Hargrove: "Our black citizens should get over it"
Richmond, Virginia -- January 16, 2007
Bloggers who oppose the Slavery Apology resolution have acquired a champion of sorts. His name? Delegate Frank Hargrove (R-55th, Hanover). When asked what he thought of the resolution by The Daily Progress' Bob Gibson, Hargrove reportedly replied: "I personally think that our black citizens should get over it."
Gibson reports on Hargrove's opposition today in The Daily Progress. Hargrove says some pretty interesting things. The quote of the day?
Yeah, pretty bad. There's lots more where that came from.
Is Hargrove's reaction reflective of broader Republican opinion? Other Republicans interviewed by Gibson refused to go on the record, though at least two Republican delegates, Suit (R-81st) and Iaquinto (R-84th), said that they would support the resolution during a podcast interview by Jim Hoeft of Bearing Drift. I think the Republican Party of Virginia has a lot to discuss this morning.
On the up side, Creigh Deeds says he supports the resolution. I'd like to see more Democrats go on the record as supporting this important symbolic resolution.
You can read Gibson's entire article, "Slavery apology opposed," at The Daily Progress.
Update: Bart Hinkle confirms that I was not imagining things. Vive le MSM!
Bloggers who oppose the Slavery Apology resolution have acquired a champion of sorts. His name? Delegate Frank Hargrove (R-55th, Hanover). When asked what he thought of the resolution by The Daily Progress' Bob Gibson, Hargrove reportedly replied: "I personally think that our black citizens should get over it."
Gibson reports on Hargrove's opposition today in The Daily Progress. Hargrove says some pretty interesting things. The quote of the day?
Am I imagining things, or did Hargrove just call Jews "Christ-killers"?How far do these calls for apologies go, wondered Hargrove, a member of the House Rules Committee that could take up McEachin’s resolution as early as Wednesday.
“Are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?”
Yeah, pretty bad. There's lots more where that came from.
Is Hargrove's reaction reflective of broader Republican opinion? Other Republicans interviewed by Gibson refused to go on the record, though at least two Republican delegates, Suit (R-81st) and Iaquinto (R-84th), said that they would support the resolution during a podcast interview by Jim Hoeft of Bearing Drift. I think the Republican Party of Virginia has a lot to discuss this morning.
On the up side, Creigh Deeds says he supports the resolution. I'd like to see more Democrats go on the record as supporting this important symbolic resolution.
You can read Gibson's entire article, "Slavery apology opposed," at The Daily Progress.
Update: Bart Hinkle confirms that I was not imagining things. Vive le MSM!
Labels: Donald McEachin, Richmond Virginia, Slavery Apology
9 Comments:
Holy CRAP. This needs to be spread and quickly.
It makes more sense to be angry at Romans for the death of Christ than Jews. But neither of those make any sense, anyhow -- if Jesus hadn't been killed, then his prophecy wouldn't have been fulfilled, and he'd just have been some random dude.
BTW, that picture of Hargrove is really old. I don't think he's looked like that since about 1980.
It amazes me the "ease" at which white folks will say "get over it" when it comes to race....
Yet they will scream like stuck pigs if asked "to get over it" on situations that affect them....such as Affirmative Action (really trifling when compared to an alternative like slavery)...losing ONE midterm election....having ONE monument erected that honors Arther Ashe, a man of color.
I often want to say...people living in flimsy glass houses shouldn't point fingers....
Hargrove is living in a glass house for sure....a heavy duty flying mosquito can probably shatter one of his glass walls....and a swarm of mosquitos (complete with birds hot on our tails would take the whole structure down...chuckle...
Buzz...Buzz....
JC,
Can you link those bloggers who oppose this for us? I cant seem to find them.
Thank you.
Hi Carl:
Thanks for the comment.
I don't plan to link to them because I don't want to reward them with a link, but I can a few: Lynn Mitchell, James Atticus Bowden, Alex Davis, Tom James and a handful of others.
Where do you stand on this issue Carl? Republican response has been so mixed . . .
Where I stand?
To me it is pandering of the worst kind. I personally have never been asked to apologize by anyone for slavery. But if it helps heal hurt feelings and hearts let me be the first to say “I am Sorry”. Does anyone feel better? I doubt it. This bill is not the answer. The answer is inside the individual. So do I support this bill? No. Am I against this bill? No.
If this passes and there is a great gathering to read the text and Virginia officially apologizes for slavery with cheering masses supporting, and the angry opposer booing.....what has really changed? The answer is not on paper, but in the heart of man.
Attack Away! I am just being honest.
The blame game has run out of steam folks. Hopefully we'll soon realize that this perpetual victim mentality is a bigger factor in keeping blacks in poverty as is any form of discrimination or racism. I won't argue that it doesn't exist because it does though on a much smaller scale than ever before but there are so many opportunities out there that aren't taken for the simple fact that blacks don't believe in themselves or in the government that's trying to help lift them up. We can thank the likes of people like Jackson and Sharpton for this. Intead of preaching empowerment, they teach people to blame everyone but themselves for their decisions in life.
In general, until the end of the Civil War, the wealth in America, particularly in the South, was made on the backs of all, but the wealth made on the backs of blacks reverted to whites. Whites built capital and wealth and blacks subsisted. That was about 150 years ago. Until the end of segregation, racially biased practices that continued from the pre-war era resulted in the denial of educational opportunities and wealth building afforded whites.
Whites passed on their wealth to this day, built to a substantial extent on the backs of blacks, maintained their “ancestral” access to the best education, and their control of most government and economic power via their “white” network. Generations of exclusion from power, wealth, and education are not remedied so quickly.
Now it’s 2007, and there remains a black underclass in Virginia. It presents a social cost to all – blacks and whites, and the priority of this problem among Virginia legislators is sorely lacking.
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