July 13, 2005

A Day Late and 40 Acres Short




What's up with this sudden rash of apologies for the racism of yesteryear? It's making me nervous.

Too often when people randomly apologize for what happened long ago, they're really feeling guilty about something else they're doing right now, that we didn't find out about yet. So are y'all up to something or what?

S.C. Residents Apologize For Lynching

Eugene Crawford's grandfather was killed by a mob after arguing with a white man over the price of cotton in 1916.

But more was taken from the family than Anthony Crawford, a wealthy black farmer. His children inherited the farm, but the rest of his property went to the white man with whom he had the disagreement.

Tuesday night, hundreds of worshipers gathered at a church in Abbeville, S.C., for a service to atone for Crawford's lynching.

White church leaders confessed the sins of their ancestors and apologized to blacks for that and other racist crimes of the past.

A black minister wept as he offered forgiveness.

"It makes me angry," said Eugene Crawford, now 81. "But I'm glad we're coming together a little bit."

Nah, this actually seems pretty cool. I think. But I'm watching y'all.

Posted by jsmooth995 at July 13, 2005 12:45 AM | TrackBack
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Apologies are fine for the sake of being apologetic. Honestly I feel this is White Christian Liberal lip service. Lets get real; If I were to stomp on your foot and permanently damage some nerves, the pain would be difficult to live though. Me saying sorry almost 90 years later really means nothing to you If you've been enduring A life time of pain.

The part about the Black Minister crying is almost comical; why is he crying? Where is the social change? Please read between the lines Black People:

A Wealthy Black Man confronts the White Man over price of cotton crops... White Mob kills Black Man... Black Family inherit farm... White Family inherit the rest of the land...

Does this mean that the wealthy Black family in 1819 became reduced to Sharecroppers to fill in the void of the then man of the house? (the White Man ended up owning the rest of the property) This was obviously a murder, why didn't it hold up in a court of law? What are the social,and economical implications of this crime and many similar crimes that went on over the course of years till now?

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people have done wrong things to every1 dont make this into racial whites killed blacks 4 the sake of doing so, but so did english kill irish. so did arabs kill over arabs, its not really anythin to do with race it was just there different lets kill dem because i dont like them, religions caused people to kill people and guess wat blacks kill blacks even so in large numbers today, theres nothing to apologise 4 we just need to move on and try and make it better each generation

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