House Has No Time for Oil Drilling but Will Take Up White Guilt Resolution

What is going on in the House of Representatives? Have the inmates completely taken over the asylum? With energy prices at near record levels San Fran Nan can't seem to find the time to allow a vote on the one energy solution that has the most promise and could generate positive results in the nearest term (oil drilling), but does have time to allow mock impeachment hearings and now what I'm calling "The White Guilt Resolution":

The House is scheduled to take up a resolution (H.Res.194) next week "apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans."

The non-binding resolution was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.), a white Democrat who represents a majority African-American district in Memphis. Early in 2007, Cohen expressed interest in joining the Congressional Black Caucus but later backed away from that idea. The CBC's PAC has actually donated money to an African-American Democrat challenging Cohen, but he has received re-election backing from Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and some other prominent black lawmakers.

The resolution, which was introduced at the beginning of the 110th Congress, makes no mention of reparations, but it does state that black Americans "continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow--long after both systems were formally abolished...."

The resolution also acknowledges that an apology an apology "cannot erase the past, but confession of the wrongs committed can speed racial healing and reconciliation and help Americans confront the ghosts of their past."

Cohen's resolution, which will be taken up under suspension, meaning it must receive a two-thirds vote in order to pass. The resolution has 120 co-sponsors.

Folks, here's something else you can look forward to in a government run by Democrats - reparations for slavery. That's the only reason a resolution like this is being offered, because once the government "apologizes" you know that will not be enough to satisfy the terminally-aggrieved racemonger crowd (that and the fact that this is a cheap political stunt by a white congressman in a heavily black district who is trying to appease the home crowd). The next demand will be reparations in which millions of Americans who had nothing to do with slavery will be forced to pay their hard-earned dollars to millions of blacks who also had nothing to do with slavery, or at best are many generations removed from anyone involved.

Slavery was a stain on humanity, no doubt. But if we're going to have a legitimate discussion of the impact of slavery on today's black Americans, there's one question that nobody seems to want to ask: Where would those people be today had slavery not brought some of their ancestors to this land? Would their branch of the family tree even exist today, or would it have been cut off at some point in the past by disease, famine or tribal wars? Where would they rather be living, in the land of opportunity and freedom, or in a land where disease, poverty, tyrannical leaders, civil wars, attacks by wild animals and other threats are part of daily life? The poorest of black Americans live in conditions light years better than most of the people on the African continent. Assuming their branch of the family tree survived to 2008, would they rather find themselves in America, or sitting in a mud hut somewhere swatting flies with the tail of whatever they killed for lunch? Should they be demanding payments from Americans who had nothing to do with their ancestor's plight, or should they be on their knees thanking God they're here and not in their family's homeland?

Let's see if Congress wants to have that debate.

By the way, if you're suffering from White Guilt I have good news for you. Economics professor and occasional Rush Limbaugh substitute host Professor Walter E. Williams ("Black by popular demand") has an official "Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon Granted to All Persons of European Descent" that you can download free by clicking on the image below. Maybe it will make you feel better.