Liberals and conservatives generally see American history differently. Note Barack Obama's speech to a group of minority journalists where he called for government "deeds" on "reparations." "I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged," Obama opined. The first clause is Obama the liberal speaking; the second, Obama the liberal recovering and remembering that he is running for the presidency of the United States and not for the presidency of that cheering convention. Sensible conservatives acknowledge the tragic elements in American history. Sensible liberals don't see the American past as "our tragic history." What's tragic about being the world's oldest continuing republic, wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, the invention of the airplane, the lightbulb, and the Internet, and a vaccine for polio?

Aren't 618,000 Civil War dead enough reparations for the ending of the slight of slavery?

Are all the allied war dead of WWII enough concerning the Holocaust?

It should be, shouldn't it?

But most everything regarding the Holocaust is in the form of remembrance.

For the reparations crowd, it's all about the Benjamins.

“In a prelude of what will almost certainly be a serious drive for reparations, the House of Representatives apologized for the ‘fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow’ segregation.

The apology was delivered 143 years after slavery was abolished in this country so unless there are any 144 year old resident of the US, someone with an ounce of sense might want to ask on whose behalf they were apologizing?”

So this is the most important business the House has to be concerned with? I guess Ms. Speakah San Fran Nan is taking care of the little things before she gets around to saving the planet.

Stoned Soldier: Do you care if it falls?
Other Stoned Soldier: What?
Stoned Soldier: The Roman Empire.
Other Stoned Soldier: [Laughs] &#$% it.

I was listening to Glenn Beck this morning and he brought up something I'd never thought of before.
For liberals the past is only relevent if it paints the country in a bad light. If you bring up good things this country has done they'll dismiss it as being irrelevent because it was such a long time ago.
Bring up something bad in our countries past and they'll latch onto it like it happened yesterday and act as though we're still doing it today.

On it’s face, this concept is foolish and could only be taken seriously in the post millennium United States. Reparations, as with everything else that's race based, will repair nothing. In fact, with every carrot offered to the Race e Industry, business becomes more lucrative from a social and monetary standpoint thus there will never be a change in attitude and business will go on and on.

And it could be argued that reparations have already been given with a myriad of government welfare programs available and with discrimination that is affirmative action.

The fact that we have minority representation of all kind at the upper echelons of American government and business and a man of African descent on the precipice of the highest and most powerful position in the World, won’t matter at all to the hustlers.