Apologies For Slavery and Everything Else

Since the Civil Rights movement nearly a half century ago, blacks have made a continuing series of demands from white people, and white people have bent every rule in the book to satisfy their demands.

In the 1960s, white people put in place laws to remove race as a consideration for anything in America. Blacks were free to achieve anything they could. Whites then put in place “helping hand” and “affirmative action” programs to assist blacks into the mainstream. Although it violated the Civil Rights Acts, whites then added “quotas,” based on race, for blacks in every facet of American life. Whites then added “proportionality” to these quotas, insuring blacks of participation in the mainstream at the very least in proportion to their population. Finally, whites set up a politically correct system to prevent any criticism of anything blacks do or say. All of these protections and privileges have now been in place for nearly half a century. Black people have not had to earn anything -- it has all been given to them by white people. It can hardly be any better for black people any place in the world.

All of this has been acceptable to mainstream America. However, it has become more than noticeable that black people have not only refused to earn their way into the mainstream, but they are continuing to demand more and more retribution. The concept of “systemic racism” has been adopted in order to support a continuing demand for preferences-- as long as white people are the dominate force in America, black people are being abused. “Whiteness” studies have been put in place in most of our elite universities. These studies are designed to find ways to eliminate the white race in America.” In addition, it has become quite clear that black people have developed an in-your-face-white-people mentality that promises to permanently balkanize them. They have even adopted the African culture instead of the white culture that founded and built this great country, and who have tried very hard to encourage blacks to enter the mainstream. However, the actions of the blacks seem to be intentionally designed to keep themselves from becoming part of mainstream America. more...

 

Don't Leave Home Without It

Check out this funny, but true, depiction of the proverbial "race card."

 

"Stonewall" Jackson: The Black Man's Friend

Just when you thought there was nothing left to write about Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, along comes this book by Richard G. Williams Jr.

It is the story of Jackson's desire to bring the word of God to the slaves of the antebellum era.

Historians have long struggled with the mystery of a man who came from a slaveholding family, owned slaves himself, and yet broke the prevailing law of Virginia to conduct a weekly Colored Sabbath School, where slaves were taught to read and write while also being brought to a personal knowledge of the Christ of Jackson's heart and soul.

Mr. Williams' book follows Jackson through an orphanlike childhood and his devotion to "Miss Fanny," a slave who raised him; to his teenage years; and on to West Point and the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. Each aspect of his life demonstrates his relationships with the slave families to which he was exposed. more...

 

North Carolina Senate Passes Slavery Apology

In a still chamber, North Carolina senators Thursday approved a resolution apologizing for slavery as one after another discussed how a conflict central to the American experience reverberates in their lives.
The descendants of slave owners and the descendants of slaves wrestled with the inheritance of what has been called America's original sin. North Carolina still confronts problems that have their roots in slavery and legal segregation, they said.

"My middle name is the last name of the owners of my ancestors," said Sen. Charlie Smith Dannelly, a Charlotte Democrat.

"My grandfather was a slave owner," said Sen. Bill Purcell, a Laurinburg Democrat, "I've always had trouble dealing with that."

Purcell said he was bothered growing up seeing tenant farmers laboring in a system in which they could not make money, watching department store customers pay more than they should have, and seeing black students get hand-me-down books from white children.

Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue called the discussion "the most powerful words I've ever heard in here."

After a debate of about an hour, the resolution passed unanimously. It goes to the House for its consideration. more...

 

Slavery in the North

African slavery is so much the outstanding feature of the South, in the unthinking view of it, that people often forget there had been slaves in all the old colonies. Slaves were auctioned openly in the Market House of Philadelphia; in the shadow of Congregational churches in Rhode Island; in Boston taverns and warehouses; and weekly, sometimes daily, in Merchant's Coffee House of New York. Such Northern heroes of the American Revolution as John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin bought, sold, and owned black people. William Henry Seward, Lincoln's anti-slavery Secretary of State during the Civil War, born in 1801, grew up in Orange County, New York, in a slave-owning family and amid neighbors who owned slaves if they could afford them....

When the minutemen marched off to face the redcoats at Lexington in 1775, the wives, boys and old men they left behind in Framingham took up axes, clubs, and pitchforks and barred themselves in their homes because of a widespread, and widely credited, rumor that the local slaves planned to rise up and massacre the white inhabitants while the militia was away.

African bondage in the colonies north of the Mason-Dixon Line has left a legacy in the economics of modern America and in the racial attitudes of the U.S. working class. Yet comparatively little is written about the 200-year history of Northern slavery. Robert Steinfeld's deservedly praised "The Invention of Free Labor" (1991) states, "By 1804 slavery had been abolished throughout New England," ignoring the 1800 census, which shows 1,488 slaves in New England. Recent archaeological discoveries of slave quarters or cemeteries in Philadelphia and New York City sometimes are written up in newspaper headlines as though they were exhibits of evidence in a case not yet settled. more...

 

Georgia Governor Skeptical Of Slavery Apology

Georgia's governor sounded skeptical Monday about issuing a public apology for slavery, an idea that got a boost last week with the support of a Republican leader.

"Repentance comes from the heart," Gov. Sonny Perdue said Monday. "I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them."

A resolution acknowledging and apologizing for Georgia's role in the slave trade had been expected Monday but now could come later in the week. Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who presides over the state Senate, said he's working on the proposal. A resolution, as opposed to a bill, would not require Perdue's approval.

"We're putting a strategy in place now to move forward with a resolution," Cagle said. "We pass a lot of resolutions down here, and this is one that certainly has some merit."

The move comes as Georgia considers a measure that would officially designate April as Confederate History and Heritage Month. On Monday, members of the Georgia arm of the NAACP were at the Capitol lobbying. The apology measure also has the backing of Republican state Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson. more...

 

Slavery Apology Coming to Georgia Legislature

Black legislative leaders said Thursday they will propose that Georgia apologize for the state's role in slavery and segregation-era laws.

"It is time for Georgia, as one of the major stake-holders in slavery, as one of the major players in lynchings, to say it's sorry," said state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, a Democrat. "Sorry for the fact that it was involved in slave trade, sorry for the fact that it was involved in Jim Crow laws."

The measure comes on the heels of a Virginia resolution, passed unanimously in February, expressing regret over slavery.

"If the capital of the Confederate states can lead the way in issuing an apology, then surely all of the other states that maintained slavery can consider doing the same," Brooks said. more...

 

No Apologies For Slavery

Is American slavery to painful to remember, or too profitable to forget? Decide for yourself after watching this amusing commentary by "The Southern Avenger."