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Libralind2
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 02:08 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lawmaker Under Fire for Slavery Comment
By BOB LEWIS
AP
RICHMOND, Va. (Jan. 16) - A state legislator said black people "should get over" slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize "for killing Christ," drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues

Del. Frank D. Hargrove, 79, made his remarks in opposition to a measure that would apologize on the state's behalf to the descendants of slaves.

In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Hargrove said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that "our black citizens should get over it."

The newspaper also quoted him as saying, "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"

Black lawmakers swiftly denounced Hargrove's comments.

"When somebody tells me I should just get over slavery, I can only express my emotion by projecting that I am appalled, absolutely appalled," said Del. Dwight C. Jones, head of the Legislative Black Caucus.

Del. David L. Englin also criticized Hargrove's remarks, recalling that his grandparents were driven from their homes in Poland "by people who believed that as Jews, we killed Christ."

When Hargrove rose to speak, he told Englin he didn't care about Englin's religion. "I think your skin was a little too thin," Hargrove said as lawmakers gasped and groaned.


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Chrishayden
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 02:34 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Why don't Hillbilly Hargrove git over the Civil War?

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Nels
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 03:12 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

-- black people "should get over" slavery (?)

One might think that "they" need to get over the color of their skin, thickness of their lips, nappiness of their hair, size of their behinds, etc., first. The Slavery issue isn't going to go away anytime soon. It's become a convenient crutch.

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Cynique
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 03:16 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I'm sure you'd agree, Nels, that Jews also need to get over the Holocaust.
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Mzuri
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 03:32 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


All people need to get over everything and quit living in the past!! That's what I think about it!!!





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Cynique
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 03:56 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yes, we should learn from the past and then move on.
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Ntfs_encryption
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 04:13 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"It's become a convenient crutch."

True........
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Abm
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 04:46 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Foks. The issue isn't just slavery. The issue is all the bvllshyt that happened AFTER slavery.

The issue is mofos (including Pres. Bush & dead Chief Justice Reinquist) owning properties whose deeds expressly PROHIBITED Blacks buying and selling their properties.

The issue is a little over 30 years ago, about half of the Black foks in the country had to risk their frickin' live to VOTE.
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Mzuri
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 04:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Yeah. And now that we can vote 9/10s of the Black population probably doesn't even bother.


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Yukio
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 06:53 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

abm: right...not just votes but wealth! It is strange how people, especially folk Hargrove's age, conveniently forget Jim Crow.

Furthermore, people have misunderstood the role of MLK in the CRM. Erroneously, many think he was only for black and whites holding hands singing 'We Shall Overcome.' That is ridiculous! What happened to voting, desegregation, his poor people's campaign, and anti-vietname positions?
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Nels
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 09:08 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yukio --

"It is strange how people, especially folk Hargrove's age, conveniently forget Jim Crow."

For some folks, letting go is hard to do. And...not doing so frequently retards the senses, as in the "common" types.

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