Who feels better now that Congress apologized about lynching?

[noiretextatique]

doing absolutely nothing about lynching, that is...still.

[VRine]

1. Apology

Well, I'm certain those who apologized feel better.

Now that they have apologized they do not have to feel obligated to do anything else.

My ancestor (well, he was the brother of my direct ancestor) was not lynched. He was shot in broad daylight in Oct 1876. His crime? He built a Church and School on his property. They were using the building to get out the vote for the Presidential election in November. This was the Hayes/Tilden election aka as the end of Reconstruction.

[noiretextatique]

2. welcome to DU, VRine

i have heard some many stories like yours...and mine.

my great grandparents were forced off their land because of a trumped-up charge against one of their sons. their real crime: being as wealthy as most of the whites in the area: hillsbourogh, tx circa 1900. they had to flee in the middle of the night to save their lives.

i consider what happened to so many of our ancestors THEFT. it seems that was the ulimate goal, and it was accomplished by any means necessary.

yes, i suppose they all do feel better, and apparently that is what is most important.

[Brewman_Jax]

3. Just a resolution passed

because the Senate had stalled every anti-lynching bill passed by the House in the pre-Civil Rights era. Requires no action; does absolutely nothing. :eyes:

My question is: Why now?

Because of the trial in MS? Bush's* reactionary judges were confirmed? I have no idea. :shrug:

[Darknyte7]

4. Call me cynical, but

I think the republicans now want to be able to say that ÒweÕve put that behind usÓ which will be particularly useful in the filibuster debate. They donÕt do anything without a reason.

[FrenchieCat]

5. What I love about Black folks....

is that we don't fall for the Okey-Dok....and that's all this resolution means.

I can see Barbara Lee rolling her eyes...right about now! :eyes:

[angee_is_mad]

6. Hit the nail on its head

as always Frenchie. Isn't it curious that a moderate(conservative)democrat and a moderate repub were the ones to make the apology.

This is what is happening. The great senator of La need to try to pacify the Blacks before she sell us up the river by consistently voting with the repubs. The senator from Va need to appear as Black friendly as possible when he makes his run in 2008.

I can imagine his campaign speech now in the black churches, "I went on the senate floor and apologized for the inactivity of the senate to pass an anti-lynching law".

[FrenchieCat]

7. That's the problem with politcians....

It's ALWAYS about politics with them!

There's another thread on this Forum that asks for posters' favorite MLK quotes.

Mine was....."The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."--Martin Luther King Jr.--1963

The majority of politicians are about 50+ years late in standing up on this one......so they might as well just sit the F*ck back down.

[fortyfeetunder]

8. Deserving of an eye roll and moving on

I don't find anything to celebrate about. I don't know of anyone in my ancestry who was lynched, but my great-aunt recalled in an article of her mom taking one of her brothers to a lynch scene to show him what would happen if he got in trouble (early 1900's)

So I am less than impressed with the Congressional phony attempt at self-flagellation. It was to probably buy votes from Blacks and other groups whose ancestors were lynched. I don't buy it, not even for a thousandth of a nanosecond.
:eyes:

[noiretextatique]

9. self-flagellation

nah, more like masturbation, unless of course they are into pain ;-) either way...i'm not into vouyerism :eyes:

[mandyky]

10. considering it wasn't unanimously supported

and that most of the people who did not support it were from the South, I am not sure how sincere the apology was. esp since most of the lynching occured in the South.