Legislator says that blacks should ‘get over’ slavery

January 16, 2007 | Posted by admin

Here’s some more backwards thinking by Republicans. Didn’t they try to pass off as the party of inclusion in the last election?

A state legislator said black people “should get over� slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize “for killing Christ,� drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues.

Del. Frank D. Hargrove, 79, made his remarks in opposition to a measure that would apologize on the state’s behalf to the descendants of slaves.

In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Hargrove said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that “our black citizens should get over it.�

Does Hargrove realize that the Civil Rights movement happened just 40 years ago? The Civil War may have ended 140 years, but the injustices against minorities didn’t end until much later, and some could argue (and rightly so) that there is still a lot of inequality in the United States. Read the rest of the story here.

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