Does the state of Virginia own a time machine???

Question

how else are they going to apologize to dead slaves????? we all know that announcement was not to appease whining liberal blacks

Answer 1

why does it matter, the past is done, I was never a slave owner, but my family suffered in the past and present from the system, I got over it. everyone else should also. there were white slaves long before there were black slaves , who appologized to them? no one. whites went on to multiply and rise above their past, everyone else should also. you can't move on and grow as long as you hold on to the past as your defining character. it was a bad thing to do, we know that now. lesson learned. tomorrow is a new day. let it go.

Answer 2

SHOULD DEMOCRATS APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY?
boblonsberry.com ^ | 01/26/07 | Bob Lonsberry


Posted on 01/28/2007 8:38:45 AM PST by shortstop


I think you should only apologize for things you did.


So, personally, I don't think there's anybody alive today who owes anybody an apology for slavery. The slavemasters are dead, the slaves are dead, time has taken them all away. That doesn't minimize the evil or horror of slavery, but it does address the issue of apologies. They are unnecessary and meaningless.


Again, slavery was a great moral wrong. Understanding slavery and its complex meanings in American history is important. I think everybody should read a book titled "Lay My Burden Down," an oral history of recollections and experiences of people who had been slaves. It is available in a variety of ways, including at Amazon.com and at online libraries. I also think people should read the words of Abraham Lincoln on the subject. His "House Divided" speech and his reaction to the Dred Scott verdict are powerful arguments from the time about the disgust most Americans held for slavery.


Slavery was a national sin of such magnitude that the greatest bloodletting in our history -- the Civil War -- was necessary to atone for it.


But no apologies should be forthcoming. The perpetrators of that diabolical oppression are dead and cannot apologize, the only forgiveness they can beg is from the Lord. The people of today are neither benefited nor hurt by slavery, it is an historic fact that is part of the heritage of some people and part of the history of us all.


But some people demand apologies.


And in Virginia, the state legislature is considering one. At the suggestion of some Democratic members of the House of Delegates, and with the seeming agreement of the Democratic governor, a resolution may be passed apologizing for the state of Virginia's role in slavery. Whether that state offers such an apology or not is up to its people and politicians.


But if the plan goes ahead, and Virginia apologizes, or if in an attempt to elicit it politicians talk about organizations that benefited from and encouraged slavery, the could stand to be a little discussion about another body which might offer an apology. If you accept the premise that apologies for events of another century should be apologized for -- and I do not -- then one organization still playing a role in American society which would seem to be at the top of the list would seem self-evident.


The Democratic Party.


Of all the organizations still in existance, the one whose historic actions did the most to defend and expand slavery was the Democratic Party. More than any business, more than any state, it was the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party -- home to America's blacks for the last 60 years -- was home to America's slavemasters 100 years before that.


No other force in 1850s society, for example, did as much to support the cause of slavery or extend its borders. The Democratic Party, in the years before the Civil War, was the voice of slavery. Its strident defense of slavery and its interests was a big part of the process that led to the formation of the Republican Party.


I'm not trying to be partisan. I'm not trying to zing Democrats. I'm just making an historical observation. If Democrat politicians really believe this stuff about apologies, the first place they should look is at their own organization.


The Fugitive Slave Act was produced by the Democratic Party.


The push for expansion of slavery into new territories came from the Democratic Party.


The leadership of the slave-owning Confederacy overwhelmingly came from the Democratic Party.


Strident defense of the Dred Scott decision -- which legally equated a black man with a hog -- came from the Democratic Party.


There were two great views in America -- that slavery was right and that slavery was wrong. It was the Democratic Party that gave voice to the belief that slavery was right. And when agreement was not reached, it was a Democrat-controlled state militia that opened fire on an American fort and began the Civil War.


The Democratic Party was the slavery party. It wrote and enforced the nation's slavery laws.


The Republican Party came into being to counter the Democratic Party on this fundamenally moral issue. The Democrats looked at the founding documents of America and saw a right to own slaves. The Republicans looked at the founding documents of America and saw the planned extinction of slavery. The Republicans argued that "all men are created equal" included black men and the Democrats argued that black men weren't really men.


Those are the historical facts.


And if people are going to apologize for history, the Democrats should be first in line. If Democrat politicians are going to demand apologies, they should look to their own organization first.

Answer 3

I wonder if 40 acres and a mule come with this time machine.

We can continue to apologize for the past, but it will never do any good if the apology is not accepted. No apology on this subject will ever be accepted by the entire black community.

Answer 4

Odd how people will feel proud about what their country did and boast of its accomlishments that they personally had nothing to do with, yet shrink from apologizing for its mistakes and seek to distance themselves from any sort of responsibility for what occurred.

Your country did it, why not just admit that it was wrong instead of continually denying it and hoping others will forget? Some democracy you guys have . . . you are so averse to admitting mistakes even to the dead, how could you possibly treat the living fairly?

Answer 5

Ask the SCI FI channel. Maybe they will make a movie based on your idea.

Hey, the Army could use it to go back and apologize to the Indians for making them fight the Battle ofthe Little Big Horn.

Answer 6

It would seem that way from what is going on in the legislature. I agree With you, it is impossible to apologize for something that happened over 100 years ago, to someone who is no longer here by someone who is no longer here.
The blacks want reparations more than anything else, apology is the first step in collecting. This is in keeping with the social and moral dilemma that demands that they continually look for the golden suitcase.

Answer 7

It is doubtful. However, an apology is not out of order; even though present day people are not guilty. It is an admission and acknowledgment of past guilt; and a reparation and promise to not allow this type of action to happen again.

Answer 8

While were at it why don't we apologise for the slaves that the Spaniards had, the Egyptians had, the Hebrews had, Germanics, Brits, Asians... All peoples have done this, if we can figure out why it's such a big deal then we can just learn to drop it.

Answer 9

Get over it black folks you wanted to be equals and now you are and bitching about that it piss me off when i dont get a job cause they say sorry we have hire so many minoritiy races. Yall wanted equal rights so quit bitching and get you self to work im tired of supporting a whole other family with my taxes

Answer 10

Grrr. I am so tired of this issue. And honestly the majority of blacks are tired of this issue as well.

The past is past and should not be dwelled upon...but it should not be forgotten for the lessons we have learned. But the present is better. We should live in the present.