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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The next person who tells me political Republicans respect us and love us and want to walk off into the sunset with us hand-in-hand gets smacked.

DailyProgress.com Slavery apology measure ignites legislative debate

A debate in the Virginia House of Delegates over a slavery apology took the usual twists and truns yesterday, until Frank D. Hargrove, a Republican, and a church-goer, stood up:

"I personally think that our black citizens should get over it. By golly, we’re living in 2007," he said adding: "Are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?”

Ye gods.

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