I Did Not Realize that Members of the 110th Congress Used to Own Slaves
Apparently, the House of Representatives is about to pass a resolution that formally apologizes to African-Americans for slavery. I guess now is as good a time as any, since they just solved the energy crisis, balanced the budget, resolved the bankrupt social security system, and fixed our nation’s failing inner-city schools.
Stupid gestures like this really irritate me. In the first place, none of the members of the House of Representatives had anything to do with slavery. In fact, most of their ancestors had nothing to do with slavery. How can you apologize for something for which you have no culpability?
Of course, logic has no place in the Democratically controlled House of Representatives. In fact, the resolution also apologizes for Jim Crow laws. The CNN story, with no hint of irony, explains that Jim Crow laws “were state and locallaws enacted mostly in the Southern and border states between the 1870’s and 1965.” Again, what does the 110th Congress have to do with the state and local legislatures from the South from several generations ago?
As long as you can get credit for making grand apologies for terrible things over which you had no control, we at MonroeRising would like to formally apologize to women because they did not get the right to vote until 1920. That was really terrible, and we offer our heartfelt sorrow and deepest apologies. We hope that someday women can forgive us, MonroeRising, for this awful awful thing.
I am also irritated by the smug self-righteousness of the whole thing. These cretinous members of the House of Representatives can now slap each other on the back and celebrate how much they have done for African-Americans. I seriously doubt it makes much difference to an impoverished kid from inner city Rochester who attends the horrid Rochester City School District that a bunch of wealthy elected officials formally apologized for something that happened almost one hundred and fifty years ago. It reminds me of those morons who want credit for saving the entire planet Earth because they switched to compact fluorescent light-bulbs. But I will save that rant for another day.
Congratulations to the Democratic House and its vapid and ineffectual leader, Nancy Pelosi. The economy may be going to crap before our very eyes, but at least the House has taken responsibility for slavery.
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This is ridiculous enough at face value but upon reading the actual text of the legislation, it is even more disturbing. i.e. part 3 of the Resolution. . .
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives–
(1) acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow;
(2) 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; and
(3) expresses its commitment to rectify the lingering consequences of the misdeeds committed against African-Americans under slavery and Jim Crow and to stop the occurrence of human rights violations in the future.
Are we marching towards paying for mass reparations for a problem not one single person still around has caused? This could become a very very slippery slope. . .