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Name: McNasty

Comment: “The apology for slavery and the era of Jim Crow segregation is long overdue and is the first step toward healing the wounds of African-American men and women throughout this country,” Agreed! It should not be diluted with petty concerns regarding claims nor should it block the way if we should decide to file a claim for all the free labor provided to help build these great United States.

Name: JAXXIE

Comment: Big ups to CBC for calling out the Senate on its nonsense. An apology has three parts: 1)say "sorry"; 2) admit mistake, taking responsibility; and, 3) ask how to make amends with follow though (no quibbling or equivacating; actions speak volumes). Sounds like the Senate resolution is a political ploy just in the nick of time to serve as fodder for the next election cycle. The NAACP no longer has relevance for blacks in America. It should quietly fade away.

Name: Big10

Comment: I always thought these "apologies" are just for show. There is no way you can convince me that people are sincere when these apologies for slavery take place. I doubt that this will lead to reparations becaus that is never gonna happen. As far as the NAACP, Don't they have tv shows to complain about (nothing else better to do) while at the same time praising TBS Wednesday Minstrel Nights?

Name: Dovelyone

Comment: I agree w/what has been said here, esp. the pattern of "making amends". However, the Black community (however that is defined) STILL has not learned the message of a UNIFYING MESSAGE. Two predominantly Black groups PUBLICLY DISAGREEING with one another is the reason why ALL the Senate has to do is issue a window-dressing apology and let the Black folk nit-pick over it instead of presenting a UNITED FRONT to the government to DEMAND those amends. Jewish factions would NEVER UNDERMINE a fellow Jewish group. And yes, the NAACP has never been socially relevent in my lifetime. I wish I could have seen the NAACP when Ida B. Wells Barnett was part of the leadership in the beginning.

Name: Jack_Blackmusic

Comment: I wouldn't worry about that "apology"; since I sincerely don't think they mean it. Brothers and Sisters lets get back to work on the important issues. Peaz

Name: Reds

Comment: JAXXIE: "The NAACP no longer has relevance for blacks in America. It should quietly fade away." ... That's a painful truth wish non-students of the real American history are now becoming aware of. The NAACP was conceived as a pacifist organization to appease blacks without lobbying for real change.

Name: Reds

Comment: JAXXIE: “Sounds like the Senate resolution is a political ploy just in the nick of time to serve as fodder for the next election cycle.” … Just another ploy by the Democrats to appease blacks, keep us quite enough to hand them another vote. But I think they seriously miscalculated when they added that disclaimer. They would have been far better off to not even bringing up the topic. Now more blacks will see what they really are.

Name: Exmun

Comment: Accept the apology for what it is and let the lawyers and litigants in the private sector battle over whether legal claims exist. Personally, in my mind the apology may ease the path of a private suit. I can see the possible argument that the apology begins the statute of limitations running on the government since prior to this there was no formal legislative apology.

Name: JAXXIE

Comment: No, Exmun, let's not settle for less than what we are due. How many more years or times do we blacks impotently watch as people (usually white ethnics) get their due without remotely settling for little or nothing? Or, as you recommend, let the lawyers sort it out. To the lawyer thing, I scream NO: that's litigious masturbation. The disclaimer in the Senate resolution is a wink, nod and stiffled guffaw at the power of the soverienty of white maleness. The resolution disclaimer magnifies the nothingness embodied in the loss of 40 acres and mule as well as in the destruction of Rosewood along with any other black creation that affronted and continues to affront white maleness like the election of a black president.

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