it with Juneteenth. A holiday that greatly appeals to my hebraic roots

How so, penguin? If I understood I'd join in -- I so enjoy when my roots are appealed to. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-29 21:48|| 2008-07-29 21:48|| Front Page Top

#12 concur Darrell. My family was too fucking poor to own slaves - it also didn't help that they landed in the North a few year before the CW - and still got to serve in a war not of their making.

Posted by Harcourt Whomosh aka Broadhead6 2008-07-29 22:30|| 2008-07-29 22:30|| Front Page Top

#13 If you're going to be descended from the Irish, there's a price to pay, Broadhead6. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-29 22:44|| 2008-07-29 22:44|| Front Page Top

#14 #p Darrell: "I also demand an apology from the House of Representatives for accomplishing almost nothing worthy of note in recent years."

Apology, hell! I demand a refund. >:-(

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