Gov questions need for slavery apology

[CMF Newsman]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Gov. Mike Beebe questions moves to have Arkansas join other states in apologizing for its role in slavery.

"I think Arkansas probably has as good a feel for folks working together as any Southern state or any other state, so I think we've moved past that," Beebe told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia have issued slavery apologies. Some Arkansas lawmakers say the 50th anniversary of integration in Little Rock's Central High School on Sept. 25 would be an appropriate time for Arkansas' own legislative resolution or a statement of regret from the governor.

"I just think that it's time and it would serve as a great healing point. Certainly, as I think about our state, I think they're ready to make this decision," said state Rep. Wilhelmina Lewellen, a Democrat from Little Rock.

But the head of the state's Legislative Black Caucus, Sen. Irma Hunter Brown, said

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[stray]

I'm just wondering....

How much n!gger ass needs to be kissed before they consider it 'enough?'

[tncoaster37]

I agree, stray. The Governors don't need to appologize for slavery since there is no one alive that was a slave over 140 years ago. The past is the past, people, let it go. No wonder blacks will keep up the slave mentality because they don't want the focus be turned on them for a change of thier real racist attitudes.

[el Gusano]

I disagree strongly! I think that every person in the US who has ever owned a slave should apologize. Immediately.

[stray]

I went out in the back yard and told Toby I was sorry. He didn't say anything back, though....he's still holding his lantern.

[el Gusano]

Maybe he doesn't feel that an apology is necessary...

[BlackFox]

Maybe Liberia should apologize instead. You know, for putting a "For Sale " sign around their necks. It is a market economy after all. I'm sure they got a lot of bang for their buck.
I don't care what race you are. At one time or another, almost all of our decendants were slaves. Get over it.

[traveler]

At one time or another, almost all of our decendants were slaves.

I can say with one hundred percent certainty that none of my descendents were or are slaves....one hundred percent!! ;D

[stray]

I think blackfox is also including the 'white slaves' as a result of warring factions in Europe 'back in the day' as well. (In which case, he is correct.)

I can say this, though...my family has extensive geneology records and there are no african apes hanging from my family tree. (Unless you go REALLY far back before we all evolved, that is.)

[bernardjenkins]

And who do you apologize to. Right... Al. Sharpton !!

[Copperhead]

blackfox said:

Maybe Liberia should apologize instead. You know, for putting a "For Sale " sign around their necks. It is a market economy after all. I'm sure they got a lot of bang for their buck.
I don't care what race you are. At one time or another, almost all of our decendants were slaves. Get over it.

Perhaps not decendants but definitely ancestors.

[BlackFox]

copperhead said:

blackfox said:

Maybe Liberia should apologize instead. You know, for putting a "For Sale " sign around their necks. It is a market economy after all. I'm sure they got a lot of bang for their buck.
I don't care what race you are. At one time or another, almost all of our decendants were slaves. Get over it.

Perhaps not decendants but definitely ancestors.

A review of Micheal Hoffmans book, "We were white, and we were slaves".

As other reviewers have noted, this book is a barrage of facts that are a little rambling and disorganized, but this in NO WAY takes away from the interest of the subject matter that is presented in this volume.
Mr. Hoffman presents a rough outline of the history of the enslavement of whites in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the Carribean and finally in America from Roman times to the begining of the 20th century. Documented are such details as:

-Slavery in ancient Greece and attitudes towards slaves there
-Arab traffic in white slave to the Middle East
-The Vikings' massive involvement in the slave trade during the middle ages
-White slavery and ethnic-cleansing in Ireland and Barbados under Oliver Cromwell
-Kidnapping of whites in Britain to bring to the Americas
-Child labor and gross working conditions in the mines and factories in America and Britain during the industrial revoloution.
-One of the most disturbing events documented here: the use of "human brooms" as chimney sweeps in England during the 1800's. These might be able to claim the worst status. The orphans who had to climb up chimneys filled with toxic dirt and soot weren't even paid to do so, they were forced to do that work and then BEG for a living.
-White slavery and white slave trade in colonial America. These whites were treated as more expendable then the African slaves because the slave ships had to go out of their way to pick up Africans.
-"Redneck," because whites had to work out in the fields in the sun so their skin would get tanned and burned.
-"Hillbilly," because when they were freed or escaped, the slaves had nowhere to live except in remote places in the backwoods and especially APPALACIA.
-The race politics presented here explain and elucidate the animostiy between blacks, lower class whites and the white slave-and-plantation owning aristocracy in the South.
-This one's the kicker: the word SLAVE actually comes from SLAV, the white peoples of Eastern Europe who were often raided and held in bondage by invaders.

This book is well worth getting a hand on and reading, because it proves that slavery is a universal condition that has been practiced against all races and nations of people, even against those traditionally portrayed (i.e. Anglo Saxons/whites) as being the slavemasters and oppressors.

[BlackFox]

copperhead said:

blackfox said:

Maybe Liberia should apologize instead. You know, for putting a "For Sale " sign around their necks. It is a market economy after all. I'm sure they got a lot of bang for their buck.
I don't care what race you are. At one time or another, almost all of our decendants were slaves. Get over it.

Perhaps not decendants but definitely ancestors.

Yes. I meant ancestors. My bad.

[chattavegaszombie]

stray said:

I'm just wondering....

How much n!gger ass needs to be kissed before they consider it 'enough?'

The world may never know.

As for me I will not apologize.

[legaltender]

I can say with one hundred percent certainty that none of my descendents were or are slaves....one hundred percent!!

Nice to know.

From Hoffman's book:

In 1855, Frederic Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New York's Central Park, was in Alabama on a pleasure trip and saw bales of cotton being thrown from a considerable height into a cargo ship's hold. The men tossing the bales somewhat recklessly into the hold were Negroes, the men in the hold were Irish.

Olmsted inquired about this to a shipworker. "Oh," said the worker, "the niggers are worth too much to be risked here; if the Paddies are knocked overboard or get their backs broke, nobody loses anything."

[stray]

I want reparations.

40 acres of potatoes and a still.