Everybody seems to feel like they can joke, minimize and trivialize our slavery past. You can find no one who minimizes the Jewish Holocaust as political posturing who are ever allowed to get away with it. Sometimes, those that do are heard from no more. We descendants of slaves should not allow our history to be forgotten and trivialized, either.
Today, on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-TX, a black woman, made an insensitive and insulting reference of our slavery past in America. For it, she must apologize to us, her fellow descendants of slaves, for trivializing slavery and slavery's end by likening it to today's political maneuvering. Just because she is black, does not mean she should be allowed to get away with having said it. Being black, she knows better and ought to be ashamed of having said it, too.
Our history in this country has been brutal, demoralizing and has lasted for centuries. No repair of that damage to our people has ever been made to date.
She would do well to willingly demonstrate the sincerity of her apology by lobbying passage of H.R. 40, the House bill to study reparations for descendants of slaves in America.
The damage done to the slaves and their descendants has never been repaired and it should not be used as a political football for political gain.
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Thursday, February 14th 2013 at 9:22PM
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