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Senate Backs Apology for Slavery

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The Senate Resolution is non binding and " It Cannot Be Used in Reparations Cases"

I know that this is a feel good action on the part of the Club of One Hundred but apologizing for slavery is about time.

Does anyone think that the Senate should not have appologized ? If so why.

Does anyone think that the Senate should have made this a binding resolution AND made it with reparartions ?

If so why.

Does any think that now that the Senate has passed this resolution Blacks shoudl shut up already, get back to work, and don't cause any more problems ?

Does anyone think that all of the 99 serving Senators should be thrown out of office for passing this resolution ?
 
None of the Senate members (with the probably exception of Congressman Byrd) were even sparkles in their Father's eyes when Africans were slaves in America.

No apology is necessary, as it is not genuine.
 
I think it is the senate wasting time. No one alive was around for slavery, it's time to move past it.
 
I can think of a couple of reason or more why they shouldn't apologize.

1.They never owned or enslaved anyone, so there is nothing they should appologize for.
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2.We never owned or enslaved anyone,so there is nothing we should appologize for.


3.Those who were slaves are no longer around, so there is no one round today to apologize to.

4.Since those in office represent us then everything they do is on our behalf and in our name. So they apologizing for **** they didn't do is really us apologizing for **** we didn't do.
 
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Let's see...Slightly Conservative, Liberal, Very Conservative...all in agreement on something. Is this a sign of the impending end of the world?
 
Nobody who is alive today in this country ever owned a slave. It seems awfully pointless to apologize for something that somebody else did and can't apologize for themselves because they are dead.
 
Let's see...Slightly Conservative, Liberal, Very Conservative...all in agreement on something. Is this a sign of the impending end of the world?

No. That sign would be Jessica Biel giving me "The Call".
 
None of the Senate members (with the probably exception of Congressman Byrd) were even sparkles in their Father's eyes when Africans were slaves in America.

No apology is necessary, as it is not genuine.

Byrdi s a Senator if you are referring to Sen Robert Byrd WV

What makes this "not genuine" is it because it didn't come with reparations?
Or becasue it was non binding?
 
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Byrdi s a Senator if you are referring to Sen Robert Byrd WV

What makes this "not genuine" is it bcasue it didn't come with reparations?
Orbecasue it was non binding?

Maybe its not genuine because those in office and we the people have never owned slaves and no one who was born in this country was ever a slave. Why would you be sorry for something you didn't do especially something that happened over a hundred years ago?
 
Let's see...Slightly Conservative, Liberal, Very Conservative...all in agreement on something. Is this a sign of the impending end of the world?

yeh ! scary huh ! The Lion is lying down with the Lamb and the Lion is not eating the Leg of the Lamb !

We need to put a stop to that #$%^&*()
 
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Byrdi s a Senator if you are referring to Sen Robert Byrd WV

What makes this "not genuine" is it bcasue it didn't come with reparations?
Orbecasue it was non binding?


Because the people who owned slaves are long dead. That's what I mean. It's like me apologizing to some dude who my grandfather bitch slapped while a boyscout
 
Byrdi s a Senator if you are referring to Sen Robert Byrd WV

What makes this "not genuine" is it because it didn't come with reparations?
Or becasue it was non binding?

Because it's a pointless, empty gesture, intended only to make the Senators who voted for it feel good about themselves.
 
Does anyone think that the Senate should not have appologized ? If so why.

An apology is not appropriate. Slavery existed long before the United States, and still exists now in Africa and parts of Asia.

If apologies for slavery are going to be handed around, perhaps Africans should apologize to Jews for slavin em up to make the pyramids ?

The sitting Senate never enslaved anyone, and so they do not have the right or legitimacy to issue an "apology".

What I don't like about the apology, is the hubris. Slavery has been practiced by all bloodlines of humans, and was being practiced, widely, on the nation state level, in the early days of U.S. History. If one examines the timeline, the U.S. abolished slavery far earlier than the vast majority of comparable contemporary nation states. Slavery was bigger than any one government, and it shows a lot of false pride to think one group of men in one nation can, 130 years later, apologize for a global practice, discontinued comparatively early in the nation in question.
 
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My ancestors during the time of American slavery weren't even Americans. They were Germans. Can they legitimately apologize for me when not even my ancestors were a part of the deal?

The notion is ludicrous. As others have said, the apology is meaningless.
 
Because it's a pointless, empty gesture, intended only to make the Senators who voted for it feel good about themselves.

Much like the empty gesture The U.S. House of Representatives did when they overwhelmingly approved a resolution Friday that says it supports "all Iranians who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of law."
 
Much like the empty gesture The U.S. House of Representatives did when they overwhelmingly approved a resolution Friday that says it supports "all Iranians who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of law."

Well, except for the minor detail that the situation with the Iranians is happening now, and slavery ended a brazillion years ago.
 
Well, except for the minor detail that the situation with the Iranians is happening now, and slavery ended a brazillion years ago.

It's still empty. It doesn't DO anything. It's a waste of time.

You might as well have a resolution stating that the sun rises from the east.
 
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Because it's a pointless, empty gesture, intended only to make the Senators who voted for it feel good about themselves.
Well, the way they are running things I guess they have to take what they can get, personally, I think they should apologize to every American they represent and pass a resolution to legislate with bags over their heads.
 
It's still empty. It doesn't DO anything. It's a waste of time.

You might as well have a resolution stating that the sun rises from the east.

the Iran resolution states a position by a branch of our government towards another government, so it's not completely pointless. Close, but not completely.

The slavery "apology"? Absolutely pointless.
 
Well, the way they are running things I guess they have to take what they can get, personally, I think they should apologize to every American they represent and pass a resolution to legislate with bags over their heads.

I would support that. :mrgreen:
 
My main problem with this is that how will this country ever get over race issues when we are constantly apologizing and bringing to front and center the bad times between the races. I am not saying to forget, but let's end the dwelling on a dead past!
 
My main problem with this is that how will this country ever get over race issues when we are constantly apologizing and bringing to front and center the bad times between the races. I am not saying to forget, but let's end the dwelling on a dead past!

I wonder how many resolutions of apology has our senate issued since it existed?

Anyone have a list?
 
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My main problem with this is that how will this country ever get over race issues when we are constantly apologizing and bringing to front and center the bad times between the races. I am not saying to forget, but let's end the dwelling on a dead past!

You mean that this is not the first time "we" apologized for slavery ?
 
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