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Congress Apologizes for Slavery

Posted on July 30, 2008 2:30 PM

Written By Biko Baker

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The moment we (We=Negroes) have all been waiting for is finally here.  Yesterday Congress issued a formal apology to African Americans for slavery... Yes slavery!!!  The apology was championed by Tennessee's Steve Cohen (the only white Congressman with a majority black district.  He's from Memphis.)

I'm so excited about this.  Even though this apology isn't tied to reparations or 40 acres and mule, I finally feel that the oppression that my community faces on a daily basis will finally end someday soon!!.  And who cares if unemployment, incarceration, and the growing rates of HIV/AIDs are at an all time high.  The country has finally apologized to me and my peeps for all the horrendous things that my ancestors have gone through.

Just check out what Steve Cohen had to say about this great day in American history.  He must really be a down ass white dude:

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"Slavery and Jim Crow are stains upon what is the greatest nation on the face of the earth," Cohen said. Part of forming a more perfect union, he said, "is such a resolution as we have before us today where we face up to our mistakes and apologize as anyone should apologize for things that were done in the past that were wrong."

Of course, I am still strapped for cash and will likely get harassed by the police today, but I can confidently say that things are finally looking up for me.  Word to Michelle Obama, for the first time in my life I can proudly say that I am proud to be an American .  Thank you Congress! Your apology means so much to me!!!!

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Posted by Biko

33 Comments

F**K THAT ITS A LITTLE TOO LATE FOR SORRY

O My god what are you Black people talking about My fam came to Saudi arbai from Yemen ( if any one knows where that is) and yes we were slave like million years a go I am happy I am Saudi and that I am not living in Yemen because there is nothing there but poverty and now I live in the USA you black people have it good in USA spoiled is what it is all I am saying be thankful that you not in Africa where you cant even think about food stamps we in Saudi Arabia if your poor its over no ones cares grow up and act like what this world we in is great by the way Blacks in America in our day get treated batter then any Arab so stop this bull crap and

O My god what are you Black people talking about My fam came to Saudi arbai from Yemen ( if any one knows where that is) and yes we were slave like million years a go I am happy I am Saudi and that I am not living in Yemen because there is nothing there but poverty and now I live in the USA you black people have it good in USA spoiled is what it is all I am saying be thankful that you not in Africa where you cant even think about food stamps we in Saudi Arabia if your poor its over no ones cares grow up and act like what this world we in is great by the way Blacks in America in our day get treated batter then any Arab so stop this bull crap and

Come on Biko. You can't be this serious. Think about it. What does a slavery apology mean to a modern-day BLACK person? Will this apology get me my 40 acres? (Oh. BTW, your DEMOCRAT president, Andrew Johnson, rescended the order giving our people what was promised to them, which was ONLY promised to FORMER slaves who were under the control of Gen. Sherman in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.)


Apologies like these are symbolic in nature and mean nothing because there will continue to be crooked cops, crooked politicians, and crooked SAMBO niggas who try their damndest to hold middle class and upper middle class brothers down.


By the way, just in case they do decided to pay us for slavery, go to (www.ancestry.com). There, I've traced my peeps all the way through the early 1700s. In other words, know where you came from. Don't try to get reparations empty-handed. Just cause your skin is black don't mean they'll just hand you a deed or a check.


Man, they give me reparations, I'm gonna be like Ashy Larry, "I'm riiich beeatch!" Honk-Honk!!

F*** THAT APOLOGY!!!!!!! WE DONT NEED IT.....

Ya fuck me right !! that’s the smartest thing you dumb ass can say but who is paying for your business (all buildings, gas stations , restaurants in New York ,Las Vegas , Miami ) in America us Arabs who owns 50% of you wealth in the USA Arabs

man read something if there was no slavery they wont be no Hip-Hop ,No NBA no NFL and no dumb ass niggas like you non of that nothing so be thank full and stop being a dumb ass Nigro and thank god for what you got and read a book stop bitchn and go to school so you one day can be like us Arabs

