The Slavery Apology Backfire

The Slavery Apology Backfire

By Jeffry Lord

That didn't take long.

News flash: the Democrats will not be wasting any time at their Denver Convention apologizing for slavery -- or segregation either. They aren't even ashamed enough to apologize for giving a double thumbs-up to lynching African-Americans.

Tennessee Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen, the sponsor of the recently passed House Resolution that voiced an apology for slavery and segregation on behalf of the U.S. government, says he will not be pushing for an apology on any of these issues from his fellow Democrats. He labeled the idea a "red herring."

On a recent appearance on the Comcast Network's "It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle" (shown on CN8) with, among others, your humble correspondent, Congressman Cohen was going on with great delight about the kumbaya-ness of his recently passed House Resolution. A voice vote. Democrats and Republicans together. Just wonderful, don't ya know?

Until, that is, I pointed out to the considerable television audience that the terrible things cited in his resolution were relentlessly championed for almost two centuries by his own political party. Cohen lists them specifically in his Resolution as follows: "racism, lynchings, disenfranchisement, Black Codes, and racial segregation laws that imposed a rigid system of officially sanctioned racial segregation in virtually all areas of life."

Well, now. That's a pretty good list of evil to accuse someone of when asking for an apology. And I had used the word "evil" in my opening remarks with what I assumed was the Congressman's agreement. So, I did the obvious, wondering aloud whether Cohen had any plans to get a similar apology from his fellow Democrats since it was they who were in fact responsible for the racist history he listed.

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