First of all, that AP article was very unfair to this delegate. He did not "question whether 'jews should apologize for killing jesus'", he said (to paraphrase) once you go down this lane where does it stop. What about the immigrants who came over here as indentured servants and were kept slaves beyond their term?
If anybody should be getting reperations, what about the 100s of thousands of soldiers who died battling the confederacy, thus enabling blacks to gain their freedom (nominally at least)?
Sandra, of course there are still rascist people out there (although much of what you listed were not acts of rascism at all). However, you realize that there are far more black murders against white people then the other way around. I believe the number was something like 9 to 1 but i would have to check. Get over yourselves, blacks are not the only ethnic group discriminated against.
Why should Virginia apologize for anything? I live in virginia and my ancestors all came over to the US in the 1910-20s, and only relatively recently moved around these parts. Why should my state apologize for something that ended over 100 years ago? IT wasn't my state, it was people living in my state. Why don't these lawmakers demand apologies from Portuguese slave traders, their african kinsmen who often sold them to the slave traders, etc?
Maybe I wouldn't be so sick of these charades if I didn't see many blacks (and other races) in my area who get food stamps and other support from the government, all the while making no effort to better themselves other than scheming on others? Surely my grandfather, who came over from Galway in 1929 as a semi-illiterate 16 year old had a much harder path to success in front of him than most people in this state. In fact, the more I think about it I should be demanding an apology from England, for its vicious occupation of Ireland, as well as the US, for its discrimination against my Irish forefathers. What a crock of shit.
I am all for reperations upon the stipulation that those who collect a check must use it to move back to their ancestral land in Africa, what country or countries it may be. Actually, pick any one you like. I would love to see what percentage of blacks took up that offer, and than hear them complain and try to get more handouts because of "white guilt".