Ya fuck me right !! that’s the smartest thing you dumb ass can say but who is paying for your business (all buildings, gas stations , restaurants in New York ,Las Vegas , Miami ) in America us Arabs who owns 50% of you wealth in the USA Arabs

man read something if there was no slavery they wont be no Hip-Hop ,No NBA no NFL and no dumb ass niggas like you non of that nothing so be thank full and stop being a dumb ass Nigro and thank god for what you got and read a book stop bitchn and go to school so you one day can be like us Arabs

Ya fuck me right !! that’s the smartest thing you dumb ass can say but who is paying for your business (all buildings, gas stations , restaurants in New York ,Las Vegas , Miami ) in America us Arabs who owns 50% of you wealth in the USA Arabs

man read something if there was no slavery they wont be no Hip-Hop ,No NBA no NFL and no dumb ass niggas like you non of that nothing so be thank full and stop being a dumb ass Nigro and thank god for what you got and read a book stop bitchn and go to school so you one day can be like us Arabs

To those who said the apology means nothing, you know nothing. By apologizing to Black people they are letting us know we are not forgotten. And to be honest, it is about time. Even though the apology was not tied to reparations, it is okay. Why? Because you didn't suffer directly. You may feel you are still suffering, but the time has come for you to stop complaining about how slavery has held you down and move on.
Stop with the crooked cops: KEEP YOUR ASS OUTTA TROUBLE. Then you have no need to be involved with the cops.
Stop sayin people are trynna hold you down: MOVE ON. BE A BIGGER AND BETTER PERSON. The only one holding you back is you yourself.

Razab, your right just cuz your black doesn't mean the government should give you somerthing. Oh and if Saudi is so great, Go Back. walla adem Razab inta jints.

Biko you are the DEFINITION OF AN UNCLE TOM ASS NIGGA... You fuckin coon.. How does it feel to know that you are a fuckin house nigga? Do you like having the white mans cock in your mouth.. The opression in the black community will end? YOU FUCKIN FAGGOT the 14 amendmant STILL CONSIDERS BLACK 1/3 of a HUMNA BEING YOU CUPCAKE COON.. YOU MAKE ME SICK, I'mma keep comin here and exposin yo bitch ass.. Even after those Nazi's came through you still kissin white ass you punk.. Go ahead and wait for your little federal GOV. handout

BloccApostle AKA ENOCH YOU CANT BAN ME!!

AreaCode978 said "Razab, your right just cuz your black doesn't mean the government should give you somerthing. Oh and if Saudi is so great, Go Back. walla adem Razab inta jints."

1st that was not arabic I don’t know what the fuck you said 2nd i said it was batter of for me to be Saudi then A Yamane because we don’t got poverty like they do its 3rd i never said nothing about not loving this great country USA so where you get that I don’t know and if you know Arabic you know this kuss omak ya eben al khal

@BloccApostle
I think (and hope) Biko was being facetious.

@ ARAB DUDE....YOU BUGGING HOMEBOY. IT'S NEGROE AND NOT NIGRO....SO YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE AND READ A BOOK AND GO BACK TO SCHOOL...YOU FUCKING DUSTY CAMEL!!!

See what I am talking about you don’t got any education to even comment right . I have and I am going threw my masters. its funny how I can speak and right you English language but you cant and don’t know but that and even when I do and have a mistake you all act up always the same shit why don’t you go in your corner and sell some crack and stop speaking what you call it NIGGA English

RASAB....u can almost eat a dick...there are definitely places that got it worse than America...but when u got places arresting kats for sagging (not to mention THE REAL BLACK WALLSTREET)...something is wrong... but the fight has been made easier for the real fighters...there is hella power in knowledge so Congress and their apology is cute to me and nothing more because words cannot replace actions of that kind...it's a cute political move...maybe necessary...but nothing more...why the fuck hasnt the talented 10th created talented 30th yet??

nso6300HueyBell says “but when u got places arresting kats for sagging” I am so sad for you that what makes this country unfair look man over in the middle east some places you with a women that not related to you go to jail so stop you bitching so be thankful or go to Africa where there is no food stamps ,no government grants then bitch but you got it good in the USA and Slavery was like 100000 years a go you all do got nothing like that yes there is racism but that every where go get a job and don’t expect a hand out and shut the fuck up dam Black people stop and be thank full

Yo Biko Baker, get your facts straight. It was just the House of Representatives that apologized, not the whole Congress; the Senate didn't say shit.

