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Consent Of The Governed (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
The Senate voted to apologize ... and it now heads to the House The bill, which does not require Obama's signature, states that the US Congress "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws" that enshrined racial segregation at the state and local level in the United States well into the 1960s. The Congress "apologizes to African-Americans...
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WireTap Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Well, the U.S. Senate finally apologized for slavery , almost 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. In the unanimous resolution, the Senate apologized for racial discrimination against blacks in the Jim Crow era and for the country's "system of slavery." It was also made clear that the resolution could not be used as a claim for reparations. I'm someone who gets angry...
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Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
I was just contacted Adam Wells of Sen. Chris Dodd's (D-CT) office who wanted to let Blenders know that the Senator has changed his mind about marriage equality and sent on an op-ed written for the The Meriden Record-Journal explaining his evolution on the matter. It's odd, isn't it, that our President has moved in the opposite direction since his days running for the U.S. Senate. The constitutional...
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MultiCultClassics (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
From The New York Daily News… U.S. Senate apologizes for slavery By Michael Mcauliff Daily News Washington Bureau Washington — The U.S. Congress is saying sorry for slavery. The Senate voted unanimously Thursday for a resolution acknowledging “the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws,” which authorized the segregation that followed...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
[JURIST] The US Senate unanimously passed a resolution Thursday apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and racial segregation. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced and sponsored the concurrent resolution, which will next be voted on by the US House of Representatives. The resolution reads in part:The Congress— (A) acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
WASHINGTON | The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation and sent the measure to the House. Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin first introduced the measure years ago but wanted it passed Thursday on the eve of Juneteenth — a day of celebration commemorating the end of the Civil War and the release of African-Americans from slavery. He said the House...
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The West Virginia Rebel's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Here we go again : The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation and sent the measure to the House. Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin first introduced the measure years ago but wanted it passed Thursday on the eve of Juneteenth - a day of celebration commemorating the end of the Civil War and the release of African Americans from slavery. He said the House is...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Thursday adopted a resolution apologizing for slavery, acknowledging the fundamental injustice of the practice and Jim Crow laws. It's long past due. A national apology by the representative body of the people is a necessary collective response to a past collective injustice, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chief sponsor of the non-biding resolution, said. So...
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Traces of the Trade (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution apologizing for the nation’s history of slavery and racial discrimination. The historic resolution, offered by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), was debated by the full Senate for an hour this morning, with no senator objecting to the measure, before being approved on a roll-call vote. The concurrent resolution now proceeds [...]
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HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
The next domino in the chain leading to reparations has fallen : The Senate today apologized for slavery. A little late, some may say. But it is a historic gesture, nonetheless, at a time when a nation that once condoned the enslavement of workers and sanctioned racial discrimination for many decades afterward has seated its first African-American president and its first African-American attorney general,...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
The U.S. Senate today adopted a resolution offering a formal apology for slavery and the era of “separate but equal” Jim Crow laws that followed. After the clerk finished reading the resolution in full, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the measure’s sponsor, noted that Congress has never before issued a formal apology for slavery . “It’s long past due. A national apology by the...
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TigerHawk (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
The AP is reporting that the Senate has passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation."Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin first introduced the measure years ago but wanted it passed Thursday on the eve of Juneteenth - a day of celebration commemorating the end of the Civil War and the release of African Americans from slavery. He said the House is to take it up soon and that a formal...
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Traces of the Trade (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has introduced a resolution into the U.S. Senate under which Congress would apologize for the nation’s history of slavery and racial discrimination. The resolution acknowledges the nation’s long and brutal history of slavery and racial discrimination and apologizes to black Americans “on behalf of the people of the United States.” The text of [...]
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PrairieStateBlue - Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
Dick Durbin consistently exceeds my expectations for him. He has done so once again with his vote, along with only five other senators, to fund the closure of Guantanamo . (The six are Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vermont), Sen. Carl Levin (D-Michigan), Sen. Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)) The reason he is able to...
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HealthLawProf Blog (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
Ezra Klein now has a blog at the Washington Post and one of his first posts concerns the new focus on menu labeling among some in the public health field. He writes, Sen.Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro(D-Conn.) are...
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