To Black People With Love - Blog Day Afternoon Posted by Jeff (Monday June 13 2005 @ 09:51PM EDT)

You can't blame NASCAR fans for 80 years of lynchings. Many took place before rednecks challenged each other's ability to turn left. Besides, without a Federal anti-lynching law, nobody knew it was wrong to string-up a black man by his neck. Efforts were made to remedy that - a sort of Federal "hey, maybe you shouldn't do that..." Two hundred anti-lynching bills were introduced in the United States Senate from 1880 to 1960. Each was strangled by a Southern filibuster. And now the Senate is sorry. Not sorry enough to vote on the record - the measure passed by oral vote - but sorry nonetheless. It's okay, black America. Consider it a beach vacation to which you weren't invited. That characterizes the African experience on these shores; so it shouldn't be very difficult. For doing nothing while Jim Bob and I.N. Bred chased your family down with a rope, the United States Senate is sorry. A black man reacts, tells Senate to "Go screw itself!"

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By Will is White (Monday June 13 2005 @ 11:20PM EDT)

I don't know what the Senate is apologizing for. If them darkies hadn't done anything wrong, they wouldn't have been strung up in the first place. Just like them ragheads in Gitmo. If they hadn't all been flying airplanes into buildings or guarding Osama Hussein then they wouldn't be there now. It all comes down to personal responsibility.

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By MattC (Tuesday June 14 2005 @ 11:39AM EDT)

What should the Senate do instead of pass their apology bill? Are there Senators still in office who participated in the fillibusters between 1880 and 1960? I wonder what party they were part of?

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By Jeff (Tuesday June 14 2005 @ 11:58AM EDT) Without question they were Southern Democrats. When Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he realized the uneasy coalition between Northern working class people and Southern resisters to the "Party of Lincoln" was finally severed. At the signing, Johnson proclaimed, "We have lost the South for a generation." LBJ was one of America's most savvy judges of the political landscape. Electoral maps since 1964 demonstrate the accuracy of his prediction. [ reply | parent ]

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