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    Sanders: 'We have got to apologize for slavery'

    Sorry about slavery.

    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday said the nation owes an apology for slavery.

    “As a nation — I don’t think as a president, but as a nation — we have got to apologize for slavery,” the 2016 Democratic presidential contender told host Joe Madison on Sirius XM’s “The Black Eagle.”

    “As a nation we have got to apologize for slavery, and of course the president is the leader of the nation,” he added.


    Sanders said that slavery had caused too much suffering to remain unaddressed.
    “Obviously nobody in this generation was involved in slavery,” Sanders said.

    “But as a nation, slavery is one of the abominations that our country has experienced," he continued. "There is no excuse — what can we say about it?”

    “It was horrific,” he added. “It killed millions of people who never made it even across the ocean. It destroyed the lives of so many people.”

    Sanders has been attracting large crowds at his campaign events, spurring the campaign of Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the nomination, to express worry about his surge in support.

    With polls show him closing the gap with Clinton in early-voting states, Sanders is beginning to make a play for minority voters crucial to Democratic candidates.

    Sanders in the interview said the economic issues he is pushing to address, such as income inequality, would benefit minority communities, including African-Americans.

    “We are talking about raising the minimum wage not to $10 an hour, but $15 an hour, over the period of a few years,” he said.

    “We are talking about providing — fighting for — a national healthcare program which guarantees healthcare to all of our people.”

    “I think the economic agenda that we are outlying will impact very positively all working people in this country, especially people who are being hit the hardest right now, which is people in the African American community.”

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    Ok, Bernie. You first. Apologize for the socialist slavery you built your campaign on.

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    slavery apologies


    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...82.GJe9zqE6KkQ

    Give it a rest, Bernie. Go get your frickin' slavery apology from the Brits.

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    Whatever it takes to distract from the issues that really matter. Divide and conquer. Create conflict where conflict does not exist. Laugh hysterically all the way to the bank.

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    Apparently, Bernie has seen his poll numbers among non-whites.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bernie Sanders
    [Slavery in America] killed millions of people who never made it even across the ocean.
    Yeeeeeaah ... I'mmm gonna hafta call "bull$#@!!" on that one ...
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    Sanders: 'We have got to apologize for slavery'
    We?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    Yeeeeeaah ... I'mmm gonna hafta call "bull$#@!!" on that one ...
    That's what I was thinking. So, slavers imported 100,000 but millions died along the way, yet the slavers didn't go broke and get their ships repossessed. Must have been a hell of a profit margin on the five percent that arrived alive.
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    I have to say this is an improvement from all his other policy proposals. This is the first one that wouldn't cost the tax payers a dime. He can also add apologies to the Native Americans and he would be set.

    I follow up to see if he would also apologize to the Arabs for the US $#@!ing up their countries seeing as he is so anti war and progressive.



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    We've been apologizing for it for years with our tax dollars.

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    I haven't enslaved or proposed to enslave anyone in my entire life.

    Sanders on the other hand is running his campaign on the idea of slavery. Pathetic.

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    An apology isn't enough. We should bring an end to the organization that allowed it to happen.
    There are no crimes against people.
    There are only crimes against the state.
    And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fisharmor View Post
    An apology isn't enough. We should bring an end to the organization that allowed it to happen.
    This! Talk is cheap, I want action.
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    When will Bernie call for reparations?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DisneyFan View Post
    When will Bernie call for reparations?
    When he wants to tax the BILLIONAIRES some more.

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    Waiting for the apology for abortion from Bernie.....

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    As a person descended from a family who didn't have two nickels to rub together when they came over from Ireland and never owned another person I'm gonna have go with.

    $#@! You!



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    Quote Originally Posted by The Northbreather View Post
    $#@! You!
    Up Yours! would reflect the Irish heritage better. $#@! You! is too PC and does not really carry the meaning of the act it refers to.

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    On June 18, 2009, the Senate passed a resolution apologizing for both the institution of slavery and the existence of Jim Crow laws.
    Sorry harder

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlybee View Post
    Sorry harder
    and never forget to reuse bad ideas ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlybee View Post
    Sorry harder
    There is one done for the holocaust every year, reparations were paid and still being paid for today. I don't necessarily see what is wrong with the nation making an apology every once in a while if it didn't cause a people to keep adopting a victim mentality, but sadly it does.

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    There is one done for the holocaust every year, reparations were paid and still being paid for today. I don't necessarily see what is wrong with the nation making an apology every once in a while if it didn't cause a people to keep adopting a victim mentality, but sadly it does.
    Well...I don't see why we have to apologize for something that happened when none of us were alive and at the hands of people we didn't even know. Should we ask Britain to apologize for their tyranny? This is just a never ending cycle of butt hurt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    There is one done for the holocaust every year, reparations were paid and still being paid for today. I don't necessarily see what is wrong with the nation making an apology every once in a while if it didn't cause a people to keep adopting a victim mentality, but sadly it does.
    Who should "the nation" apologize to?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Who should "the nation" apologize to?
    The slaves.

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    As a Nation I feel we should say "Enough of this exploitation and kiss our collective asses, you've milked it for all it's worth."

    Should I run for office?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlybee View Post
    As a Nation I feel we should say "Enough of this exploitation and kiss our collective asses, you've milked it for all it's worth."

    Should I run for office?
    You would lose. Can not you see which way the wind is blowing ?

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    This is what happen when you allow crazy people to run for office. Sanders needs to be in assisted living and be treated for senility, not being encouraged to try and take over the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hells_unicorn View Post
    This is what happen when you allow crazy people to run for office. Sanders needs to be in assisted living and be treated for senility, not being encouraged to try and take over the country.
    Some people were making the same comments when Ron was running. Is there a way to know we are on the right side ? 'cause Rand is not fake ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Some people were making the same comments when Ron was running. Is there a way to know we are on the right side ? 'cause Rand is not fake ?
    Yeah, and they were wrong when referring to Ron. He was not quite as lucid in 2012 as he was back in 1988, but he was far from senile, I can't say the same for Bernie. And if you have to ask whether or not we're on the right side when choosing between a monstrosity that embodies the decline of western civilization in a singular person and an eye doctor looking to be a statesman, you may as well join the dark side of the force.

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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    You would lose. Can not you see which way the wind is blowing ?
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