a congressional apology for slavery are you kidding me?!?!!?

Question

that is rediculous! it was a part of history EVERYONE black and white owned a slave in some point in time in the past. ITS CALLED HISTORY..... THAT is pathetic, and to reimburse them wage wise for what our great great + ancestors did, to NOW reimburse blacks, this is rediculous... i swear if this even goes through i dont know what im going to do.

Answer 1

I don't want YOUR money! So now what's the problem?
This is all about money right? Cause as long as I can remember, black history month was about being proud of our history by remembering OUR past!

I keep hearing this GREAT GREAT ANCESTOR argument. Does anyone remember uh, I don't know, the nineteen-sixties? Black people were killed in America for NO REASON, on TELEVISION! We've all seen the footage.....plenty of angry men, police with dogs and even women, beating on blacks, shooting blacks, burning houses, churches and schools. Did these people, these criminals and victims, disappear after 40yrs?

Why go into my ancestry, I got uncles and aunts who went through this. But we're supposed to shut up and forget about it?
After 9/11, the slogan was "Never Forget". So in 40yrs when someone brings up 9/11, are people gonna say "Get over it"?

Here we are 40yrs later and white americans act shocked when they see violence in the mideast, or in Africa, and now in their own suburban schools.
Like they forgot America was BUILT on violence.
Violence that takes on different forms but for the most part, American violence has been unequivocally directed at BLACK PEOPLE. And I have yet to see an INNOCENT white man shot 10+ times by the police. But it's happeing to blackmen every year, and it's 2007! SEAN BELL Rest in Peace!

It's very WISE to learn from your past. Have you really learned from it? Has America learned from it? Is this "Black History Month" just a dog and pony show or America's way to "Never Forget"? You can forgive, but you can never forget. And how can you forgive if offered no apology? If now isn't a good time for an apology, then when was? Was my greatgrandfather, a freed slave, ABLE to ask for an apology? Or was he terrorized for the rest of his life? Was my grandfather the son of a slave, ABLE to ask for an apology?

If this wasn't about $$$, I don't see what the problem is. This is the land of the free, the home of the brave, right?!?? The land where "all men are created equal." How can it be when america has more blood on it's hands than any other nation. And we're to just forget about it and move on?

We have our white and black troops fighting injustice for the people of Iraq. Cause we care so much about injustice! We don't, we care about $$$. That's why America will NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY, JIM CROW, OR NEVER EVER EVER, pay reparations. By you complaining about it, you sound no different than someone in the sixties complaining about sharing a water fountain with a black person.

Was I a slave? Not in the transatlantic sense. I wasn't brought over here in chains, I was born in chains. Europeans who claim their ancestors came here for some great ideology, your ancestors came for one thing, $$$$. In that sense, we're ALL SLAVES.

Happy belated black history month;)

Answer 2

When it comes to slavery and Black History Month ...

Here's the way every sensible person should look at it:

If you're in a marriage. And every year, you set aside a month, let's say February to bring up a particularly awful thing your spouse did to you ... do you really think that marriage could survive?

If you constantly remind your best friend about something bad he or she did to you, do you really think that friendship will last?

Passing some kind of apology for something only 1% of Americans did is insane. Black men owned slaves too.

If anything, what sould be discussed when it comes to talk of slavery is how white men and women risked lives and their fortunes to protect slaves. White men fought to free the slaves as well. Plus it should be celebrated how white people voted in all sorts of special grant programs and government subsidies to help the children of slaves and current black America.

Answer 3

Are you foaming at the mouth over this? Honestly, is this something you're seriously losing grip over? This will NEVER happen so relax.....

Anyway, ETHICALLY, it is nothing wrong with apologizing to a group of people for something that happened to their ancestors. Seriously, if someone views that as a BAD thing, I seriously question their outlook on life, in general.

Now, what about Jim Crow? At least there could be some sort of apology for that time period, if nothing else. There are still hundreds of thousands of blacks still alive today who had to experience that time in history. I assume you don't think they deserve an apology, as well.

I'm a person of higher character, it seems. So many people come on Answers ranting about slavery and reparations and why blacks shouldn't get a damn thing for anything that happened. And while there are arguments that makes sense, most of the rants come not from actual concern for the state of the country, but more from personal prejudices. Let's be honest with ourselves, people. I can see it a mile a way.

And for all the whites who will downthumb this response without actually reading the entire answer and writing off my comment as just another attempt by blacks to get over, you're mistaken. I personally don't think it's necessary to pay for slavery. My argument goes for Jim Crow.

And even though there are other races who dealth with similar atrocities, it would be stupid to play tit for tat with things such as this because they ALL were gross displays of human evil.

All of it was/is wrong. Maybe instead of talking about this, since it divides us almost immediately, how about dealing wit hthe ongoing racism/prejudice experienced by ALL RACES today. Because we've still got a lot of problems in this area.

Answer 4

So far it's only words,they haven't got anything on the way in the form of reparations yet. If they ever do that it would be the worst thing that ever happened to black americans really,since the backlash would be huge. Can you imagine the reaction of 200 million white americans suddenly being told that not only was the govt going to waste their taxes on all the garbage they already do but that in addition you could look at your taxes going up to give freebies to people for something that happened over 100 years ago? I think we have come a very long way in this country when it comes to attitudes between the races,may not be perfect but it's better,if black americans want to set up a situation that will destroy race relations for all time then they should definitely go for reparations.

AD

Answer 5

Pretty much on target, that is totally ludicrous to even consider such a thing. Okay if that happens then I am suing the town I grew up in because I was poor and men thought they could take advantage of me. I am suing and I want lots of money for being sexually assaulted by citizens of that town and if I don;t get any money then surely my grand children should have some for the way I was mistreated there.

Answer 6

i'm from India and as an entire 0.33 occasion i think that there is no choose for apologies, extraordinarily from the U. S. government. i think the worldwide at super could desire to be grateful to human beings like Abraham Lincoln who fought slavery and set the point for ending the barbaric prepare worldwide. As a species we've developed socially over the years and proceed to accomplish that and apologies for historic blunders mean little, actual affirmative action means plenty extra.

Answer 7

Who of today in this country was or is now a slave? Everyone in this day and age should work for their own living. No one should have to apology for a wrong they didn't commit.

Answer 8

I'm curious about who they are going to apologize too and who they are going to reimburse. There aren't any former slaves still living. It's about 140 years to late.

Answer 9

I will apply for an exemption as my family had not immigrated to the US until after slavery had ended.

Answer 10

white people already set up a system that's undermines race relations. and you can't even say sorry for something you know was wrong. no matter how many excuses you come up with.