Black People : New Jersey Apologizes for Slavery

[PurpleMoons]

But why is New Jersey apologizing now? What's lurking in the mist?

 

[Zulile]

But why is New Jersey apologizing now? What's lurking in the mist?

Obama

 

[PurpleMoons]

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Obama

That sounds about right Sister Zullie.

 

[Destee]

Sister Destee, did you happen to read this article on the same issue, only with a different take on the subject? I found it to be disturbing, but not out of character for politicians.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_sha_080103_new_jersey_assemblym.htm

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_sha_080103_new_jersey_assemblym.htm

According to an article by the Associated Press, Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll, a Republican, is not in favor of the bill. He said, "If slavery was the price that a modern American's ancestors had to pay in order to make one an American, one should get down on one's knees every single day and thank the Lord that such price was paid."

In other words, according to Assemblyman Carroll, the blacks should be thanking the Lord for the fact that their ancestors were slaves, because that's how they came to be Americans. If not for slavery, they'd still be in Africa. Praise Jeeeeeesus!

Brother Kamau ... thanks for sharing. No, i hadn't seen / read that article, but included a quote from it above.

While such is always unsettling to read / hear, it doesn't surprise me.

I've even heard Sisters / Brothers say the same thing, right in this community, which is much more disturbing to me.



Destee

 

[Omowale Jabali]

Slavery back In Effect

New Jersey Apologizes for Slavery

updated 6:20 p.m. EST, Thu January 3, 2008

(CNN) -- A committee of the New Jersey Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution that would make the state the first north of the Mason-Dixon line to apologize for slavery.

The symbolic atonement would follow apologies for slavery made in 2007 by legislators in Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia.

New Jersey was the last northern state to abolish slavery, in 1846.

The resolution, championed by Assemblyman William Payne, notes the state, "with as many as 12,000 slaves, had one of the largest populations of captive Africans in the northern colonies."

It adds that New Jersey had one of the most severe slave codes in the North, and was one of the few Northern states to sanction the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which allowed authorities in non-slave states to capture escaped slaves and return them to their owners.


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Destee

I know this was posted before but I cant find the thread.

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit05pop.htm

Since New Jersey has this country's most dangerous city apologetics will not suffice so long as Black people are "victimized" by living in such dangerous conditions.

It's like removing the chains then dumping you in a bottomless PIT.