BECAUSE ALL MEANINGFUL BUSINESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED

"The Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday apologizing for slavery.." (WaPo)

No word yet on the Senate apologizing for the hundreds of thousands of evil, racist white men that sacrificed themselves to end slavery.

Stupid crackers.

Roger Clegg makes some good points:

...no white today is or ever was a slaveholder; no black today is or ever was a slave. What’s the point of one apologizing to the other? Everyone has an ancestor who was wronged by someone else’s ancestor; there is no point in trying to find a thread for each present day misfortune in an individual’s life that can be followed back through the decades to a particular misdeed; and anyone’s poverty today likely has many causes. Some old, some recent, some other people’s fault, someone’s own.

We are told that this apology will help to bring closure, enabling us to move on. The resolution says the apology “will help bind the wounds of the Nation that are rooted in slavery and can speed racial healing and reconciliation and help the people of the United States understand the past … so they can move forward and seek reconciliation, justice, and harmony for all people of the United States.”

Nonsense — and that is not the apology’s intent. The idea is to reopen wounds, to keep grievance alive, to keep white people on the hook....

The trouble with the apology is that it is designed to make whites feel guilty and to urge blacks to think of themselves as victims. Neither emotion is valid in 2009, and both are bad for race relations.

Precisely. Dividing the nation into factions competing with each other to wear the mantel of victim hood has been the strategy of the left for years. Fanning the dying embers of racism is their intent, just as is fostering, not eliminating poverty.

Sick.