U.S. Senate Votes Formal Apology for Slavery

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The U.S. Senate approved a fiercely worded resolution Thursday formally apologizing for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" of African-Americans.

The unanimous voice vote came five months after Barack Obama became the first black US president, and ahead of the June 19 "Juneteenth" celebration of the emancipation of African-Americans at the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865.

The non-binding resolution now heads to the House of Representatives, where a similar resolution passed by voice vote in July 2008, only to wither in the upper chamber.

House approval, which could come as early as next week, would make it the first time the entire US Congress has formally apologized on behalf of the American people for one of the grimmest wrongs in US history.

The bill, which does not require Obama's signature, states that the US Congress "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws" that enshrined racial segregation at the state and local level in the United States well into the 1960s.

The Congress "apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws."

And it "expresses its recommitment to the principle that all people are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and calls on all people of the United States to work toward eliminating racial prejudices, injustices, and discrimination from our society."

http://www.alternet.org/rss/3/62624/u.s._senate_votes_formal_apology_for_slavery/

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Another tyrannical step in his diabolical socialist plot.

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If I run into anyone I've owned, I'll apologize in person.

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If I run into anyone I've owned, I'll apologize in person.

I'll stop if I find any my great grandparents owned and say I'm sorry to in person. For fuck sake! Whats next? Ask the Romans to apologize for the crap they pulled?

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If I run into anyone I've owned, I'll apologize in person.

I'll stop if I find any my great grandparents owned and say I'm sorry to in person. For fuck sake! Whats next? Ask the Romans to apologize for the crap they pulled?

...The bill, which does not require Obama's signature, states that the US Congress "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws" that enshrined racial segregation at the state and local level in the United States well into the 1960s...

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states that the US Congress "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery

Well no shit! Do we really need the Congress to tell us that this was a bad thing? Give me a break!

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[shropshire 0]

Fucking stupid idea


..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

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Fucking stupid idea


..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Exactly!!!! How about they cut spending and stop raising taxes instead of this bullshit! When they clean the plate of all the other stuff then we can go after the touchy feely crap!

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

[Andy9o8 2]

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Fucking stupid idea

..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Hmm... maybe the Brits can apologize to the Irish and the Indians, for starters .....

(Edit to add: no, actually that's not sarcasm...)

[Belgian_Draft 0]

Look at the bright side. The time they spent talking about this resolution was time they weren't spending money.
Better they apologize to all of us for the debt both parties have got us into.

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Look at the bright side. The time they spent talking about this resolution was time they weren't spending money.
Better they apologize to all of us for the debt both parties have got us into.

Here here. And I was also wondering, 360,000 Union soldiers killed and 275,000 wounded - is that meaningless?

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Fucking stupid idea

..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Hmm... maybe the Brits can apologize to the Irish and the Indians, for starters .....

(Edit to add: no, actually that's not sarcasm...)

How much do you know about the Irish?

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

[lawrocket 3]

This is awesome! It's all better now. Now we need not feel bad about it anymore and we can finally turn the page on that dark chapter of our history.

Brilliance. Of course, if that it not the situation then this is nothing except "let us in the senate makes others feel good about what caring people we are."

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Fucking stupid idea

..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Hmm... maybe the Brits can apologize to the Irish and the Indians, for starters .....

(Edit to add: no, actually that's not sarcasm...)

How much do you know about the Irish?

I have it on good authority they invented the potato.

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Look at the bright side. The time they spent talking about this resolution was time they weren't spending money.
Better they apologize to all of us for the debt both parties have got us into.

Here here. And I was also wondering, 360,000 Union soldiers killed and 275,000 wounded - is that meaningless?

Since forms of race-based slavery continued in the United States well past the midpoint of the 20th century, it would appear that the deaths of all of those Soldiers did not accomplish the mission of ending slavery in the US. Of course, we could argue if ending slavery had anything to do with the mission they were given til the cows come home, but that doesn't change the point that the United States:

1) Officially allowed race-based slavery in at least parts of its territory for the better part of a century
2) Allowed unofficial race-based slavery in parts of its territory for over a century beyond the end of the civil war

If those don't seem like things you think a nation should apologize for, so be it.

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Fucking stupid idea

..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Hmm... maybe the Brits can apologize to the Irish and the Indians, for starters .....

(Edit to add: no, actually that's not sarcasm...)

How much do you know about the Irish?

I have it on good authority they invented the potato.

I have it on good authority they used to use the British (along with other Europoeans) as slaves.

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

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Fucking stupid idea

..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Hmm... maybe the Brits can apologize to the Irish and the Indians, for starters .....

(Edit to add: no, actually that's not sarcasm...)

How much do you know about the Irish?

I have it on good authority they invented the potato.

I heard they also discovered civilization, but then drank a couple pints of Guinness and forgot where they put it.

HAMMER:
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kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

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Fucking stupid idea

..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Hmm... maybe the Brits can apologize to the Irish and the Indians, for starters .....

(Edit to add: no, actually that's not sarcasm...)

How much do you know about the Irish?

I have it on good authority they invented the potato.

I have it on good authority they used to use the British (along with other Europoeans) as slaves.

Yes; well, the sun never sets on the Irish Empire.

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the time they spent talking about this resolution was time they weren't spending money.

hopefully

we'll have to wait to see if the fallout doesn't result in some kind of expenditures

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I have it on good authority they used to use the British (along with other Europoeans) as slaves.

Yes; well, the sun never sets on the Irish Empire.

Empire building is evolution ... you adapt to your surroundings to survive, then you conquer your surroundings to thrive.

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

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I don't really care about slavery, but I would like to personally apologize to the City of New York about that truck my great-grandfather totalled when he was working at the garage in Manhattan. I feel terrible about that, I really do.

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I have it on good authority they used to use the British (along with other Europoeans) as slaves.

Yes; well, the sun never sets on the Irish Empire.

Empire building is evolution ... you adapt to your surroundings to survive, then you conquer your surroundings to thrive.

"My dear Mr. Ghandi, why should we British leave India? After all, India is British."

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Fucking stupid idea

..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Hmm... maybe the Brits can apologize to the Irish and the Indians, for starters .....

(Edit to add: no, actually that's not sarcasm...)

The 'Brits' have nothing to applogies for...... some individuals might well have but not the collective - that's just bollocks.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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Fucking stupid idea


..... I'd like to appoligise for everything that everyone else has done ever... since the begining of time - What a load of P.C shite

Exactly!!!! How about they cut spending and stop raising taxes instead of this bullshit! When they clean the plate of all the other stuff then we can go after the touchy feely crap!

Yep. But it's not like it costs anything. So maybe the best course is to go ahead & sign the piece of shit & move on. If it shuts people up maybe it will be worth something.

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And they continue to enslave the school children of DC by taking away school vouchers. One way to get out of poverty and crime, and they took it away.

The old racist Jessie and Al crowd would like to see us all remain divided so they can get on with slave reparations.

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