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RED STATE, TRUE COLORS?

This week the United States Senate condemned the lynching of black Americans. They were 105 years too late. Sadder still, the vote was not unanimous.

The only known lynching survivor was on hand for the vote. Mr. James Cameron, now 91 years old, spoke of his brush with death by hanging: "It was a voice from heaven. It was a miracle ... God saved me for [what] I'm doing today.”

At the official press gathering on Monday, Cameron added, “The apology is a good idea, but it still won’t bring anyone back. And I hope that the next time it won’t take so long to admit our mistakes.”

The apology was a ceremonial step, one that was long overdue.

As Ms. Doria Dee Johnson said, “While it is late, it is necessary." Her great-grandfather, Andrew Crawford, was lynched in South Carolina in 1916.

A majority of the members of the Senate sponsored the bill but there were some notable holdouts. Who would oppose such a bill--ceremonial or not?

It turns out that the answer is painfully obvious: Red State Republican Senators.

These Senators were brave enough to stand against the condemnation of lynching, and for that we honor them.

Here are the Senators who have refused to take part in this historic apology:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
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Sad. Just sad.

   

You Dip if your going to post stuff get it right


Bingaman (D-NM)
Conrad (D-ND)
Reed (D-RI)


You forgot these guys with the D beside their names.

   

Ok, sorry, the site I got that from didn't have a complete list.

But either way, they're from the hick states anyways.

   

Nimrod. Rhode Island, North Dakota, and new mexico aren't hick states.
Obviously you've been reading websites that don't offer the big picture
because it doesn't help their bias agenda.... eh?

The main point is: These senators weren't alive when these folks were lynched, and those who did it, are long dead. Why would the innocent
ever even think about pointlessly apologizing for history?

   

The ranking Democratic Senator is Robert Byrd,
a former ranking officer of the Ku Klux Klan.

Most lynchings were in Southern states in the century
following the U.S. Civil War. Solidly Democratic
Southern States.

The Democratic Party was the party that fought for
slavery.







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Instead of insulting people off the bat, how about you offer us the BIG picture from your hammer and nail smarts instead....EH?

   

How difficult would an official appology be?


As long as people don't think they are owed money for this, then go for it.

   

It was just legislation put up to embarass the White House. Propose an
inflammatory bit of legislation, then force the other side to vote it down.

It's not the oldest trick in the book, but it goes back as far as Athens anyway.





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Maybe instead of insulting people from certain states as hicks(when they clearly are not), someone could have had a couple geography lessons.
Rhode Island is in the north east, North Dakota is damn near in Canada,
and New Mexico is southwest.

"hicks" as they were so nicely put, live mainly in the south East.

And the big picture has been pretty well laid out.

1) It's a hash-slinging legislation.
2) Nobody who is innocent should apologize for anything.
3) "they" will eventually want money, somewhere down the slippery slope.

   

It's a waste of time.

   

Moveon.org ?

   

What's pathetic about Moveon.org is that they do anything but move on.

   

MoveOn is an advocacy organization just like MoveAmerica Forward (their ideological opposties).

And as for the place I got the original article, go here.

   

Why would Michael Moore's website exclude Democrats from the article?

In the end, though, all politicky crap aside, I hope the psychos who lynched those poor humans have been rotting in Hell.

But that's all I can say about that. Nothing I can do will let the victims live a happy life ever again- and I don't think my apology to someone who's ancestor were lynched will make them feel better or correct any wrong, especially when neither me nor my ancestors had anything to do with the lynchings.

   

Good points, but I think the reason for the Senate apology was that the Senate had never coondemned nor anything else in its history. It was a symbolic vote, nothing more.

And you're right, it is odd that he would exclude Democrat Senators.

   

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