Reid: 'I Could Have Used a Better Choice of Word

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he, "could have used a better choice of words" when he made seemingly-racial remarks about then presidential-candidate Barack Obama. 

President Obama Accepts Sen. Reid's Apology

By: Michael H. Cottman, BlackAmericaWeb.com

President Barack Obama doesn’t like to talk openly about race, but he was quick to publicly forgive Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, who reportedly said Obama would become America’s first black president because he is a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

 President Obama Accepts Sen. Reid's Apology....

The NY Post's Apology Was as Tasteless as Their Cartoon

By: Deborah Mathis

It was more than 20 years ago. I had just begun writing a regular opinion column, and I had unnecessarily offended a public official. An apology was in order, and I didn’t hesitate to offer it.

After admitting my mistake in the opening lines, I proceeded to explain how I had come to make it.

“Next time, don’t do it that way,” counseled Bob McCord, my editor and a veteran newsman with decades of editorial writing under his belt. “People don’t want to hear your excuses. Just say, ‘I’m sorry; I was wrong,” and let it go at that.”

The editors of The New York Post could have used McCord’s good counsel last week, when they penned what began as an apology but ended as a scolding about its preposterous cartoon in which two police officers gun down a chimpanzee and one says, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

“It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period,” read The Post editors’ post-mortem. “(T)o those who were offended by the image, we apologize.”

The NY Post's Apology Was as Tasteless as Their Cartoon....

Mary Frances Berry Responds to John Tanner

Mary Frances Berry at American Constitution Society panel.

Commentary: Reparations for COINTELPRO, Not Slavery

By: Gregory Kane

If you like cheap victories, then you’re probably THRILLED that the U.S. Congress apologized for slavery last week.

Too bad I don’t like cheap victories.

But the “Baltimore Afro-American” thought the event was so significant that it ran a front-page story, “above the fold” as we say in the newspaper business, about the apology.

And what does the apology mean? Why, absolutely nothing, of course.

The black folks who were poor and living in America’s inner cities the day before the apology were still living there the day after. Those going to schools doing more miseducating than educating will likely return to those schools either later this month or in September.

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Fox News Contributor, Liz Trotta, Wants Obama to Die

Fox News contributor Liz Trotta made a horrific verbal gaffe when talking about Hillary's recent assassination comment. She first confused Obama w/ Osama and then said that it would great if we could "knock" them both off.





Liz Trotta Apologizes for "Knock Off" Obama Comment

Liz Trotta on FOX News, May 26, 2008

NEBRASKA REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY: Lawmakers will consider a resolution that only expresses 'regret.'

State lawmakers in Nebraska will consider a resolution that expresses regret for slavery, but doesn't issue an apology, reports the Associated Press.

Members of a legislative committee struggled on Wednesday with the language of the resolution that they ultimately advanced to the full Legislature for consideration.

The Judiciary Committee finally decided that expressing "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery was more appropriate than issuing an apology.

Lawmakers in New Jersey, Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia have already issued apologies for slavery.

The Nebraska Territory banned slavery in 1861, the year the Civil War started. But Nebraska was a center of turmoil over slavery in the 1800s.