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« Wednesday « January 17, 2007
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Black people 'should get over' slavery? Comment stuns lawmakers in Virginia
(STLtoday.com)
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A [Virginia] state legislator said black people 'should get over' slavery...drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues.Pre-Civil Rights America is calling ... it wants its time machine back. Slavery, no, we should never get over that, and most certainly, we should never forget it. For one thing, the blood, sweat and tears, and more blood, of millions of uncompensated, dehumanized Black people helped make this country the economic force it is today. Someone planted the seeds of greatness, no doubt, at the crack of a whip. Imagine the business colossus you could build if you had access to a couple hundred years of guaranteed, free labor at your disposal? It's not difficult to imagine, just for the sake of argument, that slavery couldn't happen again, that is, if it's not effectively masquerading in a number of functionally similar forms this very second. But get over it? Never. What we should get over is hoping that guys like this bonehead legislator will ever disappear from the face of the Earth. Like rats and roaches, and just as numerous as those vermin, people like that guy are just an ugly part of reality that we'll have to expect, and deal with... forever. There's no way to legislate these fools out of existence. Have to work around, over, and past them.
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