Friday - June 19, 2009

Juneteenth, Again

Today, Americans celebrate Juneteenth—when in 1865 slavery finally ended throughout the entire United States. Sadly, few people know that Juneteenth was a high water mark for African- Americans. Soon after that great day, the Democratic Party defeated the post-Civil War policies of the Republican Party, delaying the civil rights movement until the 1950s.

On this day in 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas and spread the word. See Zak’s Grand Old Partisan Blog for more details. [this is his annual link from BMEWS.]

Yesterday the Senate issued a non-binding resolution apologizing for slavery. Isn’t that wonderful?

The Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday apologizing for slavery, making way for a joint congressional resolution and the latest attempt by the federal government to take responsibility for 2 1/2 centuries of slavery.

“You wonder why we didn’t do it 100 years ago,” Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), lead sponsor of the resolution, said after the unanimous-consent vote. “It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice.”

The Senate’s apology follows a similar apology passed last year by the House. One key difference is that the Senate version explicitly deals with the long-simmering issue of whether slavery descendants are entitled to reparations, saying that the resolution cannot be used in support of claims for restitution. The House is expected to revisit the issue next week to conform its resolution to the Senate version.

Even among proponents of a congressional apology, reaction to yesterday’s vote was mixed. Carol M. Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University who had pushed for the Bush administration to issue an apology, called the Democratic-controlled Senate’s resolution “meaningless” since the party and federal government are led by a black president and black voters are closely aligned with the Democratic party.

“The Republican Party needed to do it,” Swain said. “It would have shed that racist scab on the party.”

Racist scab? You mean the one that isn’t there, that only the far left and professional victims and race baiters can see? No, we ended slavery. We gave you your freedom. The Democrats didn’t, and you didn’t earn it, or win it yourselves. It was a gift. From the “racist” Republicans. With a lot of help from the Union Army.

So of course the TV news had the head of the NAACP on this morning going on about how this gesture wasn’t enough, because it didn’t address reparations.



Hey, remember that big national discussion on race we were all accused of being too afraid to have 10 months or so ago? [Afraid. Yeah right. More like sick to death and bored to tears.]

Fine. Here’s my take on reparations: no one bloody cent. Every day you are alive is a reparation. Go get a passport. It says you’re a citizen of the United States of America. That’s your reparation. Every dollar spent on social services, Affirmative Action, government cheese, special standards, Abbot schools, and so on down a nearly infinite list - that’s your reparation. Save your money and go take a long vacation in Africa, so that you see the utter shithole that entire continent is. Disease infested, starving, uncaring, crime ridden, violent, tribal, uneducated, barbaric turd world “nations” run by tyrants and dictators. All of whom are black! Just like 95% of the people! Then know that your passport allows you to leave and come back here. That’s all the reparation you could ever want. What, you want money too? Go get a job and earn some.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/19/2009 at 02:01 PM   
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