YO HOW DARE MOST OF YALL MOTHERFUCKERS SIT HERE AND LET THIS FUCKING ALADDIN ASS NIGGA TALK SHIT ABOUT US BLACK PEOPLE.THIS FUCKING BIN LADIN ASS NIGGA TALKIN SHIT WHEN HIS LIL BROTHER WALKING AROUND WITH FUCKING BOMBS STRAPED TO HIS CHEST.IF U DONT GET YOUR FUCKING HAROLD N KUMAR ASS OUT OF HERE U FUCKING FAGGOT.NOW I DONT EVEN FEEL LIKE PUTTING OUT A REAL COMMENT.
" And who cares if unemployment, incarceration, and the growing rates of HIV/AIDs ".YO DID YALL MISS OUT ON THIS.THIS SHIT IS AFFECTING US ON A DAILY BASIS AND U SAY WHO CARES ABOUT THIS SHIT.I AGREE WITH ERRIBODI ELSE, THE FUCKING NIGGA WHO WROTE THIS SHIT IS A FUCKING HOUSE ASS NIGGA.MIND AS WELL BE BACK IN THE FUCKING FIELDS FUCKING MORON!

correction...I could give a fifth of a fuck about the english language...

haha damn yo. there's a straight up battle goin on in here. razab.. its koo you tryna say that we got it better here in the US. make your point but quit with the racist remarks yo. this blog here is about an 'effort' (and i use that term loosely) to appease racism. as futile as it is, it's a step towards peace and all this conversation is doing is creating a bigger race divide. as minorities (this is to the niggas too) we need to cut this shit out, stop clawing at each other, and break through this barrier that the white ppl got us trapped in and try to make it to the top, yaddadadigg my nigg?

nso6300Hueybell you are so right and some times disrespect pushes you to be ignorant just like the next person but any ways no disrespect we are all niggas in the world so we cool and you are right why talk with disrespect nothing comes out of it

to MR.dimezanime88
Aladdin is the only thing you can say man look black people came from the medial east and Africa black Americans/ African American even though non of you been to Africa you are mostly white mixed in America from slavery so lets not get in that because i grantee you I am more black then you great slave grand mother was and about bombs you can say what you say but at the end of the day we own 70% of USA business if you know how to read to your fuckin research and Kummar the name is from India you dumb ass make sure you understand the difference and if all Arabs are terrorist then all black people belong in jail because they are criminals so what sense are you making and you all talk about racism all the time and white people this and that and sense I lived in America black people are more raciest then any culture in this world

just cuz someone is sohh much of a hater....I'm reposting this...quit deleting real shit!!


once again....razab....now you can officially eat a dick... first off this back and forth "I'm not gonna let some arab talk bad about black people" bullshit is useless,I got way more important things to take care of...second off I'm trying to figure out what the fuck you are trying to say...dont say you've learned the english language (which I could give a fuck about...I'd rather learn Egyptian,Swahili...or something that could help me communicate with ANYBODY in Africa that is also like "fuck english") and then say shit like whatever the fuck you said about arab women...I obviously dont know it all...but I am far from stupid...injustice is injustice.... a muthafucka gettin shot 51 times for nothing= flat out bull shit....arrested for sagging = you're right...racist but really just fucking annoying... Black Wallstreet= The Real reason an apology is needed... because a whole community of honest working black people were annihilated for doing the "Protestant Thing" and working for theirs....next thing you know the dollar circulates 5 times before it left the community and Amerikkka still couldn't take it and bombed the shit outta them...in some 3rd world countries, the gov't doesnt even acknowledge their nations people which is fucked up (and its up to those people to do something about it)but our nation which thrives off taxation....acknowledges 3/5ths of us and tries to turn us into working zombies... small businesses are the economic heroes of America and I wanna see one black child that was taught in "American" schools to pursue ownsership....no they tell us to seek employment...not even a career...so I could give a shit about your criticisms and fake ass efforts to get me or any other black person to let their guard down...so fuck this conversation...I'm back to reading the art of war...I'm not letting Razab distract me anymore...neither should any of you...he's probably C.I.A. or some shit...they are real good about putting shit right in front of your face and calling you stupid...and lastly I really really hope that the blogger was being somewhat sarcastic with some of his statements....talented 30th coming soon...

aight...disregard the invitation to eat a dick... i just peeped the "we cool comment" so all animosity towards RAZAB is retracted....aka I FUCKED UP

BUT....since this post was also deleted....


