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."
The newspaper also quoted him as saying, "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"
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Wait, even one of those form letter "hey, we're sorry for enslaving your people letters" this idiot refuses?
Reperations are a load, but a "Hey, our ancestors were screw heads" should be in full viability, in fact I'd happily do that about some of my living ones.
"are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"
Prove that they were guilty of it, then we'll talk.
Wait, Jews killed the Christ? I thought Romans did it. Oh, well.
And while I agree that invoking slavery can be annoying, racism still exists (on all sides, I'm not pointing fingers) and should still be addressed.
Wasn't the execution of christ orchestrated by god? Apparently christ predicted his own execution so if it was predetermined, how could you possibly blame anyone for it, let alone force them to apologise for something that happened 2000 years ago? And weren't the Romans responsible for the execution? Go get a fucking education.
One, it ended slightly later because the racists attitudes of the whites longed more and still are. It isn´t the black people, permanently discriminated, who should get over it. It´s you, racists white people, who should. And they are not going to apologise because the Romans, through Pontius Pilatus, signed the sentence. Are we forcing the Italians to apologise?, and Jesus was a Jew, by the way.
... should't you be thanking whoever killed the Christ, Jews or Romans, because his death, and the suffering it caused him, is one of the most fundamentally necessary parts of Christian theology?
Are we going to force the Christians to apologise for killing Jewish, Islamic, Pagan, and Athiestic peoples? Oh wait, WE ARE.
@ CrowdingHell
Romans, in the later years of the Empire, just around the fall of it, in fact, were Jewish.
I live in Virginia, albeit not the district this assclown represents, and they didn't even mention that a Jewish delegate voiced his resentment over the remark and Hargrove told him his "skin was a little too thin".
The Jews did not kill Christ. The Romans did. Flogged him, nailed him, the whole bit. Are we going to force the Italians to apologize for that?
Are we going to force the Germans to apologize for the Holocaust and WWII? For Russians to apologize for everything the USSR did? For Irishmen to apologize for the IRA? Why don't you apologize for stealing the Native Americans' land, Hargrove?
No. We ask them to ACKNOWLEDGE their history and to take the steps to make it better. It doesn't mean acting like it never happened or wallowing in resentment and self-pity. It doesn't mean playing the blame game. It means that we all work together to make it right. That it's not just a black problem or a German problem or a Russian problem, it's a HUMAN problem. It's OUR problem. Obama nailed it in his speech this week on race and politics. But knowing you, you probably didn't watch it or you depended on the biased opinions of extreme right wing pundits. Idiot.
The newspaper also quoted him as saying, "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"
It was the Romans if it even happened.
Idiot.
"are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"
It was really the Romans who had legal power at that time, but still you can go ahead and try skippy.
“The newspaper also quoted him as saying, "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"”
Now there’s a thought. Can you imagine if, in the spoirit of hte Confederate battle Flag, it was synagogues that had a big crucifix on the wall?
Confused?
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