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Beck: Slavery Apology is an Insult to Christian Principles

thinkprogress.org — On Tuesday, the House passed a formal apology for slavery and racist segregation laws, recognizing that “African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow.” Yesterday, Glenn Beck spent nearly 30 minutes on his radio show mocking the apology.

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  • Rotzooi, on 08/01/2008, -1/+10My bible says that slavery is good, so it is good christian practice to have slaves, because my bible is the word of god - it says so right here in my bible.
  • coltrane68, on 07/31/2008, -3/+11Beck is quite an *****.
  • fadeout, on 07/31/2008, -3/+9I never cease to be amazed by the stupid ***** he manages to say.
  • redheadguy719, on 07/31/2008, -3/+9Glenn Beck managed to take CNN and ram it's reliability into the ground
  • inactive, on 07/31/2008, -2/+8 Ah, the fresh scent of Religion, or should I say the ''customs of the American Christian religion''.
  • Bhima, on 08/01/2008, -1/+7It is absolutely the case that there are black people living in America today who parents and grandparents where rounded up under false or trumped up Jim Crow laws, shipped like freight to forced labor camps where they were forced to work under threat of torture and death in inhuman and unconscionable conditions. This is not some distant event which coincided with the death of dinosaurs or the building of the great pyramids but it is a living memory of American Citizens living today. It is a historical fact that this practice was on going until as late as the 1930s in the South East United States.

    I went to high school in Atlanta Ga. and the first I heard of this was recently from the book “Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas Backmon… this lead me on a mini quest of sorts. The failure of many black families, the incarceration of a shocking percentage of young black males, the statistical inequality of wealth between white and black Americans, the inequality in the rate of disease and the availability of treatment, the over representation of blacks caught up in unethical sub-prime mortgages and foreclosures … all of these things have roots in slavery and Jim Crow and they still are creating problems today that all Americans suffer for right now. This is something I think a lot of people miss. Even the whitest person on earth (such as myself) losses out when other people in his community suffer from these issues. his house looses value, his health care is more expensive, his taxes are higher, his risk to crime is higher.

    If you want to live in a better society you have to address these issues and not sweep them under the carpet as ancient history and irrelevant.
  • apothekari, on 07/31/2008, -1/+7yeah...This slavery is worse than that slavery.
    ?!?!?
    Glen Beck is a scat muncher.
    Slavery is Slavery.
  • ninjaface, on 08/01/2008, -1/+5Consensus: Glenn Beck is a douche bag who routinely makes offensive statements for ratings and shock value. Oh, and once he tried to tea-bag me.
  • kponto, on 07/31/2008, -3/+7I was shocked, SHOCKED, to hear that one of todays most groundbreaking pop stars would utter something so out-of-character.

    Then I realized that you meant the douche with the show.
  • built2spill, on 07/31/2008, -2/+5Loser.
  • StupotAce, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2I think Beck (besides being a douchebag) completely missed the point. The House was apologizing on behalf of our entire country. The apology wasn't on behalf of this generation of Americans or from a certain group of Americans. It was America as a whole apologizing for it's crude behaviour towards Slavery in the past and acknowledging that there are still issues in America today because of its behavior in the past.
  • duggtodeath, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Shut the Beck up!
  • Lyk4n, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Tried?
  • gettarat, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1I never cease to be amazed by the stupid ***** he manages to say.
    http://pyramidsofgiza.org/
  • daimposter, on 08/01/2008, -1/+2i'm sorry, i missed it. what book are you talking about?


    p.s. you're right though.
  • StupotAce, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Ahh the fresh scent of generalizations, or should I say "the customs of douchebaggery"?

    Seriously, there is a reason this guy is on the news and it's because he's crazy and controversial, not because all (or even the majority) of American Christians think like him.
  • inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Beck seems confused by his position.
  • Waiting2awake, on 08/01/2008, -2/+2"It is absolutely the case that there are black people living in America today who parents and grandparents where rounded up under false or trumped up Jim Crow laws,......It is a historical fact that this practice was on going until as late as the 1930s in the South East United States."

    - So that means anyone involved with that would be over 100 years old now. Assuming they were teens when it happened. Those people should be apologized to - but why apologize to those that didn't go through it themselves(Their children or grandchildren) - on behalf of those who are also dead and gone.

    I am not fan of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's former PM, but he did have a great line when asked about the Native issues here in Canada. What he said, was essentially it is enough to be just in your own time. That trying to right, past wrongs, only creates more wrongs today.

    It was horrible what happened to many people in forming these nations. But those people, are gone.
  • Waiting2awake, on 08/01/2008, -2/+1Agreed - but, and I am not disagree with the apology, black slaves in America do not exist anymore. Agreed it was a bad time, horrible - but it IS over. There are others that are going through that now - to various degrees. Isn't it more effective to combat todays problems, as opposed to apologizing for past misdeeds?

    Besides, who is saying "sorry" - those alive today that had no hand in slavery? Who is the apology to? The blacks that were effected by it, are all dead and gone now?
  • chuckiej, on 08/01/2008, -2/+1Just because he claims to speak for Christians on this issue doesn't mean he is. We should be "past it" but if we're not then we must keep working.
  • floridiot2, on 07/31/2008, -3/+1voluntary slavery?
  • chuckiej, on 08/01/2008, -5/+2Just because it is mentioned does not mean it was approved.
  • Colonel2121, on 07/31/2008, -11/+4This apology is an insult to all black people. Move on.. We should be worried more about the slavery that is taking place right now in America with the illegal aliens. They are coming here to work in slavery, but you never hear anything about that...

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