ON THE FLIP SIDE....BLACK PEOPLE WAKE THE F**K UP & QUIT LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SAVE YOU...WE DONT BELIEVE IN SAVIN' HOES (f**k! just set us back another 300 with that one) BUT SERIOUSLY.... PARENTS ACT LIKE A MUTHAFU**IN PARENT....TEACHERS....TEACH! its your job....AND PARENTS....DEMAND RESULTS NOT ONLY FROM THE TEACHER THAT's TEACHING YOUR BAD A** KID (I was a bad a** kid so f**k you if u think your child is an angel...no sweety...if you're not an angel...neither is your child) BUT FROM YOUR BAD A** KID AS WELL...It's cool to give them some of the things YOU never had...BUT it seem like that equates into a pair of J's and an Ipod as opposed to the OPPORTUNITY to become the owner of the shoe line that successfully replaces J's... which is minute to what can really be accomplished...no wonder the Gotti's send their kids to college and we send our kids to the corner store...WHAT THE F**K??? (And when I say "We" I mean the majority of us....not the talented 10 percent that are achieving as they are supposed to...u want to do something special help a "nobody" become successful...) and can we PLEASE do something about the new "BLOODS with record deals"... more on that when SOHH makes progress with their "gang blog" ...and NOW back to chapter 10 of Art of War...next up Soul on Ice and NIGGER (the book)

otherwise... quit bein distracted...and quit blaming muthaf**kaz...u either live or you die...so get prepared (2nd amendment)...and on some real shit...the middle east jus might be the one reason Africa aint got bombed off the planet...all that damn oil (far fetched but f*** it)

CIA HAHAH wow again I wont say shit I am Fucking arab that’s became a an American because I work hard and got business in the USA and my wife Is Latino and 1/2 black so whatever you say I don’t care about -again you don’t what you talking about ART of War good book good looks on that I don’t care if I hurt you or even made you upset that what bloggeing is about so to finish this I think who ever black white who ever just fucking stop asking for a hand out and work please and stop this bull shit and I don’t eat dicks actually gay people are not welcome in the middle east as it is in yours but o my god to black people America is bad with all the hand out every one gets shut up and stop bitching and stop thinking the world revolves over ya because it does not and wont ever I love every one equally till they fuck with me but racism that something my religion allow me to do

And I did say we cool because I don’t not like any one I just don’t like fucking people don’t want to work for shit

fa sho brah....may peace be with you...not hurt at all...honestly foolish pride prevents that...but yeah, I feel u on the handout issue in this day and age, cuz they f**ked up royally when they gave me literacy...N.I.G.G.A.S. WAKE UP...my bad on the C.I.A. accusation...u never know...

Um Razab, I think you got my post confused with someone else's. This was my post:

"Yo Biko Baker, get your facts straight. It was just the House of Representatives that apologized, not the whole Congress; the Senate didn't say shit."

you know why he got it mixed up? cuz razab, like huey.. quick to talk, slow to listen. if everyone just took the time to figure out what the fukk people sayin then half of these comments wouldn't be here. but errbody quick to say hey fuck niggas.. yeah well fuck you! and it just goes on and on and on.. granted that Razab's tone wasn't straight when he made that first comment but i get what you sayin mang.. we are lucky to be here in the US. ain't sayin our ancestors were lucky to get harassed and persecuted by the white man but they sure paved a way for us into this country so that we can live an easier life.

All iam saying is that people go threw a lot to be in the U.S.A so who ever is from U.S.A should be thank full because it can be way bad for a lot people then it is in American Ghettoes , bad areas ETC

I agree, who cares about an apology, especially what I feel is probably an "insincere" apology. However, that being said, something is better than nothing and this apology will only mean something if we can use it as a stepping stone toward getting reparations in some form or fashion. - Haasim, The Black Art Depot (www . blackartdepot . com)

This apology deal only matters if it can somehow be used as a stepping stone to achieve reparations in some form or fashion. Outside of that it is only words that I truly question the sincerity of. - Haasim, The Black Art Depot

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