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Old Jul 30, 2008 | 11:49 PM
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No hard feelings

Congress apologizes for slavery


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=93059465
 
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Old Jul 30, 2008 | 11:53 PM
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Fantastic! Now we can move on and get past it.
 
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Old Jul 30, 2008 | 11:55 PM
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Not to knock the importance of this issue but I just cant help thinking there are much more pressing issues they need to be dealing with. No one in America has ever owned a slave. No one has ever been a slave not for several (5+?) generations. We should be dealing with real problems facing all the population today. This is political buffoonery.
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by jethat
Not to knock the importance of this issue but I just cant help thinking there are much more pressing issues they need to be dealing with. No one in America has ever owned a slave. No one has ever been a slave not for several (5+?) generations. We should be dealing with real problems facing all the population today. This is political buffoonery.
Excellent point
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 12:02 AM
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well between that and the aclu or whoever it was burying the "N" word there will be racial harmony across the country the end of affirmative action welfare and all forms of discrimination will be gone
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 12:04 AM
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Jesus and Jebus weep today ...
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 03:49 AM
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what a waste of time, breath and money... its like what was already said, do you own a slave? no? oh well GET THE HELL OVER IT. its only been oh over 100 years? your not suffering from it.
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 09:37 AM
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Is it any wonder why their approval rating is so low? Instead of actually doing what they were elected to do they choose to create stupid superficial legislation that provides no benefit to this country. This is by far one of the lowest election year ploys that I have ever seen.
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 09:49 AM
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what a waste of time, breath and money... its like what was already said, do you own a slave? no? oh well GET THE HELL OVER IT. its only been oh over 100 years? your not suffering from it.
I own a slave. She's white though and shares my last name. Not sure if that counts or not. I had to marry her to make it legal.


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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 11:36 AM
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I had to marry her to make it legal.
I think you're confused--she's the one that now owns a slave. If you don't believe me, divorce her. You'll be working for her for the rest of your life paying alimony!

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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by jethat
This is political buffoonery.
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Why spend taxpayer funded time to apologize for something that ended more than 40 years before the oldest Congressman was born! Get over it.

What's next, an apology to the Irish, the American Indians, and the Chinese that built the railroads? Let's pre-emptively apologize to everyone whose ancestors were mistreated and get it over with all at once. Then maybe we can move on!

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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 11:43 AM
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Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

How about a fuc|<ing energy policy.
Maybe a side of health care served warm with education reform.
You know by nuking DC we would take out congress and a city with one of the highest crime rates in the country........
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Grim
I think you're confused--she's the one that now owns a slave. If you don't believe me, divorce her. You'll be working for her for the rest of your life paying alimony!

Grim
lmao yeah thats what i thought when i read his post.
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 06:46 PM
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Congress may have apologized, but I won't. I have nothing to apologize for.
 
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 07:31 PM
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Didn't we (whites and blacks) pay the ultimate price to rid us of slavery, i believe it was the civil war?. I apologize for nothing because i did nothing wrong it was forever ago. Let it go and let's just move on.
 
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